Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-10-25
Annual Report of the Green Bay,
Winona & st. Paul Road.

Winona & st. Paul Road.
MADISON, Oct. S.--The annual
report of the Green Bay, Winona &
st. Paul Railroad Company for the
year ending June 80, 1888, was filed
at the Office of the Railroad Com
missioner this morning, The maia
liGe of the road extends from Green
Bay to Marshland A branch extends
from Marshland to Eastmore, three
miles in length, and branch also ex-
tends from La Crosse to Onalaska,
distance of 6.5 miles, making total
of PISS miles of single track.
There are Is miles of siding. making
grand total of 233.S miles Of track
owned. The Company operates the
Green Bay, st. Point & Northern
Railroad, which operates from St.
Point TO Plover, distance of miles.
The Company also have trackage over
the Chicago & North Western Rail-
road from Marshland to Onalaska,
232, and from Marshland to Winona.
AZ miles, making a total of 1926
miles of track operated.
The earnings in the passenger
department have been, from local
passengers 800, 651 SO from through
passengers. S38, 56S.34; from ex-
press. $21O5,15; from baggage,
$509.31 from mails, $10,129.11,
making a total of $3.50, 997 so.
The total earnings from freight de-
partment were S246, 8S5.57. The
total transportation earnings were
1897, $50. 81 In addition to this
were earnings from miscellaneous
sources, making the total income from
all sources for the year S404, 931.20.
The analyses for expenses shows that
there was expended for salary of
general officers and clerks, 81, 544.-
AZ ; for legal expenses, S5636. so F.:
for assurances, S4960.49 stationery
and printing, $352145 repairs Of
bridges, $15,971.9S repairs of tools
and machinery, 1926 81 ; renewal
of rails, SIG, 665.71 renewal OF ties,
S742O.58 repairs of road bed and
track, $54, 1896 repairs of loco
motives SIT, S49.73 paid for loco
motives, $44, 601.1S; locomotive
service, salaries and wages, 1913, 49,
IS passenger and freight train SER
vice $18,876.63 /; repairs of freight
cars, S14, 060.52 agents and station
service $23, 316.39 rental and ter
minal facilities, SIS, 84979; taxes,
SlS70,l ; which, together with
several miscellaneous expenses, tele-
graph, personal injuries, oil and
waste, etc., aggregate a total operating
expense of 1923, 1882, the per-
centage Of operating expenses to
earnings were 70 per cent.
During the year there has been
expended for construction on property
accounts, $24, 567.92, and $3O2S.81
for nine freight ears, making total
expenditure on property accounts Of
$27, SASH. The total mileage
during the year was 435, 433 miles.
The number of passengers carried
was 101, 618 total number carried
one mile 3,753,6 61 rate per pass
enger per mile, 3 68-1O0 cents.
Total tons of freight carried. al, 946.
The total gross earnings per mile were
$3.50 06. Total net earnings per
mile, $4,000. The operating ex-
penses per mile were S1480.69
The company is equipped with nine
teen locomotives, nine passenger cars,
three baggage, mail and express cars,
GOT freight cars, thirty Of which are
leased. and eleven other cars. The
capital stock authorized by charter is
$40, 100000, $8,000,000 of which
has been issued in common stock and
100000 in preferred. The total Of
bonded Indebtedness is SIS, $4,000
unfunded and floating debt, $40, 1877
81 /; total of stock and debt. SIS, 400,
1877. ct total of debt and stock per
mile, $40, 918.06. The entire cost of
the road up to June 80, 1888, has
been SIS. 388, 60667 cost per mile,
$50, 74779. The interest paid dur
ing this year was $92,473.50. The
surplus Of earnings over expenses was
$11, 1892. No dividend was
declared during the year. During the
year one person was injured and none
killed. A total of sixty horses,
cattle, mules, sheep and hogs were
killed for which $1162 IS were paid.
The officers are President, Samuel
Sloan, New York secretary, and
treasurer, Theodore Sturges, New
York general superintendent, freight
agent and passenger agent, Timothy
Case, Green Bay /; general attorney,
Theo. g. Case !; assistant treasurer,
w. R Hancock, Green Bay.