The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-10-13
or THE RAILROADS.

The annual report of the Rock Island
company gives the following statement:
Total amount of capital stock, SAL, $50, 900;
bonded debt, $l7, 500, 900 upon l,I17.19
miles; aggregate liabilities, common stock
and bonded debt, $50. 49O, 900. The total
length of main line and branches is $780,
AZ, the aggregate length of all tracks Elain
Lille branches, and sidings being 1888. 81.
TIE road carried 2,7767; 25l passengers aud
3,103, 499 toms of freight during the year.
The total earnings were 81, 553, O58, So, 703, e
ZO8 being from the passenger department
and 81, S39, 255 from the freight department.
The income from other sources, rents for
use of road, telegraph earnings, etc, was
$589, 81, making the total income from all
sources $40, 142, $50. The operating expenses
and taxes amounted to Sc, 954, 4S7.
The Menominee rail way, extending from
the main line of the Omaha railway at Me-
nomonie Junction to Menom0nie City, be-
ing a branch of the Omaha line, three
miles in length, with sidiugs a~ggregating
two miles, has rendered its annual report
for the year ending June 30, to Railroad
Commissioner Hagen Of Wisconsin. This
shows the total income of the year Go nave
been "a, 800: operating expenses $17, 357; ex-
cess of operating expenses over income
So, SAT. The sum of So, 778 was received
from the Omaha company on account of
loss in operating for the six months ending
Dec. 81, 1882, Leaving the deficit still $7,076.
r. M. Sceets has been appointed soliciting
agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Panl
railway in place of Harry E. Dickinson, re-
signed. Mr. Sceets has lately haan agent
for the Milwaukee e. Northern at Green Bay
Wis, but is well known in Milwaukee, as
he hold the position Of soliciting agent Tor
the Chicago & Northwestern there for three
Years.
The BUE.io, New York & Philadelphia
railroad company reports its gross receipts
for September to be $2e5, 900; net profits,
1924, $50. Notwitb standing the strikes in the
hituminous coal region the receipts for
October will be 1926, 900; the net profits
$4,000, should the strike cease as it is ex-
pected it will.
The earnings of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul railway during the month cl
SeItember aggregated 50, 22G, 684.37 against
81, $50, 710.04 for the corresponding month
last year, a increase of 1928, 9T4. 33 The
total earnin s during the fourth week o.
September were 1914, 0Oo, an increase o.
5000 over the same week last year,
A Missouri Pacific and Wabash, st. Louis
e. Pacific circular that these com.
panies are now running refrigerator cars iol
transportation of perishable property from
Chicago to st. Louis every Tuesday. Thurs
day and Saturday evenings. These arrive
| y. -. Louis ev5Ty Thursday, Saturday anC
Monday mornings.
The Railway Age shows in IT'S current Il
sue the amount of main track added 10 tn,
railways of the Union during the min
months ending Sept. 80 to have been LA
against s,075 for the same period of las
year.
The Grantsburg bIanch of the st. Paul
Duluth has reached the st. Croix river, an
as soon as the bridge is built it viii at ono
: be extended to Grantsburg, Wis, ON til
7th inst.