Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-03-07
The Raiiroad Commission - The
Northern Division of the
southern Pacific.


meeting OF the Railroad Commissioners
to-day A. c. Bassett, Superintendent Of
the Northern Division OF the Southern
Pacific Railroad. sent in response to
the circular letter Il communication con-
tanning the information desired by the
Commissioners: Total cost of the North
ern Division, with its equipments. real
estate, buildings, machinery, tools. ETC.,
$l3, S70,63 IS; gross earnings for 1882,
81, 257. 800 IS; operating expenses, S6l4,-
SOL IS, exclusive of interest, taxes, legal
expenses, renewals, etc. Per cent. OF
operating expenses as compared to gross
earnings for each year since the road
has been in operation, is as follows:
1871, 50 per cent; 1872, So per cent. /;
1873, A per cent; 1875, 4S per cent. !;
1876, 80 per cent; 1877, so per cent;
1878, 81 per cent; 1879, 50 per cent. /;
1880, So per cent; 1881, 81 per cent. /;
1882, 40 per cent. A printed copy of
the full passenger and freight tariffs was
submitted. All the traffic on the divis.
ion is local. Oh the gross earnings
1851, 24083 came from passengers, and
1872, 295. l6 from freights. Total ex-
penses for salaries to employees during
1852, $3.50, ll222. No person employed
on the division receives $1,000 or
more per year. The division leases
fifteen miles of the Monterey
Railroad, paying therefor $1,000 per
mile per month, equal to $50, 400 per
year. In answer to a question concern
| ing special contracts or the under
| bidding system Of contracts, it was re-
piled that the company performs no SER
vice for contracting shippers at com
petative points ON lines not open to all
rival shippers. On nil freight business
the local average rate per ton per mile
was three cents; total freight earnings
this year s672 295 Is; maximum rate of
fare per mile for local passengers, ex
Guiding fares OF the Oakland ferry, ten
cents; maximum CT cents; av erage for
1881 2.7i.l00 cents.
Answers to the circular have been
filed from the North Pacific Coast, the
Nevada County Narrow Gauge, the Cal
iforna Northern and the San Francisco
aud North Pacific.
Pacific Coast Crop Prospects.
san FRANoIsuo, March G.-The crop
reports are more favorable than was an
ticipated from the dryness of the season.
In Sacramento valley there is q larger
acreage of wheat than last year and,
with rain within the next two weeks,
the crop will be up to or over the aver
age. In the northern part of the San
joaquin valley the report is the same,
but farther south the harvest will be a
fa,i al ,,,.1un1 In
the counties surrounding San Francisco
bay, prospects are fair with the usual
spring rains. In the southern coast
counties, with increased acreage, the
prospects vary from half to full crop,
according to locality. Very little wheat
remains i'll the hands OF growers and
this is held for better prices. Consider
able barley is held Tor rise. Oregon
advices say the wheat acreage is about
twenty five per cent. greater than last
season. One -fourth of the growing erol
in the Willamette valley was killed by
frost, but eighty per cent thereof will
be reseeded In Eastern Oregon and
Washington Territory the outlook was
never better. There is no surplus in
Oregon, Washington or Idaho, the de
mands of the railroad, the army and Of
immigrants for seed and consumption
having exhausted the store. 1t is NOT
unlikely that flour will be imported be
fore midsummer. A fair estimate fol
export the coming season for Oregon ant
Washington will be $50, 900 tons,
The stock Beard.
SAN Francisco, March 6. California
l5c: Curry, p; Mexican, 81; Union, 50
Nsvada, 81; Best, Al; Utah, %; Bodie
95c.