River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-10-11
NEWS or THE RATLRoADs

The annual report of the Rock Island
company gives the following statement:
Total amount of capital stock, Sal 800, 600;
bonded debt, ST., 100000 upon I,117.19
miles; aggregate liabilities, common stock
and bonded debt, $50. 10000 The total
length of main line and branches is /, $780,
AZ, the aggregate length of all tracks Tlain
line branches, and sidings being l, 1887.
The road carried 2, 767, 251 passengers and
Blob, 499 tons of freight during the year.
The total earnings were S11 553, 05S, So, 703,
20S being from the passenger DEPARTING Mt
and 81, 839 255 from the freight department.
The income from other sources, rents for
use of road, telegraph earnings etc, was
1888 ST., making the total income fIom all
sources $12, 142 $50. The operating expenses
and taxes amounted to Sc, 954 437.
The Menominee railway, 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 sidings aggregating
two miles, has rendered its annual report
for the year ending June 80, to Railroad
Commissioner Hagen of Wisconsin. This
shows the total income of the year to have
been 81, 500; operating expenses $l7, 357; ex-
cess of operating expenses over income
Sl2, SAT. The sum of $5778 was received
from the Omaha company on account OF
loss in operating for the six months ending
Dec. 81, 1882 leaving the deficit still $7076.
Attorney Clough, counsel for the North
ern Pacific road, and r. B. Galusha, attor-
ney for the Manitoba company, haYe insti-
tuted quo warranto proceed ngs, asking the
attorney general of the state OF Minnesota
to institute proceedings in the supreme
court of the state to discontinue the Moor
head municipal court on the ground that
the act establishing it did not pass the house
of reT resentatives by the said-to be requisite
two thirds majority. The city of Moorhead
will make a big fight against the railways
The court has given several decisions
against the railways lately; hence the pro-
cee9ings against 1t.
According to the Railroad Gazette there
was total OF IA accidents dnriugiAugust, in
which AZ persons were killed and ] rs in
jured The eight months of the current
year to the end of August show a total of
1,074 accidents, 800 killed and /, 14s injured:
a monthly average of 1874 accidents 40
killed and LA injured. August was above
the average in the number of accidents
above it also in killed, but Slightly below
in injured. There were no notably fatal
accidents during the month.
r. NJ. Sceets has been appointed soliciting
agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Panl
railway in place of Harry Z. Dickinson, re-
signed Mr. Sceets has lately been agent
for the Milwaukee 81 Northern al CT cen Bay
Wis, but is we'll known in Milwaukee, as
he hold the position of soliciting agent tor
the Chicago d Northwestern there for three
years.
The Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia
railroad company reports its gross receipts
for September to be $3.50 900; net profits,
$24 $50. Notwith standing the strikes in the
hituminous coal region the receipts for
October will be 1925 009; 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 Of
September aggregated 81. 900, 694.37 against
81, $50 71004 for the corresponding month
last year, a increase of 1925, 97433 The
total esrnin during the fourth week of
September were 1914, 600, an increase of
SIS, 900 over the same week last year.
A Missouri Pacific and Wabash, St. Louis
& Pacific circular announces that these COM
panies are now running refrigerator cars Tor
transportation of perishable property from
Chicago to st. Louis every Tuesday Thurs
day and Saturday evenings. These arrive
III st. Louis every Thursday Saturday and
Monday mornings.
The Railway Age shows in It's current is
sue the amount OF main track added the
railways OF the Union during the nine
months ending Sept. 30 to have been 1, 244
against S,O75 for the same period of last
year.
The Grartsburg bIanch of the st. Paul d
Duluth has reached the st. Croix river, and
as soon as the bridge is built it will at once
be extended to Grautsburg, Wis. on the
7th inst.