The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-04-12
THE SANTA FE ROAD.
Annual Report of Operations During
the year 1889.


Annual Report of Operations During
the year 1889.
The Commonwealth of this morning
publishes extracts from The advance
sheets of the annual report of the Santa
Fe railroad for the year 1882. which
shows an encouraging measure of growth
during that period. The report cIuses
with the following general summary:
In 1880 the directors Determined upon
system OF permanent Improvement Of
the property, more particularly the main
line system THIS policy was carried
forward in 1880 and 1881, and during
1882 the work was nearly completed.
The result of these expenditures is that
We have now secured road well con-
structed and fully equipped, and which,
with large and growing country tIibu-
tary TO it, should produce results to the
stockholders OF permanently satIsfac-
tory character.
Ii seems only reasonable TO expect
that, as the resources OF the country
tributary to the line are developed, the
business of the road will show CORES.
POND ing increase. That these resources
are being developed is apparent from an
examination of the east and west ton
mage and passenger figures for 1882 as
compared with 1881. We carried 224,
063 passengers and earned from passen-
ger receipts S691 1867 IS more in 1882
than in 1881. In freight tonnage and
receipts IL will be noted that the west
bound business increased sufficiently
not only to replace the decrease in the
transportation of construction material
for the new lines in the southwest. bun
0dAa6 Ak FH4 RlTR C2A OQ n
west-bound earnings, while the east.
bound tonnage (Which represents the
producing power of our tributary coun.
try) increased 259, CSC tons with 81 ,209, !.
344 % of earnings.
A brief summary of the entire At:hi-
son properly, as il will be when this
report reaches the stockholders,
| would be: a line of road reach
| ing from three eastern termine.
tions on the Missouri river-Kan-
sas City, Atchison and Leavenworth-to
| first, the best portions of the eastern and
southern part of Kansas, in which state
alone more than half its mileage is To-
| Gated; second, 10 Pueblo, where for all
time 1t will afford to the 200 miles Of
narrow guage system of the Rio Grande
road its shortest and cheapest connection
with the east; third, at Pueblo 1t con-
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| tenn of the Rio Grande road for Denver
and the country tributary thereto; fourth
| To Albuquerque, where it connects with
| the Atlantic s. Pacific route to SaE
Francisco, etc.; fifth, to Ell Paso, where
| il connects With the Mexican Central
system of 1 800 miles or more, now be
| ing constructed; sixth, to Deming
| wheie it connects with the Southern
Pacific route TO southern California
seveath, t. Guaymas, on the gulf o
! California, where not inconsiderablt
business awaits Development.
| OF this 2,620 miles of road nearly
ZOO miles are now III steel rail Thu
iron rail remaining IS almost exclusively
on branch roads. The whole road hav
ing all the facilities for doing business
is we'll constructed and in excellent con
dItiOn, and possesses an equipment o
nearly 10000 passenger aud freight car
and 348 locomotives.
The territory tributary 10 this roaC
can be more readily protected and is les
subject to invasion than that usual,
reached by railroad lines.
The company has no floating debt
The stock and bond Indebtedness o
this company, including its land issue
and deducting its various assets, is res
sonable in amount. Its ability TO earl
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its fixed charges and dividends have beel
shown in the last two years operations
Thirteen years ago the Atchison, To
peka s. Santa Fe railroad, line then 2
miles in length, under the same genera
direction which now governs its affairs
asked the confidence and support of tn
Massachusetts public in the execution
of the projects it contemplated. Throug
good and evil times thai support has al
ways been readily given, and that conf
dence has never been broken, and, as
result, those who have, followed the fcl
tunes of the company have shared in 1t
prosperity.
What the future plans of the compan
shall be must depend largely upon III
course pursued by its connections an
competitors. The assurance may b
given that every prudent measure shal
be taken 10 preserve the property in II
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