Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-03-28
Annual Report of the Chesapeake and
Ohio r. &. 20.

The stockholders of the Chesapeake &
Thursday. The States interest was rep
RESI- nted by her proxies, Messrs. VIM. A.
Burke of Staunten. j. b Moon of Albe-
marie, and j. II Darlington of Richmond.
Mr.. Moon was elected chairman.
REPORT OF THE EARNINGS FOR 1888.
The business of the company for the
past fiscal year. says President Hunting
tom report. has been sufficiently crafty
ing to meet the reasonable expect ations
of the stockholders and bondholders. The
gross earnings and operating expenses for
1882 and 1883 compare as follows:
1892 1888.
Gross earnings :. $3344.976.9l $3,9O6,79 70
Guiding taxes, 2.si244s5s 2,5sae3 Al
sl,t4252838 sl,3O6.s58 80
The interest requirements upon the
funded debt for the year. exclusive of that
portion of the interest coupons which by
their terms we're wholly or partly payable
in preferred stocks, were 1919 260. The
total interest liabilities in cash for the
current year 1884 will be 81 ,279, 260.
COAL TRAFFIC.
The number Of tons transported over
the road were as follows: 1882. 849, 01e
tons; 1888. Ss3, sos tons, of which there
were delivered at Newport News IN 1882
1924 tons; in 1883, 226 26O tons.
OPERATING EXPENSES.
The report of Mr.. c. W. Smith, the gen
eral manager of the road. shows that the
number of N lies operated during the year
were SIT the gross earnings from passen-
gers. 1896 105.13; freight, So OBJ 032 10 :;
mails, $50 474 0S; express, $35 607 26;
miscellaneous, $40 573.19; total, So $685.
1919 Operating expenses For conduct
ing transportation, 1851 ,734 70; motive
power. $721 1874 Y; manufacture of cars.
$279 1856 "A; maintenance of way. $484,
951.13; general expenses, $1O5, 626.76;
Total. So ,553 1921.
FREIGHT REVENUES.
The total tonnage of revenue freight
hauled during the year was l ,748 676. an
increase of nearly % per cent. as compared
with last year; about Is per cent. was
through freight and III per cent. was coal;
the remainder was local freight. The
plumber of trains run during the year was
A ,a93; the total number of miles made by
such trains was 2,S47 36l, an increase of 8
per cent. over that Of last year; the total
number of cars handled by freight trains
during the year was 969. 1926.
PASSENGER TRAVEL.
The total number of passengers carried
during the year was 572. 572, an increase
of IS per cent. over last year-of this num-
Der $40 1O1. or SO per cent. were local pas
sengers and 62.471 through passengers
Tue average distance each passenger
travelled was: Local passenger. 2.56
miles; through. 203 miles.
TIE total number of miles run Nv pas.
senger trains during the year was SIC. 437.
an increase over the previous year of
| IL 8 10 per cent.
MOTIVE POWER.
| The total number of serviceable engines
owned by this company is 1859, classed as
folio WIS, viz: Eight-wheel five-foot drivers,
46; eight-wheel four-and-a- half foot driv-
| ers, "a; mOguls. b; ten-Wheel engines, 46;
consolidated, 40; six wheel connected
switching engines, 6; tank switching en-
CINE, 1.
ROLLING STOCK.
First, class passenger coaches, 81; sec
ond class passenger coaches, 9; sleepers,
10; baggage, mail. and express cars. 81;
! miscellaneous passenger cars, Z; freight
cars 1874; stock cars, 219; coal cars, 81
3U7; fiat cars, PA.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
The following Board of Directors were
electeds G. P. Huntingdon, A. A. Low,
A. S. Hatch. Elias Higgins. John Castree.
Isaac E. Gates. A. E. Orr, Ezra Wheeler.
E. T. Tournier (all of New York;. Wms.
| G. Wickham, and John Echols, of Vir-
| ginia.