Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-01-16
$4,000 to sy,g.see, oolns saving in on.

$4,000 70 E,2b96, boing saving In one
| yoar OF 81, 163.l3.
Tho insurance department continues TO
| show gratifying results. Tho not receipts ct
SIS 40,s5 for tho year previous. The efforts
| of tho present Commissioner LnA his prede.
cessor have boon wisely and efficiently
| lection and eradication of fraudulent and
| illusory schemes of insurance, with SO many
of which the State has been afflicted.
STATE LIBRARY.
During tho past year 1859 volumes havo
boon added to tho Library making n total
number of 61,430. The volumes OF tho st.
Clalr, papers, of which tho Joint resolution Of
April o. 1894 Isl, o. L., 1867 directed the pur.
chase, are ready for distribution.
RAILROADS AND TELEGRAPHs.
The report of tho Commissioner of Rail.
ronds aud Tclographs for the year commence
ing .lunu 30, 1883, and ending June 30. 1884,
makes tho following showings:
The increase OF mileage during tho year
was lO3 beng 2.p5 por cent. additional,
making totai of 1908 miles of railway in tho
State.
The capital stock has remained about tho
same, bcing S2ig, ,45i, t3O.S7. Tho debt has in.
creased so that the stock and debt together
mako S5OLT34 $50, nm increase of G.25 per cent.
Tho number OF passengers transported
during the year has Increased 4.& per cent,
cont, ut an average rate of 22sl cents per
mile, decrease OF G.09 per cent.
nS npnmaSe 3 ,s Sf iesh mas @
while the average rate per ton per milo is
0.is9 cont, decrease of BOZ per cent.
s4l9JO,50O26, in 1885, TO $50 i5s, $50 ID, O5s pei
cent.
Tho net earnings have decreased 0.75 per
cent, being Sl5,0aO, Leo, while the operating
expenses have Increased As per cent.
Threcfourths of the railway mileage of
Ohio Is laid with steel.
The number OF railway employees In the
State is 31,268 a slight decrease, and n little
over hvo per cent. per mile of road.
Since 1874 the number of locomotives has
increased hfty-four per cent, and the NUN.
ber of cars l8o per cent, In 1874 there were
twenty-five cars to each locomotive, while
now there arc thirty-four.
The number of persons killed in Ohio dur.
ing the year was 5|i, twenty-cight less than
last year; and of these, ten were passengers,
LII railway employees, and 2OI Others or the
employees killed, sixteen were killed in coup
ling cars.
During the year, s3s persons were injured
116 less than the year before. OF these,
forty.oight, 81 per cent, were passengers,
$40 were employees being sixty-ninc per cent,
and III others, OF the employees injured,
277, 470 per cent, were injured in coupling
cars. In Ohio there are 2,422 brakeinen;
hence, one in every nine were injured in the
act of coupling cars.
A careful inspection of all the railways and
railway bridges has been made, and they
have bocn found, generally, in excellent con.
dtion.
There are IO,O94a3 miles of telegraph re-
ported in Ohio; the gross earnings of which
1914.
No complaint of any defect in legislation
has reached tho Commissioner and no re-
commendation is made of any change.
CANALS.
The report OF the Board of Public Works
shows the following receipts and disburse-
ments for the year ending November 10, 1884:
Receipts. Expenditures.
Erie and Miami Canal $ S3,9g2 IA s ,6S5 SO
Ohio Canal. ............ 3S00i 25 53435 65
Muskngum Improve
ment. .........!....... 14,Oss 81 15,45e 70
Hooking Canal. ........ 2,27 Al 1854 So
Walhonding Canal. 44S 30 1907 06
Total. Sl39,70i 30 s142, 2,765 90
This includes ordinary repairs, but no part
of the sums appropriated for special repairs
made necessary by the floods of February
last. These were expended as follows:
Miami and Erie Canal ............. $4,000 90
Ohio Canal. Observation-Disclosures. 74,59S SO
Muskingum improvement. 9,763 SO
Hooking Canal Observation-Disclosures. 10000 90
Walhonding Canal. 4S9 SO
Total Observation-Disclosures. S112, $50 OF
In addition to Sls,OlO.07 expended on levee
at GAINESVILLE.