Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-01-03

-i5PsR VssalaOf che leading lines o.
systems 81 railroads there has baen a
material falling OF of earnings compared
Win the preceding year. On the Afcb-
son topeka q Santa Fe Road, including
oisllch mes the gross earnings for the
year ehulng June 80. 1884. were S13 SO
$50. A against Sl4. Cos, 998.O2 for the nre-
eedlng year, 2 decrease of S734 nos 81
NE operating expenses were less i'm 1884
than IN 1855 by 5000 6SI 81. still lesviuo
a net decrease Of Income from earDiTgs
of S224, 1864 compared with the Prev
Gus year,
The Missouri Pacific shows a decrease
Of gross earnings for the past year. COM
pared with the previous year of S97
O55.69, VIZ; Gross earnings Tor 1888.
s., POI ,225 80; for 1854, So, lie, IQ03a. The
reported operating expenses for thevear
ending June so, 1884, were less than the
corresponding period of the year before
by $500 3S7, 81. leaving an incr6ase of net
earnings Of $2O8 ,S6L96.
The greatest falling-off in earnings Is
observed in the Union Pacific sysem.
embracing the Union Pacific, Kan,as
Pacific, and Denver roads The toll
gross earnings Offke consolidated UniOA
Pacific railroads amounted in 1884, to
$l9O77 ,4S3, against So, 977, 669 in 1888, or
a decrease for the year ending June So,
1884, of S2,902, 1S5. The operating eX-
penses of the past year have been larger
than the year before by $780, S4. making
q decrease of revenue from earnings for
the past year over the previous year of
S., 337 SOS.
Taking the Kansas Division of the
| Union Pacific, the comparative earnings
and expenses for the past two years
stand thus: Gross earnings for the year
/ ending June 80, 1888, S., 4I5, 7I94T; for
| 1884. S., 232, 595.30-a falling of of $751;
| l24.l7. The passenger earnings have
/ diminished the past year over the pre-
I ViOus year, Sl66, l5l. 5S. A similar dimi-
mutton IN the passenger earnings Of the
/ A., I. & 5. f. Road is also observable. it
/ was thought at the time the reduction in
| passenger fares was effected that the re-
/ duced fares would serve to stimulate
/ travel to an extent sufficient to make
good the former revenue receipts from
/ this source, but this expectation has not
/ been realized.
The Kansas Central marrow gauge)
/ shows an increase in gross earnings over
/ the year before of so, 232.43. The OPe-
/ rating expenses, however, exceed tbs
gross earnings 10y. $53,3 l9 81, leaving the
taxes and interest on mortgages hypOth-
4 from some other source. The other aux
Hilary lines IN Kansas belonging to the
4 Union Pacific system show q cOnsidera-
Z BILE increase in business and gross earn
ings. b
T. The following roads show an increase
Of gross and net earnings for the past
year, Compared with 1888:
Manhattan, Alma & Burlingame Rail
road, increase of gross earrings, S7,7I6.69
net increase, 81, C5S.7l.
Atchison & Nebraska, increase of gross
earnings, 81 38652; net increase, $25,.
I546.75.
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf Rail.
road, increase in gross earnings 1885,
I03887; in net earnings, increase $500,
1885
), Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad
Increase IN gross earnings over 1888
1899, 722.84; net increase, S293, 1880.
The Central Branch shows an increase
in gross earnings of 1927, 1912; Of NE
earnings, $83 O35O6.
The st. Louis, Fort Scott q Wichita has
more than doubled it's earnings of the
previous year. The line, however, va
only completed through to Wichita on,
year ago last Jnly, and the last year
earnings are derived from the operating
of longer line than was reported TO
, the year before.
The st. Louis & San Francisco Rail
road shows an increase in gross earning
over 1888 of $546, 338.73; net increase
I 1924, IO931.