The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-07-09
RAILWAY STATISTICS.
Advance Figures from the
Annual Reports Filed in
the Comptroller's
Office.
JERSEY CITY & BERGEN PROGRESS.
Pennsylvania, Central, Erie and
the Canals-PrOfiis, Expenses.
and Accidents of a Year.
ERsEY CITY & BERGEN PROGRESS.

AiENION, July y, loJL-lne most IN
portant State document issued at the
State House is the statement OF the rail-
road and canal companies, in which the
losses, the gains and the accidents are set
forth. Il comes from the State Comp
troller's Office and will be ready for circu-
lation in about ten days. General w. S.
Heppenheimer has just revised the tables
and finished reading the proofs.
The law of New Jersey requires every
company to answer a series of questions
and furnish affidavits that all the facts are
correct. These statements cover three
hundred pages of matter, and give con-
siderable information about the numer-
Gus terminal roads Of Jersey City and
vicinity.
THE UNITED RAILROADS
The first statement is that Of the United
Railroads Of New Jersey, which includes
all the branches of the Z. r. r. in this
State. The total number of miles in
cluded in the system is 81, ,354. Last year
the gross earnings were SIS, OBS. S97 The
freight traffic yielded S9,S5O, ,677. So: pas
senger traffic, 1864. $50; express, S462. SOS;
transportation Of mails, S232. l25, miscei-
laneous sources, S179, ,95o; Delaware and
Raritan Canal. S509. l62 The operating
expenses were s14. .2S3, ,078. The amount
expended for conducting transportation
was s., 597, ,9c6; motive power, s., 55S, 7g5:
maintenance of cars. 1858, 157; mainten-
ance of way, 81. l.sSl, l06; general expenses
Delaware and RariIan Canal, si15. 326.
The net earnings from operation. s.. $780,
SIS, to which must be added $4T9,15 re-
ceived from rentals aud dividends on
stock held on branch roads. This makes
the total net income s5,i34,9T6 From
this amount must be deducted rentals,
dividends and tax on smaller brauches
amounting to s4. .O91; leaving the net
profit for the year 1890. S396. .SS5.
FINANCES.
The amount expended by the United
Railroads up TO December, 1890 was 50. 755,-
452. Last years expenditures were S8S4
123. The proceeds from sale of bonds aud
other property up to date was So. .l02 553.
The debit balance is S3,652, sos. Heal es-
tate expenditures for 1890. S159. .462; total
TO date, s., ,26l, ,137; proceeds of sales TO
date. f412.477, leaving debit balance of
81, 7sS, $50. The summary shows the total
expenditures to be S15. ASS, 754. This in-
cludes s., 1872 933 for construction at Har-
sinus Cove ana s., ,009, 49,, for rights of way
and real estate at the Cove.
The other sheet shows the tot al debit
balance to be s.. .s5i. .90t.
NEW JERSEY CENTRAL
The report of the Central Railroad
from Jersey City to Phillipsburg is 72 30.
The total mileage of branches, 1855.
Capital stock paid in. s18. .629. 200; bonded
debt, $t3. .0SS, Alb. Cost or road and equip
ments, $24, 300, ,485. During 1890 four divi-
dends of one and one-half per cent, each
on par value OF capitable stock were
paid.
The receipts for the year was 81 ,643. .126,
from passengers, 81. 141 ,677; from freight,
S5,277,672; other sources, S223,7I Ex-
pended in all ways, S4,6S5, ,653. There were
3l9accidents on the road and one-sixth of
them were fatal
RAILWAY AND CANAL.
There is another interesting collection
of figures in the statement of the United
New Jersey Railroads aud Canal Com
pany, which road extends from Camden
60 Amboy. and from Trenton TO Jersey
City, with branches. a distance of 439
miles. 1t is leased to the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company at an annual rental of
ten yer centum on Its capital stock, and
the Interest on its bonds The capital
stock paid in Is s2f, ,240, 400; bonded debt,
$50, ,000, coo; cost of ROAD and equipments,
S42. go. $780, earnings last year. SiS. .93S. S97;
from passengers, $685., 800; freight,
penditures, s14. .2S3, ,07S; net earnings
s4, ,655, ,S18 The dividends paid amounted
to ten per centum on capital stock. The
total number OF accidents reported for
the pear was 0Ios and one-SIXth were
fatal.
MORRIS AND ESSEX.
The earnings of the Morris and Essex
Railroad was s., 1917 .639. Tue income from
passengers was Sl,74S. ne; from freight,
s.. .991, ,265; from other sources. $451, COL.
The expenditures were S, ,53l, ,725 The
road extends from Hoboken TO Phillips
burg. The capital stock paid in. Sl5, ,000,-
900; bonded debt, $24, ,9T4. 600; cost of road
and equipments, SIS, ,9S2 743. There was
paid to the stockholders g, ,050, 900 in divi-
dends. The number of accidents listed is
120.
WEST SHORE.
The West Shore Railroad Company ex-
tends from Weehawken to Buffalo,
distance of 40 miles. 1t has a capital
stock of $4,000, 900; a bonded debt of
$4,000 900 and the cost of road and equip
ments is S60, 900 600. It is operated by
the New York Central and Hudson River
Railroad, and no statement of profits and
expenditures is furnished By Chauncey
NJ. Depew.
sUsQUEHANNNA.
The New YORK, Susquehanna 6Western
Railroad Company extends from Marion,
New Jersey 10 Gravel place, Pennsyl-
vania, distance of 101 miles The road
cost SIS, ,6y5, AL; the capital stock is S2l, OO0
year, 81. .592, ,0S3; income from passengers.
$3.50 ,242; freight, 81 POS, 1856; from other
sources, s9S, ,903. The expenditures for
everything was 1921, 1877.
The Easton & Amboy Road, is operated
by the Lehigh Valley, and extends from
Phillipsburg to Perth AmboY distance
of sixty-iive miles The income from
passengers was Sis 502; from freight,
81 ,s25, $50, this was nearly all coal; from
other sources, S15.275. Expenditures
81. .451, ,s74-
JERSEY CITY AND BERGEN.
Business was good on the Jersey City
and Bergen Railroad which runs from
Jersey City ferry to Bergen Point, and
has thirty miles of track. Income from
passengers was S534. .966 and scarcely
nothing from freight This Is punched
with general earnings and amounts TO
S3. $40 Expenditures. $4l9 9905. The divi-
dends paid were large:-For June 80,
per cent In cash on $500, 900; June 80. 1890.
20 per cent in stock on $500. 600; December
81, 500. per cent in cash on Sis. 200.
There were only tweuty-four accidents
on the road during the year.
LEHIGH AND HUDSON.
The earnings OF the Lehlgh and Hud-
son River Railway Company was s239.-
1s5 This road extends from Belvidere to
Greycourt, New YORK. a distance Of sixty
miles; income from passengers, $40, 700;
from freight, s2l5, I'D. other sources, Sl3,-
lS1; expenditures. sl6I89 There were
but seven accidents.
NEW JERSEY SOUTHERN.
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