Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-11-30
KANSAS RAILROADS.

Nf1NSfN0 .HtANLnSAO0s
NJ, X. & T. earnings for the first
week of November show an increase over
the same week Of the previous year Of
S50,222.
The Union Pacific has addressed let
ters to all Of its connections saying that
under the receivership the road will con-
tinue doing business exactly as hereto.
fore, and that it desires the cooperation
Of other lines it has had up to this
time.
The stockholders of the M. K. & T.
have issued their report in neat book
form. The gross earnings for the year
ending Jnne Both were $40, 1888, 1924;
operating expenses and taxes, $780,
1880; average mileage in operation,
1,712 miles; gross earnings per mile,
$6,067S7 net earnings per mile 81, $685.
g. John d. Rockefeller is one Of the
principal stockholders in the company.
Topeka Journal: The board Of rail-
road commissioners ordered the Missouri
Pacific to replace their passenger train
on the Topeka Fort Scott division. Some
time ago the management Of the road
took off the regular passenger train
without authority Of the board, and in
it's place put on mixed train. Since
that time the people living along the line
of the road have repeatedly petitioned
the board to have the train restored be-
cause when the road was built bonds
we're voted with the understanding that
first class passenger traffic should be &c.
cured. It is believed that the road will
not put the train back before the matter
has been referred to the supreme court.
President Reinhart, of the Santa Fe
system, on his return to New York from
Kansas said: IL have no other feeling
concerning the outlook than that Of en-
couragement. 1t has been made per-
fectly clear to me that we will have to
increase our rolling stock, both engines
and cars, in the near future, if we pro-
pose to handle all the business which
will offer. The coal business all over
the southwestern country has been de-
pressed Ito the lowest limit, owing to
hard times, but is now picking up with
rush. We will not have a sufficient
number Of coal cars to handle that class
Of traffic, which represents 35 per cent
Of our freight business. The grain
movement has been heavy and the indi-
cations are that it will continue.
Topeka Journal: F. E. Nipps, the
local agent Of the Missouri Pacific rail
way company, told Journal reporter
that he expected to be authorized by his
company shortly to ask the city council
for right of-way by which they can
erect new passenger depot and a
freight depot on or near the site OF the
present depot on East Fifth street. Mr..
Nipps says, ''as soon as the earnings be-
gin to increase, and it looks as if that
would be right away, 1 am confident
the company will make these necessary
improvements. Several years ago S. H. II.
Clark, then vice president but now re-
ceiver of the Union Pacific, asked the
council for the necessary right-of-way to
build these improvements. The council
granted it, but Mayor Cofran, for some
reason, never understood, vetoed the
measure. That made Mr.. Clark mad.
This is the reason the Missouri Pacific
never did work for the town. 1 am in
formed also that the company contem-
plates building north from Topeka into
Nebraska when times improve; that it
would be paying investment. OK
pect George Gould, the president OF the
Missouri Pacific, to be here within few
months to look the ground over"