Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-01-11
THE RAILWAYS.
Figures From the Report Of the In
ter-State Commission.
The Receipts and E .,enses of the Rail-
roads Of the Country-A Notable In
crease the Past Two Years-East-
ern and Western Traffic.
American Railroads.

WASHINGTON, Jan. "A preliminary
report on the income and expenditures
OF railways for the year ending June so,
1892, compiled by the statistician to the
interstate commerce commission, will
soon be made public. The gross earn
ings of 12S, $40. 90 miles of railway are
shown to have been s951, ,O2e, 15e, from
which the gross earnings of the entire
railway service of the United States
are estimated to have been 81, 222, ILL.,
69S. This is an increase of $125, $50, ,3O3
over the earnings of the previous
year, or an increase of S60S per
mile of line. The operating expenses
for the year were SS14, 722, ,0sO, being an
increase of $50, 1874, 1s9, which leaves an
increase in net earnings of $4s, 116, ia,
or 81, 472 per mile of line A comparison
of passenger and freight service shows
the larger proportion of increase in
earnings from operations to have come
from freight service. The actual in.
crease in revenue from passenger SER
vice was S31, 500, 023, or S247 per mile of
line, as against an increase in the rev.
enue from freight service of S91, SOC, ,671,
or s349 per mile of line.
1t is observed that the RAILWAYS on
which there has accrued the largest In
crease in gross earnings per mile of line
are the lines connecting the wheat
growing territory with the seaboard,
and the lines in the southern states
bordering on the Gulf of Mexico It is
significant, however. that on these rail-
ways there has been an increase in
operating expenses nearly equal to the
increase in gross revenue. The report
shows that the aggregate gross earn
ings of siXty-two roads, each of which
enjoys an income in excess of
100000 is 1874, 476, 1881, being an aver
age increase of s12, ,S14, ia. The aver
age gross revenue per mile of line for
all roads is IS, $40. II classification of the
sixty-two roads in question show that
eight receive each an income in ex-
cess of $4,000 per mile of line, for ten
the income per mile of line is between
5000 and $50, 600, for thirteen the in
come per mile is between s7,443 and
$13, 600, while the income from each of
the remainder is less than $7,443 per
mile of line.
The density of passenger and freight
traffic is also given for the roads whose
which it appears that in some parts of
the country there have been healthy ex-
pansions OF trade during the last two
years, while in other parts the increase
in traffic of 1892 does little more than
balance the loss of traffic in 1891. In the
southern gulf states, Tennessee and Ken
lucky, the tonnage per mile of line was
in 1890, 1894, ,096; in 1891, 405, ,905; in 1892.
a99, ,926, showing a permanent gain. On
the other hand. in the territory of the
trunk lines east of Buffalo and Pitts
burgh the tonnage per mile of line was
in 1890, 1,aoO, a95; in 1891, /, ,76s, $50, and
IN 1892, 1,935, ,4o4. The poor relative
showings of 1891 is in part accounted
for by the new lines built in the state
OF Pennsylvania, but the figures indi.
cate decided fiuctuation in business