The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-07-28
FACTS ABOUT RAILROADS.

FACTS ABOUT RAILROADS.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
Gathers Interesting Statistics.
The Interstate commerce commission
has made it's sixth statistical report
The total mileage of railways in the
United States on June 80, 1898, was
ITO, 461.07, being an increase during
the year Of 4, 897 IS miles. The CORE
spending increase during the previous
year was $3.50. 78, from which it ap-
pears that there was some revival in
hallway construction during the year
covered by the report The number of
roads abandoned during the year was
10. The total length of line, including
all tracks, was $50, 1927, which in
cludes 10, 051. SO miles of second track
and AZ, 043. 40 miles of yard tracks and
sidings.
The total number of employees in the
service of railways on June 80, 1898,
was 873, 602, being an increase of ST..
1877 Of this total of employees, IS, 1884
are assigned to the work of general adj
ministration, 256, 212 to maintenance of
! way and structures, 175, 464 to mainte-
nance Of equipment and 397, 915 to con-
! Quoting transportation, the remainder,
i 8,627, being unclassifed
The aggregate property properly clas-
sifed as railway capital was on June
80, 1898, $40, 500, 235, 40, which shows
railway capital equal to $6S, 421 per
mile Of line The amount of stock out
standing was 81, 668, 935, 418, of which
| So, 9S2, OO9, 6O2 was common stock, the
remainder, 1886, 925, 816, being pre-
ferred stock The funded debt outstand-
ing was SIS, 1915, $50, 82l, classified as
follows: Mortgage bonds, 81, 504, $685.
1852; miscellaneous obligations, $410,-
474, CAT; income bonds $248, 1872, 730,
and equipment trust obligations, $685.
500, 282. The amount of Investment in
the railway securities has increased
during the year from 81, 80 l, 457, O53 to
81, 563, 02S, 1913, being an increase of
$171, 565, $50.
The amount of stock paying no divi-
dends during the year was 50, $50, 1874,
572, being 61.24 per cent of the total
stock outstanding.
The total of dividends paid was $780,
929, 885. The amount Of mortgage bonds
paying no interest was $492, 276, 900,
Or 10. SO per cent of the total of mort
gage bonds, and the amount of income
bonds paying no interest was 1904, 1884,
800, or 80. 56 per cent of the total of in
come bonds.
The total number Of passengers car
ried during the year ending June &c.
1898, was 593, 560,612
The number of tons of freight report
ed by the railways for the year was
745, 119, 1872 Ton mileage was SO, $685.
Ill, 1888.
The gross earnings from operations
on the railways of the United States for
the year ending June 80, 1898, were ST.
800, ISL, 874, being an increase of $49,-
S44, 531 over gross earnings reported in
the previous year: Operating expenses
during the year were 1927, 921, 300, be-
ing an increase of $46, 923, 3O3 over the
previous year.
The final net income available for
dividends was Sill, O58, 034, being a
sum less than the corresponding amount
for the previous year of 81, GOT, 1877.
After deducting from this amount the
dividends paid the income account of
railways in the United States for the
year 1893 shows a surplus Of IS,
745, which is less than the surplus of
the previous year by $5,919,311.
The number of railway employees
killed during the year was 2, 1877, being
greater by l73 than those killed during
the previous year. The number of en-
ployees injured was 81, 729, being great
er by 3, 462 than the number injured
the previous year. The number of pas
sengers killed during the year was 800,
being less by ~ than the number killed
the previous year, and the number in
jured was 8, 229, being two in excess of
the number injured the previous year.
OF the total number Of deaths to en-
! ployees on account of railway accidents
: 433 were due to coupling and uncoup-
ling cars, ga to falling from trains and
engines, 70 to overhead distinctions, EAT
to collisions and 1853 to derailments,
the remainder being due to causes not
SO clearly defined An assignment of
casualties to the opportunity offered for
OOSANOAUo oAOTS cHp1Ov00 TO nave
been killed for every $50 men employed
and to have been injured for every %
men employed. The most dangerous
| service is that Of trainmen, and for
these the statistics show employee to
have been killed for every lis trainmen
and l employee to have been injured for
every 10 engaged in this service. A
similar comparison shows / passenger
to have been killed for each 1,985,153
passengers carried, or for each 1885,
966 passenger miles accomplished and
passenger injured for each 1873, 822 pas
sengers carried, or for each 4,406, $50
| passenger miles accomplished. W ash
ington Correspondent
Got His Diamond Back.
| nice looking young fellow in even
; ing dress called on a certain physician
night or two ago with a peculiar
wound in his face The Dhvsicia,, hoard