The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-09-29
| YEARS EXPENSES.
Made and Under
Way by Great Northern.
eaoM ST. PAUL TO SEATTLE.
|rhe Carving Charge Per Ton Only
Onc-Third Of the Rate In lssl-
1900 New settlers.

- land for terminal facilities. the recon
.-uction OF Arlington dock. and the work
!, Infsrbay, makes the following sum-
Il ~ary 81 the roads expense account for
neg work IN tho year just closed really
4 sassresfing. TIE summary IS from the pen
~ president Hill In his report on the
Years improvements:
j rxpend.fures were made during the year
an ne capital accounts OF proprietary
companies az folto~s;
! eastern Railway Company OF
Minnesota .......... -.......... st33 .siJ 81
Montana Central Railway Com
w lin & sioux Falls Railway
Company .........--.- sis ~
Apulstk Terminal Railway Com
Minneapolis Union Railway Com
rany .....s,.-.-.- .s-...-....-..---- @,9se %
IA stock or bonds have been issued
I % represent these increases Of invested
2caastal
| for improvements OF and additions 10 the
rrouert;ss leased from the ST paul Min
nsapo;:s q Manitoba Railway Company.
Having been In part repaid ~ that COM
nany. The amount charged 10 this ac-
count In the balance shee; given In this
report Is not so great as that shown on
he balance sheet for the previous year.
1 The policy OF keeping the railways and
4 fselr equipment ia the highest state ~
eaIeiency has been observed. as hereto
fore .s Will appear from the mention
made below OF the principal items OF adj
dlilon. Improvement and reconstruction
made during the business year. In the
capital accounts however appear only
tash expenditures az were incurred for
/ positive additions 10 property, all OUTLAWS
!or every kind Of replacement having been
charged TO operating expenses:
Fifteen nognl freight engines, nf I'm
Aprored pattern. for Use by the Eastern
hallway Company. Of Minnesota. and nine
! for the Great Northern Railway Company.
40s the latter. six were additional and
4three to replaced vacant numbers
i Two switching engne for the Eastern
Raliway Company OF Minnesota
-Four sleeping cars of the latest i'm
Railway Company Of Minnesota on its
Jnlgh. trains between Duluth and st. Paul
{snd Minneapolis
Baggage. mat and express cars. -Four
for the Eastern Railway Company OF Min
1fssosa and eight f0- the Great Northern
Railway Company. OF the latter, two
were 70 replace vacant numbers.
Seven hundred and nifty se-foot eo.ooa-
lpourd capacity box ears equipped with
IsDonatlc couplers and air brakes. 20
If0r the Eastern Railway Company OF
IMnnesota and 800 for the Great Northern
1railaay. OF the entire 100 $50 were add
1tonal and go 20 replace cars destroyed
IdDrlng the past THREE years.
II Four hundred Go,09-pound capacity ball
5iast cars. fitted with extra coal sides. mir
lNantana Central railway. These cars are
Itntended to be loaded one way with coal
IsDd the opposite with ores. by which
Inorh empty car mileage will be avoided
Isn1 the average revenue capacity or trains
1ngch Increased. The hopper bottoms Will
Ietsatiy facilitate unloading and thereby
pave riueh time and expense for labor
one steam shovel for the Eastern Rail-
I~sy Company, OF Minnesota.
The equipment with ar brakes and au-
lsomauc couplers OF cars not previously
IL equipped has been actively carried for
Ivirs, so that a sufficient proportion OF
I've cars belonging 70 the system Is now
10 ntted az 10 conform To the acts OF
je9ngress relating thereto. As equipment
5s destroyed or taken out OF service sner-
IeunE expense t. charged. and an account
Icfneminated amount deducted from in
Jeons 10 provide for future improvements
4ea1 renewals. is credited with the cost
IL replacing tho same. When equipment
1I.r repiscements ~ purchased the cost ~
]Nentloncd
y. Paul. Minneapolis & Manitoba rail-
3vay-A new division point has been built
~ Meirose This terminal consists Or a
Iyeru containing about eleven miles az
.acg, brick roundhouse. with steel. turn
Itssle and improved cinder pts, complete
sa'sr atpply. ooaling station. operated
IM machinery. avoiding the expsfe. in
1csshi 10 handling coal by hand. sand AMI
IL haases and an office building for super
ir.sndefst. raaamaster. dispatcher. etc
L., nfge division yard is now being bulls
Numerous stockyards have been bull.
4.1Tng the year 10 handle inereasln stock
AsaPna.nts. a wcal warehouse has been
Hse.tea a. Chinook. and an automatss
4ton. - -'''''A'' pos 1"'S-
large brick passenger and freight sta
w. MID offices for superintendent anil
IT, divslan officers IL being hunt a.
Iisflnere and new stone passenger de-
r. sa 5 in process OF erection at Moor.
The water supply Is being improved.
1ssMeroas new water stations having been
srsier construction
TIE work - relayinv The main track
H. 's-p ou@i steel rails has been COM
- - nont two miles cast or Ber-
- and about &N1 miles west or -.
The reiasing Of The o~seo llne. between
X ansanolis AMI St cioeS. with tAis
1ssm % raj. Is now in progress. Il -
49, to relay during the current wear
Iseght o. rail
lsrre tract o. Land has been purchss-
X n minneapolis for additional ward tac8-
T. ~ Sie Same may ~ needed.
X tel~sH fhe 81 miles IN length has
- competed between casse}ton aNf
49, and tho oh line between Everes,
T. FieninE renewed. shortening the iira
L. miles. dcnF away with ono railroad
III SSiHT a. GRADE. and greatly facilitating
H.. .NalnS az trains % and from Cassel
A. ire time Of making this rerort re
restlen - an extension ~ the Hal
Il ,hrauca from 1sslstsa to Carman
H. eh distance ~ about shtrty-twn
* IS nearly completed aat tho Hon,
fsen's Eight mites
Il EASTERN Railway - Ninnesats-I4an.
L. nsea acquired re Sandstone and the
- point moved there from flinckiey.
II ~ "a a