The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-21
hands Of the attorney general Of the

state.
The following thirteen companies OPP
Grating railroads in Minnesota, report a
surplus, after paying operating ex-
penses, taxes, interest. rentals and div
1dends, on June 80, 1896, including the
surplus from the previous years for en-
tire lines, as follows
Brafnerd Northern Minnesota e57 gss
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & North
ern ..........-............. 2.24s. 7s2
lineage milwaukee, & st. PAUL.. 1865, es8
Chicago Northwestern - 307s -1g
chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha Observation-Disclosures. 3,04O. 075
Duiutn, Mlssaoe 4 Northern 9,1s3
Duluth, Red Wing Southern 95ss6
duluth Iron Range ........ 235l ST.
taste railway OF Minnesota -, 1435,6sl
Minneapolis & ST. Louis .... I06 es9
SC. Paul & Duluth ......... 1a5 ono
Wflimar & Sioux Falls ... 2fS5I8
Total .;...... ...-.............. 80, 6s1. 1S2
The total surplus for the previous
year was $24, 103. 524 showing an in
crease Of $527, sos over the previous
year The Chicago & Northwestern
read mas charged 1928, 607 of its sur
Plus TO cost of road, and other comma
MES nave charged off less amounts in
similar way.
The following nine companies. oper
ating railroads in Minnesota, report a
ueHcit on June 80, 1896, including def
G rGits from previous years. as follows:
SSHlCdSO, burlington IL Northern f27 060
Chicago Great Western - 2n8 56S
= eTn ............... -. 7.4o7{
Duluth & Winnipeg ........ 333 AL
minneapolis, ST. Paul & Sault Ste
Marie -; ~. sss sss
M NTonneapoliS g eastern ....-...-.... 81 4a3
Wisconsin Central e17 1eS
Wlnona & Western ........... 102 O23
1osd .-.:-, ..-....................- Sc, sos 1G1
The total deficit for 1909 49, . 4 900 80
thus showing an increase for 1895 of
$1,915,5S8 =
The total amount of stock and funded
dept OF the railroads reporting to this
ONCE, for entire lines, for the year end
ing June 80, 1885, was 81. O93. S79 267 viz
stock. $4so, ,635, and funded debt out
standing, 1858, 704. $50. For 1895 the out
standing stock amounted to $425, us. 46S.
ana the outstanding funded debt
amounted to $3.50, 339165, thus showing
an increase in outstanding stock for 1896
OF ~, 100, 169, and of funded debt of
1850, 100. Current liabilities which
were formerly taken into account as
FORMING part of the capitalization Of
the raIlrOads are not so treated now.
but are treated in connection with cur
rent aSSetS)
The stock and bonds of the Great
Northern Railway company are not in
GUIDED in the above totals, for the rea-
son that such capital does not repre-
sent investment in the railroad but in
other properties; the ST. Paul. Mime
apelis & Manitoba Railway company's
stock and bonds represent the capitali-
zatfon of the railroad operated by the
Great Northern Railway company in
the above statement.
The average amount of stock and
bonds per mile Is $40, 40 and the total
proportional amount for Minnesota is
$242 ,655, 1874.
The total number of passengers killed
in Minnesota in 1895 was 8, and injured
in railway accidents Ill; in 1885, 8 were
killed and SO injured. OF trainmen. %
were killed in 1896 and 1873 were injured;
III 1895, 10 were killed and ITO injured.
OF switchmen, fiagTnen and watchmen.
10 were killed and AZ injured in 1896,
while in 1885, II were killed and 80
were injured. OF other employees, IL
were killed and 212 injured in 1895,
while in 1896, were killed and 1913 in
jUred. OF treSpaSserS 81 were killed
and 81 injured in 1895; in 1895, So were
killed and 50 injured. OF others not
trespassing, 10 were killed and p injur-
ed In 1885, while in 1895. 8 were killed
and % injured
The total number of persons killed in
1886 was 125, and Of injured, sos. Last
year the number killed was 102 and the
number injured was 513.
Some Of the railroads do not report
the number Of employees and officers by
states, as many are employed in more
than one state, and the general of-
ffcers, of course, have general super
vision of the whole system; q state
ment of the number Of officers and en-
ployes of the railroads by state lines
Is, therefore, necessarily only an ap-
Proclamation, and hence of little or no
value.
The total number of officers and en-
ployes of all the railroads operating in
Minnesota, for the entire lines, for 1896,
was 8S,467; their annual compensation
was $49, 801, S76, or an average for each
of 1868 per year.
The total number so employed last
year by the same roads was 1885, with
an annual compensation of $44,593 GAL,
or an average Of 1894 per year. Tt thus
appears that 1852 more men were en-
ployed by said railroads in 1896 than
in 1895, owing, of course, to the in
crease of business.