The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-17
RAILROAD NEWS.
One Years Showing For the
Santa Fe.
Kansas Crops Increased the
State Earnings
3 MILLION DOLLARS.
Santa Fe Has 1919 Persons
On the Pay Roll.
Has 833 Locomotives and 25,-
769 Passenger Cars.

The showing made by the Santa Fe
for the fiscal year, ending June 30 1925
is most creditable to the Kansas road
1t earned in Kansas 81, 297, 764.13 and
spent 81, 339. 1851 on its Kansas lines.
The roads total freight and passenger
earnings credited to Kansas for the
previous year were $s,2S6, 913.15. The
great increase in Kansas business hau
its origin in the big crop OF 1897 moved
during the fiscal year covered by the re-
port fled with the board OF ralIroao
commissioners this week
The Santa F7e earned in the aggregate
s25. 2SS. 1894 and spent in operating its
entire line SIT, 328. 1881. 1t took Sc per
cent of the earnings to pay operating
expenses in Kansas and 671R per cent OF
the gross earnings to pay the gross OPP
Grating expenses. Labor alone in KAN
sas cost nearly half the receipts from
Kansas business It's Kansas pay roll
for the year amounted to S5,315 6So-4O.
The money was paid to 9,84I employees,
of whom twenty-seyen were cIassg3 as as
general officers. The total pay ron LOT
the year was $40, 664, 307.96 which SHOWS
that though Kansas did not 1urnlsh
above As per cent of the earnings 1t
managed to get very close TO nan Oh the
money paid to employees.
The Santa F'e employees 1919 persons
besides its general officers, whom there
are fiftv-three The average daily COM
pensation of all employees, from Presi-
=
dent Ripley to the messenger boys IN
the shops and offices, amounts to $Z-Ol.
Counting out the general officers, who
were paid an average of SIS day, the
average salary paid to the employees
ranging from enginemen at S3-71 day
to trackmen at 81 q a day, was $1-95.
In the matter of salaries Kansas did
not quite keep up with the procession,
but was very little behind. The KAN
sas employees doing manual labor, or
clerks in the offices, received an aver
age daily compensation of 81. SO. The
company spent s.. 506. 320.26 in cOnStruc-
ton and improvements and $67 205-62 on
equipment. The construction account
shows a total expenditure of 1888, 337, 004
in the history of the road
The present equipment includes 314
passenger locomotives, 395 freight en-
gines. 124 switch engines and 25,769 cars.
There are in the freight service 24,495
cars and in the passenger service 5l1,
besides express baggage, mail, combin-
alton cars and cabOOses. It takes SIG
cars, specially fitted, to take care of the
fruit business of the company. Kan
sas will be glad to know that the COM
pany only owns forty beer cars out Of
all its equipment.
miles last year. The freight tonnage
amounted. in the aggregate. to .282, 754
tons. BituminOus coal furnished % per
cent of all the tonnage and grain 1872
per cent. Live stock was the third in
Importance. amounting to 1917 per cent,
or just one-eighth of all the freight
handled on the whole system.
The distribution. of a railroads
sources of revenue forms an interesting
chapter in the report. Passenger re-
ceipts amounted to S4s01, 1865. The
United States government paid the San
ia Fe ST77 ,173- 35 for hauling mail and the
express business brought a revenue of
1924, 1868. The principal earnings were
on freight. The freight department
earned $1S,S75, 693.5S. about three times
as much as the passenger and express
business taken together