The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-26

Killed During the Year, but More
Were Injured Than During 1897
Earnings and Taxes.
The railroad and warehouse commits
sioners yesterday made public their
fourteenth annual report. It is as fol-
lows:
The total number of miles Of main line of
railroad in Minnesota on June 30, 1898, was
6,O62. 50 miles, being a decrease OF %. &c miles
from the previous year; this decrease is
counted for by the Great Northern railway
taking up the line from Carlisle 10 Elizabeth
and the Branerd & Northern Minnesota rail-
way taking up several of its logging branches.
The extension of the Fosston line of the
treat Northern system to a connection at
Deer River with the former Duluth. Superior
x Western railway and of the line from
raTk RAPIDS TO Cass Lake. and of the Brain
erd Northern Minnesota railway from
Walker to Bemidji was not completed in time
10 appear in this report.
GROSS EARNINGS.
The gross earnings of the companies operat-
Ing in this state, from freight passenger and
miscellaneous sources by companies, is $751;
142, $50; but in these figures the Great North
ern and the Willmar & Sioux Falls railways
only give the gross earnings derived from
business local to the state. while the figures
ror all the other roads are made upon the
same basis as heretofore, namely: Mime
Sotd Is CTSUlted WITH all local earnings and
a mileage proportion of the revenue on
through and interstate business.
The explanation Of the said companies of
the change from former method is as follows.
This company has abandoned as impractc-
able and misleading the plan of making di-
visions OF the earnings on interstate traffic
between the states through which the system
runs and cannot therefore give figures pur-
porting to show earnings in Minnesota on
such traffic. The figures shown on page 50
are the earnings derived from business local
10 the state OF Minnesota
On account OF this change In reporting
by the two companies named a comparison
with former years cannot be made by this
office, except to state that the total gross
earnings from operation in Minnesota for
the previous year were $50, 600 O63, and that
while the Great Northern and the Wilmar &
Sioux Falls railway last year reported gross
earnings in Minnesota amounting to Sc Gas, 629
the same companies. under the new method
of reporting, show gross earnings in Mime
sofa only amounting to $912, $40.
OPERATING EXPENSES.
The total proportional operating expenses
for Minnesota, as reported by the companies
for the year ending June 80, 1898, were ST.
! las, O9s, as shown by table ILL.,. for the prev
ious year the total operating expenses were
$l9, 55S, $50, showing an increase of 81 592 900
for 1898.
1t will be noticed by comparison Of table
Ill for 1898 and 1897 that the Great Northern
and the Willmar Sioux Falls railways have
charged operating expenses to Minnesota on
have credited the state only with local earn
ings, which explains the high rate of per-
centage od operating expenses to earnings,
VIZ: f15o and SO51 respectively.
NET INCOME.
In consequence of the statements abova
made as to the change In reporting earnings
by the Great Northern and the Willmar G.
Sioux Falls railways the net income Of the
roads from business In Minnesota for 1893 Is
oniy $l1 SS4,S6l, while last year the same was
! 81. 044 GA.
ACCRUED INTEREST.
The total amount of interest accrued on
FUNDED debt of all the railroads doing busi-
less IN Minnesota. for the entire line, for
the year ending June 80, 1898, was $27. 4SS. 65s;
the amount of interest accrued on current LA
bilities during the same time was SITS, 500.
| or total of both of So, 1853, 1853; for the
previous year the amount of interest accrued
| on funded debt was SIS. PA, 40 and on current
| liabilities $292,720, a total for both of
| $2o,5VI 100, showing q decrease for 1898 of
! $744 002.
| RENTALS PAID.
The amount of rentals paid for use of
tracks and terminals Of other companies by
the road reporting for the entire line. was
for 1898 IS. 4SS,652; for the previous year the
same was 5.906.S60, showing a decrease for
1898 Of $417, 70S.
DIVIDENDS PAID.
The total amount of dividends paid dur
| ing the year ending Juns 30, $685. by the
! railroads reporting in Minnesota for entire
line. was S16 43S. 100, being IS, SOC on COM
mon stock and 50, 1854 on preferred stock
I Last year the amount Of dividends paid was
81 600 Dis, showing an increase for 1898 of
| 81, 1882, 642.
The following companies paid above named
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