Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-09-09
c. G. w. RY. TENTS.
Increasing the Hauling Capacity With
Increasing Expenses.

Increasing Expenses.
The annual report of the Great West
ern shows that the largest amount ex-
pended by it in reduction of grades has
placed it in the lead of all the granger
lines in the tonnage hauled by its en-
ginos.
In the annual report of the Great
Western for 1896, President Stickney
stated that the maximum grades on
the line were then one per cent or
$3.50 feet TO the mile, and that the
company proposed to reduce it's grades
one-half, or to 20 feet TO the mile. He
stated that the economy which would
result may be estimated from the
statement that the maximum load
which one engine would then haul was
700 tons, 24O tons of dead weight
(carsl, and 400 tons of pay load
(freight, while with such a reduction
of grades and revision of curves as
was proposed would increase the en-
CINE load to 1000 tons, or about $50
tons of dead weight (cars), and $50
tons of pay load freight, thus ena-
bling each train to haul 100 tons more
of paying load without any increase OF
expenses.
In the report for 1898 President
Stickney states that the company be-
gan a comprehensive plan of improv-
ing the track and permanent way by
cutting down grades, widening and
STRENGTHENING the banks, increasing
side tracks, making permanent with
earth. stone and steel its bridges, and
thoroughly ballasting the track. Since
then the work has progressed syste
matically, and the present summer
will nearly complete the work thus
planned.
There has been expended upon the
permanent way:
In the fiscal year 1895. 110, SOB IS
In the fiscal year 1896 ............. 500, SOL Is
In the fiscal year 1897. ........... $40, 1895
In the fiscal year 1898 800, So. G6
Total ............ ...............s1.62 0, $50 IS
In the matter of bridging, besides
Isl wooden culverts and 140 ordinary
pile bridges, 20 important trestle
bridges from Is to 40 feet high, being
nearly all the bridges of that class on
the whole line, are being made perma-
nent by being filled with earth on stone
arched waterways at an estimated cost
OF S3OS,17
Numerous gangs OF men and teams
are at work widening the cuts and
strengthening the entertainments, and
ballast, in some places of gravel, and
in others of crushed stone. is being
put under the track at the rate of
about two miles per day.
The freight earnings of the line for
the years 1897 and 1898 are as follows:
1897. 1898.
Gross freight
earnings .........s 3,549, OlO.62 5 A 10. SIG 20
Miles run by
freight trains go. 45.O61. 800 90 so 93s, 7s7 90
Increase
Gross freight earnings ...........s 56S, SOC. 0S
Miles run by freight trains ...... 5S75, ass 90
The annual reports of the other
granger lines shows that in freight
train earnings per mile run the Great
Western leads all its competitors.
The figures are as follows:
Chicago Great Western ............slS 81
chicago, st. Paul. Minneapolis g.
Omaha .............. .................... So
Chicago q Northwestern ............. /. -
chicago. Rock Island e. Pacific ........ 1.65
Chicago & Alton Observation-Disclosures. 133
Chicago. Milwaukee & St Paul Qat-
est report 1880 ..........................l 16
c., b. e. @. does not report.