The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-09
BUTTE News.
AN INCREASE IN REVENUE
Shown by the Report of the
Northern Pacific.
TEN MILLION MILES RUN
All the Improvements Have Been Made
Out OF the Earnings OF the Road.
Clearwater and Nez Perc,s
Extensions.
TEN MILLION MILES RUN

An examination of the published an
nual report of the Northern Pacific
shows general increase in revenue.
mileage, in the number of passengers
carried and in freight tonnage 1t
shows that all the trains on the road,
both freight and passenger, Travelled
over 10,250,000 miles. The total track
length is 4,519 miles, hence it must have
taken an immense number of trains,
travelling back and forth, to cover the
100000 miles and more. The report
shows that the number Of miles run by
all passenger trains last year was g.
1858 against 1926. 219 in the year 1897
IS, or an increase of 1887. The number
of miles run by freight trains increased
about half that amount. The total
miles run last year We're 6,595, 29S,
against 6115.7s4 for the previous year,
an increase of ,.S4 miles. The total
train mileage last year, both passenger
and freight. was 1O.364.162, against g.
ILL 63 for the preceding year.
The report, which is for the year end
tng June 80, shows that no charges
have been made to capital account
other than for additional equipment,
the construction of branch lines and
purchases of real estate, all eXpendi-
UuTeS lot improvements uaNiuS Eeeu
made out of the years income as al
ready stated. In addition to Sites,
1857 of equipment purchased and
charged to betterment and enlarge
1nent funds constituting additions to
capital accounD new rolling stock was
provided and charged to operating eX-
penses, to replace that destroyed and
retired from service, to the amount of
$685. The exceptionally favorable
conditions of the year just closed have
induced the management to make un-
usually liberal appropriations out of
the income for additions and better
ments. There was appropriated from
income for these purposes the amount
of $2176,619. the principal items OF
which are S491,S16 for widening embank-
ments. ballast, gravel pits, etc, SASS, i52
for changes of grade, $lS5,0O0 for
bridges, $l12,923 for increase in weight
of rails, S111.603 for sidings, wyes and
crossovers and $119.921 for spurs. En-
penditures from betterment and en-
$3,6S6.325. which comprises $55l,52 for
real estate and right of way at Seattle
and Grand Forks, SS0S.494 for new
branches and extensions, s59S.130 for
securities of the Montana and Montana
Union, and s1,72sl76 for new equip
ment. The comparative traffic report
shows:
Average mileage. 1899. 4,579: Increase,
217: total passengers carried 1899, L.
a27,02S increase, 343,396; passengers
carried one mile, 1899, 213,209,799; in
crease, 3,595,122: passenger revenue per
mile, 1892 $0022S; increase, $00006: total
tons freight, 1899. 5,S16,639: increase,
s65, ass; tons freight one mile, 1S99 L.
$50, S55, 1854; increase, 212.6S4,9 $50; passen-
ger revenue. 1899, $6l21, 1870: increase,
S2S9264: freight revenue, $19,4S5,960:
increase. s2,o53,2o5; revenue per freight
train mile. 1899, $2.955: increase, "$O.1O5:
revenue per ton mile, 1899. S001047; in
crease. *sO0001S. Decrease.
In regard to the Clearwater and Nez
Perces extensions President Mellen
says:
''In the summer of 1898, with the con-
currence of the oregon Railroad &
Navigation company. expressed IN
writing, the construction of the line of
this company incomplete from the
north line of the Ne2 Perces reservation
since 1890 was resumed and completed
from Juliaetta to Lewiston, Idaho AS
it is the only railway operating within
the drainage of Clearwater river or
within the limits of the Nez Perces res
ovation, and as this territory and
drainage form part of territory which
by contrac ct in 1880 was conceded by the
predecessor of the Oregon Railway Il
Navigation company to the Northern
Pacific. extensions have been planned
therein. About so miles of line were
placed under contract, from a connec-
zion with this company's Juliaetta-
Lewiston line at the junction of the
polatch river with the Clearwater,
eastwardly along the Clearwater river.
southerly into the reservation along
the drainage of Lapwai creek. Excep-
ton to the building of such lines was
taken by the Oregon Railroad g. Navi-