El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-22
TWO HUNDRED
THOUSAND
More Than This Number Oh
Free Passes Issued
IN THIS STATE ALONE
The Last Year-Many Other Inter-
esting Particulars Brought Out
By The Eighth Annual Report
OF The Texas Railroad Commits
sion-Standlng Of The FL Paso
Roads.

The eighth annual report of the
Railroad Co mmissiOn of Texas Is Just
out of the hands of the printer and
ready for distribution. 1t is interest
ing generally, and is interesting to El
Paso in particular because of the in
formation it contains concerning Ell
Faso reads. Besides the text, all tar
ifs and circulars issued during the
year, it also contains statistical tables,
the summaries of some few were in
cluded in the text, which was pub
lished more than a month ago In the
daily press.
OF the three roads tied in the num-
Der OF people killed, namely, the Cult,
Colorado and Santa Fe, Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas, and Texas and Pacific:
sons out of the i76 killed
during the year. The first road in
jured l ,097 persons, the second 133 and
the last one ITO.
OF the total killed 81 were employees,
passengers, 80 trespassers and ii not
trespassing. OF the injured 2.04S were
employees, 239 were passengers, 1877
trespassing and 30 others.
A table Is given showing that the
average amount of stock and bonds is
sued per mile OF road is $50, $50, while
the commission per mile is an average
of S15, 1872, against an average assessed
value for taxable purposes of SS,617 per
mile.
According to a table in the report
203 522 free passes of all kinds were
issued in 1899. There were 43, $50 an
nuals issued, as follows: Exchanges
29,53S, employees 4,O75, other persons
1884. OF the time passes 1,24S were
issued in exchange, LIB to employees
and /, APO to other persons: total 3o1.
There were 155. COS trip passes issued,
divided as follows: In exchange H.
259, employees 120, 1856, other persons
20, l64.
One very exhaustive table shows the
freight tonnage movement for each
railroad classified into commodities.
The largest tonnage was that the
lum Der, 3, $50. TIA tons, coal and Ignite
2,796, $50 tons, grain with 1,7S9,O56
tons, cotton next, 1,781 ,977 tons; mer-
chandise 1,444, S43 tons, unclassifed
forest products 1910, 391 tons, live
stock 1.277,Si0 tons, cottonseed pro-
ures 5S2. 724, fruits and vegetables
Ala, 1853, stone and SAND 1876, 1913, flour
400, 1926. sugar and molssses 1893, 100,
cement, brick and lime 267, Isl, wines
and liquors 248. 259, iron and steel rails
237, 1874, petroleum and other oils 227,
557, bar and sheet metal 22l, 1866,
castings and mach inery 2O4 ,552. IN
classified agricultural products 1913 854,
packing hOuse products, not including |!
dressed meats, poultry, game and fish, |
$50. 300; hay 116. 1862; mill products, not |
including -four, 1O8, 1896; salt 102, 1888, |
wagons, carriages and tools Is. 63l, |
dressed meats, poultry, game and fish |
SO, 25T, wool 81, SOL, household goods |
and furniture 80, 274, agricultural i'm
elements 1903, hides and leather 81,
697, tobacco "a, 800, pig and bloom
iron "a, 374, rice 81, S22, ores 330.07S, !
railroad material 302, 1876.
Other miscellaneous commodities
swell the total number OF tons OF
frclg ht handled in Texas dua.ss the
year ending June 30, 1899, to -, 924,-
800.
The greatest number of tons of
freight trsnsr orted by the roads handl-
ing over l, 900, 900 tons was as follows.
the Ell Paso roads standing we'll up in
front, Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
], 1873 GIT, Texas and Pacific in Texas
l. 65S, sol, Galveston, Harrisburg aud
San Antonio 1893 ,637, Houston and
Texas Central l, 234, 67S.
Another table shows that there a.
1852 persons in the employ of railroads
In Texas, divided as follows: General
officers 305, other officers 100, office
clerks 1852 station agents ,001, other
station men 1,96S, enginemen 1877.
iremen 1,478, conductors 92S, other
,raiamen 1887, maohinists 1,O49, car
penters l, 1929, other shopmen 1905, Sec
ton foremen 1440. other trackmen 10,-i
10 switchmen, flsgmen and watchmen
l, lao, telegraph operators TOP, other
laborers 1901.
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