Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-09-02
RAILWAY NOTES.
c. q 0. May Remove Shops From
Richmond to Newport News.
Norfolk 8 Westerns Increased Earnings
seaboard Air L.uo Build to NowDepot at
Meaderson london statist on tho In
e.eased Earnings ofthesouthorn- South
ezn 70 Roach the Coal Fields.

ezn 20 Reach the Coal Fields.
IE Is announced that the Seaboard
Air Line Railway Company mas de-
termined to erect q depot at Hender-
son. N. c., which will be one of the
best on Its system. The building will
be built principally of stone. with
! hardwood finish, and will be divided
into the various compartments for
passengers and baggage. with offices
In the second story. The company, it
Is stated. also intends erecting a
freight depot. The total cost of the
improvements is estimated at 10000.
Mr.. M. c. Jameson, comptroller OF
the Norfolk aid Western, yesterday is
sued his statement of the July bust
ness of the company. The showing is
excellent. There were miles operated
IN 1899. 1.5Sl; in 1900. 1852; increase. /.
Earnings: Passenger, mail and ex-
press, July, 1889, $203, 791.l7; July, 1900.
sass. 4S4.0S. Freight: July, 1899. $780,
1890; July, 1900. Sl,o09,452.25. Total
earnings: July, 1899, $l.052,lS377; July.
1900. S1,242sS62s. Other figures for
July, 1899. and July, 1900. are as fol-
anos Of way and structures. Sill. $3.50;
Sls5, 6e2. Sc: increase, 5,2S624. Mainten-
ance of equipment, SlSSlS9.76; $780,
7e5.71; increase, sl7.41405. Conducting
transportation. $350.S5S37; $322. 696.04:
increase. s27,657.33. General expenses,
Including taxes, SCI. 1925; S04,114.26: in
crease. $5.9lS.59. Total expenses. S77e,-
SASS; s6s4,59s.SI; increase, SS6,276.2l or
13 per cent.
Net earnings. SAFE, O61.7o: $685.. 5S5. 40;
increase, $104, 476.30 or 2S per cent. De-
duct fixed charges, SlS59S3.34; $780,
699.42; decrease. $4616.0S. Surplus,
s2s6 07S.36; SIG, 9S5.9S; increase, s1O9,-
092.SS. Proportion of expenses to gross
earnings, 81 per cent; 60 per. cent.
The remarkable increase in receipts
of the Southern Railway leads the
London Statist to speak as follows:
This great expansion in gross earn
ings has been attained in face of q
very much smaller cotton crop last
year than in the year previously. The
crop of 1899 did not exceed 100000
bales, whereas the 1898 crop reached
IL, 235, 900 bales. So far as the Southern
States of America and the Southern
( Railway are concerned, the smaller
cotton crop of last year was a fortu-
nate occurrence. The large crop of
1898 was sold at very low prices, but
the smaller crop of 1899 has realized
high prices, and Southern farmers
have made much larger profits from
the smaller crop. They have thus
spent money more freely, and trade in
the South has been stimulated. Fur
Their, n much larger proportion of the
cotton crop has been manufactured in
to cotton goods by cotton mills sit
uated on the Southern Railway. The
South thus derived n double benefit
from having made more profit out of
it's raw cotton and out of the manu-
featured product. The consumption of
raw cotton in Southern mills during
the past season has reached 1.493,000
bales, as against 1,2S4,000 last year.
The high price of cotton and the in
creasing capacity of Southern cotton
mills will have an important bearing
also upon the outlook of the Southern
Railway for the coming twelve
months"
The Chesapeake and Ohio railway,
according to Richmond authorities.
threatens to move it's shops from Rich
mond in the event n decision is render
ed against 1t in a certain matter which
has gone to the courts. and in the
event 1t is decided TO make the change.
Newport News should get the shops.
1t seems very probable. from n story
published in the Richmond News. that
the shops will be moved TO some point
along the line. and 1t is minated that
IL the shops are moved they are likely
to go to Newport News. This would
not be strange. in view of the large
and increasing interests of the Chesa-
3 peake and Ohio at that point.
Following is the Richmond News
story:
Should the commissioners appointed
by Judge Wickham. of the Henrico
County Court. to examine and report
upon the question of opening of a road
and the closing of Osborne turnpike
decide to recommend that the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railway be required to
cut n tunnel and allow the turnpike
to cross the road at the present point,
the road will refuse to accept the find
ing of the commission and will remove
it's yards 10 some other point on the
line.
"One of the most prominent officials
of the road said this afternoon that it
4 was. as he understood 1t, the purpose
of the road TO greatly enlarge the
yards In the eastern end of the city
and to erect there a shop for the re-
pair and building of engines, overhaul
Ing of cars and the general machine
works for the division east of Clifton
Forge.
1.-THE Seventeenth street shops and
the Second street shops would not be
s remoyed-that is, the buildings-but a
very great majority of the men en-
{ ployed there would be concentrated at
the Fulton yards. The now shops will
be much larger than the present COM
& b!ned yards and shops at the two
places mentioned, and the number of
man Will be largely augmented.
1T i5 not known where tho road
Z would place the yards, and It is not
at all improbable that they would he
4 carried to some point that would b.
& convenient and in every way adapted
70 the purposes Of the company.
'"The gentleman who gave this infor-
& nation was emphatic In his declaration
- tfa rho ftInna1 Would ,,o+ ~. ,..:t.