The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-10-20
RAILROAD MATTERS,
ChadbOurne Says 1t Has
Been.a Busy Year.

The railroad commissioners have re-
ceived a petition for hearing on the
matter Of making Kittery Junction
billing station. They complain that
under the present circumstances 1t is
necessary for them to have their freight
hauled from Portsmouth and thus
added cost is given to the transportation
Of freight. No date has yet been set for
the time OF a hearing.
A petition Is also received from the
seIectmen Of the town of Mechanic Falls,
asking that gate S be erected at a high
way crossing over the Portland & Rum
ford Falls Railroad. No date for hear
ing has yet been assigned
The following railroads have made their
reports to the railroad commissioners:
Sebasticook and Moosehead Road-Gross
earnings from operation, SO, 36l.51; less
operating expenses, S, 246.11; total pas
senger earnings, 81. 069 80. Ere ight reFe-
nue., ,272 II; total number OF passen-
gers carried, III, Oo4
Lewiston, Bath & Brunswick Electric
Roa1-Gross income from operation,
1922, 364. Il; operating expenses, SloI, 0SO- ~
gross income above operating expenses,
! S54, 773 "A; total charges and deductions
I from income, $50, 81 80; net div1s1ble IN
come, S9O2. Al; total dividends declared,
/ $50, los 50; deficit for year ending June
! 30, Sd. 297. SO. Dividends for year, 81,
OH. 90: operating expenses for year end
ing June 81, 1885, paid duriug yeaa end
ing June 80. 1900, so, 29l.l9; betterments'
$3558. p; receipts from passengers carried,
S214, IA. "a; gross income from operation,
1922, 564.14; total operating expenses,
SlS7, S81. 59. This includes operating ex-
4 psnsss Of the year ending June ~, lSUO,
and SO 291.19 chargable to the year end
ing June 80, 1899; actual operating ex-
panses for year ending June 81, l9OO,
S167, 590.14
Ports mouth, Kittery & York Street
r. r. Co.-Gross income from operation,
81, $50 5S; operating expenses, $40, 4oS II )
net income from operation, "a. 1854 )
gross income above operating expenses,
$24, 7lS Al; total dividends declared, $l0i
$50. Among the additions are the sx-
tension to ST. Aspsnouid Park ana Gne
construction of a ferry boat and boiler
house and boiler.
Sanford & Cape PorpOise Railway
Gross income from operation, S4I, OlS.o5;
operating expenses, S33, 53S Al; net income
IRON operation Sl3, 47436; total charges
and deductions from income, Sl4, 49l.6o;
QeuclG, SlUlf 81,
} Mousam River RailrOa 1-GrOss income
+ from operation, $39lO.42; operating ex-
II penses S4411.56; total charges and deduc
{ tlons from income S2S03 56; net d1yis1ol{
/ income 81, SOS. 90; total surplus Tor yeal
ending June 80, $500, Sll, 747.12.
: ''The Maine railroads are making big
t increases in their rolling stock, say
Railroad Commissioner Chadbourne
u ''Their reports up to the end of the fscal
: year on June Both show this Increase an6
Z since then the work has gone right along
Most of the Increase. comes in the way 0
: new locomotives and freight cars, though
there has been an increase as well in tn
!. matter of passenger cars. The Main
: Central. within the past six or sigh
months or a year, has added about hal
9 a dozen big engines. Theirs are tn
2 IO-wheeI Moguls, weighing about 10 ton
apiece. The Grand Trunk has been add
}. ing some monster BaldBins to its equip
d ment-big l35-tonners Of the compound
consolidated type. These are for use O.
D. their Western lines and do not come neal
+ er Portland than Island Pond. Th
r Canadian Pacific has been following tn
\, same lead and has made extensive add
lions along these lines. The G. P. loco
motives which I have seen are the cross
compound OF the Brooks make and ar
" big hauIers. 1t is an active year for th
? railroads