The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-11-10

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o worth 7is miles; the Galveston Harrisburg and san An
Shreveport and Pacific from the Texas louisiana
'''i p n1 ne to shreveport, 1880 .mies)
The G,t o. LOUIS Southwestern Railway company Of Texas
miles Ooofado and Santa Fe railway Wyc to Dallas * q,
By the Southern Kansas Railway company Of T.x ~, r,
mills anu pehVer City railway, Wasburn to Amarillo tao4
ton Gy ~, the Texas and New Orleans Railroad company the o
'S7 miles, and the Houston Texas Central railroad
r. by the Texas and Pacific Railway eounor 81. c,-...
miles ana San Antonio railway Sierra Blanca to Fl Pa,o
Oensral railroad Waco Ross n miles ~ " ana texas
western R; Midland Railroad company ST. Louis South.
D,n tne Texas Sabine Valley and Northwestern Rsiway
ana the Marshall Tmpson Sabine Pass S 80 mlles,
me Aishison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway eonnsp k .
atng me ko Grande and III Paso Texas rarosd - y
"n T, wa; approved by this commission ''D s4'e
a6e No = the total length of Of each class for ee r
Of track lengths of laid with pn nd ,.o as to gauge
on June 3d. there were as shown in this
ieet ~ nehes) gauge Of feet inches ranr
POS miles OF feet the of standard cause
track of mile This table also shows that oa marrow sasse
200 ~ sS 99s3o miles were laid with rails and
o. 32o miles of steel and decrease Of AZ OF miles of
with steel and o63oo laid rails which Is an ncss
5o47 miles OF the former and decrease III, miles Of the
wa. table No. shows for each railroad Texas for which repot
reason to b; Inn, including few others where there
year 0s0445 miles being represented in the table the amount on
with columns showing the per mile of road of i
bonds and Of the aggregate bonds The totals for ali
General averages per mile Of road cSot, @
sa3s43; aggregate s,6soA which are decesses SS,
with the preceding year OF S6s6 $a3s and $780, respectively
GROSS EARNINGS.
Table No shows the gross earnings from, on.-,.; % r
railroads during the ending o 1901 stating
or eaeh road its passenger mail express freight mcea
this table two of which merged with other companies before
tables last pe DO yeo 6 SIX M which appeared in similar
ing logging road and FIVE because reports operations
90 1901 shown by this table foows Passenger SIN
zo9434i mail $is64o34sai SO3sasI.3o bag
$I7oa5I3aI; total Sss7s "a This is an increase of SIR
over the gross earnings reported last a36a
Wen aGe allowance made for the six properties the
earnings Tor which were included the total for the year
June but not for the ending June so 1901 the in
crease was S1I,3s7,46s74, a4.3a per cent
OPERATING EXPENSES.
Table No shows for the properties which
admitted expended for i'm
G 4; anu Ses having oten deducted. wherever they &C
table The totals of the table Maintenance
s6394976; conducting transportation, S7sss43os1 genera
expenses unclassifed $4ess44 s4o936
1898 This increase of $5soo,zs per owe
critics listed the table the increase is A. OF e prop
and the of percentage operating expense
to gross earnings 1850 Per cent The average of
the year ending June 1870 per
| EARNINGS BY DEPARTMENTS.
Table No 6-statement of freight earnings, trail
earnings earnings from all operating
so dTs from %1eTaon per mile OF road for each
and siding (and spus) were
uded and in those instances where track by
than company the earnings such by company
owning distributed the mileage owned by the latter
adding by any company that trac
which operated by exclusively, whether owned by
we're as follows Freight earnings s43o44 passenger trail
earnings, s37o74i earnings from all Sss67o
Comparing e roads for which reports we're made for The yea
ending June co. 1901 win those Tor which report; were made 70
item follows Freight earnings $77s63i train
ngs sa7206 earnings from all sources $osso6 opeatn
expenses $4ss76 and income from operation, $4,000
FREIGHT TRAFFIU.
statistics of freight traffic of Texas railroad
er for each road for which the data ascertane the
transporting freight average receipts mil
hauled freight for each mile of road and f
each mile run by freight General average
Average distance freight hauled miles, year
Average receipts ton Of freight $I67 La
against year Average freight receipts per mile
last year $,s' and b average e[sen freight earning
Too short has elapsed since the filing by the rairoa
we are required by complete
nay1c figures received and make such other examination
as would enable us TO determine the of the
crease shown gross receipts ton and ton mile 1t doub
less caused IN paft IN bette mntenaSce Of State an
interstate divisions the Texas roads of the int
state rates certainly is the result of increases in local
in Texas
PASSENGER TRAFFIC
Table No sStacs of the traffic of the railroad
~ xas a far as could ascertand, the which endc
une 90 1901 showing each road the distance tn
were carried average OF
- r n,e of road and for mile by passenger
The number of passengers carried etc General averages
follows Average distance that carried 1919 mile
receipts passenger receipts
nge pe mile Ass earnings OF passeug
trains per year per mile of road s379 Can increase OF S96
I'D average passenger earnings for mile by
senger trains, $II3I Gan increase OF 1915 cents)-
TRAIN MILEAGE.
Table No oTrain mileage. showing for the twelve mont
d lime 40 1901 for Of those roads for which
edcrea 10 this Office the number Of miles by
,d;r road trains classified freight and miS
trains The follows Miles run by passenger train
e. Inv freight trains zo,oIo3iS; by mixed trains
ao4 aggregate s3aos966 The asgregae Tor the PIeeed
i, Trobs was ,rIo3Ios. In computing the freight and
49, Innings per train mile hreefourth of mixed train mea
rtsd as that of freight trains and oneourth that of