The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-10
Mp. AND ROCK ISLAND
SHOW Big GAINS
Railroads File Their Annual Re.
ports With the Minnesota
Commission.

The Northern Pacific and the Rock ISL
and yesterday filed their annual reports
as required by the state railroad and
warehouse commission.
The report of the Rock Island is the
first one filed with the Minnesota COM
mission by that road, as it only short
time ago acquired the Burlington. Cedar
Rapids e Northern, which operated the
lines now operated by the Rock Island
in connection with the terminals. and adj
ditional trackage it has constructed.
The gross earnings of the road for the
past year were $36,309, 492.62, and the
operating expenses were $23, 049, 554 .43,
leaving net carr ings of $13, 259, 93S.1S. The
percentage of operating expenses to earn
ings is 63.4S. The road paid a GA per
cent dividend on $74,S17. 100 of stock is
sued amounting to $4,6S0, 1860, leaving a
cash surplus for the year of 81, 6O9 O14.14,
making the total cash surplus on hand
$16,516, 2O9.12
The interest paid on the roads debt
of $95176,000 amounted to $2,509,02O.
The total earnings on freight and pas
senger business originating and terminal
ing in Minnesota were $16S,3S7.09, as COM
pared with $l16,6s earned by the
in 1902, an increase of ISL 696.77. The
proportion of interstate traffic passing
through Minnesota on which a gross
earnings tax is paid was s453, 715.14, as
compared with $179, $3.50 by the B., c. r.
& n in 1902, an increase of $274, O13.S4.
Big Increase in Passenger Earnings.
The passenger earnings on business be-
ginning and terminating in Minnesota
We're $lO2, 141. %, and the Minnesota pro-
portion of interstate earnings was $79,-
1887, a total of $1S1, 80, an increase
of $S3.741.36, as compared with the same
earnings OF its predecessor. the B., c.
The freight earnings on a strictly Min
nesota business We're $66,245.S6 and the
Minnesota proportion of interstate freight
earnings was 1919 360.46, total of $40
S25.4S, $241, S77.25 more tnan was earned
by the B., c. r. &s n. in 1902
The total gross earnings from operation
in Minnesota for the year on which a
paid were 1929 9S9. 49, 1892 sos "a more than
the same earnings of the B., c. r. & N.
in 1902
The expenses of operation in Minnesota
were $569, 1882 1868, 615.S2 more than
those of the B., c. R. e. N. and the per-
ings in Minnesota is 1924, as compared
with 1894 for the B.. c. r. &c n. for 1902
the difference is chiefly due to the great
improvements in terminals and track
made by the road during the past year.
The Rock Island employs 511 men in
Minnesota at an average daily wage of
SLIT.
N. P.'s Total Earnings Are $46,ooo,ooo.
The report of the Northern Pacific has
been largely anticipated by Geographic
reports of President Mellens annual re-
port made public in New York. The total
earnings were $40 161, 1920, and the
operating expenses $24 .076, 1892, leaving
the net earnings $22, 0S5. 011.9S. The net
surplus at the end of the year was ST.
19,O46.1S. The road spent s., 915, 931. %
on it's roadbed.
The road paid dividend of 6 y per cent
aggregating $1,000, 943. so. ~
The taxes of the road aggregated 81
21.433. of which 1893, S53 was paid in Min
nesota.
The total earnings from passenger and
freight traffic originating and terminal
ing in Minnesota were 1929 665. IS, as
compared with $3,6S7, 92OS5 for 1902 an
increase of $685., 544.33. The Minnesota
proportion of the earnings on interstate
business was 81. $50, 1871. an increase of
$2S9, OS369 as compared with 1902.
The passenger earnings from business
beginning and terminating in Minnesota
portion ON interstate passenger business
was $1,464, 2O297. total of $2,735,947.61,
an increase of $685. over 1902.
Freight Earnings Were $s,543,2e3.
The freight earnings from business
wholly in Minnesota were 81, III 1885,
and the Minnesota proportion of inter
state freight earnings was $5.765, 1854. "a.
total of $S,543. 81, an increase of $751;
664.36 over 1902.
The total earnings in Minnesota on
which the per cent gross earnings tax
of $1,124,S2792 as compared with 1902.
The proportion of operating expenses
to earnings in Minnesota is 46. o. as COM
pared with 1884 for 1902.
The Northern Pacific employs 80 gen
eral officers in Minnesota at an average
daily salary of $19.14 and g. 466 other en-
ployes at an average daily wage of $2.15