Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-24

per passenger, 61.52 cents; average re-
ceipts per passenger train mile 1894
cents; average receipts per mile OF
railroad, $2,1O2; average number OF
passengers per mile Of road. 3,419; av"
erage number Of passenger miles per
passenger train mile 4S.71; average
distance travelled per passenger, 1898
miles.
Freiqht Traffic Statistics.
For freight traffic covering 204,66S
miles the following results are given:
Average receipts per ton per mile,
IO.781 cents; average receipts per ton
1928 cents; average receipts per
freight train mile 244.41 cents; aver
age receipts per mile of railroad $6,-
536; average number Of tons per mile
of railroad. $3.50; average number OF
ton miles per freight train mile, S12.96,
average haul per ton 1919 miles.
The table or rates for each year
commencing with 1883 shows a large
and almost continuous decrease. In
1883 the average rate per ton per mile
was 1924 cents; in 1903 1t was O.7S5
cent The average rate per passen-
ger per mile was 2.422 cents in 1888;
in 1908 it was 2.O56. Gross earnings
Der mile of railroad increased from
/ S7,4O5 in 1883 to $9,301 in 1903.
Des Moines Gets Division.
The Minneapolis & st. Louis road
has commenced the construction OF
eleven miles of road between Ruthven
and Terril. Ruthven is the northern
point on the recently acquired Des
Moines and FIT. Dodge road, while Ter
ril is station on the Minneapolis and
1 Storm Lake division of the road about
seven miles southwest of Emmets-
burg. The construction of this gap
4 is to be completed by January 1, the
day on which the ST. Louis road will
! take over the Des Moines & Ft. Dodge.
! It will complete second line between
I Des Moines and Minneapolis by Els
therville and Ruthven, the other line
running via Angus and Ft. Dodge
through Albert Lea
The announcement is made that the
! road between Des Moines and FIT
A Dodge and Des Moines and Estherville
will be operated as the Des Moines di
vision of the Minneapolis & st. Louis
i The offices of the division superintend
4 ent, division roadmaster, trainmaster
division master mechanic. train dis
patchers, ETC., will be in Des Moines
4 Engineer Edwin Mead.
The Burlington Hawk-Eye has tbs
following to say regarding Edwin
Mead, former popular Burlington en-
gineer. who has returned to his former
home:
Back in the SOs Edwin Mead was g
popular engineer on the Burlington
route. He left here to accept a rur
on the Central Pacific, where on Feb
ruary Is, 1902 at Moxon, Mont, he re
for life. He was running passen
ger train. The track was covered
!, by landslide. He might have saved
himself by jumping, but he thought O.
the sixty-two passengers who would
have been crushed on the rocks eighty
feet below. And he stuck to his post
By his GOODNESS, skill and bravery he
saved the train, but almost at the cos
of his own life. He had both legs
broken and lost an arm. But he i:
still brave and cheerful and does no
regret the sacrifice that he made. HI
!. will. probably make Burlington hi:
|, home.
Work at Laredo.
The Laredo Tribune has the follow
ing regarding the work on the Milwau
kee improvements at that place which
are to be ready for the removal of thu
II division to Laredo. Dec. 4:
: THE Milwaukee company is work
/ ing a heavy force Of men on their di
, vision work at this place. Though tn,
weather has been ideal and steady worl
maintained the buildings and track
are not yet ready to begin operating
the division The round house is al
most completed and is being painted
) A force of men are now engaged il