Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-05-10

The annual reporc OF the Allegheny
Valley for the past fiscal year shows
gross earnings of $4,93S, 191, an increase
of $745, 106
The directors of the Canada Southern
will double-track their road for sixty
miles between ST. Thomas, Ontario and
Buffalo, N. Y.
1t is stated that earnings Of Toledo,
ST. Louis and Western are showing up
favorably, and that the present outlook
indicates satisfactory returns for some
time to come.
A bill has been favorably reported in
the New York Legislature at Albany to
increase the number of members i'll the
State Railroad Commission from three
to FIVE, and to enlarge the powers of the
commission.
Surveys have been completed and
rights of way obtained for the Lake Erie
and Western Railroad Company, which
proposes to build new line from
Youngstown, Ohio, to Lorain, on the
shore of Lake Erie.
The Canadian Freight Association an
nounces that an agreement has been
reached permitting the shipping com.
panies running from Montreal to Port
Arthur to quote differential rates on all
classes of freight from Montreal through
the West.
The railroads in Mexico are anxious to
be in shape to do a heavy business out
of the republic for the worlds fair, and
the different lines of that country have
submitted proposition for rate of one
fare. plus 50, between Mexico points and
St. Louis on account of the exposition.
During the last two years the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern has equip
ned fifty-nine miles of its system with
the latest improved block signals, and
during the next few months this work
will be extended forty-eight miles fur
Their. from Dunkirk, n. Y, to Erie, Pa.
The land and immigration department
of the Southern Pacific, in Texas, reports
that during the past year, 1,046,4 acres
of land were sold in that State and Lou
isiana, and 5,002 home-seekers were
brought there, through the instrumental
| ity of the immigration agents of the
railroad.
Canada operated 1S.714 miles of rail-
way during 1903, which earned in round
numbers SS4,OO0,000 at a cost of $751;
| 100000 for operation. This is shown by
the report of Consul Seyfort to the State
/ Department Canada has 165 steam rail
/ roads, twenty-five Of which form the
/ Grand Trunk system and twenty-seven
| others the Canadian Pacific system. The
/ remaining 113 companies are more or
I less, consolidated The Dominion gov
! eminent has contributed at the average
rate Of S9,166 per mile Of railroad con-
/ structed; the provincial governments at
/ the rate Of S1,757, and the municipalities
/ at the rate of 1913 per mile. The rail-
roads carried 21,0O000O passengers, A.
/ 100000 tons Of freight and ran $1,000
i 900 train miles.
! The authorities OF the ST. Louis
/ worlds fair have adopted rates and rules
/ for the storage and switching OF private
1 cars on the exposition grounds The rate
per day. for more than one day, viii be
I SO. but il q car IS on the ground only
one day the minimum charge VIII be
/ SIS.
There we're 22.14s,T42 passengers car
ried BY steam railways in 1903. or 1.46S,-
/ 76S more than in the previous year.
There were 47.373,417 tons Of freight
/ carried, being & gain OF 1896, $50 tons
| The total mileage on July was 1907,
OF which 1874 Jules were in operatdon-
There were 200 miles built during the
! rear.