The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-10-20
WORK OF THE YEAR
STATISTICAL REPORT AS TO
coUNTRY's RAILWAYS.
Total Mileage Shows Enormous In
crease-Laree Additions to Loco
motives and Cars IN the serv-
lce--The Salary List.


An abstract based on summaries in
cluded in the eighteenth annual sta
tistical report Of the interstate com
merce commission for the year ending
June 80, 1905. has been issued by the
commission giving The mileage and
capitalization Of railroads and treat
ing Of equipment, employees, capital
.ization Of railway property public
service Of railways, earnings and ex
penses and railway accidents
The report shows that the total
single track railway mileage June a0
1905, was 2lS,l01O4 miles, an increase
Of 4,196.7O over the previous year The
aggregate length Of mileage, including
tracks Of all kinds was SO67s6-74
miles. These figures show increase
Of 9,72S4O miles in the aggregate
length of track Of all kinds, Of which
35.48 per cent. was extension OF yard
track and sidings- The report repre-
sents 2,l67 corporations.
on June 80, 1905, 4S.S57 locomotives
were in service, an increase Of l6l4.
OF this number 27.86o were freight en-
gines. Cars Of all classes in service
numbered 1,S42,S71, an increase Of
44,S10 This census does not include
cars OF private corporations. or this
number 1871, 400 were freight cars
and 7O,749 were in company sery-
Ice
or the total Of locomotives and cars
in service, 1,64l395 were fitted with
train brakes, an increase of S5,623.
OF the total. 1871 $50 We're fitted with
automatic couplers, an increase OF
$500. Passenger service stock was
nearly All equipped with train brakes,
and all but 50 locomotives had auto
matte couplers, Nearly all OF the
freight locomotives had train brakes
and automatic couplers, and a large
proportion Of the cars in the service
We're equipped with train brakes and
automatic couplers-
The immensity Of the wage propo-
sition in the railway service is shown
by the fact that an average of 6S7 en-
ployes were on the rolls for every 100
miles Of line, total Of 1,8S2,196,
which is an increase Of S6,075. OF the
total 54,S17 were engine-en, 57,S92
fremen, 41.06l conductors, 1ll,4O5
other trainmen and 45,532 switch
tenders. The total salaries paid was
$S39, 944. $50
On June 80, 1905. the par value Of
the amount Of railway capital out
standing was s3,SO5, ,25S,12l, or cap
italization Of 1868 per mile for the
railways in the United States.
The number Of passengers carried
BY the railways III the year was 1884,
s34 .667. an Increase of 23,414,9S5. The
passenger mileage was 23,S00, ,149,4S6,
the increase being 1,S76,9S5,sOO pas
senger miles.
The number OF tons Of freight re-
ported as carried was 1,4277S1, ,9O5,
which exceeds the tonnage Of 1904 by
117SS2.74O tons.
The gross earnings from the opera
tion Of 216.973.61 miles Of line were
50, ,OS2, ,4S2, ,406, being $10730S,sl5 great
or than for the year 1904 Their oper-
ating expenses were 1890, ,602, ,152, or
s51, zoe, 1893 more than in 1904.
Operating expences averaged $6.4O9
per mile Of line. an increase of $10l
per mile in comparison with the year
1904.
The net earnings OF the railways
amounted to s691 ,SSO.254 This amount
exceeds the corresponding one for the
previous year by 55.6O2,4i6.
The total number of casualties to
persons on the railways for the year
was 95.7l1, Of which 9.703 represented
persons killed and S6,O0S injured Cas-
ualties occurred among three general
classes of railway employees as fol-
lows: Trainmen 1890 killed and 29,-
S53 injured; switch tenders. crossing
There were 341 passengers killed and
tenders and watchmen. 1876 killed SSS
injured other employees, 1885 killed,
36,097 injured
The number of passengers killed in
1905 was 5S7 and the number injured
10,l57 In the previous year AL pas
sengers were killed and 9.l11 injured.
There were 34l passengers killed and
6.05S injured because Of collisions and
derailments The total number Of per-
sons other than employees and passen-
gers killed was 5S05; injured. S,71S.
These figures include the casualties to
persons trespassing. OF whom 4.S65
were killed and 5.251 were injured.
The total number of casualties to per
sons other than employees from being
struck by trains, locomotives or cars
was 1859 killed and 4.l6s injured. One
trainman was killed for every 1873 EN-
ployed. and / was injured for every 9
employed.