The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-11-15

A surprise party was given Mr.. and
Mrs. Booth Saturday evening by their
friends and neighbors. About forty
five were present. Games we're played
and lunch was served. All had an
enjoyable time.
In every cline it's colors are unfurled
It's fame has spread from sea to sea !;
Be not surprised if in the other world,
You hear of Rocky Mountain Tea.
G. A. Jack.
| The Great Northern Report.
A gross earnings expansion from
1925, 10000 in 1889 to $50, 100000 in
1866, or net growth of $28,000,0 900
or Ito per cent in seven years, is a
wonderful tribute alike to the growth
of the Great Northern railroad as a
carrier and to the Industrial and COM
mercial development of the country
tributary.
This seven-year growth of over one
hundred per cent in earnings is all the
more remarkable in view of the fact
that the average freight rate on the
Great Northern has been reduced
from .916 cents per ton per mile in
1889 to .791 cents in 1866, reduc-
ton of .125 cents per ton per mile, or
about IA per cent in the seven years.
| AS matter of fact, the ton mileage
has grown from little over two bill
lion tons carried one mile in 1889 to
nearly five billions in 1905-6-a growth
of $50 per cent. In other words, the
road has done for shippers during the
past year $50 per cent more service
for ITO per cent more pay, which yields
the shipping public on the total ton
mage handled big volume of trans
portation costs saved.
There is specially marked growth
in Great Northern earnings during
the past two years. The difference
between S53, 900, 900 of gross earnings
in 1906 and triHe over S41, 900, 900 in
1904 is nearly $4,000, 900, which shows
two-year increase of nearly 30 per
cent. The net earnings from opera
tion expand from $18, 100000 in 1904
to S24, 100000 in 1906, nearly S6,00O,-
900 or over 80 per cent. The freight
trains during the past year just re-
ported handled Sc per cent more tons
of revenue freight than two years ago,
and performed one-half greater ton
mileage service, at a reduction of ten:
per cent in the average charge per ton
per mile.
One of the interesting comparisons
to be made with the Great Northern
statistics is that pertaining to the
earnings per mile of road operated.
During the past year the gross earn
ings were over $4,000 and the net over
$4,000 per mile of track. Ten years
ago, per contra, the gross earnings
per mile of road were little over
81, 1000 and the net trife over $4,000
per mile. In the mind, or at least in
the stump-speech of the average poll
tician seeking votes, this increase of
earnings per mile of road implies in
crease in the rate charged, or undue
increase of profit from operation. In
plain and simple truth, however, it
implies simply increase of traffic vol
ume and industrial development of
the country tributary. In fact, the
average rate has dropped from SO
cents per ton per mile ten years ago to
10 cents this year, reduction of
about 20 per cent in the average rate
charged. The road carried seven mil
lion tons of revenue freight ten years
ago, as compared with nearly twenty
million tons this year, and, although
the rate has been reduced to the ship
per, the earnings per mile of road
operated have been doubled by the
nearly trebled volume of freight
handled.
In 1867 there were 1867, 220, 900
tons of revenue freight handled one
mile; and in 1866 there were 4,933,-
$50, 900 tons handled one mile. The
ten-year increase in ton mileage is
3,276, 900, or 200 per cent. This
comparison at once explains and
demonstrates, first, the doubled mile
age earnings of the system; second,
the wonderful expansion of Great
Northern traffic and transportation
service, and third, the phenomenal
development Of the country tributary,
stretching from the twin cities and
Lake Superior to Puget Sound on the
Pacific, both in the production and
shipment of the staples of life and the
prosperity attending such production
and Shipment Commercial West.
Nature demands that your bowels
move at least once day. If they do