The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-21
RAILROADS SHOW
LARGE EARNINGS
Tremendous Order Given for
Engines, Coaches and
Freight Cars.
HALF A BILLION DOLLARS
Maryland Legislature After a
/. Two Cent Per Mile Rate on
Railroads.

Mr. A. II. Plant, comptroller OF the
Southern Railway Company. has issued
the following statement OF the earnings
at the road for the second week in
january:
Southern Railway Company, excluding
st. Louis Louisville lines-This year. $780,
ws; last year, sscs,1s7; increase, sss,2s2.
Southern Railway Company, st. Louis
Louisville llnesThs year, $1,000; last
lear. sGi.557: increase 1852
The following statement has been is
sued by the Colorado Southern Railroad:
Second week January 1905. s233,6o5; 1905,
sl6s,i35: increase, $3.50. from July LIST,
lss, ss,5s9,oo5; 1876, s5,as7,o5s; increase. ST.
20i.9is.
When II comes to the number of orders,
the companies whose business 1t is to
equip steam and electric roads with en-
gines and RAILWAY material have. dur
ing the year 1865, booked orders UMPIRE
cedented In the history OF the railroad
equipment industry. These tremendous
orders will keep tho companies busy prob
ably during the entire year 1906.
The orders from American railroads
called for the construction of 6,2G loco
freight cars These orders represented
H. expenditure of ss3,956ooo for ocomo-
tiyes, ;l9,7ai,0eo for passenger cars, and
$3i1.3l5.DCO for freight cars, or a total
OF sts5,1g4,0EO.
II the orders placed by electric lines
and also foreign roads, especially Rus
sian roads, are added. the equipment COM
panies have received orders for half
billion dollars.
Railroad Equipment.
The following companies have ordered
cars from The American Car & Foundry
Co.: Tie Wabash Railroad Co. 1909
wooden box cars OF 5000 pounds capac-
ity and 1900 wooden coal cars the sea-
board Air Line Railway Co. 100 box
cars: the Union Pacific Railroad Co. 300
refrigerator cars of GEO pounds capac-
ity; the Southern Pacfic Co. 800 rtfrig-
orator ears The Wabash Railroad Co.
has ordered 200 composite sondo.a cars
OF 10000 pounds capacity from the West
ern Steel Car & Foundry Co.. and 1900
composite gondola cars of 1880 pounds
capacity from the Standard Steel Car co.
The Pressed Steel Car Co. has received
an order from the oregon Railroad and
Navigation Co. for - tank cars OF ESQ
gallons capacity The Fort Smith and
Western Railroad Co has ordered 100 box
cars. The Underwater Railway Co. has or
Lake shore Electric Railway Co. has
ordered 10 carH. The Spokane Interna-
tionai Railroad Co. has ordered pas
senger cars and baggage cars. The fol-
lowing companies have ordered locono-
tive from the American Locomotive Co..
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Co.,
20 consolidation locomotives: the Chicago,
indianapolis and Louisville Railway Co.
locomotives. The Grand Trunk Rail
way -. has ordered 20 passenger loco
motives and 81 freight locomotives: II Is
reported that all the locomotives. with the
exception of 10 of the passenger locomo-
tives, VIII be built in Canada. The Ital-
ian Railway Administration is asking
prices on 80 locomotives. The Southern
h,lroad OF Peru has ordered 10 loco
motives. The Sierra Railway Co.. of Cal
iiornia, has ordered oil-burnIng loco
motives. instead of g as reported De-
oember 10Th last. The Western Railroad.
Of Havana. has ordered locomotives.
Tidewater Extension.
One hundred engineers started work
Thursday on the final survey for the
Wabash extension from Cumberland Md.
to Wheeling. ". Va. Advices received
are That construction work on this lln,.
OF the Could system will be started Feb
ruary l6. II is expected to have the sur.
veys in such shape that the final con-
tracts can be awarded by April l. The
plans are for the completion of the line
by October !. 1907.
The railroad companies will bitterly OPP
pose a bill offered in the Maryland State
Legislature yesterday by Representative
Anders providing that no railroad shall
charge more than two cents n mile. that
books of 800 and 600 coupons, each good
for one mile, shall be kept on sale. and
under no circumstances shall u greater
number be detached than the distance
travelled. and that members of the pur-
chaser's family shall have the right TO
use the books.