Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-10-06


15,S54.
me statistical report contains a |
number oil interesting summaries
showing the general type and tractive |
power Oh locomotives and the capacity |
Vi freight cars by classes.
Employees.
The reported number of people on
the payrolls of railways in the United
States June 80, 1905, was 1882, 1876, |
which is equivalent to an average o.
b37 employees per 100 miles or line.
These figures show an increase in the
number OF employees as compared
with the year 1904 of S6,O75, or ~
per 100 miles of line. or the
employees 54,S17 were enginemen, 81,
S92 firemen, 41,061 conductors, and
Ill ,405 were trainmen. There were
1882 switch tenders, crossing tend
ers, and watchmen. The total num-
Der of railway employees, disregard
ing small number not assigned,
were apportioned among the four gen.
eral divisions OF railway employment
as follows: For general administra-
ton, "a, 141; for maintenance of way
and structures. 44S,370 for mainte-
nance of equipment, PSI, 900, and for
conducting transportation, 595,45G.
capitalization of Railway Property.
On June 80, 1905, the par value Oh
the amount of railway capital out
standing was $13,SO5, 25S, 121 which is
equivalent to a capitalization of $685.
926 per mile for the railways in the
United States. OF this capital there
existed as stock $6,554, 557,051, which
$3.50, 933,907 was common, and ST.
l373,623,144 preferred the remaining
part, $7,250,701,070, represented fund
ed debt, consisting of mortgage bonds,
$6,024, 449,023; miscellaneous obliga-
tons, $7S6,241 ,442; income bonds,
1858, 707, $685. and equipment trust OBJ
legations, $1S6,302,906.
or the total capital stock outstand-
ing $2,435,470,337, or 37.16 per cent,
paid no dividends. The amount OF
dividends declared during the year
was $237 1864, 4S2, being equivalent to
SIS per cent on dividend-paying
, stock. For the year ending June 30,
1904, the amount of dividends de.
clared was 221,941,0 49 OF the total
amount of stock outstanding $6,554,-
e 557 ,051, 9.72 per cent paid from l to
: 4 per cent; 14.77 per cent from A to 5
3 per cent; 1914 per cent from to i
e per cent; $40 per cent from to per
:, cent, and 116S per cent from to
per cent. The total amount of funded
j debt (omittinG equipment trust obi
e gations) that paid no interest was
g $449, 1O0,396, or 6.36 per cent. or mort
+ gage bonds 1926, S63,4O1, or SAB pei
}, cent; of miscellaneous obligations
= $54, PA, 525, or Csc per cent, and of in
o come bonds $GS,O22, 470, or 26.S1 pei
e cent, paid no interest.
or the total amount of railway
IS stock outstanding $2,070,052, los were
q reported as owned by railway corpor
u ations, and of railway bonds $56S, lUu.
II 021 were so reported.
D. Public Service of Railways.
n The number OF passengers reported
d as carried by the railways in the yea
II ending June 80, 1905, was 1884, 667
e this item being 23,414,9S5 more thai
Of for the year ending June 80, 1904. TIL,
passenger-mileaee or the number o
IS passengers carried l mile, was 90
e. 500, 149,436, the increase being 1879
IS $4,000 passenger-miles.
n The number of tons of freight re
ID ported as carried (including freigh
ic received from connections) was 1,427
0. 731,905, which exceeds the tonnag
rs of the year 1904 by 117,S32,740 tons
in The ton-mileage, or the number Q
in tons carried | mile, was 1856, 463, 100