The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-13
EXPENSE IS SAID
TO Be INCREASING
So Indicate Reports TO Railroad
Commission
INCREASE Is S574,358.21
Bill for Soil Survey of Alabama Is Ex-
pected to Become Law at an
Early Date-PIan of
Commissioner.

| Montgomery, February 12.-(Special)-
BY reports in the office of the state rail
road commission it cost the railroads OF
Alabama S574,3 5S.31 more to operate in the
| year ending June 30, 1906, than for the
twelve months previous, the net earnings
for the last year being s6,555. 41S.5S. as
| compared to 81 ,129, 771.79. The per cent of
operating expenses to gross earnings In
1905 was 1929; for the year ending June
3d. 1905, 1903
The total passenger earnings for 1906
was 49, .S7765. and freight s23,274 T71.54.
The gross earnings from all sources, IN
Guiding trackage and yard rents, were
$S2. S46 740.4. During that time the operat-
ing expenses and taxes were $26,S72 295. Is,
and the net earnings $6,555, ABS Five
lines-the Sumter and Choctaw, Syla-
cauga and Wetumpka, Canton, Aberdeen
and Nashville. Atlanta and Birmingham
! division of the Seaboard and the Birmlng-
ham and Atlantic-ran at a total loss of
| $50, 96S54.
The total earnings of the Alabama
! roads in the year ending June 30 1906.
was $29,4S5907.94; expenses and taxes,
| $22, %35, 0S7.6O; net, SIPS, TL79. 1t will.
therefore, be seen that while the gross
| earnings for 1906 were 5000 32. So in ex-
| cess Of the year before, the excess OK
| penses of the one over the other was
1878, 257S3. While 1t cost according to
the figures presented. 1909 per cent of the
total earnings to operate in 1905. 1t took
1913 for the service in 1906
New Corporations.
| The Perdido Bay company which will
do a general numbering and turpentine
business at Soldier Creek, in Baldwin
county, has been organized and has made
report to the secretary of state 1t has
| capital of 900 and will spend even
more than that in putting in dredging
| machinery and building docks and boats
| The incorporators are: George G. Ran
dolph the Southern Dredging. company
| r. G. Randolph Rittenhouse Moore and
Amanda Moore.
The Talladega Construction company Is
another new enterprise, with capital OF
$4,000. 1t is to do general railroad con-
| struction work G.. II. Madison and T.
S. Plowman are the incorporators
The capital stock of the Talladega Fer
| tilizer company has been reduced from
$60,000 to $4,000.
A handsome new time clock has been
pihCeu III the nan OIL the mousse OF repre-
sentatives.
For Soil Survey.
| The bill to provide for the survey of
| the soils OF the state. now in the sem
| ate, is expected to become a law in a
| short time. 1T has been amended so as
| to make the outlaw $1,000 TO $4,000 a year.
as the governor and the commissioner OF
| agriculture may see fit, and will be such
as to give the best of results.
Commissioner Wilkinson has assur-
ances from the department of agriculture
at Washington that as soon as the state
| makes provision for putting men in the
field two experts will be sent down to
work with them. These will provide for
the printing and distribution of the maps
and literature. so that by the arrange
ment there can be no expense to the
state.
The plans of the commissioner. which
are said to have the approval OF the gov
ernor, are to have young men from
Auburn assigned from time to time to
work with the experts so that they may
, get the best practical training and pre-
pare to become farmers In the best sense
of the word There will be enough work
for many OF the classes each year, so
that the state will be soon filed with men
who know much of soils and are able to
take care of many of the questions which
arise from time to time that the farmers
cannot cope with.