Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-19
Reportof Commerce Commission
Shows Roads Carried Passel-
gers at Practically 2 Cents
THIS INCLUDED PASS HOLDERS
BY Eliminating Dead Heads, Revenues
Of Railways Have Not Boon Cur
tailed - Commission Reports on
Earnings, Expenses, Mileage, Acct
dental Deaths and Values.
special to Times Republican.

1 DeS Mo1neS, Sept. l9.-lnformatlon
FURNISHED to the Iowa railroad COM
| mission by the interstate commerce
the year ending June 80, 1905. the ay-
i erage revenue per passenger per mile
on the railroads Of the United States
/ was $O2O02, or small fraction over
| two cents mile. This was during
, the time when passes were in use ev-
! eryWhere. The figures have only re-
Gently been compiled complete. The
! report also shows that there are 6S4
i persons employed for each 1000 miles
! of railroad, that one passenger was
killed for every 2,227,04l carried and
one injured for every 74.27S carried.
/ The total single track mileage in the
/ United States is shown to be- 224,3 ,363.l1
! miles, an increase OF 6.262l2 over the
4 previous year. The aggregate length
I of tracks of all kinds is Sl7.Os3.19. The
number of railroad corporations is -
4 3l3.
1 The par value of the railroad capf-
tal outstanding on the date given was
/ $14,570,42l,478, equivalent to = capital-
j zation Of $67.936 per mile. OF this Se,-,
\ 500 ,093 represented stock and the
I remainder funded debt. consisting OF
mortgages and miscellaneous obliga-
1 tions.
The number Of passengers carried
| was 977,607.838. which was 60.673,l7l
! more than for the year before The
number Of passengers carried one mlle
was 25,175, ,3S3, an increase of over
a billion and a quarter. The number
I of tons of freight carried was 1884,
374.21S ana the per mile tonnage or
nun Der OF tons carried one mile us
! s77,551,241. The average revenue per
ton per mile was $.00748 and the year
before it was $OO766. The earnings
for passenger transportation were
| s.O2OO2 and the year before 1t was put
| $.01962.
The earnings of the roads are shown
in some detail. The gross earnings for
! all the roads for the year ending June
30, 1906, were 1926, ,765,167, an increase
of $243,2S2,761 over the previous year.
The operating expenses were $l,S3b'-
!: s77. .271 an increase Of $146,275,199 over
the wear before. The amount OF dlvi-
/ dends paid was $272,S51,5 ,567. leaving
! surplus from the net earnings OF $112,-
| 334.761. The surplus from the opera
! tions OF the preceding year were $685.
/ O43.49O. The gross receipts were di-
yided into these items: Passenger fare
$50 o.O32,5S3; mail $47,371, ,453; express
$51 ,010,930; other earnings from pas
senger service $11,314,237; freight rev.
enue $1,640,3s6.655: other earnings
from freight service $5,645,222; other
miscellaneous earnings $60,O04,oSl.
|
The Iowa railroad commission Will
not spend a great deal of the $4,000 ap-
propriated by the last Legislature LOT
| expert Investigations into the ques-
ton of freight rates to ascertain ana
discover any determinations against
I the state of Iowa, II there are such.
The commission takes the position that
the commissions of Illinois and Wis
! .consin having gone all over that
ground in an exhaustive inquiry and
their published reports being available
n 10 not necessary for Iowa to go so
deeply into the problem. The reports
| of wisconsin and Illinois had not been
made when the Iowa legislature made
the appropriation Of $4,000 and it was
not known whether or not they would
be of value to Iowa. The Iowa report
is an exhaustive document, the COM
mission Of that state having taken
two years to make the investigation.
The Iowa commission is using some
! Of the $4,000 for the purpose of hiring
! extra. clerks and some to pay the ex-
penses Of members Of the commission
| in attending meetings and where 1T is
| necessary for them to visit other places
to obtain information.
| There is a rumor in military cir
cles here that the coming reports on
| the army maneuvers north of this
city are to be interesting reading to
say the least. The report of Colonel
West, of the Second cavalry, has been
filed, as has also that Of Colonel Lin
!, coin, who commanded one Of the
armies. The report of Major j. A.
Olmsted has also been filed and made
, public, criticizing the whole plan. The
reports Of Major Boughton and Col
onel Bishop have not been filed and
Adiutant General Thrift has stated
| that he would not make public those
! of Colonel West and Colonel Lincoln
| TIL the other two are filed. This may
be month or more. The rumors in
| military circles here are that some
| of the reports contain severe criti-
cisms Of the maneuvers and of some
of the men engaged in them. While
| it was all a brilliant matter to the
civilian, the crusted U. s. A. officers
saw many things that were bungling.
i
| Reports filed with the state mine
| inspectors show that the total in
crease in the products Of the coal
mines, of Iowa for the year ending
June 80, 1907, will be about 100000
! tons over that of the preceding year.