Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-02
TROLLEY LINES
AND TELEPHONES
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$4,000; audited vouchers and accounts pay
able, s2e.1ao .9S; taxes and salaries accrued
and not paid, SCI ,Ss5, 80; all other liabilities,
$4S1, 9s5.57 surplus and other funds. S,O1l. 24S.
The Omaha & Southern interurban has
an authorized capital stock of $1,000. go, of
which $4,000 common mas been issued, but
no preferred. 1t has no bonds outstanding.
The book cost Of structures on June 80,
1903, was S5 2S6.57, and of equipment Sl7,-
1o.28; lands, buildings. fixtures, etc.,
50. 4$6, SO cash and current assets. Sl.3i9.1 10:
total assets, 1927 1863 At the date given
the company had liabilities as follows.
other than capital stock: Audited vouchers
and accounts payable. S13.OSI.S. taxes and
salaries accrued and not paid. S25: all
other liabilities, sS46.Sl; surplus and other
funds, s13, SOC So; total. 1877 1859
Statistics Of Telephones.
In Nebraska Dos telephone companies were
doing business on June 30. 1893. TIE number
being somewhat increased since then. OF
these fifty-two had a capital in excess OF
$500 each. while loo had a capital ranging
from that sum down to 5000. Stockholders
in the companies numbered 70, 1853 and there
were e.s19 en- ployes on the pay rolls.
These. figures will appear in the first re-
port Of the State Railway commission. now
in press, which will cover all reports up to
June 70, 1903. This report will also contain
many other interesting facts pertaining to
the telephone business as it stretches over
Nebraska on 61.5l9 miles of wire.
OF subscribers living on farms there were
1888, indicating that conversation between
rural residents can be carried on from
farm to farm with as much CELEBRITY. and
aim ne. g oopava1Iy &c In thu tbtalI,. manu-
lated city. or city subscribers there were
1917. or. 17.42l less than the number taking
telephone service on the farms Of Nebraska.
OF course, the larger number credited to
farms cover a tremendous extent of terri
tory. In All, there were 125, 10 telephones
installed at the date mentioned. Of this
number Omaha had 42,9ST
The fifty.two companies with the higher
capitalization represented an investment Of
&, AZ 80 for construction and slo,S5S. i39 for
plants. buildings. cash and all other assets,
a total of $50, 6O5. 7s2 as carried on the books
of the companies
The 156 companies with the smaller capt.
talization gave the book cost of construc-
ton as S.3ss, III. Some Of these companies
do not furnish telephones, the subscribers
owning their own Instruments and paying
I sNilNllllE Nld SfS. III Nit NootS lll'll-
vidusls own the switches.
Earnings, Dividends, Bonds.
Gross earnings for the year Of the fifty
two larger companies amounted to 81, 4Ol, -
s96, while operating expenses were set
down at 81, 79S, AZ. Dividends on stock and
interest was paid to the amount Of SiSa, -
219 by thirty-seven of the fifty-two larger
companies. Dividends on stock and inter
est was paid by the Nebraska Telephone
company to the amount Of S292, 0s5, and by
the Lincoln company to the amount of
s3s, 7g7.
Gross earnings of the l6 smaller com
panies amounted to s4s,S6. while the ex-
pense Of operation was set down at s297.
47. There is no report of dividends or in
terest payments by these companies.
The larger companies declaring no divi-
dends and noting no interest payments are
located at Albion. Auburn. Beaver City.
Belgrade, Creighton, Broken Bow. Edgar,
! wolbach. wahoo. st. Paul, Hooper. Stuart,
Lexington, Ord. Scottsbluff. Wause and
Valparaiso.
Thirty-four companies have no bonds out
standing, and Omaha is included In the
number. Companies having bonds out in
largest amount are Lincoln Telephone
company. $685. 900: Beatrice. slls.SOO; Broken
Bow. $1,000: Fairbury. 500, 60; Hebron, $50,
LOOe. From these figures the bonded in
debtedness ranges down to $1,000.
The Nebraska Telephone company had
on its ray roll June 30, iSS. Lee employees
and the Lincoln telephone company rs.
being t.36s employed by two companies ont
Of the total Of 2.sla employees in TELEPHONE
work At that time.
shaving nv Two Hip Ones