Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-10
Applies to State Board Of Assessment
for Lower Valuation.
BRIDGES OLD AND RAILS LIGHT
Result OF Fight on Traction Company
BrinEs Money Into Lancaster
Treasury--Democrats Want
Meeting.
tFrom q SAX correspondentO

while other roads, It says, have paid no
more than 3M per cent
= In discussing the physical valuation Of
the road the report says last year the
company constructed I'm Kansas 6.79 miles
of road through a hllly country for total
of s1s,7O0 a mile. exclusive of equipment.
Were the bridges now on this road
twenty-five years old. insteau of new, and
had they not been replaced during the
period which is the conditirn OF the bridges
on the Nebraska part of the road, the re,
port says, the depreciation would have
been 80 per cent, or Approximately S26 COO.
The Kansas line traverses a hiilv country
more than twice as much grading had
to be done on It than would be done or
had been done on the Nebraska line, there
fore half the cost OF grading, or s2S,1S5,
should be deducted from the value of the
Nebraska line on that account. This. the
report says, would leave the present value
Of the line, II built under the same condi-
tions as in Nebraska, $77.S54.5s, or $1,000 a
mile. without equipment.
The equipment, the report says, IL twenty
five years old would be valued at approxi-
mately $3.50 mile making a total valua-
ton per mile Of $1S,SSO, including equipment
The average cost OF constructing similar
railroad in Nebraska, the report says. is
as follows: Eighty-five-pound steel, So.
$3.50; seventy-five-pound steel, se,577.So;
sixty-pound steel. 1926.
To this should be added the cost OF the
right-of-way, which in Nebraska should not
exceed SIS an acre or 500 per mile.
The report says this road is purely a
local road and is not a part OF any big
system and does not act as a feeder for a
Faka nv n
handled per train during 1908 was 22S tons
The traffic handled in Nebraska was 25 per
cent less than on other parts of the road
or 10 tons The gross earnings per mile
of passenger train, according to the report,
was 70 cents The road has paid no divi.
dend on It's capital stock since 1901
Within a short time, the report saws >the
company will be compelled to spend a great
amount of money in rebuilding in order to
do more business. D
Money from Traction Company.
In letter to the Board Of County Com
missioners County attorney Tyrrell yes
terday reviewed his litigation against the
Lincoln Traction company from whose
stock he is seeking to squeeze the water.
Mr. Tyrrel showed that the authorities
this year win be able to increase the as.
some 100000 by reason OF admission Of
traction officials on the witness stand a.
to its value. n nothing else had been ac
compllshed he holds the increased revenu,
from the Increased assessment will bt
ample to pay for the experts he employed
TO give testimony The increased revenue
however, win amount to 5000 or $1,000
and the expense OF the county attorne,
| was a fpattar NJ nofxy conn ~ R00n
County Option Fight.
State Superintendent Poulson of tn,
Antl-saloon league and Rev sainue
zanexz Batten of Lincoln have issued al
appeal for money to help them secure the
enactment OF county option law. Ii
their appeal for money these officers o.
the league set out that they do not Intend
to insist that any party shall provide
pledge for county option in it's platform
but that candidates for the legislature viii
be asked to make definite statements o
their stand on the question. The count
option bill they are now having prepare
provides that the county shall decide b.
vote whether saloons shall be licensed Il
a county.
Democratic Love Feast.
The democrats OF the state will hold
mass meeting or convention or a ban
quet some time in FebruaFS or the frs
part OF March, or at least that is the tim
I. 8. Allen says they should meet.
"Februafy or March would be the prope
time" said Mr.. Allen, FOR the meetln
The meeting should be held before sprin
work begins on the farms"
The object of the convention accord
ing TO MIR. Allen is not to endorse a sena
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and Mayor Dahlman or to agree on
platform, but simply to meet and discus
matters in general and to have low
feast and distribute a little enthusiasm
In fact it Is not likely, according to demo
Gratis that Governor shallenberger Will b
rebuked for falling to obey the demand
OF the late democratic convention to ca
an extra session OF the legislature Ii
cidentally that extra session is stlll beln
talked OF and the danger Of 1t being caile
has been Increased by the knowledge tina
Arthur Mullen himself is In favor OF th
governor taking such action.
II was reported once that the goVernS
had sent out letters to members OF ii
legislature asking them for a statement ,
. their intention regarding various measur,
> should the session be called but this coul
not or has not been confirmed. The 20,
ernor is still out of the city ana II wa
i reported at the executive mansion toda
that he would not return to Lincoln unit
Thursday, He was expected TO return ye
terday. s,t,
The governor being out OF town, the att
tude OF Congressman Hitchcock on II
?, senatorial question failed to excite any OF
a here.
4 Supreme Court CaII.
Below will be found list OF, cases whi,
II will be called for hearing at the session
n supreme court commencing Monday, Ja
II uary II. .---... -.4.--.s...,-
For Hearing Monday January 1T-Col
II against MacIarlandll Lancaster; Weste
\ Union Telegraph Company against, Stat
:, Lancaster; Young against Rohrbough 4
"a motion for rehearing). Douglas.
n For Hearing Tuesday. Jannafy l8--Fari
ers Loan and Trust Company against J
=, seph a Crate, Holt; McDaniel against Ha
e sen, Platte; Ossenkop against state. Cass
AZ For Hearing Wednesday,. January II
Heisler Pumping Engine Coi1pany again
Baum, Douglas; Trenerry ae4inst City
Omaha. Douglas; State against Several Pa
GELS OF Land (Hume) Douglas; MAsourid
n against State, Douglas. .ahsi slnt
J. For Hearing Thursday, January 20-Re
. against c., b. a q, II. r. Co, Harla
"a Greer against Crosse. Harlan: state. OK r
8 Banta against Greer, Harlan; Hayn
z against State. Antelope,
For Hearing Friday january Abb
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