Bisbee daily review., 1912-06-30
.OMARf RAILROADS
 PAY DIVIDENDS
ls0 Lines Less Than Eight Miles Long Operating in
 the United States

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 that distance; IS are 6 miles long, 40
 cover five miles, l6 run four miles. 25. miles; l9, 2 miles, and s are single mile from end to end.
 Every part of the country furnishes ! specimens of these dwarf roads, says | the Railroad Mans magazine They are found in mining districts and seen ie sections: they are the handy help
 CTS around industrisi plants and term
 inal eenters. they climb mountains
 that would be impossible otherwise. ! The Jobnstown and stony Creek
 railroad, which is only a mile long. connects with the Pennsylvania and | the Baltimore and Ohio in Pennsyl- yania at the two points named In | it's title. Freight is the speciality of the road, and in the two years of it's
 existence it is said to have made l very satisfactory financial return to 1 its owners. Ever hear of the Due West rail
 road? No? We'll it's hardly to be
 wondered at. seeing that it's scarcely three miles long and slowed in an out-of-the-way corner of South Caro- lima. Yet 1t has a unique history of it's own. The road runs from the town of Due West 10 Dowell Its construction was the outcome of d craving of the inhabitants Of Due West for easy transportation to Do-
 well. So the people of Due West. in the name of their town. issued sll, 1 900 of railroad aid bonds on behalf of the construction of the line. which
 was opened for traffic in 1908
 The road was a financial success from the start and is comfortably paying it's way. It has neither debts nor bonds of its own in which respect
 it is almost without parallel in rail- road history. The total cost of the construction of the road and Its equipment, including it's two locomo. tiyes, one passenger and one baggage car, is said to have been less than $50. 1000.
 .One mile is the length of the Indiana and Northern railroad that connects Myler with South Bend, Ind. It has been in operation since 1891 and is
 vestpocket corporation of flourish l ing sort, having no funded or other debts
 Small as 1t is, 1t Is of considerable ! importance as belt line, for it Is the connecting link between the Lake
 Shore and Michigan Southern, the
 Grand Trunk and Western. the Van dalia, the Michigan Central and the | Central Indiana and Southern rail
 roads All the stock is held by
 manufacturing corporation of South
 Bend. Last year 1t paid 5000 in div idends, it's net earnings being $7,000. Mary Lee is the sentimental name of a little freight railroad that runs
 between East Birmingham and Boy
 les, Ala. distance Of seven miles. It connects with the Queen and Cres- ent, route. Southern railroad, and the Louisville and Nashville railroad.
 Mary, according to published balance sheets. is a paying proposition. Fulton Chain railroad Is only two miles in length, but this Llliputian | line has brought enjoyment to thou i sands of summer jsscationists. It runs from Fulton Chain to Old Forge,
 N. r., and Is operated by the New
 York Central lines mainly in con
 nection with the hot weather traffic
 Last year it carried 53,670 passen- gers; it's net earnings were $6,Ol9.
 and it had the comfortable little sur plus of sl3,341 tucked away in its
 jeans.
 The Granite City and East St Louis Terminal railroad has been paying per cent dividend for several years. It Is a subsidiary road, rent ed for an indefinite number of years
 by the St. Louis Merchants Bridge and Terminal railroad. The tracks are less than two miles in length.
 One of the most prosperous of the
 little fellows is the Lake Champlain and Moriah railroad that runs from
 Port Henry to Mineyille, N. Y, dis
 tance of between seven and eight
 miles. In 1910 its net earnings were
 s51 900. and this year. so 1t is claim
 ed. that amount will be greatly sur
 passed It was opened in 1896, so
 that 1t Is quite an old timer. It has six locomotives, three passenger cars
 and 326 ore cars. 1t is operated al-
 most entirely in connection with the iron mines Of Mineyllle. Last year it
 moved 626,631 tons of freight Its
 surplus Is s12s.360. Not so bad for dwarf road.
 Public interest in the work of the
 Tuskeegee institute, Ala, of which
 Booker T. Washington is founder and
 president. to a very great extent is ex- planatory of the present prosperity of the Tuskegee railrosd This road runs from Chehaw, Ala. to the institute, a
 distance Of about six miles. It has only two locomotives, one passenger
 and one mall and express car, yet in 1910 it earned net $30.773 carried 24,s27 passengers and paid a diyi- dend of 14 per cent
 But the little road has had it's trou-
 bles. It was incorporated in 1860:
 was reorganized in 1871, after it's pub
 lie sale for debt; chartered Tn 1902, and opened for traffic about a year
 later. Between its incorporation and it's first operation it's history is that of tedious and intricate litigation.
 The picturesqueiy titled Yreka rail-
 read of California links the town of that name with Montague, the dis tance between the two point being less than eight miles. Its rolling stock consists of two engines. two freight and two passenger cars. The road
 makes a profit Tn 1910 1t carried
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