Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-12-26
MORE THAN THIRD HIGHER
THAN PREVIOUS BEST YEAR
Figures Calculated on Statistics
Gathered for Nine Month
Period by l. c. c.
EASTERN ROADS ARE IN LEAD
Startling Increase From January TO
September. Reaching
81 Per Cent.
Inv Aeencin,cd l,rc..-l

~. SNNo'lht"u ifcH~.l
WASlIINGiTDN December oj-Morc
than $1,000. 600. 900 nc, income from
operations vas mad" by th. railroads
"f tn" country during the year now
CLOSING. Til" huge total Is the peak Of
prosperity in railroad operations. and
stands NOR" than onc-fhrd higher
than tho total of 1913. hitherto tiA
banner year. Eastern road. led In
revenue per mile. with Southern roads
next
Statistics gathered by tho Interstate
Commerce Commission. complete for
nine months. and made the basis for
calculation for the entire year. indicate
mat the total net income from opera
tons Will h" approximately SI.Ggs,
100000 For the first nine months OF
the year. complete returns show s7S5,-
ajS.26G. Even this does not represent
the full amount. as roads whose in
come is less than sloco,c0O. are not
included.
The estimate. sIoss. 900. 900 makes
no allowance for normal increase in
business during the last three months
of the year.
Analysis Of the returns for the first
nine months shows startling increase
from January 1" September. amounting
I" more than GI per cont. Thus. not
income IN January. ssi.3l52SG. had
amounted 10 Slo1glU.Sli in September.
For tho first min" months Of the year
the COMMISSIONS figures show that the
railroads collected s2s54s296t7 from
al sources OF operation. the chief
items OF which were as follows freight
SI.s750lseeo; passenger traffic. sa2a.
lU3s mails. si5.34s.sOa. from c.nress
companies ss5.0So,7i: r. .;dcn,als sso
;1aba7. and all o,har -r,,sn,r,,,;o
charges s7s.oS7.s1l
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~
,,d ui,bn,, 1,, -,
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"o' Mp P"c" Win
n 80 tH''p'S' from 'o'a!
,a' "an Vi" expenses ma"
-" v"'-"''"'f III september.
"'P' - i''' cent p"r'he mat
49," no." ltc!e"A from
APPROX :
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- .,5. 80 o" opera IONS
" o''. '"c '"S' hEurc'
'"c ran
go. "pp'oA''h"'eiS
.,, 60, o"s "'p's. app'"Ni :
osn,on '' ~ si"'' "i'4"4'
-. ""' "a" '''' 'e"i' an" re-
WI 10 '""" '""' iof every n''le OF road
..,,,, '"e r"''I o"oS
s,re-. l., "p',' 'eis
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'N'"r-NHr' "f o. FEN 'EHT
TN r'S'At WEAK OF 1913
Compared with previous earnings,
net income for 1916 shows an increase
Of more than - per cent over the fiscal
wear of 1915, j? per cent over 1914 and
"a per cent over 1913.
Wide divergence in receipts among
the roads of various sections is dis
closed. The ovcrburdcncd railroads of
the East have SKINNED the cream of
the traffic. The congestion at Eastern
seaports and on almost every Eastern
road has spelled. in Ciuttcd sidinrs
and slow-moving traffic. flood of
revenue, the like OF which was un-
dreamed OF even a year ago. For every
iEile Of the $4,000 in the Eastern group
more than $1,000 has been received in
revenue, and every mile has earned a
net income OF nearly $4,000. Eastern
roads nave received almost AS much
in passenger fares as all the rest of
the roads In the country put together.
with total OF 1Io,soo miles.
inc railroads OF the South. with
rast in rev.nno nn NJ .Vmo ',o .;, ,""Se ., 'ne