Arizona republican., 1922-06-27
Show Unfair Working
OF Passenger Rates
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cific in Arizona, 1S9,209 for the Santa
Fe. system and 213,311 for the Santa
Fe in Arizona. The same exhibit
showed the Burlington trains aver
aged SIS cars, the Northern Pacific,
SOS cars. the Rock Island 6.5 cars
and the Southern Pacific in Arizona
9.49 cars.
Spend Less in Arizona
Another exhibit showed that the
Burlington road derived $2.70 a mile,
the Northern Pacific. $2.54; the Rock
Island. s2.84; and the Southern Pa
cific in Arizona, SASS mile; while
the operating expenses of these roads
per mile were as follow: Burlington,
S2.02; the Northern Pacific, S2.4z;
the Rock Island, $2.19; and the
Southern Pacific in Arizona, $256.
In other words, Mr.. Belts ex-
planned, the above exhibit shows that
from every dollar taken in by these
roads, the Burlington spent 74.s
cents for operation the Northern
Pacific, 95.2 cents: the Rock Island,
SS cents. and the Southern Pacific
in Arizona. 52.4 cents.
Another exhibit offered showed the
earning of the roads in Arizona dur
ing a five-year period ending Dec.
81. 1920 to be for the Southern Pa
cific. IL per cent of its book value;
the Santa Fe. S.4 per cent; the d. F.
IL S. W., 6S per cent; the Arizona
Eastern, 81 per cent; and the Grand
Canyon, 3.S per cent. Taking allied
lines of these roads in states where
the 3.6 cents fare is effective. the
table showed that the Louisiana e.
Texas road made 2.96 per cent OF its
book value: the G. II. & S. A.. 1.64
per cent: the Texas & New Orleans,
81 per cent and the Gulf Colorado
and Santa Fe, .08 per cent: the
Houston East e. West Texas. 81
per cent: with the Panhandle & San
| Ia Fe road, 7.46 per cent.
Make More Here
| This exhibit, Mr.. Belts explained,
| showed that only one of the Arizona
roads made less than the per cent
| the government permits while the
roads without the states and allied
with these roads only one made more
| than the per cent. The same ex-
hibit showed that in Arizona the
| Southern Pacific carried SS passen-
| gers per train mile, the Santa Fe. rs
| passengers. and the other lines So to
| rs passengers.
This same exhibit showed the
| earnings of the eastern roads on
! their book value to be as follows:
| The Chicago & Alton, .46 per cent;
Norfolk & Western, SIS per cent:
Monon Route. "a per cent: Chicago
| & Northwestern, 3.59 per cent: Wa
bash 1874 per cent; Rock Island, 20
| nor cant. CepfraI 0f CaorUia 16
per cent: Pere Marquette. 144 per
| LII per cent, all of which are oper-
ating under base fare rate OF SO
per cent.
Another exhibit showed that the
/ Southern Pacific in Arizona carried
| SS passengers per train mile, as COM
/ pared to so in California, SO in Ore
| gon and 95 in Utah, and that the
Santa Fe carried 81 per train mile
in Arizona as compared to rs in
/ California. Mr. Belts showed in an
other exhibit that the passenger fare
revenue collected in Arizona during
| three year period ending Dec. 81,
/ 1920 averaged each year as follows
for the roads: Southern Pacific, S3,-
| S41,676 and the Santa F'e. S4,i96. 1853.
What They Earned
/ He also showed in another exhibit
| that the Southern Pacific in Arizo-
ma earned 10.9 per cent of its as
sessed valuation for taxation; the
Santa Fe, 96 per cent; the Grand
| Canyon, II per cent; the E. P. & S
/ W., ST. per cent and the Arizona
| Eastern. 9.3 per cent
The carriers, Mr.. Belts stated. have
long contended that the removal OF