COMPILATION FROM REPORTS OF RAILROAD COMPANIES. ROADS IN OPERATION. Comparative Statement for Years Ending June 30, 1904 and 1905. STEAM SURFACE RAILROADS. COMPILATION FROM REPORTS OF RAILROAD COMPANIES. ROADS IN OPERATION. Comparative Statement for Years Ending June 30, 1904 and 1905. STEAM SURFACE RAILROADS. Number of tons of freight carried one mile. 30,871,774,989 32,822,854,252 *Includes switching and work train mileage. 12,472 10 12,897 64 *Including mail, express and miscellaneous earnings. Computed on passenger and freight train mileage with mixed train mileage added. · Including miscellaneous earnings. COMPILATION FROM REPORTS OF RAILROAD COMPANIES. ROADS IN OPERATION. Comparative Statement for Years Ending June 30, 1904 and 1905. STEAM SURFACE RAILROADS. *As the cost of the road and equipment, capital stock and debt of lessor companies are included with operating companies under those heads respectively, the income of such lessor companies should be included in any computations based on those accounts; therefore the percentage of net income to capital stock is computed on the following basis: PERCENTAGE OF GROSS EARNINGS FROM OPERATION EXPENDED FOR OPERATING EXPENSES, DIVIDED. Quarter Ending September 30, 1905. Following is a summary of the business done by the principal steam railroads of the State during the three months ending September 30, 1905, compared with the corresponding months in 1904: COMPARISON of quarterly reports of principal steam railroads operating wholly or partly in New York State for the three months ending September 30, 1904, and September 30, 1905. Boston and Maine.. Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, Lehigh Valley*. Long Island.. New York, Chicago and St. Louis.. New York, New Haven and Hartford. New York, Ontario and Western. New York and Ottawa.. St. Lawrence and Adirondack. Staten Island Railway. Staten Island Rapid Transit. Syracuse, Binghamton and New York. Western New York and Pennsylvania. SUMMARY. Gross earnings from operation.... Operating expenses.. Net earnings from operation. 1904. $83,903,107 96 55,852,678 39 1905. $90,956 040 90 62,174,496 38 *Includes roads operated in this State only. † Included in New York Central and Hudson River in 1905 quarter $731,114 95 |