TRAFFIC DETAILS. For entire mileage operated by railroad companies reporting for year ending June 30, 1900: Number of passengers carried, earning revenue, Passengers carried one mile........ Average amount received from each passenger...... 52, 884.545 2,319, 193,471 43,986 $0.9479 $0.02155 104, 914, 182 .20,401, 456, 064 1,656 Average amount received per ton per mile (cents).. 0.85168 $4,484 21 2,682 26.09 per cent. of revenue was derived from passenger service. Averages from statements of 27 companies handling over 95 per cent. of the tonnage reported, show The average number of cars in freight trains...... The average load per train.... The average load per car.. The average receipts per train.. The average receipts per loaded car.. 18.42 13.06 191.78 tons. $317.58 $21.62 The foregoing statement of operations is for the entire mileage operated by the companies reporting to this office, and not for the State of Missouri alone. Traffic details for this State are not reported by several of the lines of heaviest traffic. For Missouri traffic the details must largely be based upon mileage, which, of course, is unsatisfactory. The aggregate mileage operated exceeds that of mileage owned or leased, for the reason that trackage right mileage is included in the mileage operated. Forty-seven companies reporting show a surplus of earnings over operating expenses, whilst three show deficits. Thirty-four companies show net incomes, after deducting inter est, rentals, taxes, permanent improvements, and other payments from incomes, whilst fourteen show deficits. TAXES PAID IN MISSOURI, Taxes paid in Missouri year ending June 30, 1900, so far as reported to Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners, were as follows: The total valuation of railroads, including steam and street railroads, bridges and telegraph, as per report of State Board of Equali zation for year 1900, was, $107,658,048.62; valuation of steam railroads, $77,448,204.00, being 71.09 per cent. of total valuation. Total amount of taxes levied on railroads, etc., $1,532,214.25; 71.09 of this amount is $1,089,257.11, which represents the taxes paid on account of steam railroads in Missouri in 1900, including taxes for all purposes. The State tax, 25 cents upon each $100.00, amounted to $269,462.69; the proportion paid by steam railroads, 71.09 per cent., being $191,561.02. |