Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1891 — OUR IRON HIGHWAYS. [ARTICLE]

OUR IRON HIGHWAYS.

Interesting Statistics In the Report of the Bureau of Railway Statistics. The express companies pay to railways as renta s 820,207,711 a year. They aro in reality engaged in the bu-i----doss of quick delivery of freight, and as such should be amenable to control. . Railway t.avel is the least safe in the (States south of the 1 otomac and Ohio It.vers. Thus, in this territory an c;np'ojo is killed for each 241 men employed. and one trainman is killed for ea -h t'ij employed. One passenger is killed for each 838,555 passengers carried. The increase in railway capital over ttye previous year is --444,2m1,79F. The proportion of capital represented by stocks is 40.82 per tent, the amount of stocks jer mi.c is $28,322, and the amount of outstanding obligations, includ.ng bonds equipment, trust obligations. etc . is 4-28,262. 'i he number of passengers carried during the year was 492,430,865. The a £(?regate number of miles traveled by ail. passengers was 11,847,785,617, an average, journey of 24.06 milos por p»stet ger. The freight carried was 616,441.617 tons, the average carry per ton having been 1iv.74 milos.