Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1898 — Currents In the Atlantic. [ARTICLE]

Currents In the Atlantic.

BWWWyweAwr/qm -ymi. qp xW/qp ■. wi Tne gross earnings of the Chicago Great Western Railway Company Tor the Operating expenses were../ 70 »fk;uVr^ l - re r,o ,i^U pay taxes, fixed charges # and full dividends on the 4 per cent debenture | sfock is 1,366,286 42 Excess 3242,484 67 This excess is equal to a little more 4 ham 2 per cent on the preferred stock. •' The operating expenses include, besides other extraordinary expenses, the entire cost of 226 freight cars which were purchased .during the year to make good all the «Ure which have been destroyed and gone out of service from any cause since 'the organization of the company.* The largest local crop in the history of the company is about ready for the harvest.

Experiments-have been going on for the past two years for the purpoie of trying to learn something of the characteristics of the ocean as a great moving body of water. As a result tfic whole Atlantic Is shows to be slowly circulating round and round like an enormous pool.