Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1903 — THE RAILROADS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE RAILROADS

The International Association of Railway Ticket Agents will hold its annual convention in Salt Lake City Sept. 12, 13 and 14. A territorial charter has been granted to the Kansas Central, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Company, with $20,000,000 capital. The general managers of the different lines running into El Paso have adopted plans and specifications for a union depot to cost $240,000 at that point. Gross earnings of all United States roads reporting for the mouth are $44,903,801, a gain of 12.7 per cent over la * year and 20.2 per cent over 1901. North Pacific coast traffic is developing at a rate that is causing the railroads considerable embarrassment to provide facilities fast enough to take care of it. The annual report of the Atchison for twelve months ended July 30 shows: Gross earnings, $02,350,397; increase, $3,215,312; operating expenses, $38,427,111; Increase, $4,527,842; net earnings, $23,913,287. The Knoxville and Ohio, which » leased by the Southern, hag purchased the Knoxville and Bristol, forty miles long, and also the Tennessee Northern, owned hy the Ltfoitette Qgal and Iran Company. The price paid is said to have been $250,000 and $400,000 respectively. E. H. Harriman, head of the syndicate which controls the California .Northwestern, is planning to mafe that road part of a coast lyctetn' that will eventually have Us northern terminal at Astoria, where connections will be made with the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company’s line.