Number of tons carried of freight earning revenue... 2,353,862.213 Average distance haul of one ton, miles. Total freight revenue.. Average amount received for each ton of freight.... Average receipts per ton per mile...... Estimated cost of carrying one ton one mile Freight earnings per mile of road... Freight earnings per train-mile.... PASSENGER AND FREIGHT: Passenger and freight earnings... Passenger and freight earnings per mile of road. Expense per mile of road Total earnings per mile of road, including mails, ex press, etc...... Number of passenger trains Number of mixed freight .389,496,026.823 165 4,375,512.56 1.85.886 .01.123 .643 3,149.37 1.65.889 6,059,393.90 4,361.38 2,932.53 4,564.06 26.292 26,666 10,908 Miles run by mixed trains. TRAIN MILEAGE: Miles run by passenger trains 1,757,833 2,301,817 ..... 335.804 Average number of tons in cars when shipped in car lots: Average number of tons in cars when shipped in less than car lots: What per cent does the local freight business of Iowa bear to the total freight business of the entire line? Fifty-eight one hundredths. What per cent does local freight business of Iowa bear to freight originating on your line in Iowa and passing outside the State? Seven and twenty one hundredths. What per cent does local freight business of Iowa bear to business originating outside the State and destined to points within the State? Four and sixty-nine one hundredths. What per cent does local freight business bear to freight moved across the State from points outside to points inside the State? Four and sixty-nine one hundredths. What per cent of freight received at each station on your road is local and what per cent inter-State? Four and sixty-nine one hundredths. * What proportion of earnings is credited to Iowa on business passing across the State, from points beyond to points beyond the State? *What proportion of earnings is credited to Iowa on business originating in Iowa and passing outside the State? *What proportion of earnings is credited to Iowa on business originating outside the State and destined to points within the State? *What proportion of earnings is credited to each branch line of your road, on business originating on said branches and destined to points on the main line in Iowa, to points on the main line outside the State, or to points on other lines? Give the amount and kind of freight furnished by each branch line to your main line? This information not kept. * In answer to questions marked with a star, I would state that in dividing the earnings between the several divisions of this company's road a mileage pro rata is used. In dividing the earnings with connecting roads, with which we have through billing arrangements, the divisions are furnished by the Tariff Department, and vary from a mileage pro rata to an arbitrary, as the necessities of the business require. |