Show WORK OF RAILROADS increase in earnings and also in op erat ng expenses over previous year washington the interstate corn com merce commission has made public an abstract of its nineteenth annual statistical report covering the jear bear ending june 30 1096 showing the par value of the railroad capital out standing was 14 or 67 per mile of the railways in the united states of ulis this over 33 per cent paid no dividends of the rail way stock outstanding 2 was owned by rail railway w ay corporations and of the railway b bonds were so reported the aggregate gross earnings from the operated mileage miles of lines were 22 being greater than in 1905 the net earnings aggregated an increase of 97 the net earnings per mile of line averaged 3 the income attrib ut able to other sources than operating Is reported at the report shows 10 persons killed and 97 injured there was a total of 1 persons on the pay oil |