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Show EXPRESS COMPANIES REPORT HEAVY LOSS A loss of more than one million dollars' dol-lars' a month is reported by tho Adams Express company for the first six months of 1918, before the company was taken over by the American Railway Rail-way express under the federal administration, admin-istration, in a report filed yesterday with the state public utilities commission. commis-sion. The company gave its operating revenue as $15,207,1 25. 79 for the period, pe-riod, and the operating expenso is listed list-ed at $21,011,119.00, a net loss of $6,-110,-141.74. The loss of the Wells Fargo Express company during the same six months amounted to $1,620,327.79, according to its report. Operating revenue amounted amount-ed to $16,579,953.49, and operating expense ex-pense to $17,793,431.55. . Two Utah ore-carrying Toads also filed their annual statements. The St. John & Ophir railroad showed net profits prof-its on ore transportation for 191S amounting to $5243.67. The Tooele Val- j lev railroad, on the other hand, showed i a "net loss of $214.23. |