Show Railroad Mileage and Earnlngs Poors Manual for 1907 is instrue live on the point of the reasonableness reasonable-ness of average American railway rates The completed mileage at tho I beginning of 1907 was 222035 miles an increase of 5294 miles over the I previous year The average receipts a passenger carried was 2011 cents a mile against 2028 the year before I an appreciable decrease Tho aver ago freight revenue a ton a mile was i fiOthonbandths of a cent as against i 7S4thousandths in 190B The average I Interest rate on railway bonds In 1900 was 399 per cent and the average dividend on all stock was 303 per cent These returns are smaller than are expected on capital Invested in most kinds of business The total I liabilities of all railways In the United I States were 17534rSlC1 of which Soli07778 was bonds and J7100 i I IOS97C was block Thero were other bond obligations and accrued ILitll lies of vailoub kinds exceeding 1 I 500000000 Gross earnings were 2 310040280 net 790187812 The passenger earnings were 521 231 377 freight flG5M > 25Gia other lGliW 1 Or The jrrrTrho operating expensps were 11558162071 I I The number of pas spnprE carried was 815771118 hit passenger lIlel i mileage was 20812 1112021 and the frelgl mileage I1f179t9G 21C |