Deseret Evening News | 1891-08-26 | Page 7 | Figures of Two Big Railroads

tl(urerii- lilt lutlmaili. An lutt resting comimrlion was recently re-cently made of twnof the grimiest rail roml corporations In tho world, one Kng-lish. Kng-lish. tho other American. The IVnusjb vanin system, rrgsnled osoneaggngn tlon, though It Inrlu hi more than lftQ minor curicrationa, rrprraeuts 7,VI3 lnllos of rallroiid and a cannl, h share and bonded capital of $"00.O oo), groM earnings In lU0uf m,C00,o,) and tho lnovrineutluthesnme)earof 137siO,OOi) tons of fnlght and ei.000,000 pawngrrs. The Kngllsh coiroratton referred to the Imdon and Siorthwistern his an authorif-d capital of fiMHnTS anl 1,010 ndle-sof roal,on whieli the gre-M n-cclpt for one year were $?J Odl 380. The disparity In gross receipts r -nib-is not extremely Urge, but the tnpitnli xalion of tin hngllib line Is vanity greater, la proportion to mileago and traffic, than tluitof tho Ainetlenu se-trni.Mvchanical se-trni.Mvchanical News.