Show OS Report on tho rho income or of the tho systems or of A dispatch to the News PhS Pays The preliminary report on the nil Income ur ac account count ot of railways In the United States for tor the yen year I ended Juno JUliO 31 30 POO 1900 pre prepared prepared pared hy by the statistician to the Inter Interstate state commerce contains returns ot of operating railway companies representing 06 miles or of line The Tho gross earnings ot of the Included In this report were 04 or per lIr miles of line Of these there earnings were classed as frel freight ht earnings The gross earnings s shown in III the he final report for the pre coding year wore Operating expenses for or time the last fiscal year aggregated or per mile of line Th The net nd earnings of the roads embraced In this advance reo re report port were for 1900 or 13 more than thy they were for lor 1899 1399 Income from rein find other sources amounting to were received so that the tho total Income was all The total deductions from frem Income were This Item Includes Interest on bonds rents for tor leased lines taxes and other charges to Income The amount of dividends de elated clarell was whIch Is greater creMer than the amount declared by corresponding roads for 1899 The resulting surplus from the operation of the tho roads covered b by this preliminary report was 18 The shown In the Onal anni report for the pre preceding ceIling ceding year ear was The amount or of dividends stated slated the report explains does not Include the dividends paid to stockholders b by rail raila railway way a companies the mileage of which Is Isopera opera operated tad under lease or some other form orm of control |