. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . were cents; theaverage receipts per ton per mile, The passenger service train revenueper train-mile was $; the freightrevenue per train-mile was $ average operating revenues pertrain-mile were $ The averageoperating expenses per train-mile were$ The ratio of operating ex-penses to operating revenues per cent. The operating revenuesof the railways in the United States(average mileage operated, 236,) were $2,750,667,435;
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . were cents; theaverage receipts per ton per mile, The passenger service train revenueper train-mile was $; the freightrevenue per train-mile was $ average operating revenues pertrain-mile were $ The averageoperating expenses per train-mile were$ The ratio of operating ex-penses to operating revenues per cent. The operating revenuesof the railways in the United States(average mileage operated, 236,) were $2,750,667,435; their operat-ing expenses were $1,822,630,433. Thecorresponding returns for 1909 (averagemileage operated, 232, miles) were:Operating revenues, $2,418,677,538; oper-ating expenses, $1,599,443,410. In connec-tion with a summary for the report, itappears that the aggregate amount ofdividends declared includes about $112,, and the aggregate amount ofinterest accrued, about $28,000,000, pay-able by various companies to other steamrailway companies reporting holdings oftheir BRIDGE NEAR GEORGETOWN, COL. Boilers That Dont Leak. One of the most reliable experts onboiler construction we have ever met isMr. William H. Wood, of Media, notes on boiler construction madeby Mr. Wood reads: The working ofthree boilers under daily inspection forthree years, verifies our statements, forstaybolt breakage is nil. They have neverhad a leaky mud ring, nor flue failure onthe road, and there has never been a leak-age of flues on the road. The only leak-age of flues or crown stays is from dump-ing pit to roundhouse, and when the firesare lit again, the leakage disappears. Ifmore care could be used in the dumpingthey would scarcely leak then. I ask you,what more can be done ? If flues were welded in the regularboxes, the stresses would have to be dealtwith in another form, and there is noway of binding the stresses up. What I have done is to give them everychance t
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