. The Street railway journal . year, or per cent per year compounded and largelyin the West Division. The two years from April, 1898, toApril, 1900, show an increase of per cent, or an averageof per cent per annum, not compounded, and 3 per centcompounded. Table No. 3 gives the average single-track mileage of sur-face lines in each division, and as a whole for each year from1892 to 1901, showing the increase year by year to meet thedemands of the increase in population. In this mileage is in-cluded only the trackage of the Chicago City Railway Com-pany and the Union Traction Com
. The Street railway journal . year, or per cent per year compounded and largelyin the West Division. The two years from April, 1898, toApril, 1900, show an increase of per cent, or an averageof per cent per annum, not compounded, and 3 per centcompounded. Table No. 3 gives the average single-track mileage of sur-face lines in each division, and as a whole for each year from1892 to 1901, showing the increase year by year to meet thedemands of the increase in population. In this mileage is in-cluded only the trackage of the Chicago City Railway Com-pany and the Union Traction Company. TABLE NO. 3 Track Mileage Each Year from 1892 to 1901—Surface Lines Year So. Div, No. Div. W. Div Total 1892 1893 93-45 19710 1894 19790 1895 45482 1896 1897 1898 1899 I goo 1901 3,300 3100 2,900 2700 FIG. 1.—DIAGRAM OF TABLE NO. 4. POPULATION PER MILE OFTRACK, BY DIVISIONS, OF THE CHICAGO CITY RAILWAYAND CHICAGO UNION TRACTION COMPANYS LINES Table Xo. 4, not given but shown graphically in Fig. i, givesthe population per mile of surface track and shows 1000 moreto the mile in the West Division than the South. The NorthDivision is also in excess of the South. Table No. 5 gives the revenue passengers carried per yearfrom 1892 to 1901 by the surface lines in divisions. It is inter-esting to note how the effects of boom and depressed times,and competition of elevated lines can be traced in the opera- TABLE NO. 5 Revenue Passengers Carried Per Year, 1892 to 1901—Surface Lines No. Div. W. Div. Total 50,419,457 94,518,474 232,956,792 60,311,673 107,053,461 287,961,404 49,571,463 85,287,302 219,653,752 53,887,428 ,643 227,794,532 56,523,620 79,072,902 230,835,437 56,354,147 78, 230,570,189 58,422,070 80,600,505 235,014,68
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