. Railway age . ough passenger was $ in 1907. anincrease of S-j cents over the previous year. The real causes of the companys unsatisfactory showing for1907 Is to be found in the bad cotton crop, and the large sums expended for additions and betterments. The revenue fromcarrying cotton was per cent, of the total freight revenue In1906. while in 1907 it was but per cent. In 1906 the .oad car-ried 879,325 bales of cotton, while in 1907 it carried only On the other hand, the cost of transportation of this cottonwas almost as great In 1907 as In 1906, beca
. Railway age . ough passenger was $ in 1907. anincrease of S-j cents over the previous year. The real causes of the companys unsatisfactory showing for1907 Is to be found in the bad cotton crop, and the large sums expended for additions and betterments. The revenue fromcarrying cotton was per cent, of the total freight revenue In1906. while in 1907 it was but per cent. In 1906 the .oad car-ried 879,325 bales of cotton, while in 1907 it carried only On the other hand, the cost of transportation of this cottonwas almost as great In 1907 as In 1906, because the movement offreight west on the Texas & Pacific increased, and as cotton moveseast the road had increased facilities for carrying i-otton at thevery time that there was a decrease in the amount of cotton offeredfor shipment. The year of 1907 was one of short farm crops inTexas. Wheat and small grain crops were nearly an entire failureowinK to the depredation.^ of the green bug. If the same Texas & Pacific. Port Worth, fil3 miles; the Central division, or Eastern division,!us It Is called. Including the direct line from l-ort Worth. Tex., toShreveport. I,a., together with the lines from Marshall. Tex., northto Texarkana. and the line from Fort Worth north to Shermanand east to Texarkana; the Louisiana division consists of the mainline from Shrevei)ort. to New Orleans, with a number of ^bortliianches in the sugar <aiie and rice districts, and also Includes theline from liatou Rouge, north along the east bank of the Mississippito Vidiilia. It was the development of cotton raising on the Rio(Jrande division, the Increased passenger traffic on this divli^lon,due to the rush of emigration to tlie Iecos river region, and theincrease in the tonnage of products of agriculture shipped over theRio Grande divisions, which made 1906 so successful a year for thecompany, and seemed to promise so much for 1907. To a certain extent these promises were carried out. Freight
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