. The street railway review . of each year for the sake of comparison. Statement for Properties of International Traction Co. for 10Months Ending April 30, 1899, 1900, 1901. 1899 1900 1901. Cross receipts $ l, $ 2,128,243 $ 2,414,929 Operating expenses ,082 1,130,397 1,232,705 Net earnings from operation 1,182,223 Miscellaneous earnings 57,566 67,064 86,402 Total earnings ,110 1, 1,268,625 Fixed charges 719,825 753,062 845,650 Surplus .? 168,285 $ 310,948 $ 422,975 Ratio, operating expenses to gross receipts .57 .53 .51 Car mileage 10,023,289
. The street railway review . of each year for the sake of comparison. Statement for Properties of International Traction Co. for 10Months Ending April 30, 1899, 1900, 1901. 1899 1900 1901. Cross receipts $ l, $ 2,128,243 $ 2,414,929 Operating expenses ,082 1,130,397 1,232,705 Net earnings from operation 1,182,223 Miscellaneous earnings 57,566 67,064 86,402 Total earnings ,110 1, 1,268,625 Fixed charges 719,825 753,062 845,650 Surplus .? 168,285 $ 310,948 $ 422,975 Ratio, operating expenses to gross receipts .57 .53 .51 Car mileage 10,023,289 11, Passengers carried 48, 54,870,743 60,928,067 For the year ending June 30, 1900, the companies had: Gross receipts, $2,545,740; operating expenses, $1,348,728; net earnings from operation, $1,197,012; miscellaneous earnings, $75,636; total earnings, $1,272,648; fixed charges, $901,337; surplus, $371,311; car-miles run, 13,560,321; passengers carried, 65,883,773. Jt \E STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 335 LAKE a\TARK). ELECTRIC RAILWAYS OF UUFPALO AND VICINITY THE CITY LLNES. Interest will of course at this time center chielly in the prep-arations carried out by the company lor handling the immensecrowds that are expected to attend the Pan-American Expositionduring the next five months. That these preparations have neces-sarily been elaborate will be understood when it is stated thatconservative estimates by those well informed as to the condi-tions, place the probable attendance at the Fair at over 20,000,000,and by far the greater part of this extra traffic will have to behandled by the street railway lines. As has been stated elsewhere in this issue, the site finallychosen for the exposition is a tract of about 350 acres located inthe northern portion of Buffalo, about four miles from EllicottS<|., the business center of the city. The grounds have seven entrance gates. The one at the north-ern extremity is that provided to receive the visitors who willarrive over t
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