The Commercial and financial chronicle . ,767 —304,827 —946,473 —1,007,731 —760,138 % ? Total (89) ... 126,818,844 153,806,702 41,818,184 ,275 —,091 Mileage.—The mileage for the above group is as follows: Trunk Lines, 27,055miles, against 26,962 mUes In 1907; Anthracite Coal, 1,389. against ; Eastern& Middle. 3,693, against 3,687; Middle Western, 10,152, against 9,900; Northwest& North Pacific, 27,779, against 27,304; Southwest & South Paciflc, , Southern, 29,543, against 29,347; grand total, 147,436, against 146,006. We


The Commercial and financial chronicle . ,767 —304,827 —946,473 —1,007,731 —760,138 % ? Total (89) ... 126,818,844 153,806,702 41,818,184 ,275 —,091 Mileage.—The mileage for the above group is as follows: Trunk Lines, 27,055miles, against 26,962 mUes In 1907; Anthracite Coal, 1,389. against ; Eastern& Middle. 3,693, against 3,687; Middle Western, 10,152, against 9,900; Northwest& North Pacific, 27,779, against 27,304; Southwest & South Paciflc, , Southern, 29,543, against 29,347; grand total, 147,436, against 146,006. We need hardly say that comparison is with figuresin preceding years which had shown successive largegains, both in gross and net, for a long time the roads collectively, there has been no recentyear until 1908 when our compilations have failed toshow an increase either in gross or in net, though insome of the years these increases were quite following is the record for the last twleve Representing 56 roads In our $,563 Note.—In 1896 the number of roads Included for the month of June was 121: In1897, 106; In 1898, 116; In 1899, 95; In 1900, 99; In 1901, 94; in 1902, 94; In ; In 1904, 80; In 1905, 77; In 1906, 80; in 1907, 84; In 1908, 89. We no longerInclude the Mexican roads or the coal-mlnlng operations of the Anthracite Coalroads In oui Besides the roads furnishing exhibits of gross andnet, there are a number of others, as already stated,comprising some quite important systems and com-panies, which make public only the figures of with the total of the gross in the above, weadd on these other roads in the table we now introduce. 516 THE CHRONICLE LVOL. LXXXVIl. ROADS REPORTING GROSS BUT NOT NET. June. 1908. 1907. Increase. Decrease. % $ $ $ Report€d above (89 roads). ,Si4 153,806,7 2 26,987,858 Ala New Orl & Tex Pac— New Orl & North East - 211,866 256,996 45,130 Alabama & Vick


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