. The Street railway journal . 0 or 15 tons makes avery good showing. The average mileage of each freight car year. These, with individual 30-day commuter books givinga rate of 1 1-5 cents per mile, are sold largely to the countrypeople, and as tickets are sold in all towns there are compar-atively few cash fares on the trains. In computing daily earnings on ticket sales, only the actualearnings are considered; that is, only such portions of round-trip tickets, coupon books, etc., as are actually collected on thatday are considered in the earnings for the clay, and the ticketssold and not rede
. The Street railway journal . 0 or 15 tons makes avery good showing. The average mileage of each freight car year. These, with individual 30-day commuter books givinga rate of 1 1-5 cents per mile, are sold largely to the countrypeople, and as tickets are sold in all towns there are compar-atively few cash fares on the trains. In computing daily earnings on ticket sales, only the actualearnings are considered; that is, only such portions of round-trip tickets, coupon books, etc., as are actually collected on thatday are considered in the earnings for the clay, and the ticketssold and not redeemed are carried on a balance sheet as aliability. This liability is not computed each day, but in themonthly balance sheets the liability for outstanding tickets istaken into consideration. It is believed that this is the onlymethod to keep a uniform record of earnings per car-mile andper month. This is illustrated by a condition existing on this road recently. THE SCIOTO VALLEY TRACTION COMPANY DAILY REPORT OF EARNINGS. Date. FORM USED FOR MAKING DAILY REPORT OF EARNINGS, SCIOTO VALLEY is 121 miles, as compared with 407 miles a day for passengercars. The advantage of the service is that it is practically ex-press service at freight rates, and the cars are unloaded in thebusiness district convenient for the commission houses, who re-ceive and originate a considerable portion of the business. Thetraffic is about equally divided between goods shipped fromColumbus to the country merchants and produce and manufac-tured articles originating in the towns along the lines. Thereis considerable interchange with other interurban roads, andforeign cars frequently run into the companys yard to maketransfers. All agents are on a salaried basis. The company has afreight solicitor, and agents solicit business in the towns. Allblanks, records and claim adjustments follow closely those usedon steam roads. Passenger rates are 2 cents a mile, but they are usually about5 cents under the steam roa
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