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Employes - account

equipment

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All other employes and labor-|

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Total

44,682 42,435 18

44,698 39,115

46,221

53,414

39,744 17

39,193 17

10,549]

8,758) 41 8,028 3 9,139 4

229,806 95 210,898 90 199,510 87 228,324 100 .|1,699,420| 706|1,502,823| 638|1,436,275| 623|1,672,074 735

*The total number of persons reported as on the payrolls of the steam roads of the United States on June 30, 1911, was 1,669,809, or an average of 678 per 100 miles of line. As compared with returns for June 30, 1910, there was a decrease of 29,611 in the total number of railway employes. There were 63,390 enginemen, 66,376 firemen, 48,200 conductors, 133,221 other trainmen and 40,005 switch tenders, crossing tenders and watchmen. The total number of railway employes (omitting 93,718 not distributed) was apportioned among six general divisions of employment as follows: To maintenance of way and structures, 493,926; to maintenance of equipment, 344,112; to traffic expenses, 22,246; to transportation expenses, 629,654; to general expenses, 52,201, and to outside operations, 33,952. †Does not include returns for switching and terminal companies.

AMOUNT OF COMPENSATION PAID RAILWAY EMPLOYES FOR THE YEARS ENDED JUNE 30, 1908 TO 1911.*

(Covers more than 99 per cent of the number of employes for all the years mentioned.)

*The total amount of wages and salaries reported as paid to railway employes during the year ended June 30, 1911, was $1,208,466,470. †Does not include returns for switching and terminal companies.

The combined value of the yields of Kansas wheat, corn and oats in 1912 was $170,785,666, about $55,000,000 more than in 1911.

Note.

47,095

2,135,121

108,115

2,290,331

45,584 2,073,606

99,090

2,218,280

.........

45,292 2,100,784

98,281

2,244,857

80,907

43,973

1,991,557

91,064

2,126,594

82,092

42,262

1,837,914

83,857

87,937

84,579

43,142

41,942

42,771

45,117

The locomotives and cars in service on June 30, 1911, aggregated 2,420,662, of which 2,391,438, or 98.79 per cent, as against 97.96 per cent in 1910, were fitted with train brakes, and 2,409,973, or 99.56 per cent, as against 99.30 per cent in 1910, were fitted with automatic couplers. Of the 2,195,511 cars in freight service on June 30, 1911, the number fitted with train brakes was 2,180,301, and the number fitted with automatic couplers was 2,186,233.

RAILROAD ACCIDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1891-1910. (From statistical report of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

-Employes.

-Passengers. Other persons

-Totals.

Killed. Injured.]" Killed. [Injured.'|' Killed. | Injured.

RIVER AND CANAL TRAFFIC IN 1911.

Downstream traffic at Lock No. 3 on the Monongahela River, representing the maximum downstream movement on the river, of which practically all was soft coal, totalled 8,827,063 short tons, a quantity slightly smaller than the year before and over a million tons below the total for the 1907 season, which marks

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Canada's 1910 oats crop was valued at $114,365,000.

the largest coal shipments through the lock. The upstream traffic for the year at Lock No. 1 of the river, representing the maximum upstream movement, and composed of sand and gravel mainly, totalled 1,338,522 short tons, and shows a slight decrease. River traffic in both directions by way of Davis Island Dam totalled 4,105,649 short tons for the year, compared with 3,138,074 short tons in 1910.

The 1911 traffic over the falls and the Louisville and Portland Canal of the Ohio River at Louisville, Ky., was 1,591,702 short tons, compared with 1,090,229 in 1910 and 1,359,676 in 1909.

The arrivals by river during the year at Cairo, Ill., at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, totalled 7,149 vessels, of 3,947,337 net tons, compared with 5,875 arrivals in 1910 of 3,202,910 tons.

The year's freight tonnage received and shipped by river at St. Louis was 292,320 short tons and in 1910 191,905 tons.

The Erie Canal tonnage for the year was 2,031,735 short tons, compared with 2,023,185 in 1910. For traffic over the Erie Canal and the other New York State canals see under "New York State."

FREIGHT TRANSPORTED ON VARIOUS RIVERS AND CANALS FOR CALENDAR YEARS 1909-'11.

COMMERCE OF THE GREAT LAKES.

DOMESTIC RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS BY LAKE AT SIXTEEN PRINCIPAL PORTS ON THE GREAT LAKES, CALENDAR YEARS 1909-'11.

The value of silver produced in Canada in 1910 was $17,106,604.

VESSEL, PASSENGER AND FREIGHT TRAFFIC THROUGH SAULT STE. MARIE CANAL, CALENDAR YEARS 1890-1911.

*From 1895 figures include traffic through Canadian canal, opened to commerce September 9, 1895. +Since 1904 the dates of opening and closing are for American locks only.

PUBLIC ROADS.

MILEAGE AND EXPENDITURES, CALENDAR YEAR 1904, BY STATES AND TERRITORIES.

From report of the Department of Agriculture.

One state, New Jersey, elects a Governor every three years.

1One-half the cost of road construction and repair in the District of Columbia is paid from Congressional appropriation, the other half by the District out of the general revenues from taxation of property.

TELEGRAPHS AND TELEPHONES.

SYSTEMS IN THE UNITED STATES.

[From the Census Bureau's Bulletin No. 102.]

The first telegraph line in the United States was opened for business in 1844, and thirty-two years later the telephone was introduced. At the census of 1880 the telegraph companies reported the operation of 291,213 miles of wire, as compared with 34,305 miles reported for the telephone companies. By the census of 1902 the amount of wire for the telegraph systems had increased to 1,318,350 miles and that for the telephone systems to 4,900,451 miles. Thus in 1902 the mileage of wire devoted to the transmission of telephone messages was almost four times as great as that used for telegraph purposes. The extent of the systems in 1907 is shown in the following table:

TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH SYSTEMS COMPARATIVE SUMMARY, 1907.