| Number of Cars Handled by 36 Car Service Associations and Demurrage Bureaus during Twelve Months ending December, 1905-1909. | |||||
| Names of Associations and Bureaus | Twelve Months Ending December | ||||
| 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | |
| Alabama | 752,982 | 744,548 | 779,402 | 631,487 | 700,393 |
| Central New York | 611,601 | 654,861 | 753,269 | 738,054 | 804,419 |
| Central (St. Louis) | 863,788 | 908,096 | 919,130 | 838,017 | 1,001,136 |
| Chicago | 2,166,910 | 2,251,763 | 2,282,191 | 2,161,767 | 2,790,801 |
| Cincinnati | 675,117 | 748,763 | 771,990 | 635,365 | 712,145 |
| Cleveland (a) | 640,364 | 796,687 | 1,016,003 | 715,764 | 843,609 |
| Colorado | 425,140 | 455,540 | 445,900 | 385,260 | 428,760 |
| Columbus | 394,152 | 443,638 | 469,773 | 363,130 | 401,696 |
| East Tennessee | 320,855 | 358,733 | 388,066 | 293,597 | 330,055 |
| Indiana | 912,827 | 962,941 | 1,104,855 | 1,077,786 | 1,211,793 |
| Intermountain | 116,533 | 158,231 | 184,577 | 153,885 | 201,077 |
| Lake Superior | 332,633 | 371,312 | 415,642 | 338,109 | 370,490 |
| Louisville Car | 495,095 | 541,945 | 506,528 | 518,955 | 565,748 |
| Memphis | 235,569 | 258,316 | 255,169 | 239,156 | 224,648 |
| Michigan | 687,428 | 766,950 | 838,928 | 696,926 | 859,812 |
| Missabe Range | 30,241 | 37,613 | 42,786 | 42,930 | 54,934 |
| Missouri Valley | 1,538,087 | 1,665,882 | 1,910,139 | 1,606,758 | 1,863,052 |
| Nashville | 300,602 | 336,110 | 351,572 | 326,385 | 337,234 |
| New York and New Jersey | 997,304 | 1,100,067 | 1,409,161 | 1,248,609 | 1,416,831 |
| North Carolina | 357,474 | 374,710 | 407,257 | 404,334 | 445,398 |
| Northeastern Pennsylvania | 802,072 | 836,443 | 917,936 | 633,655 | 594,231 |
| Northern | 1,467,041 | 1,722,345 | 1,736,981 | 1,515,706 | 1,636,588 |
| Pacific | 761,382 | 972,398 | 1,166,886 | 1,147,345 | 1,390,948 |
| Pacific Northwest | 647,726 | 727,474 | 888,093 | 845,405 | 987,115 |
| Philadelphia | 2,056,744 | 2,218,755 | 2,326,723 | 1,921,142 | 2,508,204 |
| Pittsburg | 3,375,530 | 3,295,463 | 2,935,299 | 1,977,891 | 2,807,256 |
| Southeastern | 813,444 | 862,379 | 853,720 | 823,948 | 981,737 |
| Southern | 273,273 | 301,273 | 492,914 | 513,437 | 649,384 |
| Texas | 932,992 | 977,630 | 986,475 | 1,118,622 | 1,302,211 |
| Toledo | 262,875 | 312,329 | 530,617 | 383,870 | 492,127 |
| Virginia and West Virginia | 818,915 | 866,861 | 893,905 | 778,940 | 942,231 |
| Western New York | 812,409 | 881,640 | 986,962 | 806,488 | 931,185 |
| Western (Omaha) | 622,868 | 718,872 | 770,470 | 733,346 | 775,828 |
| Wisconsin | 1,157,036 | 1,119,326 | 1,118,720 | 1,022,270 | 1,006,050 |
| Total reported by 34 associations and bureaus (b) | 27,659,009 | 29,749,894 | 31,858,039 | 27,638,339 | 32,569,156 |
| Baltimore and Washington Demurrage Bureau | (c)721,428 | (c)740,903 | (c)735,103 | 588,930 | 672,954 |
| Illinois and Iowa Demurrage Bureau | (d) | 3,054,315 | 3,258,770 | (d) | 3,561,740 |
| (a) Cleveland reported 10,016 lake coal cars for December, 1909. | |||||
| (b) The Butte Terminal Association was superseded by the Montana Demurrage Bureau in May, 1908. The returns of the new bureau for the twelve months ending December, is 448,381 cars. | |||||
| (c) Figures apply to larger territory; change and revision of 1907, 1908 and 1909 figures made October 1, 1909. | |||||
| (d) Not reported. | |||||
[VIII]
EARNINGS AND EXPENSES
Having in the preceding pages given the facts as to the provision made by the railways for fulfilling their obligations as common carriers, it is now in order to present a brief review of their receipts and expenditures in relation to their public service.
For the second successive year the Bureau has to warn the reader that innovations in the forms of keeping railway accounts prescribed by the Commission preclude the making of strictly accurate comparisons of the returns for 1909 with those of any preceding year. In submitting its report for 1908 the Commission made the following explanation:
"A number of important changes have been made in the annual report forms for 1908, particularly in the grouping of certain items in connection with the Income Account and the Profit and Loss Account. The figures which follow do not include returns applying to carriers classed as switching and terminal. The changes in the income account submitted in the report under consideration are so far reaching in their results, in a number of instances, as to impair direct or close comparison with figures for similar items contained in previous statistical reports."
In the comparative Income Account below, which aims to present the situation as it would result from the actual operations had such operations been conducted by a single corporation, the Bureau has sought to make the returns for 1908 and 1909 conform as nearly as possible to "previous statistical reports." It should be premised, however, that the official figures for 1908 exclude the returns from switching and terminal companies, whereas the Bureau's figures for 1909 include some portion of these returns, which are as much an integral part of the transportation service of American railways as any they perform. The official figures for 1908 do not correspond absolutely to the preliminary figures for the same year compiled from the monthly reports as reviewed in the Introduction to this report.
With this by way of explanation, the comparative Income Account for the years 1909 and 1908 is submitted: