CAPITAL STOCK AND DIVIDENDS. STEAM RAILROAD CORPORATIONS. The total amount of dividends declared during the year ending June 30, 1914, was $1,661,888.25, a decrease of $1,244,705.38 over the year 1913. Six of the fifteen railroad companies declared dividends varying in rate from one per cent to six per cent, and nine paid no dividends. One company paid six per cent; one, five per cent; one, four per cent; one, three and a half per cent; one, two per cent, and one, one per cent. The amount of capital stock of the ten dividend paying companies was $29,576, 772.67, on which the average rate of dividend paid was 5.61+ per cent. The following table gives the capital stock outstanding at the end of the year; the net income; the amount of dividends declared, and the average percentage of dividends to capital stock for the years 1913 and 1914. Total general expenses. Total transportation expenses.] expenses. Total operating RATIO. The following table gives the cost of “Total Maintenance of Way and Structures”, “Total Maintenance of Equipment”, “Total $30,576 37 $1,237,128 24 465,058 25 22,189,350 76 971 81 23,451 00 81,412 67 646,254 85 54,863 98 7 50 138,025 44 85 07 21 40 7,560 11 806,638 92 6,703 06 21,538 96 4,516,043 95 5,819 28 28,718 17 1,779 06 61,327 09 997 77 54,977 26 364,900 95 1,979 20 3,822 67 6,059 98 37,443 08 17,483 66 2,211 67 71,380 64 3,822 78 W scasset, Waterville & Farmington Ry. York Harbor & Beach R. R. Co. 33,156 00 9,067 88 24,271 12 4,339 41 20,357 85 213 86 22,724 35 349 26 Total. $9,496,212 50 $10,578,273 09 285 53 43,869 01 67.99 78.05 1,384,587 42 92.96 99.65 12,321 12 76.55 76.55 1,446,014 32 91.02 85.92 10,240 21 74.80 69.15 49,302 64 57.46 68.45 8,487,420 06 72.78 72.63 11,966 52 76.04 79.03 36,319 12 36.55 35.38 12,036 76 109.45 241.74 132,341 83 74.74 75.90 70,834 41 95.60 92.60 43,645 32 80.33 100 06 $773,448 02 $29,613,643 39 $1,987,889 55 $52,449,466 55 RAILROADS. The following table gives the "Freight Revenue", "Passenger Revenue", "Other Passenger Train Revenue", "Total Passenger Train Service Revenue", "Switching Revenue", "Revenue Other than Transportation", "Total Operating Revenue". |