RAILROADS.

Composition of the geographical groups.

Group I.-Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

Group II.-New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and District of Columbia.

Group III.-Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Group IV.-Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Minnesota. Group V.-Louisiana, Arkansas, and Indian Territory.

Group VI.-Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington Territory.

TABLE LXXIII.-Physical characteristics--Miles of railroad up to June 30, 1880. [NOTE.-Miles under construction are included in miles projected.]

Total miles

Geographical groups. Roads completed, extensions, and new lines." completed and ",

Compa- Miles com- Projected Miles under
nies.

projected.

Total miles completed and under construc

tion.

pleted.

miles. construction.

TABLE LXXIV.-RAILROADS-Average (cost, value, and amounts), per mile of road completed and operated, of assets and liabilities; earnings, income, expenses, profit, dividends, and balance retained.

a This amount includes funds experded upon partly completed miles of road under construction. It was impossible to obtain from railroad companies the respective amounts paid out for an exact number of miles entirely completed.

b Average taken upon 86,782 miles of road operated by the companies reporting transportation earnings.

7,620

352, 800, 120

4,065

541, 950, 795

6, 245

227, 650, 474

2,623

119, 344, 596

70, 550, 342

48, 794, 254

1,375 813

a Against this balance stand the defcits of other companies, $15,244,476.

This amount is reported by companies having earned a profit, the difference of $14,714,502 between such profit and the amount obtained by deducting expenditures from income being created by the deficits made by companies whose expenses were more than their earnings.

This amount includes $529,974 of dividends declared by companies having no net income whatever.

TABLE LXXVII.—RAILROADS-Aggregate assets and liabilities-Continued
BALANCE SHEET, BY GROUPS-Continued.