Excerpt from Sixth Annual Report on the Statistics of Railways in the United States, for the Year Ending June 30, 1893

As in previous reports, the above summary presents two sets of totals for 1893, the first pertaining to the mileage upon which complete reports have been made to this office, the other to the actual mileage of the country. Thus the grand total of single track mileage in this summary is the same as that already given in the previous exhibits. The sig nificant figure for this report, however, is not the physical mileage but the mileage covered by reports and made the basis of computation, that is to say, All computations, except those for the General Balance Sheet, are based upon this figure. The total length of track including first, second, third, fourth track, and yard tracks and sidin gs, on June 30, 1893, was 27 miles. This includes miles of second track, being an increase of miles over the previous year, miles of third track, being an increase of miles over the previous year, miles of fourth track, being an increase of miles over the previous year, and miles of yard track and sidings, being an increase of miles over the previous year.

The mileage covered by the report for the present year is miles in excess of the mileage upon which the carriers made report the previous year, although the increase in mileage was only miles. This is largely accounted for by the fact that the Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia, with miles of operating line, renewed its reporting which was suspended the previous year, and the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway, with miles, filed a report for the first time. The mileage for which complete reports have been rendered to the Commission during the year ending June 30, 1893, is equal to per cent of the total mileage of the country; and when it is observed that there are 74 lines returned as Not in operation, and 99 lines reported as Private roads, many of which are excused from reporting, and that the mileage of these 173 lines is included in the total mileage of the country, it must be recognized that the present report covers practically all the operating railways which render to the public the service of transportation. This report is the most complete report on railway stati stics which has yet been submitted to the Com mission.

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