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Excerpt from Ninth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraph of Ohio: For the Year Ending June 30, 1875 Sir: I have the honor to submit to you my second annual report the ninth made from this department since created by act of April 5, 1867 covering the traffic and operations for the year ending June 30, 1875, upon the railway lines of the State, tabulated comparisons of the more important items connected with their extent, growth, characteristics, cost, debt, income, etc., with full copies of reports as made by the several companies, in accordance with law, to this office. Unwearied pains have been taken to secure accuracy as to all points, and the results in most cases are perhaps all that can be reasonably expected, where it is evident no uniform system is in use by companies in keeping of the required accounts, as there should and must be in order to making statistics and deductions from them of the greatest value. The general depression, to which reference was made in my previous report as then existing and affecting all branches of industry and business, still continues, and its effects are felt as serious obstacles to the procuring means to build new lines that are projected, or even to complete others already in progress. On many of these, work for the present has been mainly suspended. The following brief summary of the doings and operations of the past year is confined to the 56 corporations specified under the head of "Railway Companies" immediately following. There has been only 86 miles of new main track - including corrections laid with rail within the 3 ear in Ohio - 125 miles less, or about two-fifths of length completed preceding year. The number of passengers reported carried over entire lines was 17,193,948, an increase of 1,706,654. Of freight, 25,750,501 tons yielding revenue were transported, an increase of 145,725 tons, excluding supplies carried for company's use. The gross earnings reported for entire lines operated were$64, 495, - 325.83, against $70,928,194.67 last year, a decrease of $6,432,868.84, nearly 11 per cent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.