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The amounl1f profits divided during the past year is
being two dividends of four per cent EACH
During the past year. the Woburn Branch Railroad has
been completed and opened for public travel whole
cost including that OF depot buildings. is $45 622 IT,
The whole cost Of the road with tracks depots
engnes cars and appurtenances and including the Wo.
burn Branch, il 81 932 ,597 81.


reduction has been made in the passenger tariff dur
ing the past year. The price Is 65 cents for first
class passengers to Lowell and at the rate to way
stations. 80
The fare for passengers from Boston to Lowell in ls4s
was one dollar head the fare in 1885, was seventy
i've cents In ls4s, the net income from passengers at
one dollar each, was $sso29 3D. Last year. seventy
five cents each, It was $l2),ll2 u. Thus notwith.
standing the price was reduced twenty-five per cent
the income has increased about $37 0O0 The amount
received the past year. for merchandise between Bos
ton and Lowell, is about $4,000 greater than tho
amount received in s43. But with the increase of in
come there has been corresponding increase of expen
dture and Of the number Of miles with the various
trains The total expenditure in lsa3 $l0e 500 es
The total amount Of income, the same year. was
$277 ,Sl6 06.


The number Of miles by the passenger trains the
same year, was sSs44 merchandise trains, 44eS2 ;
miscellaneous, e.eso-total ls4,es2, Compare these
with the report published above and the difference 10
at once made apparent. The present year there has
been another reduction in the passenger fare and we
have doubt, the result will show fair gain over the
receipts of ls45