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THE CUBA REVIEW 



Year Passengers Receipts 



1914-15 4,870,867 £49,568 



1915-16 5,302,241 53,745 



Increase 431,374 or 8.86% £4,177 or 8.437o. 



Total Goods Traffic Receipts.— The total receipts from Goods traffic amounted to £1,237,882 

 against £1,020,256 for tne previous year, an increase of £217,626 or 21.33 per cent, giving an 

 average of 3s. 0.29d. per ton for an average haul of 29 miles,' and receipts per ton mile of Os 

 1.24c?. against 2.s. 10.33f/. per ton for an average haul of 25 m.iles, and receipts per ton mile of 

 Os. 1.36f/. in the previous year. The percentage of traffic to capacity per goods train amounted 

 to 42.74 against 40.14 an increase of 2.60 or 6.48 per cent over the pre\ious year. 



Sugar Traffic— The traffic accruing from Sugar Cane and its products this >ear am.ounted 

 to 27.04 per cent, of the gross receipts against 30.87 per cent, last year, and formed 45.73 per 

 cent of the total goods and livestock traffic (excluding Com.pany's capit 1 account materials) 

 against 51.28 per cent last year. The receipts from Sugar Cane and its products amounted 

 to £565,191 against £522,473 last year an increase of £42,718, or 8.18 per cent. In the year 

 under review we carried 988,064 tons of sugar, or 33.43 per cent, of the total production of the 

 Island, which amounted to 2,955,454 tons up to August 26, 1916. Last year we carried 

 889,248 tons of sugar, or 35.81 per cent, of the toal production of the Island, which was 2,483,- 

 484 tons up to August 28, 1915. The estunated amount of cane required to produce the 

 sugar carried by us am.ounted to 8,982,400 tons, of which we transported over our line 4,811,737 

 tons or 53.57 per cent, against 4,489,635 or 50.49 per cent in the former crop, so that for 

 every ton of sugar we carried 4.87 tons of cane against 5.049 last year. 



The average receipts per ton of cane, including private hauling, were 5.75(/. and O.oQd 

 per ton m.ile against 6.43f/. per ton and 0.61f/. per ton mile last year. The average haul per 

 ton was 10.24 miles against 10.51 last year. 



Total Tonnage.— The total number of tons, Public, Government, and Military Traffic) 

 includmg live stock, was 8,174,771 tons and company's m.aterials, 291,696 tons— total, 8,466,467 

 tons against last year under the same headings, 7,123,839 tons; com.pany's materials, 252,738 

 tons — 7,376,577 tons lieing an increase of 1,089,890. 



EXPENDITURE 



The total expenditures incurred during the year in the working of the railways alone 

 amounted to £1,129,238 or 54.02 per cent, of the gross receipts com.pared witn £894,466, or 

 52.85 per cent, for the previous year. The increase in tne total expenditure is, tnerefore, 

 £234,772, or 26.69 per cent. 



Coal— The cost of coal per locomotive mile on the main line has been 5.96d. against 5.23d. 

 The am.ount of coal consum.ed per engine m.ile was 59.70 lbs. against 57.57 lbs. for the previous 

 year. Per traffic ton m.ile it was 1 . 129 lbs. against 1 .272 lbs. last year. 



Traffic Expenses.— The total traffic expenses amounted to £268,488 against £242,108, or an 

 increase of £26,380 tons. 



COMPARATIVE RESULTS OF WORKING, Year ended June 30, 1916. 



Passenger Traffic. 



June 30, 1915. 



June 30, 1916. 



Description 



Quantity 1 Amount I Quantity j Amount 

 No. 1 £ No. I £ 



Passengers Main Line- 

 First Class 



Third Class 



Employees Tickets. . . 



Total 



Passengers— Elec.Servici 



Total Passengers 



Passengers GuanabacoE 

 & Ferry Boat Service 



184,278 



1,637,16 J 



33,9251 



1,856,163 

 4,870,867 



6,727,030', 



1,026,227 



109,233' 237,8391 



284,792 2,359,801' 



3,460 36,631! 



397,491 2,634,271 



49,568 5,302,241 



447,059 7,936,512 



13,752 1,106,442, 



146,314 



365,403i 

 3,942; 



515,659| 

 53,74c, 



569,404 

 14,317 



Per Cent. 



Quantityl Amount 

 No. £ 



29.07 33.95 



44.07 28.31 



7.98 13.73 



41.92 

 8.86 



17.98 



7.82 



29.73 

 8.43 



27.37 

 4.11 



