200 



Statistical Motes on /IDeic<x 



first, furnished me by the company, embraces its traffic and earnings 

 from 1883 to 1896 ; and the second is another statement furnished me 

 also by the company, showing the average kilometres operated, gross 

 earnings, average earnings per kilometre, and average earnings per mile 

 from the years 1884 to 1896. (See the two tables on page 199.) 



Mexican Southern Railway. I give below a statement of the number 

 of passengers, amount of freight and earnings of the Mexican Southern 

 Railway, furnished to me by the Company, embracing nine months of 

 the year 1893 and the whole of 1894, as before the ist of April, 1893, 

 the road was run by the Contractors, and the Company has no data in 

 their possession. I also append a statement taken from the Anuario 

 Estadistico de la Republica Mexicana of 1895, embracing the traffic and 



MEXICAN SOUTHERN RAILWAY. 



Number of Passengers according to official Tables. ....... 142,919. 



Tons " " " 27,917,510 k. 



