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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1906)
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 16, 1906. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT SMARTLY DRESSED MEN WILL $WmWj I WEAR THIS SEASON, ASK BEN SELLING L "tS THE MOST COMFORTABLE SHOPPING CENTER FOR CHRISTMAS BUYING 0? I v V LEADING CLOTHIER Courteous and Obliging Salesmen Best Lighted Store in the City Unequaled Assortments JUVENILE DEPARTMENT OVERFLOWING WITH GOOD THINGS FOR THE LITTLE FELLOW Modest Prices T OF RAILWAYS Washington Commission Re ports on Its Investigations. ENGINEER IS EMPLOYED Action Is Forced Because the Main Lines in the State Allege They Are XJnable to Give the . Information. OL.TMPIA, Wash., Dec. 15. (Special.) Portions of the forthcoming report of the Railroad Commission are now In the hands of Governor Mead, al though the report itself is not com plete or printed. Among the sections of the report already presented to the Governor is that dealing with the investigations made by the Commis sion to ascertain the cost of construc tion and equipment of the railway lines in the state. That portion of the report follows: Section 12 of the Commission iaw requires "The Commission shall as certain as early as practicable the amount of money, expended in the con struction and equipment per mile of every railway in Washington." The form of. report submitted by the Com mission soon alter us organization called for the detailed cost of con struction and equipment. This report was to be made under oath. The Tacoma- Eastern, Washington & Great Northern and Columbia & Puget Sound railroads, entirely within the state, reported in full and In 'detail, but not segregated as to the cost with in the state. The Ilwaeo Railroad & Navigation Company, Belllngham Bay & Eastern. Columbia ' Red Mountain, Washington A Columbia River. Spo kane Kalis & Northern and Port Town send Southern gave the total cost of construction. Itemized only as to re cent expenditures. The Oregon Rail road & Navigation Company, Great Northern and Northern Pacific made no attempt to show the cost in this state. The Great Northern- replied as to this item. "Cannot state." The Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company made no segregation from its entire cost. The Northern i Pacific gave the amount paid for the prop erty on reorganization as $155,000,-. 000. with the note, "Inasmuch as the property purchased at foreclosure em braced nearly 31,000.000 acres of land, it would be manifestly misleading to figure cost on amount shown." As the three roads owning practical ly all the mileage in the state reported under oath that they could not give this information. the Commission found it must proceed without the aid of and independent of the rail roads. We found it necessary to em ploy experts to examine the original records, vouchers and profile of the roads, and In addition thereto, an in spection of the roads was necessary as a check upon the office records. After careful investigation, the Commission selected as Its engineer in charge Mr. Holbert P. Gillette, of New York, a recognized authority and expert on cost data. The work of examining the records and examining the railroads entailed an Immense amount of detail work, and required the employment of many experienced engineers at a large outlay and expenditure of money. The Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Smith vs. Amos, Vol. 1S9. U. S. 46C, laid down certain fixed rules and principles, that must be considered In determining the rea sonableness of any rate by a state tribunal. Among other things, the e - daij "Wf hold, however, that the basis of all calculations as to the reasonable ness of rates to be charge by a cor poration maintaining a highway un der legislative sanction must be the fair value of the property being held by it for the convenience of the pub lic. And ,in order to ascertain that value, the original cost of construc tion, the amount expended in perma nent improvements, the amount and market value of is bonds and stock, the present as compared with the orig inal cost of construction., the probable earning capacity of the property under particular rates prescribed ,by statute, and the sum required to meet oper ating expenses, are all matters for consideration, and are to' be given such weight as may be Just and right in each case. We don't say that there may not be other matters to be regarded in estimating the value of the property. "What the company is entitled to ask Is a fair return upon the value of that which It employs for tho public convenience. On the other hand, what the public is entitled to demand is that no more be exacted from it for the use of a public highway than the services rendered by it are reasonably worth." After consultation with Mr. Gillette we found that at a slightly increased cost we could ascertain the other elements mentioned by the court as necessary for consideration at the same time we were ascertaining the cost of construction. Our engineers were therefore Instructed to ascertain and report the original cost of construction, or the money expended In the construction per mile of each rail road In the state, the .amount expended for permanent improvements, the present as compared with the original cost of construction and the cost of reproduc tion, values of terminals and all other elements laid down by the different courts whose decisions we had examined as proper elements to be considered In fixing rates of estimating values for assessment purposes. We made a careful examination Into tho plan pursued by the Commissioners of Texas, Wisconsin and Michigan, the only states that have procured this In formation, and adopted from each state what appeared to this Commission feasi ble and valuable. In order to cheaply and expeditiously procure the necessary data we have ex perts employed in the St. Paul, Portland, Tacoma, Spokane and Seattle offices of the different railroads, competent men employed In inspecting the roads and cheeking the data secured in the offices, efficient and experienced right-of-way ex perts, numbering In all nine: engineers, four right-of-way experts and a number of assistants employed in accounting and office work. Our engineers were at flrst denied full access to the railroad records. Commis sioners Falrchlld and Lawrence visited St. Paul, and after, an exhaustive, con ference with the officers of the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern Railway Companies, the roads instructed their engineers to give Mr. Gillette and his assistants full access to their records and render them every possible assist ance in procuring the data desired. Mr. Fairchlld visited Portland, and after a conference with the officials of the Ore gon Railroad & Navigation Company secured access to their records and the co-operation of their employes. After weeks spent in the examination of records and vouchers our engineers found the original records showing the actual cost to the companies of a large portion of the roads in the state, with a detailed classification of the items go ing into the construction. This will greatly simplify and expedite the re mainder of the work, as our engineers by examining the lines can check and verify the correctness of these records. Profiting by the experience of other Commissioners, we feel justified in stat ing that we will have the most ex haustive and satisfactory report yet pro duced along these lines. We expect a complete report from our Mr. Gillette be fore the adjournment of the Legislature, which we will be gipd to lay before the mernbers of. that bod. In another portion of this report refer ence is made to the necessity of an amendment to the laws authorizing the Commission to make findings on the re sult of this- work and giving such find ings conclusive effect as evidence, to whleh your . attention Is esneclally ' Invited. FOURTH CHILD DIES OF BURXS tittle Victims Are to Be Burled In One Grave. NORTH YAKIMA, WaBh Dec. 15. Special.) Another victim was added to the fire that destroyed the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Talbert, of the Cowlchee, last night. Ethel Talbert. the 8-year-old child, who was burned so badly, died early this morning. The death list includes: Hugh, aged 10; Alice, aged 8; Nellie, aged and Ethel, aged 6. Two of the younger children who were playing in the kitchen were res cued by the mother after heroic ef forts. It develops today that the fire was caused by Ethel, who had lighted a match on going to bed and threw the burning end of it on the floor after she had nestled under the covers of her bed. 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