-----------------------------+---------------+------------- Items. |Gross Earnings.|Net Earnings. -----------------------------+---------------+------------- RAILROADS: | | From operation |$1,051,877,632 |} Other sources | 126,767,064 |} Unreported roads | |}$331,373,057 (about) | 50,000,000 |} Express companies[79] | 53,000,000 | 11,000,000 Street railways | 90,000,000 | 28,000,000 Water transportation | 191,000,000 | 31,000,000 Telegraph companies | 25,000,000 | 7,000,000 Telephone companies | 16,404,583 | 5,260,712 INSURANCE COMPANIES: | | Life | 90,000,000 | 59,000,000 Fire, etc. | 54,991,613 | 19,000,000 BANKS: | | National | 144,614,053 | 72,055,564 All others (estimated) | 200,000,000 | ARTIFICIAL GAS | | COMPANIES: | | (Estimated) | 25,000,000 | -----------------------------+---------------+------------- Total earnings[80] | 2,118,654,945 | 553,689,333 -----------------------------+---------------+------------- Now, these totals show what an enormous amount of the people’s crystallized energy accrues to the monopolists in one year, and in every year, besides covering all yearly expenses. No wonder, then, why we find that the highly productive people, of which Mr. Atkinson speaks and which could even in 1880 put upon the market, “at final points of consumption,” the annual surplus of $9,000,000,000 worth of various kinds of products, appeared in 1890 to be in possession of only about $10,000,000,000 worth of aggregate wealth, belonging to more than 55-millions of individuals. Whereas, on the other side, there appeared less than 7½-millions of individuals in possession of more than $55,000,000,000 worth of wealth.[81]