======================+================+================+=============== | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 ----------------------+----------------+----------------+--------------- January | $134,225,000 | $132,502,830 | $132,659,037 February | 121,500,000 | 123,773,906 | 125,229,071 March | 142,425,000 | 128,200,065 | 136,086,299 April | 144,990,000 | 124,284,164 | 134,612,576 May | 151,740,000 | 123,932,568 | 135,846,301 June | 150,525,000 | 124,208,561 | 136,160,775 +----------------+----------------+--------------- Half year | $845,405,000 | $756,902,094 | $800,594,059 Ratio | 67.7% | 72% | 68.3% +----------------+----------------+--------------- July | $152,992,445 | $127,978,304 | $141,613,967 August | 156,837,914 | 131,557,475 | 146,175,338 September | 156,631,780 | 137,155,143 | 150,621,999 October | 166,999,266 | 144,195,330 | 156,628,513 November | 154,150,468 | 136,809,421 | 153,043,599 December | 142,631,008 | 136,867,622 | 153,699,578 +----------------+----------------+--------------- Half year | $930,242,881 | $814,563,295 | $901,782,994 Ratio | 68% | 64.1% | 62.9% +----------------+----------------+--------------- Total | $1,775,647,881 | $1,571,465,389 | $1,702,377,053 Ratio | 67.8% | 67.7% | 65.4% +----------------+----------------+--------------- Net operating revenue | $845,640,928 | $751,365,844 | $902,389,113 Taxes | 83,156,188 | 86,872,885 | 92,964,510 +----------------+----------------+--------------- Net operating income | $762,484,740 | $664,492,959 | $809,424,603 ----------------------+----------------+----------------+--------------- Through these tables the reader is able to trace the upward course of railway receipts in 1907 to their culmination in October of that year; their rapid drop to February, 1908; through the hard summer following to the gradual recovery of 1909, until in October last they reached the highest monthly total on record.