- Tur PRESIDENT,

BOO. | PANAMA RAIL ROAD COMPANY.

THE PANAMA CANAL
CANAL ZONE
SUPPLY DEPARTMENT

Balboa Heights, September 26, 1916.

PANAMA Raitt Roap Company,
BALBOA HEIGHTs, CANAL ZONE.
Sir :—
ANNUAL Ruport—Oprrations OF COMMISSARIES, PLANTATIONS
AND Pasrures—Fiscan Year, 1915-1916.

I beg to submit the following report covering the operations of the
commissaries, plantations and pastures during the fiscal year ending June
30, 1916:

3 COMMISSARY DIVISION.
The Commissary Division continued under the organization as outlined

in the last report.

The business of supplying food stuffs, ice, etc., to passing ships was
ereatly increased during the past fiscal year, G05, 799. 67 worth of supplies
having been sold to steamship companies for the year ending June 30, 1916,
as compared with $150,228.70 for the previous year.

The total sales for the Commissary Division for the fiscal year amounted
to $7,619,087.36, as compared with $6,666,644.84 for the preceding period,
an increase of GO52, 442.52.

- The net profits of the operations of the Commissary ion men the
fiscal year amounted to $160,995.50.

The following is a statement showing location of purchases made during
the year, as compared with the previous fiscal year:

 

Location. : (9152 1916.
PLIES CRO WLC Ss ses sae ee ee ee $4,326,714 67 | $4,944,836 79
Horeignie Are oe PME Ee ake Metter ap See scons mies mete Semen 575,225.07 |) 661,115 94
Mote er et ee ee eal T4051 66 547.212 41
The Panama er sh ee eae eg Sa ce eee oe 45,188 00 44,739 89
Dota or oe oe [oe oe ...| $5,089,079 40 | $6,197,905 03

A grocery and. cold. storage commissary was opened at Ft: Randolph,
C. Z., on May 22, 1916.

i A silver department was opened in connection with the Ancon com-
_missary on July 10, 1915.

Display ice boxes have been ietalled: in all commissaries. Fresh
meats are now cut in the presence of customers, and all cold storage articles
are sold to customers in the manner followed by markets in the United
States. . .

~ The Balboa Ice and Refrigerating Plant was bored Ice Plant
was taken over by the Commissary Branch on June 1, 1916, and arrange-
ments are bemg made to have all cold storage supplies for delivery to
residents in the Ancon-Balboa district put up in this plant.
| The abattoir was enlarged and a chicken fattening house was soneenieied
which is being Operared | in connection with the abadttoir. A tov of 7,762