Miles of line, 98.65; miles of wire. 342.28; operated by this company; one-half owned by railway company and one-half by Western Union Telegraph Company.

CAR MILEAGE.

State below all individuals, co-operative fast freight lines, and stock companies, to which the company making this report pays mileage for the use of cars:

J. I. Case Threshing Machine Co.
J. W. Ellsworth & Co.

Kansas City Refrigerator Car Co.
Kansas City Dressed Beef Line.
Keystone Palace Horse Car Co.

Wagner Palace Car Co.
W. P. Rend.

Washington Refining Co.
White Line.

West Stone Line.

SPECIAL QUESTIONS.

What provision, if any, has been made by this road for the payment of its funded debt?

By the terms of mortgage securing consolidated mortgage bonds, those bonds can be issued to retire all the other bonds at maturity.

Name all the associations to which this road is a party, whose object is the regulation or control of passenger and freight traffic?

Western Passenger Association, Western Freight Association.

Name all the companies commonly called fast freight lines of which this road is a member or which operate over this road.

Commercial Express Line, Blue Line, Canada Southern Line, Nickle Plate Line, Red

Line.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, ) SS.

COUNTY OF RAMSEY,

We, the undersigned, E. W. Winter. General Manager, and L. A. Robinson, Auditor, of the Chicago St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Company, on our oath do severally say that the foregoing return has been prepared, under our direction, from the original books, papers, and records of said company; that we have carefully examined the same, and declare the same to be a complete and correct statement of the business and affairs of said company in respect to each and every matter and thing therein set forth, to the best of our knowledge, information, and belief; and we further say that no deductions were made before stating the gross earnings or receipts herein set forth, except those shown in the foregoing accounts; and that the accounts and figures contained in the foregoing return embrace all of the financial operations of said company during the period for which said return is made.

E. W. WINTER,

General Manager. L. A. ROBINSON,

Auditor.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of November, 1890.

[SEAL.]

S. L. PERRIN,

Notary Public.

ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

CHICAGO, FT. MADISON & DES MOINES RAILWAY CO,

TO THE

BOARD OF RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS OF THE STATE OF IOWA,

FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1890.

The following information is asked by the Commissioners in addition to the regular printed blank, and the same are made part of this report:

Page 5. Total number of stockholders in Iowa.

Page 45.

1-Operating expenses per mile of road.

2-Operating expenses per train mile.

3-Proportion of operating expenses and taxes for Iowa.

4-Percentage of expenses to earnings.

5-Net earnings per train mile.

6-Percentage of earnings to stock and debt.

7-Percentage of earnings to cost of road and equipment.

8-Surplus at the commencement of the year.

9-Surplus at the close of the year.

10-Amount of its own stock owned by the company.

Page 46. Fencing in Iowa.

1-How many miles of fencing on your road in Iowa?

2-How many miles of unfenced road in Iowa?

3-What is the average cost per mile of fencing?

4-What is the total cost of the same?

5-How many miles of new fencing built during the year?

Page 62 and following. 1-Average number of tons of freight in cars when shipped in car lots.

2-Average number of tons in cars when in less than car lots.

3-The average amount of tonnage that can be carried on your road in the State by an engine of given weight.

4-Give the names of and the following information concerning EACH station on your road in Iowa, in separate columns, for the years ending June 30, 1889 and 1890.

a-Total receipts for freight forwarded to points outside the State. b-Total receipts for freight received from points outside the State. e-Total receipts for freight forwarded to points within the State. d-Total receipts for freight received from points within the State. e-Total receipts from passengers destined to points outside the

State.

f-Total receipts from passengers from points outside the State.
g-Total receipts from passengers destined to points within the

State.

h-Total receipts from passengers from points within the State. 5-Total amount received for local freight.

6-Total amount received for through freight.

7-Number of tons of local freight carried.

8-Total amount received from freight originating in Iowa and passing outside the State.

9-Total amount received from freight originating outside the State and destined to points in Iowa.

10-What per cent does the local freight business of Lowa bear to the total
freight business of the entire line?

11-What per cent does the local freight business of Iowa bear to the freight
originating on your line in Iowa and passing outside the State?
12-What per cent does local freight business of Iowa bear to business origi-
nating outside the State and destined to points within the State?
13-What per cent does local freight business bear to freight moved across
the State from points outside to points outside the State?

11-What per cent of freight received at each station on your road is local
and what per cent interstate?

15-What proportion of earnings is credited to Iowa on business passing
across the State, from points beyond to points beyond the State?
16-What proportion of earnings is credited to Iowa on business originating
in Iowa and passing outside the State?

17-What proportion of earnings is credited to Iowa on business originating
outside the State and destined to points within the State?

18-What proportion of earnings is credited to each branch line on your road on business originating on said branches and destined to points on the main line in Iowa, to points on the main line outside the State, or to points on other lines?

19-Give the amount in tons and kind of freight furnished by each branch

Page 77.

Under "Overhead Highway Crossings," insert overhead farm crossings.
Under Conduits," insert farm crossings, "under."