FLOATING DEBT. Amount of debt not secured by mortgage......... None. Proportion of debt, bonded and floating, for Minnesota.. $1,757,000 00 Total amount of paid up stock and debt Amount of stock and debt per mile of road.... 3,217,207 50 36,621 60 3,217,207 50 COST AND VALUE OF ROAD AND EQUIPMENT. The road was built by O. & T. Company under contract for $1,757,000 in first mortgage bonds and $1,460,207.50 in stock. Total cost of road in Minnesota.. Average cost of road per mile in Minnesota... $3,217,207 50 36,621 60 $3,217,207 50 CHARACTERISTICS OF ROAD. BRIDGES AND TRESTLES. Wooden bridges, number of, 1; aggregate length, 324 feet. Wooden trestles and piles, number of, 99; aggregate length, 5,238 feet. BRIDGES IN MINNESOTA EXCLUSIVE OF TRESTLES. Location, Mississippi river; kind, Howe truss; material, wood; when built, 1882; length in feet, 324. ROAD-BED AND TRACK. Included in report of Northern Pacific Railroad Company. FENCING. Number of miles of fencing on the road, 103.44 miles. RAILROAD CROSSINGS AT GRADE. What railroads cross your road at grade in this state, and at what locality? St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba, at Sauk Centre and Morris; Minneapolis & Pacific at Glenwood; Sauk Centre & Northern, at Sauk Centre. What facilities are furnished by the railway companies at these crossings for the transfer of passengers and freight? Joint depot at Morris. Y tracks at other points. EQUIPMENT. Road operated by Northern Pacific Railroad Company. DOINGS OF THE YEAR IN TRANSPORTATION. Road operated by Northern Pacific Railroad Company. TONNAGE OF ARTICLES TRANSPORTED-ENTIRE LINE. Road operated by Northern Pacific Railroad Company. TONNAGE OF ARTICLES TRANSPORTED WITHIN THE STATE OF MINNESOTA. Road operated by Northern Pacific Railroad Company. EARNINGS DURING THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1888. Road operated by Northern Pacific Railroad Company. EXPENSES FOR OPERATING THE ROAD FOR THE YEAR. Road operated by Northern Pacific Railroad Company. EXPENSES, ETC. PAYMENTS IN ADDITION TO OPERATING EXPENSES― ENTIRE LINE. For interest on bonds. Sinking fund requirements..... Total payment in addition to operating expenses......... $105,420 00 17,570 00 $122,990 00 Net income above operating expenses, taxes, interest and rental. Percentage of net income to stock and debt.......... Percentage of net income to cost of road and equipment...... 3.82% 3.82% GENERAL BALANCE SHEET AT CLOSING OF ACCOUNTS, JUNE 30, 4 58 Railroads crossing your road at grade, number........ Highway crossings at grade without protection, number.............. ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS. Road operated by Northern Pacific Railroad Company. ELEVATORS AND GRAIN WAREHOUSES ON LINES IN MINNESOTA. See report of Northern Pacific Railroad Company. ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS-CONTINUED. LANDS-CONGRESSIONAL GRANT. State the number of acres yet to inure to your company from state grants........ 312.041.32 State the number of acres of land your company has already received from the State of Minnesota......... 22,038.68 State the average price at which these lands have been sold or con tracted by the company......... State the number of acres sold of each grant... State the amount received from sales......... State the appraised value of the lands yet unsold, per acre. 70 cents. 836.08 $576 90 REPORT OF ACCIDENTS FOR MINNESOTA DURING THE See report of Northern Pacific Railroad Company. $2.50 STATE OF NEW YORK, Robert Harris, president, and George H. Earl, secretary of the Little Falls & Dakota Railroad Company, being duly sworn, depose and say that they have cansed the foregoing statements to be prepared by the proper officers and agents of this company, and having carefully examined the same, declare them to be a true, full and correct statement of the condition and affairs of said company on the thirtieth day of June, A. D. 1888, to the best of their knowledge and belief. [SEAL] OF R. R. Signed, ROBERT HARRIS, Subscribed and sworn to before me, this sixth day of October, A. D. 1888. [COMMISSIONER'S SEAL.] L. R. KIDDER, Commissioner for Minnesota in New York. Received and filed in the office of the Commissioners of Railroads, this eleventh day of October, A. D. 1888. E. S. WARNER, Secretary of Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners. REPORT OF THE Minneapolis Eastern Railway Company, TO THE BOARD OF RAILROAD AND WAREHOUSE COMMISSIONERS OF MINNESOTA, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1888. HISTORY OF ORGANIZATION, CONSTRUCTION, LEASING AND CONSOLIDATION OF LINES NOW OPERATED BY YOU, AND STATUTES AUTHORIZING THE SAME. Date of charter, June 18, 1878. Has any change been made in the mileage of your road in this state during the past year; if so, give a detailed statement showing what changes have been made and how the present mileage is made up? No. BUSINESS ADDRESS OF THE COMPANY. Minneapolis, Minn. DESCRIPTION OF ROAD. Date when the road or portions thereof were opened for public use: Whole line June 1st, 1879. CAPITAL STOCK, DEBTS, ETC. Capital stock authorized...... $1,000,000 00 |