The railway company provides the necessary cars, pays the entire cost of maintenance of same, receives and delivers the mails at terminal offices, and delivers the mails into and takes them from intermediate postoffices located not over eighty rods from points at which trains make regular stops. Compensation is based on weight of mails, speed of trains, etc., as required by law. SLEEPING, PARLOR OR DINING CAR COMPANIES. The cars are owned by the Pullman Palace Car Company, who receive all the earnings and pay running expenses. The railway company furnishes ice and water, fuel and oil, and pays the P. P. Car Co. a fixed mileage rate for every mile run by the cars on the line of the railway company. When the revenue received by the P. P. Car Co. from sale of seats and berths exceeds or equals a certain amount per annum then tho payment by the railway company of the fixed mileage rate shall cease. TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. All telegraph lines and appliances pertaining thereto along the railway company's road are owned jointly with the Western Union Telegraph Company. Cost of repairs are borne equally by the two companies. The railway company has free use of the wires for its own business, pays salaries of operators, furnishes office room, light and heat, retaining as compensation for such expenses incurred a certain percentage of receipts from commercial business. .. S. F. & C. Railway Company, Chicago, Ill., to Big Blue first mortgage Junction, Mo. All Miles. Amount of per mile of line. What equipment mort gaged. In accordance with a provision of the first mortgage indenture to provide for the payment of the principal of the Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company's first mortgage bonds, constituting a prior lien on that portion of the mortgaged line from Chicago to Ancona, the first mortgage bonds of the Mississippi River Railroad & Toll Bridge Company ($650,000.00) and the Sibley Bridge Company ($850,000.00), to an equal amount ($1,500,000.00), are deposited with the trustee of the first mortgage bonds. EMPLOYES AND SALARIES. Total including general officers)—entire line.. These men are employed in through train service-common to division of road-Ft. Madison to Kansas City. 7778 1 776 $ 2.01 3.466 8 2,072,856.61 $ 1.82 490.688.16 $ 2.02 10.35 PASSENGER AND FREIGHT, AND TRAIN MILEAGE-STATE OF IOWA. Average number of tons of freight in each loaded car... 9 7,094.38 PASSENGER AND FREIGHT, AND TRAIN MILEAGE-ENTIRE LINE. Average number of tons of freight in each loaded car.... 3 Average number of tons in cars when shipped in car lots. Average number of tons in cars when shipped in less than car lots. $ 4,332,336.00 8.396.04 4,489,385.77 8,700.36 4,564,391.93 8,845.72 3,545,569.32 6,871.26 Average amount of tonnage that can be carried in the State by engine of given weight. Engine, 96 tons, 480 tons. |