IMPROVEMENTS. IMPROVEMENTS. · The amount expended for improvements during the year EXPENDITURE FOR STATIONS, BUILDINGS, ETC. The amount expended for station-houses, water-tanks, round-houses, and all other buildings for the use of the road..... 13226 13 $4630 32 GENERAL BALANCE SHEET, AT THE CLOSING OF ACCOUNTS, JUNE 30, 1887. PASSENGER RATES. PASSENGER RATES. The rate per mile charged for the carriage of passengers for each of What express companies run on your road? Give the name of each of them, and what conditions as to rates, etc.; what kind of business is done by them, and do you take their freights at the depot, or at the office of such express company? Wells, Fargo & Co. on line from Missouri Valley to Fremont, and The American Express Co. on line from Cal. Junction to Sioux City. Have the right to do express business, paying agreed rates, depending upon the weight carried. They deliver their freight into this company's cars. FREIGHT AND TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES. What freight and transportation companies run on your roads? The cars of all transportation companies are allowed to run over the lines of this company. FREIGHT COMPANIES. State whether such freight and transportation companies use the cars of your road, or furnish cars of their own. They furnish their own cars. State the name of each freight and transportation company that opererate on your line of road, and the conditions upon which they conduct their business over the road. Al. This company hauls their freight at regular tariff rates and pays them a mileage for the use of the cars. State whether the freight or cars of such companies are given any preference in speed or order of transportation, and if so, in what particulars. Their freight has no preference over other freight of . like class. COST OF ROAD AND EQUIPMENT. Total cost of road and equipment................ $5542745 52 51598 82 1390588 26 51598 82 PROPERTY ACCOUNTS. CHARGES AND CREDITS BY WHICH THE CAPITAL AND DEBT HAVE BEEN INCREASED DURING THE YEAR. Bridging and masonry Land, land damages, and fences Passenger and freight stations, coal sheds, and water stations, engine houses, car sheds, and turn-tables, Construction of telegraph. Total expenditures charged to property accounts Net addition to property account for the year.................. $1027 83 8056 85 4 30 32 917 04 3224 41 17856 45 17855 45 17856 45 DESCRIPTION OF ROAD. Length main line of road from Cal. Junction to Fremont 31.77, Mo. Valley, Iowa, to Sioux City 75.65..... Length main line of road in Nebraska 107.42 26.95 Length main line of road in Iowa....... 80.47 Total length of road belonging to this company................. Total length of road belonging to this company in Nebraska....... 107.42 26.95 Aggregate length of sidings and other tracks not above enumerated 20.20 Same in Nebraska..... 4.89 Aggregate length of track, computed as single track, exclusive of sidings...... 107.42 Same in Nebraska....... 26.95 Total length of steel rails in tracks in Nebraska, ex clusive of sidings.................... 24.00 Total length of iron rails in tracks in Nebraska, exclu sive of sidings 2.95 [Weight per yard, steel 60 lbs.] [Weight per yard, iron 56 lbs.] Gage of track, 4 feet 8 inches. Total miles of road operated by this company* 107.42 Total miles of road operated by this company in Ne braska......... 26.95 STATIONS. Number of stations on all roads owned by this company. Number of stations on all roads operated by this com Not to include sidings or double track, or roads operated whose earnings and expenses are not included in this report. Amount paid employes, including officials, on all roads Give duties of such officer. Has charge of the making up of trains and of train crews. Lowest salary or wages paid. 12 cents per hour. Highest salary paid any separate class of employes. Lowest salary paid. hour. (Track laborers), 12 cents per Average salary paid. About 22 cents per hour. BRIDGES IN NEBRASKA. Combination bridges over 100 feet in length Wooden trestle and pile......................... CATTLE-GUARDS. Number of in Nebraska........ RENEWAL OF BRIDGES AND CULVERTS IN NEBRASKA. Amount of timber used in renewals of wooden bridges during the year (feet B. M.).................... Give the average number of years the trestle and pile bridges last on yonr road in Nebraska. 8 to 12 years. Give the average number of years that wooden truss bridges last on your road in Nebraska. 10 years. 1 62 13 37043 ROAD-BED AND TRACK. Number of track sections in Nebraska...... 5 Average length of sections..... 5.39 Average number of men in each section gang.....about 5 |