Wisconsin & Minnesota and Chippewa Falls & Western R'ds. Amount of rentals paid Amount of interest paid.. Total of rentals and interest.... Balance. Miles of road operated upon which above estimates are based 8,000 00 $67,200 00 75,200 00 57,605 42 64.5 1. What is the compensation paid you by the United States government for the transportation of its mails, and on what terms of service? $699.28 every 3 months. EXPRESS COMPANIES. 2. What express companies run on your road, and on what terms, and what conditions as to rates, use of track, machinery, repairs of cars, etc.? What kind of business is done by them, and do you take their freight at the depot or at the office of such express companies? American Express Company does all the express business and such miscellaneous freight as they can secure. They charge about 11⁄2 first class freight rates. The W. & M. R. R. agents at smaller stations are also agents for the American Express Company. The W. & M. R. R. is paid by the American Express Company at the rate of 10 cents per ton per mile, special rates for fish. TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES. 2. What freight and transportation companies run on your road, and on what terms, and on what conditions as to rates, use of track, machinery, repairs of cars, etc.? Do they use the cars of your company, or those furnished by themselves, and are their cars or their freight given any preference in speed or order of transportation, and if so in what particular? None. SLEEPING CARS. 4. Do sleeping or dining cars run on your road, and if so, on what terms are they run, by whom are they owned, and what charges are made in addition to the regular passenger rates? None. Wisconsin & Minnesota and Chippewa Falls & Western R’ds. 5. Have you acquired any additional chartered rights or privileges under the special or general laws of this State, directly or indirectly, since your last report? None. 6. Have you acquired any such additional rights or privileges under the laws, general or special, of any other state, since your last report? No. 7. Have you acquired any lines in or out of this state, by purchase, lease, consolidation or otherwise, since your last report? If yes, you will please furnish this office a copy of the lease. None. 8. Do you, by purchase or ownership of capital stock, or in any other manner, control any other railroa 1 corporation, owning or having under its control a parallel or competing line? No. 9. Does any officer of your company act as the officer of any other railroad corporation, owning or having the control of a parallel or competing line? No. 10. What running arrangements have you with other railroad companies, seiting forth the contracts for the same, made since the date of your last report? None. 11. Have you made any advance in the rates of freight, from stations on your line, since the date of your last report? No material advance in rates of freight on any of the articles enumerated. 12. Have you made any reduction in such rates, from any stations, since the date of last report? If you answer either of questions 11 or 12 in the affirmative, annex to your reply schedules, naming the stations, with distance and rates in force at date of last report, on 1st, 2d, 3d and 4th class of freight, and upon flour, grain, live stock, agricultural implements, salt and coal. No reduction in rates of freight on any of the articles enumerated. 13. Has your company any rule governing your conductors, engineers, trainmen and switchmen, concerning the use of intoxicating liquors? If so, what is it, and is it enforced? Rule No. 2 of our book of instructions reads: "The use of intoxicating liquor of any kind by an employe is detrimental to himself and the interests of the company, and only those who abstain from its use will be employed." This rule is rigidly enforced. ACCIDENTS. 1. E. C. Quackenbush, of Cadott, a passenger, was killed July 21st, by his own misconduct or want of caution. 2. John Dunn, of Boyd, was killed by his own misconduct or want of caution. Wisconsin & Minnesota and Chippewa Falls & Western R'ds. NUMBER AND KIND OF FARM-ANIMALS KILLED, AND AMOUNT OF DAMAGES PAID THEREFOR. I, Charles L. Colby, President of the Wisconsin & Minnesota and Chippewa Falls & Western railroads being duly sworn, depose and say that I have caused 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 first day of July, A. D. 1882, to the best of their knowledge and belief. Signed, CHAS. L. COLBY, President. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this thirty-first day of October, A. D. [L. S.] 1882. [L. S.] FRED. ABBOTT, Notary Public, Milwaukee County, Wis. 2. Designate principal office in Wisconsin as per section 1750, revised statutes. 3. Date of Annual election of directors. First Monday in June. 4. Name and address of person to whom correspondence concerning this report should be directed JAMES C. SPENCER, Vice President. GENERAL EXHIBIT FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1882. 1. Total income Only a construction train ran on the road prior to June 30. $3,769 00 1. Operating expenses. No account taken of operating expenses, train being run for construction. CAPITAL STOCK. Capital stock authorized by charter... No stock of any kind has ever been issued. $2,000,000 00 Wisconsin and Michigan Railroad Company. No bonds have been issued. FUNDED DEBT. UNFUNDED AND FLOATING DEBT. 1. Amount of unfunded and floating debt, amount of money spent...... $388,822 78 Number of freight cars (basis of 8 wheels) STATE OF WISCONSIN, County of Milwaukee, S SS. 1 1 45 James C. Spencer, Vice President and Ephraim Mariner, Secretary of the Wisconsin & Michigan Railroad Company, being duly sworn, depose and say, that they have caused 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 first day of July, A. D. 1882, to the best of their knowledge and belief. (Signed,) [L. S.] J. C. SPENCER, Subscribed and sworn to before me, this ninth day of September, A. D. 1882. |