Number stone; none over 19 span, all under closed or arched culverts. Number iron, 1; in Iowa...... Number wooden, 35; in Iowa Number combination, 32; in Iowa Plate girders, 14; in Iowa..... Wooden girder or stone abutment, 23; in Iowa.. TRESTLES Number, 976; in Iowa Aggregate length, 74,318; in Iowa. GAUGE OF TRACK Four feet and eight and one half inches. TELEGRAPH a. Operated by Western Union Telegraph Company, 1,605.96 miles of line. 4. Operated by Western Union Telegraph Company, 1,913.14 miles of wire. What station-houses, stock yards, or other terminal facilities does this road use for which it pays a rental? Name the parties to whom such property belongs: At Burlington, passenger depot facilities. The Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway Company pays Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Company a mutually agreed-upon rate based on the number of coaches drawn by their engines to and from depot. Muscatine station-house owned by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, is used by the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway Company 4. Burlington to Albert Lea, one line.... Total 253.21 miles, double; 506.42 miles of wire. 190 miles, single; 190 miles of wire. 399.4 miles, single; 399.4 miles of wire. 316 miles, single; 316 miles of wire. 48.29 miles, double; 96.58 miles of wire. 92 miles, single; 92 miles of wire. 118.20 miles, single; 118.20 miles of wire. 103.60 miles, single; 103.60 miles of wire. 30.58 miles, single; 30.58 miles of wire. 5.68 miles. double; 11.36 miles of wire. miles, single; 49 miles of wire. 1.913 49 .1,605.96 miles of wire. paying for the privilege one third of the expense of the station service and $100 per month for the use of track to and from said station-house. Worthington depot is owned by the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Company, and jointly used by the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway Company at a monthly compensation; it bears, also, its proportion of the expense for the maintenance of the same. Name all the associations to which this road is a party, whose object is the regulation or control of passenger or freight traffic: Members of the American and Western Ticket and Passenger Association. Members of the Western Freight and of the Inter-State Commercial Railway Association. LANDS-CONGRESSIONAL GRANT. (Have no congressional grant.) The cost and actual present cash value of road and equipment including permanent way, buildings and rolling-stock, all real estate used exclusively in operating the road, and all fixtures and conveniences for transacting its business: $14,836,510, as returned to the Executive Council February 15, 1889. The average amount of tonnage that can be carried on your road. in the State by an engine of given weight: I, the undersigned, C. J. Ives, President and General Superintendent of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway Company, on my oath do say that the foregoing return has been prepared, under my direction, from the original books, papers, and records of said company; that I 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 my knowledge, information, and belief; and I 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. (Signed) C. J. IVES, President. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19th day of September, 1889. [SEAL.] J. M. DINWIDDIE, Notary Public in and for Linn County, Iowa. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CENTRAL IOWA RAILWAY COMPANY,* TO THE BOARD OF RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS OF THE STATE OF IOWA, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1889. HISTORY. Name of common carrier making this report: Iowa Central Railway Company. Date of organization: Central Iowa Railway Company, May 15, 1879; Iowa Central Railway Company, May 9, 1888. Under laws of what government, State, or Territory organized? If more than one, name all; give reference to each statute and all amendments thereof: Central Iowa Railway Company organized under lowa laws; Iowa Central Railway Company, organized under Illinois laws. If a reorganized company, give name of original corporation, and refer to laws under which it was organized: Central Iowa Railway Company, State of Iowa. E. L. Dudley, Receiver, July 1, 1888, to May 15, 1889, and Iowa Central Railway Company, May 16, 1889, to June 30, 1889. |