The highest rate of speed allowed for express passenger trains.. The hightest rate of speed allowed for mail and accommodation trains. The highest rate of speed allowed for freight trains. Schedule of same, including stops.. Schedule rate of same, including stops. Amount of freight carried per train Amount of freight carried per car... TOTAL FREIGHT IN TONS. In Wisconsin. Grain. Provisions Salt, cement, water lime and stucco. Live stock.... 1,840.83 470.20 262.40 203.81 Manufactures, including agricultural implements, furniture and wagons. 341.29 9.50 27,880.72 .83 330.47 137.97 5,388.03 36,866.02 When and to whom was the original stock, owned by the company sold, and what was the cash value realized by the company for the same? Already answered. EARNINGS DURING THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1874. MONTHLY EARNINGS FROM ALL SOURCES IN WISCONSIN. Earnings per mile on passengers.. Earnings per train-mile, run on freight. Earnings per train-mile run, on passengers.. Of the earnings of the entire line, what is the ratio of the passenger to the freight?... Average gross earnings per mile (88.7 miles) of road, exclusive of sidings Average net earnings per mile (88.7 miles) of road exclusive of sidings Average net earnings per train-mile. $1,211 85 EXPENSES DURING THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1875. PAYMENTS FOR CURRENT AND OPERATING EXPENSES. Maintenance of way: 32 Repairs of track, including new and re-rolled iron rail in place of old iron rail Repairs of bridges.. $18,050 22 1,079 32 Maintenance of rolling-stock: Locomotives... $1,814 44 Current expenses: For taxes... $1,585 05 Total current operating expenses, being 70 per Average operating expenses per mile of road, exclusive of sidings Average operating expenses per train-mile .......... Excess of earnings over operating and current expenses Cost of maintaining track and bridges per mile run. Cost of engineers and firemen per mile run.. Cost of oil and waste per mile run Cost of fuel per mile run.. EXPENSES, ETC. PAYMENTS IN ADDITION TO OPERATING EXPENSES. For interest on bonds.... Dividends on preferred stock Dividends on common stock S Total payments in addition to operating expenses.. What amount of money have you expended for building roads out of the State, from proceeds arising from business done on your roads in this State.... $46,556 17 No dividend. 46,556 17 None. Specify each patent in use on your road, and the amount paid as royalty for such patents, in separate items?.. None. How was amount of dividends paid the past year-cash, stock, or otherwise? Specify amounts and manner of payment?.. None. GENERAL BALANCE SHEET, 1ST OF JULY, 1875. Liabilities. Amount. $1,804,939 53 116,597 69 J. N. Dennison, Jr.. Interest.. Coupon-account. Discount. .... Tax-account. Mail earnings 1,202 00 Operating expenses 42,669 17 Express earnings 179 61 Construction 1,636,848 58 6,266 45 Total Supplies on hand Equipment... Foreign-ticket account 2,046,582 20 Total. What is your estimate of the cost to you, for the transportation of each passenger per mile?... Can't say. What is your estimate of the cost to you, per ton per mile, for the transportation of freight? Can't say. What regulation governs your employees in regard to crossings of other railroads, and are they found to be sufficient? All trains come to a full stop at a sign 400 feet from crossing, and found to be sufficient. What regulations govern your employees in regard to crossing, of public highways? And are these regulations found to be sufficient? Whistle sounded and bell rung. Sufficient. What platform and coupler between passenger cars, do you use? Miller's patent platform-coupler and buffer. What kind of brakes do you use on passenger trains?. UNITED STATES MAIL. Common brake. What is the compensation paid you by the U. S. Government for the transportation of its mails, and on what terms of service? Mail carried on compensation as per act of Congress, March 3, 1873. EXPRESS COMPANIES. What express companies run on your road, and on what terms, and on 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 freights at the depot, or at the office of such express companies? American Express Company. Goods carried on local freight tariff, 1st class. TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES. 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. 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. ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS. Date of original charter of the road and that of any road consolidated with it, with the names of the companies. Act approved October 3, 1856. Date of foreclosure and sale, under which road and each branch is now held and terms and amount of each sale....... None. Rates and dates of all cash-dividends on stock of original and consolidated companies, as far as known? .None. Pates and dates cf stock and other dividends, not cash, of original and consolidated companies? . .None. eration. November 9, 1874. Tomah to Wausau, 88 Date when main line (giving termini and length) was completed and put in opmiles. |