PASSENGER TRAFFIC. Number through passengers carried....... Number of local passengers carried....... Number of special ticket passengers carried.... Total number of passengers carried..... Total passenger mileage, or passengers carried one mile Number of tons of through freight carried....... Total tons of freight carried..... Total mileage of through freight (tons carried one mile). Total freight mileage, or tons carried one mile. 25,240 209,335 19,491 254,066 7,182,513 28.27 80.78 3.5 2 2.857 138,953 602,200 741,153 15,390,315 71,473,238 86,863,553 Average rate per ton per mile received for through freight, cents 1.94 Average rate per ton per mile received for local freight.. 1.3 Average rate per ton per mile received for all freight... 1.19 Percentage of freight originating at, and carried to stations in Iowa, to total freight carried in Iewa. (This should not include fuel or any material for the use of the road)........... 55.63 CAR MILEAGE. Number of miles run by loaded freight cars east and south... Total freight car mileage.......... Percentage of empty freight cars hauled east and south to all freight cars hauled east and south...... Percentage of empty freight cars hauled west and north to all freight cars hauled west and north..... SPEED OF TRAINS IN IOWA. Rate of speed of passenger trains, including stops, miles per hour...... 2,169,897 5,255,782 4,046,629 962,040 12,434,348 65 15 22 to 30 9 to 15 PER CENT. 84,020 11.3 4,945 .7 39,330 5.3 45,264 6.1 472,519 63.8 2,074 .3 3,383 .4 TONNAGE CROSSING THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER BRIDGE AT KEITHSBURG, IOWA, FOR THE East bound number of tons.... 75,418 29,960 Total tons.... 105,378 TONNAGE OF ARTICLES TRANSPORTED WITHIN THE STATE OF IOWA. What express companies run on your road, and on what terms, 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? United States Express Company, who supply agents and messengers, Railway Company furnishing cars. Freight taken and delivered at cars. SLEEPING-CARS. Do sleeping, parlor or dining-cars run on your road, and if so, on what terms do they run, by whom are they owned, and what charges are made in addition to regular passenger rates? Chicago, Milwaukee and & St. Paul Railway sleeping-cars to December, 1885; at present, Pullman and Woodruff sleeping-cars. Additional charges according to distance go to the sleeping-car companies. What is the total amount paid by your company to palace or sleeping-car companies, to what companies, and the amount paid to each? Please state fully the arrangement by which these cars run on your road, the terms, and who receives the earnings. Paid Pullman Company $2,780.04; paid Woodruff Company $867.96; paid Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company $1,019.38. Total, $4,667.38. Mileage is paid by this company to sleeping-car companies, the latter recciving additional charges. What is the compensation paid you by the United States Government for the transportation of its mails on your road in Iowa, and on what terms of service? Compensation during year, $26,392.36, based on amount and character of service. Cars with proper conveniences are furnished by railway company. What amount have you paid for receiving and delivering mail to and from stations on your road in Iowa? $825.96. 1 TELEGRAPH. How many miles of telegraph are owned by your company in Iowa? None. What other company, if any, owns a line of telegraph on your right of way in Iowa, and how many miles do each own? Western Union Telegraph Company owns 430 miles. REPORT OF ACCIDENTS FOR IOWA DURING THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1886. KILLED. INJURED. Coupling-lack of caution; finger cut off. Fell from train-purely accidental; side bruised. Getting off moving train-carelessness; head cut, wrist sprained Coupling-carelessness; two fingers mashed. Crossing ahead of train-lack of caution; bruised. Crossing ahead of train-lack of caution; bruised. Riding on platform-carelessness; finger bruised. Broken wheel; bruised. Broken rail; collar bone broken. Broken rail; face and hands bruised. Broken rail; bruised. Broken rail; bruised. Coupling-carelessness; finger pinched. Getting off moving train; claims was bruised. Coupling-lack of caution; bruised. Letting coal bucket fall-accident; ankle bruised. Coupling-lack of caution; finger mashed. Unloading iron; foot bruised. Coupling-accidental; ankle crushed. Number of cașualities purely accidental during the entire year....... 25 13 Number resulting from lack of caution, carelessness or misconduct. Number of trespassers on track killed........ 18 2 OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY, WITH LOCATION OF OFFICES. President-Elijah Smith, New York. Vice-President-Russell Sage, New York. Secretary-C. H. Ackert, Marshalltown, Iowa. Treasurer-Seth Zug, Marshalltown, Iowa. General Manager-E. L. Dudley, Marshalltown, Iowa. Assistant Superintendents—J. G. Johnson, Marshalltown, Iowa, and D. P. Phelps, Monmouth, Illinois. Chief Engineer-Geo. A. Pruden, Marshalltown, Iowa. Superintendent of Telegraph-F. C. Eldredge, Marshalltown, Iowa. Auditor—M. C. Healion. Marshalltown, Iowa. General Passenger Agent—J. P. Nourse, Marshalltown, Iowa. General Freight Agent-H. L. Shute, Marshalltown, Iowa. Attorneys-Blair & Daly, Marshalltown, Iowa. DIRECTORS, NAME AND POSTOFFCE ADDRESS. Russell Sage, New York City. Elijah Smith, New York City. Geo. T. M. Davis, New York City. E. H. Perkins, New York City. Alfred Sully, New York City. Edward E. Chase, New York City. F. W. Huidekoper, New York City. H. Kennedy, New York City. H. J. Boardman, Boston, Massachusetts. Francis Peabody, Jr., Boston, Massachusetts. William Hanna, Monmouth, Illinois. Date of annual meeting of stockholders, first Wednesday in June. General offices of the company are located at Marshalltown, Iowa. E. L. Dudley, General Manager, and M. C. Healion, Auditor, of the Central Iowa Railway 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 thirtieth day of June, A. D. 1886, to the best of their knowledge and belief. (Signed,) E. L. DUDLEY, General Manager. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 17th day of September, A. D. 1886. [L. 8.] C. H. ACKERT, Notary Public. Received and filed in the office of the Commissioners of Railroads, this 20th day of September, A. D. 1886. E. G. MORGAN, Secretary. |