Number of cars equipped with Miller platform and buffer The amount of tonnage that can be carried over your road exclusive of cars by an engine of given weight. Weight of engine 50 tons, 450. MILEAGE, TRAFFIC, ETC. TRAIN MILEAGE. 121 14 12 17 17 Number of miles run by loaded freight cars east and south, and west and north........ 3,507,869 Number of miles run by empty freight cars east and south, and west and north.... 1,057,718, Total freight car mileage........ 4,565,587 TONNAGE OF ARTICLES TRANSPORTED WITHIN THE STATE OF IOWA. Merchandise, and other articles not enumerated above.......................... 57,000 30.00 Total tons carried..... 190,000 100 ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS. EXPRESS COMPANIES. What express companies run on your road, and on what terms, and what conditions as to rates, etc.; and 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? American Express Company; $50 per working day for 4,000 pounds of through freight daily, and excess charged for at the rate of $1.00 per 100 pounds through freight. Express company takes freight at depot and loads and unloads and cares for it. 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? Woodruff Sleeping and Palace Car Company; we receive 25 per cent of net earnings less 6 per cent on one-fourth cost of coaches, and maintain cars; fare $1.50 for double berth; Pullman Palace Car Company; we pay them mileage on the cars at the rate of 3 cents per mile, and they maintain coaches and retain all the earnings. UNITED STATES MAIL IN IOWA. 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? $141.93 per mile per year. Twice each way daily on the main line, and once each way daily on the Keokuk & Northwestern. TELEGRAPH. How many miles of telegraph are owned by your company in Iowa? St. L., K. & N. W. 3.02; K. & N. W. 49.05. 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 one wire, 3.02 miles. : Number of casualties purely accidental during the entire year. Number of trespassers on track killed..... 4 1 OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY, WITH LOCATION OF OFFICES. President-W. W. Baldwin, Burlington, Iowa. •General Manager--T. J. Potter, Chicago, Illinois. Assistant Superintendent-C. M. Levey, Keokuk, Iowa. Superintendent of Telegraph-W. E. Cunningham, Keokuk, Iowa. General Passenger and Freight Agent-J. H. Best, Jr., Keokuk, Iowa. DIRECTORS, NAME AND POST-OFFICE ADDRESS. W. W. Baldwin, Burlington, Iowa. T. J. Potter, Chicago, Illinois. H. B. Scott, Burlington, Iowa. John T. Remey, Burlington, Iowa. H. E. Jarvis, Burlington. Iowa. Date of annual meeting of stockholders, first Tuesday in December. Fiscal year of company ends December 31, 1886. General offices of the company are located at Keokuk, Iowa. |