Maximum weight of passenger cars, tons Average weight of passenger cars, tons. Number of cars in passenger equipment equipped with train brake.... Number of passenger cars equipped with Miller platform and buffer, all. C. & C. B. Division, weight of engine, 42 tons, 216 tons. R. & S. W. Division, 32 tons, 180 tons. Dubuque Division, 30 tons, 336 tons. Dubuque Division (narrow gauge branches), 16 tons, 70 tons. Iowa & Dakota Division, 31 tons, 192 tons. S. C. & D. Division, 29 tons, 240 tons. Ottumwa Division, 31 tons, 180 tons. Iowa & Minnesota Division, 42 tons, 180 tons. MILEAGE, TRAFFIC, ETC-IN IOWA. TRAIN MILEAGE. Miles run by passenger trains during the year Total train mileage CARS AND WEIGHT OF TRAINS. Average number of cars in passenger trains................ Average weight of passenger trains, exclusive of passengers, tons.. Average weight of freight trains, exclusive of freight, tons.. PASSENGER TRAFFIC. Number of through passengers carried...... 187,239 Total mileage of through freight (tons carried one mile)............. Total freight mileage, or tons carried one mile 538,661 6,010,343 6,549,001 134,192,183 1,218,128,064 1,852,320,247 .93 1.29 1.25 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...... 72,522,646 80,725,149 33,289,780 25,595,906 212,133,481 31 24 21 12 TONNAGE CROSSING THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER BRIDGE AT SABULA, IOWA, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1886. TONNAGE CROSSING THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER BRIDGE AT MC GREGOR, IOWA, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1886. Grain..... TONNAGE OF ARTICLES TRANSPORTED WITHIN THE STATE OF IOWA. Flour.... Provisions (beef, pork, lard etc) Animals...... Other agricultural products.... Lumber and forest products.... Coal....... Plaster, lime and cement.. Salt.... Iron, steel and castings.......... Stone and brick............................ Manufactures Merchandise, and other articles not enumerated above Total tons carried.... ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS. EXPRESS COMPANIES. 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? The American Express Company; the United States Express Company; doing a general express business. Freights taken from express companies at depot. 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? Sleeping cars are run by the Pullman Palace Car Company, which makes its own regular charges for accommodations therein. Dining cars are run by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company; rates, 75 cents per meal. Parlor cars are run by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company; rates are from 25 to 50 cents, according to distance traveled. 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. UNITED STATES MAIL IN IOWA. What is the compensation paid you by the United States Government for the transportation of its mail on your road in Iowa, and on what terms of service? The rate of pay for transporting the United States mails is not permanently fixed. The mails are weighed for periods fixed by the Postoffice Department and upon the result of the weighing the rate of compensation is based. $134,346.37. What amount have you paid for receiving and delivering mail to and from stations on your road in Iowa? $2,417.54. TELEGRAPH. How many miles of telegraph are owned by your company in Iowa? 350.86. 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; 1,008.85. LANDS—CONGRESSIONAL GRANT. State the number of acres of land your company has already received from the Congressional grants 328,799.89 State the number of acres yet to inure to your company from Congressional grants (about). 8,000.00 State the average price at which these lands have been sold or contracted State the number of acres sold State the amount received from sales...... State the amount unpaid on outstanding contracts.. State the gross amount received from sales, contracts, forfeited contracts, State the amount expended in sale and management of lands..... State the amount realized from the sale of lands above the expenses in curred in the management and taxes.. |