Total liabilities (as per books of the company)

$3,099,600.77

Number tons local freight

44,401

Number tons through freight (to and from other
roads going over and beyond this road)
Total number tons freight carried

567,497

611,898

Local freight mileage (tons local freight carried

one mile)

1,211,122

Through freight mileage (tons through freight

carried one mile) †

32,119,140

Total freight mileage

33,330,262

Average number of persons employed

330

Reckoning twelve passengers per week for time of each season ticket. Carried to and from other roads.

DESCRIPTION OF ROAD.

Main line of road from Bellows Falls, Vt., to Ashburnham Junction, Mass.

Main line of road in New Hampshire

Total road belonging to this company

Sidings and other tracks not above enumerated
Same in New Hampshire

Total length of track, computed as single track
Same in New Hampshire

Total length of steel rails in tracks, not including
steel-top rails

[Weights per yard, 60 and 72 lbs.]

Roads and Branches belonging to other Companies operated by this Company under lease or contract.

Monadnock Railroad, length

Joint use with Fitchburg Railroad between Ashburnham Junction and Fitchburg

Total length of above roads

Total length of above roads in New Hampshire

66

66

Massachusetts
Total miles of road operated by this company.
Total miles of road operated by this company in
New Hampshire

Number of stations in New Hampshire on all roads operated by this company

Number of telegraph offices in same

10

16

11

Number of stations on all roads owned by this company

Same in New Hampshire

66

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STATEMENT OF EACH ACCIDENT IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.

May 14, 1886. — Mrs. T. McCarty jumped from a moving passenger train at Keene, and died from her injuries.

May 27.-E. A. Fuller, employe, fell from a moving freight train at Marlborough, and lost one foot.

June 24.-E. W. Spaulding attempted to get on a moving passenger train at Keene; had an arm broken.

GENERAL INFORMATION.

66

66

Maximum weight of locomotives in working order. 48 tons.
Average
Maximum weight of tenders full of fuel and water.

Average

66

Average

mail and baggage cars

8-wheel box freight cars
8-wheel platform cars

34

66

25

66

Length of heaviest engine and tender, from center
of forward truck-wheel of engine to center of rear
wheel of tender

Total length of heaviest engine and tender over all
Number of locomotives equipped with train brake.

[Kind of brake, Westinghouse.]

Number of cars equipped with train brake

[Kind of brake, Westinghouse.]

Number of passenger cars with Miller platform and

712

Number of miles of road operated by this company
not furnished with telegraph facilities:
From Peterborough, N. H., to Winchendon, Mass.
Charges for the transportation of company's sup-
plies included in earnings as reported for this road.
Rate, cent per ton per mile; number of tons
carried, 18,450; amount credited to earnings,
$3,675.50.

15.82 miles.

BRIDGES.

Number of spans of stone bridges of 25 feet and upwards *

Aggregate length of same for single track

1

75 ft.

Number of spans of iron bridges of 25 feet and upwards*

2

Aggregate length of same for single track
Number of spans of timber bridges of 25 feet and

213 ft.

upwards

*

Aggregate length of same for single track
Number of crossings of highways at grade *

935 ft.

over railroad
under railroad

Number of highway bridges 18 feet above track Number of crossings at which gates or flagmen are maintained

Number of crossings at which there are neither signals nor flagmen

RATES OF FARE, ETC.

Average rate of fare per mile (not including season tickets) for local passengers on roads operated by this company t

Average rate of fare per mile received from passen gers to and from other roads

Average rate of fare per mile for season-ticket sengers

pas

Average rate of fare per mile received from all

pas

sengers.

Average rate of local freight per ton per mile† Average rate of freight per ton per mile received from freight to and from other roads

Average rate of freight per ton per mile received from all freight

Reckoning twelve passengers per week for time of each season ticket.

CAPITAL STOCK.

Total amount paid in (as per books of the company)
Total number of stockholders

452

Number of stockholders in New Hampshire 44
Amount of stock held in New Hampshire $387,300

DEBT.

Funded debt, as follows:

Bonds due July 1, 1896; rate of interest, 6 per

cent

Interest paid on same during year $15,000.00
Bonds due July 1, 1898; rate of interest, 6 per

$2,153,300.00

$250,000.00

550,000.00

$800,000.00

NAMES AND RESIDENCES OF OFFICERS.

Wm. A. Russell, President, Lawrence, Mass.; Edward C. Thayer, Vice-President, Keene, N. H.; R. Stewart, General Manager, Keene, N. H.; J. W. Dodge, General Freight Agent, Keene, N. H.; F. H. Kingsbury, General Ticket Agent and Treasurer, Keene, N. H.; R. Stewart, Clerk of Corporation, Keene, N. H.

NAMES AND RESIDENCES OF DIRECTORS LAST ELECTED.

Wm. A. Russell, Geo. W. Russell, Lawrence, Mass.; R. M. Pulsifer, Newton, Mass.; H. W. Suter, Boston, Mass.; Edward C. Thayer, Keene, N. H.; A. B. Turner, Ashuelot, N. H.; Wm. H. Hill, Jr., Brookline, Mass.