OREGON AND CALIFORNIA RAILROAD COMPANY. This company now operates 451 miles of road, including the branch, 11.50 miles, from Albany Junction to Lebanon. The company has received by patent from the Government 323,068.68 acres of land, of which 237,773.78 acres have been sold. It has received from sales $384,389.72, and there are outstanding on time sales $385,647.67. The company has 43 locomotives fitted with Westinghouse brakes, 40 passenger cars fitted with the same brakes and with Miller couplers and platforms, 592 freight and 225 road and miscellaneous cars. Financial condition of the Oregon and California Railroad Company, June 30, 1886. Company's stock and bonds owned by company Due from other companies on account of traffic. Sinking-fund account... Due from United States, unsettled accounts for mail service Suspense accounts Capitalized debt Total assets....... Deficit--- 34,804, 598 44 $21, 658, 606 40 1,468, 111 19 148, 290 97 382,890 88 287,352 05 123,750 07 104,198 50 2,610, 000 00 106, 171 69 183 72 433,648 30 17,426 85 65,030 76 6,785, 235 31 34, 190, 896 69 613,701 75 Comparative statement of the earnings and expenses of the Oregon and California Railroad The road operated by this company is 225 miles in length, of which 178.50 is owned by the company, and 46.50 leased; 175.50 miles of the track is laid with steel rails. The equipment consists of 43 locomotives, 13 of which have Westinghouse brakes; 36 passenger cars, all of which have Westinghouse brakes and Miller platforms and couplers; 1,441 freight and 117 iniscellaneous cars. The number of acres of land received from the United States is 1,466,009.46, of which 308,955.44 acres have been sold, and the company still owns 1,157,054.02 acres. The amount received from sales is $1,718,108.90, and there are outstanding on time sales $38,458.41. Financial condition of the Saint Paul and Duluth Railroad Company, June 30, 1886. Comparative statement of the earnings and expenses of the Saint Paul and Duluth Railroad Company. The length of the road owned by the company is 3,949.06 miles, and there are $22.63 miles of side tracks, making a total trackage of 4,771.69 miles, of which 3,202.06 miles are laid with steel rails. The equipment consists of 681 locomotives with Westinghouse brakes, 477 cars in the passenger service, all of which are equipped with Westinghouse brakes and Miller coupler and platform; 20,966 freight cars, and 155 road and miscellaneous cars. This company received a grant of land from the United States, as did also the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad Company, which it acquired by purchase July 2, 1884, and the Winona and Saint Peter Rail road, which it operates as a proprietary line. The whole number of acres patented to it by the Government on De cember 31, 1885, was 2,956,176.69, of which it has sold and conveyed 1,266,128.74 acres, and yet retains the title to 1,690,048.22 acres. The total amount received from sales is $4,209,473.82, and there are outstand ing on time sales $930,739. Financial condition of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, December 31, 1885. Statement of the earnings and expenses of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, for the year ending December 31, 1885. Conducting transportation...... Maintenance of cars... General expenses and taxes.... Total....... Net earnings....... Miles operated..... Earnings per mile..... Expenses per mile Net earnings per mile... Percentage of expenses to earnings CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND AND PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY. This company received from the Goverment a grant of 1,261,181 acres of land. The Land Commissioner reports that during the year ending March 31, 1836, the sales amounted to 2,469.99 acres, realizing the sum of $25,466.18, being an average of $10.31 per acre, and that the company then owned 16,749.93 acres. It owns 331 locomotives, 229 passenger cars, 7,865 freight cars, and 700 miscellaneous cars. This company not having complied with all the requirements in relation to reports, I am able to give but little information in regard to it. Financial condition of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company, April 1, 1886. LIABILITIES. Comparative statement of the earnings and expenses of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company. |