CREDIT.

Capital stock..

Funded debt.

Bills receivable and payable, balance.

Profit and loss or income account and surplus

Total....

DESCRIPTION OF ROAD.

Length main line f road from Centre Mississippi River to

Length main line of road in Iowa.
Length of double track on main line.
Same in Iowa..

Branches owned by this company

Branches owned in Iowa, giving distance from junction with

$ 71,942,246.51 71,360,690.86

367,419.91 11,286,269.80

$154,956,627.08

295.440 295.440

43.082

43.082

523.030

Branches in Missouri.

60.925

Total length of road belonging to this company, Iowa lines.
Total length of road belonging to this company in Iowa...
Aggregate length of sidings and other tracks not above

Aggregate length of track, computed as single track, exclusive of sidings.

861.552

Total length of steel rails in tracks in Iowa, exclusive of sidings.

437.848

362.779

Weights per yard, steel, 52 to 66 lbs.

Weights per yard, iron, 48 to 60 lbs.

Gauge of track.

4.81

LENGTH OF LINES OPERATED BY C., B. & Q. IN ALL STATES.

Total miles operated by this company in Iowa, Iowa lines

4,537.888 757.545

STATIONS.

Total miles of road operated by this company.

Number of stations on all roads owned by this company.....
Same on Iowa lines.

Same in Iowa..

Number of telegraph offices in stations in Iowa..

EMPLOYES.

381

161

151

118

Number of persons regularly employed on all roads operated

by this company.

Same in Iowa.

Amount paid employes, including officials, on all roads oper

ated by this company.

Same in Iowa...

14,140 6,612

$ 6,687,305.88 2,765,066.52

RENEWAL OF BRIDGES AND CULVERTS IN IOWA.

Amount of timber used in renewal of wooden bridges dur-
ing the year, feet (B. M.).

Amount of trestle work replaced with earth during the
year (lineal feet).

Timber culverts replaced with stone

Timber culverts replaced with sewer pipe.

Timber culverts replaced with timber..

Iron..

Iron.. March, 1884. ..

147

Give the average number of years the trestle and pile bridges last on
your road in Iowa.

Give the average number of years that wooden truss bridges last on
your road in Iowa...
If covered,

Average number of men in each section gang

Number of new ties laid in track during the year in Iowa.
Average number of new ties per mile of road.

5

184,819

231

New rails laid in track during the year in Iowa-steel (4,865 tons)
miles..

46.78

Total track laid with new rails during the year in Iowa, miles..
What is the average number of years that iron rails last in your
track on branches in Iowa.

What is the average number of years that steel rails last in your
track on main line in Iowa.
What is the average number of years that steel rails last in your
track on branches in Iowa

6

What is the average number of years that ties last in your track in
Iowa:

CROSSINGS IN IOWA.

What railroad crosses your road at grade, and at what locality?

Wabash, St. Lonis & Pacific, at Ottumwa.

Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific, half mile east of Albia.

Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific, at Malvern.

Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific, three-fourths mile north of Shenandoah.
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific, at Clarks.

Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific, south of Albia.

Humeston & Shenandoah, at Humeston and Clarinda.

Kansas City, St. Jo & Council Bluffs, at Pacific Junction.

Osceola, Des Moines & Southwestern, at Osceola and Leon.

Central Iowa, at Maxon.

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, at Fairfield.

9

9

14

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, east of Ottumwa.

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, at Des Moines.

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, at East Des Moines.

What railroads cross your road, over, and at what locality?

Humeston & Shenandoah, two and one half miles north of Conway. Number of highway crossing at grade...

889

Number of highway crossings at which there are flagmen
Number of highway crossings over railroad..
Number of highway crossings under railroad.
Number of highway bridges 18 feet above track.
Number of highway bridges less than 18 feet above track.

FENCING IN IOWA.

9

25

18

25

None.

How many miles of new fencing have you built during the year Give the number of miles needed on both sides of your track in each county in Iowa:

316,315.34 42.963

In Monroe county.

15.50

In Lee county.

6.50

In Marion county

In Polk county.

In Pottawattamie county.

In Lucas county..

In Cass county.
In Warren county.

In Wayne county
In Decatur county
In Ringgold county
In Montgomery county.
In Page county..

In Union county
In Adair county. . ↓
In Fremont county.
In Mills county...
In Appanoose county
In Wapello county.

Total....

18.00

2.90

39.90

0.00

30.85

19.13

5.26

38.80

26.12

32.50

12.00

8.35

1.10

11.10

284.06

ROLLING STOCK..

Iowa lines. Total.

Number of locomotives

176

454

Number of passenger cars.

Number of baggage, mail and express cars.

Number of State room cars..

Assigned sleeping cars belonging to Pullman company.

Number of dining cars.

Number of box freight cars.

Number of stock cars

Number of platform and coal cars.

Number of other cars, including hand and rubble.

Total number of cars.

Maximum weight of locomotives and tenders, tons.
Average weight of locomotives and tenders, tons
Number of locomotives equipped with train brake.
Kind of brake. Westingliouse:

Maximum weight of passenger cars, tons.
Average weight of passenger cars, tons.

1

Number equipped with train brake...

Kind of brake. Westinghouse automatic.
Number of passenger and baggage cars in Iowa 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 51 tons:
East Iowa division, tons freight..
Middle Iowa division, tons freight
West Iowa division, tons freight.

101

101

330 275

260

1,121,092

3,344,924

126,653

4,592,669

CARS AND WEIGHT OF TRAINS.

Average number of cars in passenger trains..

Average weight of passenger trains, exclusive of passengers, tons.
Average number of cars in freight trains...

Average weight of freight trains, exclusive of freight, tons

PASSENGER TRAFFIC.

Total number of passengers carried...
Total passenger mileage, or passengers carried one mile
Average distance traveled by each passenger.
Highest rate of fare per mile for any distance, cents.

•

FREIGHT TRAFFIC.

5.3

171

19.9

237

963,817

58,081,756

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Total freight mileage, or tons carried one mile....
Average rate per ton per mile received for all freight..
Percentage of freight originating at, and carried to stations in
Iowa, to total freight carried in Iowa. (This should not in-
clude fuel or any material for the use of the road)...

CAR MILEAGE.

Number of miles run by loaded freight cars east and south.
Number of miles run by loaded freight cars west and north.
Number of miles run by empty freight cars east and south.
Number of miles run by empty freight cars west and north.

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.

66,834,253

16.47

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