8,834 3.00 Manufactures-articles shipped from point of production... Merchandise and other articles not enumerated above. Total tons carried.. 294,480 100 ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS. EXPRESS COMPANIES. What express companies run on your road, and on what terms, and what condition as to rates, etc.; what kind of business is done by them, and do you take their freights at the depot, or at the oflice of such company? United States Express Company;~ $50.00 per working-day; limited to 4,000 pounds through freight daily, and excess charged for at rate of $1.00 per 100 pounds through freight; express company takes freight at depot, loads, unloads, and cares for same. 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's sleeping-cars run each way nightly; railroad company receives 25 per cent of net earnings less six per cent interest on one-fourth cost of coaches; fare, $1.50 for double berth; Pullman cars run each way daily; fare, $2.00. 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: Make repairs on the Woodruff cars; pay the Pullman Company three cents per mile for the use of the cars, and make no repairs; the car companies receive 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 lowa, and on what terms of service? $114.57 per mile per year; twice each way daily on the main line, once each way on the Keokuk & Northwestern Railway. What amount have you paid for receiving and delivering mail to and from stations on your road in Iowa? This amount included in agents and station service. TELEGRAPH. How many miles of telegraph are owned by your company in Iowa? Keokuk & Northwestern, 49 05 miles owned by railway company, and St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern 3.07 miles, one wire each St. L., K. & N.-W. and Western Union Telegraph Company. What other company, if any, owns a line of telegraph on your right of way in Iowa, and how many miles do each own? Operated jointly with Western Union Telegraph Company. REPORT OF ACCIDENTS FOR IOWA DURING THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1884. CAUSE OF ACCIDENT AND CHARACTER OF INJURY. Fell on track and engine passed over him; legs taken off-died. Fell under cars; leg broken. Broken axle; armroken. Number of persons killed during the year. Number of casualties purely accidental during the entire year. OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY, WITH LOCATION OF OFFICES. President-W. W. Baldwin, Burlington, Iowa. Vice-President-T. J. Potter, Chicago, Ill. Secretary-Howard Elliott, Keokuk, Iowa. Treasurer-J. C. Peasley, Chicago, Ill. General Manager-T. J. Potter, Chicago, Ill. General Superintendent-R. Law, Keokuk, Iowa. Assistant Superintendent—C. M. Levy, Keokuk, Iowa. Assistant Auditor Assistant Treasure. Howard Elliott, Keokuk, Iowa. Consulting Engineer R. J. McClure, Chicago, Ill. Supe intendent of Telegraph-W. E. Cunningham, Keokuk, Iowa. Auditor-John L. Lathrop, Chicago, Ill. General Passenger Agent―J. H. Best, Jr., Keokuk, Iowa. General Freight Agent J. H. Best, Jr., Keokuk, Iowa. General Solicitor-H H. Trimble, Keokuk, Iowa. DIRECTORS, NAME AND POST-OFFICE ADDRESS. W. W. Baldwin, Burlington, Iowa. J. W. Blythe, Burlington, Iowa. H. B. Scott, Burlington, Iowa. T. J. Potter, Chicago, Ill. J. H. Anderson, Keokuk, Iowa. Date of annual meeting of stockholders, first Wednesday in December. Fiscal year of Company ends December 31. General offices of the Company are located at Keokuk, Iowa. R. Law, General Superintendent of the St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern Railway Company, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he has caused the foregoing statements to be prepared by the proper officers and agents of this Company, and, having carefully examined the same, declares them to be a true, full, and correct statement of the condition and affairs of said Company on the thirtieth day of June, A. D. 1884, to the best of his knowledge and belief. (Signed,) R. LAW, General Superintendent, Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 13th day of September A. D. 1884. [L. S.] HOWARD ELLIOTT, Notary Public. Received and filed in the office of the Commissioners of Railroads, this 16th day of September, A. D. 1884. E. G. MORGAN, Secretary. |