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

Total number of passengers carried.

Total passenger mileage, or passengers carried one mile
Average distance traveled by each passenger, miles...
Average amount received from each passenger.
Highest rate of fare per mile for any distance.

Total freight mileage, or tons carried one mile..
Average rate per ton, per mile, received for all freight, cents..
Percentage of freight originating at, and carried to stations in
Iowa, to total freight carried in Iowa..

CAR MILEAGE.

3.7

115

18.5

214

76,673

348,771

425,444 19,259,612 45.269

$ 1.35153

.03

570,984

194,723

765,707

62,130,849

1.81

22

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...

10,601,616

13

40

SPEED OF TRAINS IN IOWA.

Rate of speed of passenger trains, including stops, miles per hour
Rate of speed of freight trains, including stops, miles per hour...
TONNAGE OF ARTICLES TRANSPORTED.

Manufactures-articles shipped from point of production
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? American Express Company pays a fixed sum for transporting within and up to a fixed limit of weight, and 1 first-class rates on excess. The railroad company does not handle or have anything to do with the express matter or rates thereon charged by express company, but simply carries when placed in baggage car.

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? The Pullman Palace Car Company's sleepers run on our road. We pay that company same rate per mile as for a coach hired from railroad company.

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. The Pullman Palace Car Company receive the earnings.

UNITED STATES MAILS IN IOWA.

What is the compensation paid you by the United States Government for the transportation of its mails on your road in Iowa, and on what terms of service? $150.48 per mile per annum for line in Iowa-payable quarterly.

TELEGRAPH.

How many miles of telegraph are owned by your company in Iowa? None. 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, 52 miles.

REPORT OF ACCIDENTS FOR IOWA DURING THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1885.

Number of persons killed during the year
Number of persons injured during the year
Number of casualties purely accidental during the entire year.

16.

Number of persons killed while intoxicated

1

Number of persons injured while intoxicated.

1

Number of tresspassers on track killed....

1

OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY, WITH LOCATION OF OFFICES..

President C. E. Perkins, Boston, Massachusetts.

Vice-President-T. J. Potter, Chicago, Illinois.

Secretary-A. G. Stanwood, Boston, Massachusets.
Treasurer-J. C. Peasley, Chicago, Illinois.

General Manager—J. F. Barnard, St. Joseph, Missouri.

Superintendent-J. R. Hardy, St. Joseph, Missouri.

Assistant Superintendent―A. B. Barnard, Kansas City, Missouri.

Chief Engineer—C. C. Chandler, St. Joseph, Missouri.

Superintendent of Telegraph—G. M. Hohl, St. Joseph, Missouri.
Auditor-C. M. Carter, St. Joseph, Missouri.

General Passenger Agent-A. C. Dawes, St. Joseph, Missouri.
General Freight Agent-E. J. Swords, St. Joseph, Missouri.
General Solicitor-Strong & Mosman, St. Joseph, Missouri.

DIRECTORS, NAME AND POST-OFFICE ADDRESS.

Henry Parkman, Boston, Massachusetts.

C. E. Perkins, Boston, Massachusetts.

E. E. Pratt, Boston, Massachusetts.
N. H. Stone, Boston, Massachusetts.
A. G. Stanwood, Boston, Massachusetts.
W. W. Baldwin, Burlington, Iowa.
J. F. Barnard, St. Joseph, Missouri.
C. M. Carter, St. Joseph, Miisouri.

Date of annual meeting of stockholders, first Tuesday in March.

Fiscal year of company ends December 31st.

General offices of the company are located at St. Joseph, Buchanan county, Missouri.

J. F. Barnard, General Manager, and C. M. Carter, Auditor, of the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad Company, being duly sworn, depose and say that they have caused the foregoing statements to be prepared by the proper officers and agents of this company, and, having carefully examined the same, declare 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. 1885, to the best of their knowledge and belief. J. F. BARNARD, C. M. CARTER.

[Signed,]

Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 17th day of September, A. D. 1885. CHAS. E. COLSTON, Notary Public, Buchanan County, Missouri.

[L. 8.]

Received and filed in the office of the Commissioners of Railroads, this 18th day of September, A. D. 1885.

E. G. MORGAN,
Secretary.