Average weight of locomotives in working order (tons). Average weight of tenders full of fuel and water (tons). Number of way-cars. Number of S-wheel box freight cars Number of 8-wheel platform cars. Number of 4-wheel platform cars. 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................... If any part of road was first opened for operation during the past year, state the date. 8.6 miles, Tripoli to Sumner, opened for business November 16, 1880. ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS. EXPRESS COMPANIES. The American Express Co. pays us $25 per month for services of messenger, and twelve cents per ton per mile for ordinary business done. Take freight at stations. U. S. MAIL. The compensation paid us by the U. S. government for the transportation of its mails is $52.16 per mile from Waverly to Hampton for the year; $52.16 per mile from Waverly to Tripoli for the year; $52.16 per mile from Tripoli to Sumner, February 15 to June 30. With deduction for failure to deliver. The Post-office Department has not paid us for any service up to this time. LOCAL AID IN BUILDING ROAD. Local aid has been voted in two townships in Butler county (Westfield and Pittsford)-a five per cent tax, one half, or two and one-half per cent, payable when taxes of 1879 are due, and the other two and one-half per cent payable when taxes of 1880 are due. The company has received to June 30, 1880, $3,840.11; to June 30, 1881 (in addition), $11,225.71. Total, $15,065.82. There was also tax aid voted in Washington township, Franklin county, payable same as in Butler county. The company has received to.June 30, 1880, $6,351.30; to June 30, 1881 (in addition), $9,810.15. Total, $16, 161.45. Also a five per cent tax was voted in Bremer county, two per cent payable January 1, 1881, and three per cent payable January 1, 1882. The company has received to June 30, 1881, $2,608.24. Number pile and trestle bridges and length in Iowa Number of railroad crossings at grade (specifying each). I. C. R. R., at Waverly. 160 lineal May, 1881. 224 lineal May, 1881. RATES OF FARE, ETC. Average rate of fare per mile for local passengers on roads operated by this company, cents..... Average rate of fare per mile received from through passengers to and from other roads, cents... Average rate of fare per mile for special ticket passengers, cents... Average rate of fare per mile received from all passengers, cents.... Our excursion tickets would reduce from three cents, and special, or 500mile tickets, are sold at two cents per mile. CAPITAL STOCK. Capital stock authorized by articles of association per mile of completed road .... 15,000.00 Capital stock issued, number of shares 5,666; amount paid in...... .$566,600.00 Total amount paid in as per books of the company...$ 566,600.00 DEBT. Funded debt (as follows): Bonds due July 1, 1919, rate of interest six per cent.... 622,000.00 No account of interest, all interest paid on same during year in New York, no returns. STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1881, OF ALL ACCIDENTS RESULTING IN INJURIES TO PERSONS, GIVING EXTENT AND CAUSE THEREOF. August 15, 1881, brakeman, injured while switching at Hampton, was coupling cars; middle finger of left hand bruised, and third finger taken off at second joint; himself to blame; was not sufficiently careful. RECAPITULATION OF ACCIDENTS. Injured-Employe-from misconduct or want of caution .......... Total injured OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY, WITH LOCATION OF OFFICES. President J. B. Dumont, New York. Secretary--Rufus E. Jones, Dubuque, Iowa. Treasurer-C. H. Booth, Dubuque, Iowa. General Manager-C. H. Booth, Dubuque, Iowa. Superintendent-A. C. Goodrich, Hampton, Iowa. Chief Engineer-W. H. Knowlton (has left since January 30, 1881). Superintendent of Telegraph-Fred. Wood, Hampton, Iowa. Auditor-W. S. Couch, Dubuque, Iowa. General Passenger Agent-W. S. Couch, Dubuque, Iowa. Attorneys, general and local-S. P. Adams, Dubuque, Iowa. NAMES OF DIRECTORS, WITH RESIDENCE. James A. Roosevelt, New York. Morris K. Jesup, New York. J. B. Dumont, New York. Mason Thompson, New York. General offices at Dubuque, Iowa. Date of annual meeting of stockholders, first Tuesday in April. 1 C. H. Booth, Manager, W. S. Couch, Auditor, Dubuque & Dakota 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 30th day of June, A. D. 1881, to the best of their knowledge and belief. (Signed) C. H. BOOTH, Manager. W. S. COUCH, Auditor. [L. S. OF R. R.] Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 6th day of October, A. D. 1881. E. W. DUNCAN, Notary Public in and for Dubuque county, Iowa. [L. S.] Received and filed in the office of the Commissioners of Railroads, this 8th day of October, 1881. E. G. MORGAN, Secretary of Board of Railroad Commissioners. REPORT OF THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY, LESSEE OF THE DUBUQUE & SIOUX CITY RAILROAD, IOWA FALLS & SIOUX CITY RAILROAD, CEDAR FALLS & Earnings per mile of road operated... miles) Receipts from passenger trains per train mile run (314,039 Receipts from freight trains per train mile run (935,158 miles). $ 1,759,046.82 4,374.00 1.69 1.59 |