Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners for the Year Ending ...

I, the undersigned, W. C. Willson, President of the Crooked Creek Railroad & Coal Company, on my oath do say that the foregoing return has been prepared, under my direction, from the original books, papers, and records of said company; that I have carefully examined the same, and declare the same to be a complete and correct statement of the business and affairs of said company in respect to each and every matter and thing therein set forth, to the best of my knowledge, information and belief; and I further say that no deductions were made before stating the gross earnings or receipts herein set forth, except those shown in the foregoing accounts; and that the accounts and figures contained in the foregoing return embrace all of the financial operatlons of said company during the period for which said return is made. W. C. WILLSON,

[SEAL.]

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 16th day of December, 1890.

President.

GEO. WAMBACH,

Notary Public.

ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

CLARINDA & ST. LOUIS RAILROAD.

TO THE

BOARD OF RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS OF THE STATE OF IOWA,

FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1890.

The following information is asked by the Commissioners in addition to the regular printed blank, and the same are made part of this report:

Page 5. Total number of stockholders in Iowa.

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1-Operating expenses per mile of road.

2-Operating expenses per train mile.

3-Proportion of operating expenses and taxes for Iowa.

4-Percentage of expenses to earnings.

5-Net earnings per train mile.

6-Percentage of earnings to stock and debt.

7-Percentage of earnings to cost of road and equipment.

8-Surplus at the commencement of the year.

9-Surplus at the close of the year.

10-Amount of its own stock owned by the company.

Fencing in Iowa.

1-How many miles of fencing on your road in Iowa?

2-How many miles of unfenced road in Iowa?

3-What is the average cost per mile of fencing?

4-What is the total cost of the same?

5-How many miles of new fencing built during the year?

Page 62 and following. 1-Average number of tons of freight in cars when shipped in car lots.

2-Average number of tons in cars when in less than car lots.

3-The average amount of tonnage that can be carried on your road in the State by an engine of given weight.

4 Give the names of and the following information concerning EACH
station on your road in Iowa, in separate columns, for the years end-
ing June 30, 1889 and 1890.

a-Total receipts of freight forwarded to points outside the State.
b-Total receipts for freight received from points outside the State.
e-Total receipts for freight forwarded to points within the State.
d-Total receipts for freight received from points within the State.
e-Total receipts from passengers destined to points outside the

State.

-Total receipts from passengers from points outside the State.
g-Total receipts from passengers destined to points within the

State.

h--Total receipts from passengers from points within the State. 5-Total amount received for local freight.

6-Total amount received for through freight.

7-Number of tons of local freight carried.

8-Total amount received from freight originating in Iowa and passing outside the State.

9-Total amount received from freight originating outside the State and destined to points in Iowa.

10-What per cent does the local freight business of Iowa bear to the total
freight business of the entire line?

11-What per cent does the local freight business of Iowa bear to the freight
originating on your line in Iowa and passing outside the State?
12-What per cent does local freight business of Iowa bear to business

originating outside the State and destined to points within the State? 13-What per cent does local freight business bear to freight moved across the State from points outside to points outside the State?

14-What per cent of freight received at each station on your road is local
and what per cent is interstate?

15-What proportion of earnings is credited to Iowa on business passing
across the State from points beyond to points beyond the State?
16-What proportion of earnings is credited to Iowa on business originating
in lowa and passing outside the State?

17-What proportion of earnings is credited to Iowa on business originating
outside the State and destined to points within the State?

18-What proportion of earnings is credited to each branch line on your road on business originating on said branches and destined to points on the main line in Iowa, to points on the main line outside the State or to points on other lines?

19-Give the amount in tons and kind of freight furnished by each branch

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for the

Under heading "State or Territory" insert Iowa.

Under" Overhead Highway Crossings," insert overhead farm crossings.

Under "Conduits," insert farm crossings, "under."

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LANDS-CONGRESSIONAL GRANTS.

1-State the number of acres of land your company has already received from the congressional grants.

2-State the number of acres yet to enure to your company from congressional grants.

3-State the average price at which these lands have been sold or contracted by the company.

4-State the number of acres sold.

5-State the amount received from sales.

6-State the amount unpaid on outstanding contracts.

7-State the gross amount received from sales, contracts, forfeited con

tracts, etc., up to June 30, 1890.

8-State the amount expended in sale and management of lands.

9-State the amount of taxes paid on lands.

10-State the amount realized from the sale of lands above the expenses incurred in the management and taxes.

11-The cost and actual present cash value of road and equipment, including permanent way, buildings and rolling stock, all real estate used exclusively in operating the road and all fixtures and conveniences for transacting its business.

Page 80. 1-What provision, if any, has been made by this road for the payment of its funded debt?

2-What station houses, stock yards, or other terminal facilities, does this road use for which it pays a rental? Name the parties to whom such property belongs.

3 Name all the associations to which this road is a party, whose object is the regulation or control of passenger or freight traffic.

4-Name all the companies commonly called Fast Freight Lines, of which this road is a member, or which operate over the line of this road.

HISTORY.

Name of common carrier making this report:

Clarinda & St. Louis Railroad.

If a consolidated company name all the constituent companies. Give reference to charters of each, and all amendments of same:

Built in 1879. Consolidated with Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway in 1880. Passed into possession of Thomas McKissock, receiver, by order of U. S. Court April 15, 1886, and into possession of F. M. Gault, as receiver, April 1, 1888, account death of T. McKissock. Operation discontinued on order of U. S. Court December 19, 1889.