DESCRIPTION OF EQUIPMENT.

This road has no equipment; the Iowa Central Railway furnishes same.

RENEWAL OF RAILS AND TIES.

NEW TIES LAID DURING YEAR.

KIND.

Total.

CONSUMPTION OF FUEL BY LOCOMOTIVES.

LOCOMOTIVES.

consumed per mile.

Av. pounds

Four feet, eight and one half inches.

TEELEGRAPH

Miles of line

24.10

Miles of wire.

24.10

Owned and operated by Western Union Telegraph Company.

.35.4

CAR MILEAGE.

State below all individuals, co-operative fast freight lines, and stock companies, to which the company making this report pays mileage for the use of cars:

Armour Refrigeratior Line.

Canada Southern Line.

Kansas City Dressed Beef Line.

Merchants Despatch Transportation Company.

Red Line.

Swift Refrigerator Line.

Union Line.

White Line.

Centerville terminals, including yards, depot and two miles of track, owned by Keokuk & Western.

STATE OF IOWA,

COUNTY OF MARSHALL, SS.

We, the undersigned, C. H. Ackert, General Manager, and E. S. Benson, Auditor, of the Iowa Central Railway Company, on our oath do severally say that the foregoing return has been prepared, under our direction, from the original books, papers, and records of said company; that we 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 our knowledge, information, and belief; and we 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 operations of said company during the period for which said return is made.

C. H. ACKERT,

General Manager.

E. S. BENSON,

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23d day of October, 1890.

[SEAL.]

Auditor.

R. A. DUGAN.

Notary Public.

ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD CO.,

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.

Page 7.

Page 11.

Page 13.
Page 17.

No record kept.

Give the names of your attorneys in Iowa.
J. W. Blythe, H. H. Trimble.

Superintendents for Iowa.

Division superintendents for Iowa.

See officers.

Total mileage operated in Iowa.

1.040.741.

Total mileage in Iowa.

1-Amount of stock issued for dividends on earnings.

None in Iowa.

2--Amount of stock per mile of road.

See Recapitulation-mileage owned by road making this report. 3-Amount of stock representing road in Iowa.

Page 45. 1-Operating expenses per mile of road.

See passenger and freight train mileage.

2-Operating expenses per train mile.

.86.115.

3-Proportion of operating expenses and taxes for Iowa.

Cannot apportion expenses. See Iowa taxes above. 4-Percentage of expenses to earnings.

See operating expenses.

5-Net earnings per train mile.

21.148.

6-Percentage of earnings to stock and debt.

2.326 per cent.

7-Percentage of earnings to cost of road and equipment.
2.390 per cent.

8-Surplus at the commencement of the year.

See income account.

9-Surplus at the close of the year.

See income account.

10-Amount of its own stock owned by the company.
None.

Page 46. Fencing in Iowa.

1-How many miles of fencing on your road in Iowa?
667.68.

2-How many miles of unfenced road in Iowa?

7.96.

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

$200.00 to $314.00.

4-What is the total cost of the same?

Cannot give Iowa separately.

5-How many miles of new fencing built during the year?
68.83.

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

in car lots.

No record.

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

No record.

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

See report of June 30, 1889.

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

No record.

a-Total receipts of freight forwarded to points outside the State.
b-Total receipts for freight received from points outside the State.
c-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. No division kept of local or through freight.

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?

No division kept of earnings.

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 iowa 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 line to your main line.

No division for tonnage crossing rivers.

Page 64.

Tonnage crossing Mississippi river bridge at

Page 69.
Page 77.

Page 78.

year ending June 30, 1890:

East bound, number of tons.

West bound, number of tons...

Total tons.....

Tonnage crossing Missouri river bridge at

year ending June 30, 1890:

East bound, number of tons..

West bound, number of tons.....

Total tons.....

No records.

Under heading "State or Territory " Insert Iowa.

for the

for the

Under" Overhead Highway Crossings," insert overhead farm crossings.
Under Conduits," insert farm crossings, “under."

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 con

tracted 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.