FREIGHT TRAFFIC MOVEMENT.-(Company's material excluded.)

Equipped with Westinghouse air brake: 2 passenger locomotives, 1 freight_locomotive, 4 first-class passenger cars, 3 second-class passenger cars, 2 baggage cars, 7 box cars, 4 stock cars, and utility car.

Equipped with Miller coupler: all cars in passenger service.

RENEWALS OF RAILS AND TIES.

New rails laid during year: Iron, 1,118 tons; steel, 224138 tons. Average price per ton at distributing point, $50 for steel.

New ties laid during year: Redwood, 6,747.

cents.

Average price at distributing point, 35

The undersigned, John L. Howard, Vice-President of the Pacific Coast Railway Company, on oath says that the foregoing return has been prepared, under his direction, from the original books, papers, and records of said company; that he has carefully examined the same, and declares 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 his knowledge, information, and belief; and he further says 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.

JOHN L. HOWARD,

Subscribed and sworn to before me, this ninth day of December, 1893.

Vice-President.

JAS. L. KING, Notary Public, City and County of San Francisco.

ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY-WESTERN DIVISION.

ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., October 11, 1893. To the honorable Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of California, San Francisco, California:

GENTLEMEN: Pursuant to the understanding reached at a conference had between the honorable Board of Railroad Commissioners and William C. Hazledine, the then solicitor of this company, on the 10th day of February, 1887, I have the honor to submit attached hereto a report of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company for the year and a half ending June 30, 1893, which I have had compiled as nearly as possible in the form prescribed by your Board, from the report made by our company to the Secretary of the Interior of the United States, as provided for in the Act incorporating this company. In submitting this report I desire to call your attention to the position assumed by this company, which is, that being a Federal corporation created by the supreme legislative authority of the nation, and being by that Act constituted a Federal agency, fully empowered to fix and determine our own rates of fares and freights, and being required to make an annual report to the Secretary of the Interior, according to a form prescribed by his department, we do not believe that we could be lawfully required or legally compelled to make any report to your honorable Board; but being willing and anxious to aid you, so far as may be, in the performance of your duties, we take pleasure in hand

ing you as full a report as can conveniently be compiled from the one furnished the Secretary of the Interior as aforesaid, hoping and believing it will give you generally such information as you may require; at the same time protesting that in making this report, we do not do so under compulsion, but voluntarily, not intending thereby to waive any rights the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company has or may have under its Federal charter, or otherwise, but hereby expressly reserving to it every right and immunity from State control, or otherwise, it may have as a national corporation, Federal agency, and interstate railroad.

Respectfully submitted.

1. Name of common carrier making this report: Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company.

3. Under what laws organized: Act of Congress of the United States, approved July 27, 1866.

DEDUCTIONS FROM INCOME. (For 12 months ending December 31, 1892.)

Taxes

DEDUCTIONS FROM INCOME. (For 6 months ending June 30, 1893.)

Other deductions (locomotives and cars)..

Total deductions from income..

$18,132 00 9,315 16

$27,447 16

COST OF ROAD, EQUIPMENT, AND PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS. (December 31, 1892.)

COST OF ROAD, EQUIPMENT, AND PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS.

Item.

(June 30, 1893.)