Agreement with Wells, Fargo & Co. for transportation of general merchandise by passenger train, at double first-class rates. Fruit, fish, butter, vegetables, and ice at one and one half times first-class rates. Fare of messenger, $75 per month. United States mail contract, under laws for regulation of railway mail service, at $75 24 per mile of road. Agreement with Western Union Telegraph Company, giving them right of way for poles and wire on road, with free transportation for employés to repair line. The railroad company has use of line free between officers on road, and for railroad business to all points. Agreement with Southern Pacific Company to conduct station business at Colfax, at the rate of $200 per month. PASSENGER AND FREIGHT, AND TRAIN MILEAGE. (For 12 months ending Dec. 31, 1892.) PASSENGER AND FREIGHT, AND TRAIN MILEAGE. (For 6 months ending June 30, 1893.) Passenger and freight revenue per mile of road Expenses per mile of road.. Total earnings per mile of road, including mails, express, 22,070 217,389 9.85 $17,622 99 79.85 08.11 04.56 895 95 2 90.25 9,922 173,635 22,038 09 13.26 09.51 1,030 96 1 26.73 39,661 08 1,758 27 1,175 42 EMPLOYÉS AND SALARIES. (For 12 months ending December 31, 1892.) EMPLOYÉS AND SALARIES. (For 6 months ending June 30, 1893.) Total Owned. The company does not keep an account of the quantity of the several kinds of freight hauled over its road. DESCRIPTION OF EQUIPMENT. Item. The Westinghouse air-brake is used on locomotives and cars in passenger service. New rails laid during eighteen months: Steel, 1041888 tons; average price per ton at distributing point, $56 62. New ties laid during eighteen months: Cedar and pine, 8,000; average price at distributing point, 35 cents. CONSUMPTION OF FUEL BY LOCOMOTIVES. The locomotives consumed 2,844 cords of wood, which cost on an average $3 50 per cord. CHARACTERISTICS OF ROAD. Colfax to Nevada City: Length, 22.50 miles; aggregate length of curved line, 12.26 miles; length of straight line, 10.24 miles; length of level line, of a mile; number of ascending grades, 8; sum of ascents, 1,158 feet; aggregate length of ascending grades, 12.16 miles; number of descending grades, 7; sum of descents, 1,049 feet; aggregate length of descending grades, 9.66 miles. Bridges: Wooden, 2. Trestles: Aggregate length, 5,176 feet. Tunnels: 2; aggregate length, 810 feet; minimum length, 390 feet; maximum length, 420 feet. Gauge of track: 3 feet. Telegraph: Miles of line, 17; miles of wire, 17; operated by Western Union Telegraph Company. Number of stations on all roads operated by this company in California, 3. We, the undersigned, John F. Kidder, President, and Geo. Fletcher, Secretary, of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad 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. JOHN F. KIDDER, Subscribed and sworn to before me, this fourteenth day of November, 1893. Secretary. A. BURROWS, REDONDO RAILWAY COMPANY. [For 18 months ending June 30, 1893.]. HISTORY. 1. Name of common carrier making this report: Redondo Railway Company. 2. Date of organization: April 1, 1889. 3. Under what laws organized: Laws of the State of California. Date of expiration of terms of Directors: January, 1894. Total number of stockholders at date of last election: 7. Date of last meeting of stockholders for election of Directors: January, 1893. |