EARNINGS FROM OPERATION. (For 12 months ending December 31, 1892.) EARNINGS FROM OPERATION. (For 6 months ending June 30, 1893.) Item. $45,214 18 84,261 15 $129,475 33 2,074 86 877 09 156 81 4,467 57 $137,051 66 Actual Earnings. PASSENGER, FREIGHT, AND TRAIN MILEAGE. (For 12 months ending December 31, 1892.) Freight traffic: including lumber, etc.). Passenger and freight: Passenger and freight earnings.. Number of tons carried of freight earning revenue (not Passenger and freight earnings per mile of road 27,334 126,268 94 4,208 96 Expense per mile of road 2,261 51 Total earnings per mile of road, including mails, express, PASSENGER, FREIGHT, AND TRAIN MILEAGE. (For 6 months ending June 30, 1893.) Freight traffic: Number of tons carried of freight earning revenue (not including lumber, etc.)... Total freight revenue. Passenger and freight: Contract between the Eel River and Eureka Railroad Company and Pacific Lumber Company to transport lumber, shingles, shakes, etc., from Junction Station, on Eel River and Eureka Railroad, to South Bay, loaded on cars of the Pacific Lumber Company, for $1 per 1,000 feet; to take not less than four cars at any one time, and return empty cars without charge. Also, to transport material for constructing and equipping their mills and railroad (loaded on their cars) from South Bay to Junction Station, at 50 cents per ton. Contract, twenty years from August 4, 1883. Contract with the Milford Land and Lumber Company to transport lumber on their cars from Salmon Creek Mill to their wharf at South Bay, at 65 cents per 1,000 feet. Contract, ten years from November 2, 1885. Contract with Eel River Valley Lumber Company to transport lumber from Newburg to South Bay, on their cars, at $1 per 1,000 feet. United States mail contract, under laws for regulation of railroad mail service. Agreement with Wells, Fargo & Co., to carry express and treasure boxes. Agreement from year to year. FREIGHT TRAFFIC MOVEMENT. (For 12 months ending December 31, 1892.) FREIGHT TRAFFIC MOVEMENT. (For 6 months ending June 30, 1893.) Length of single track, 25 miles; length of yard track, sidings, and spurs, 5 miles; aggregate length of all tracks, 30 miles. CONSUMPTION OF FUEL BY LOCOMOTIVES. From December 31, 1891, to June 30, 1893, the locomotives consumed 2,517 cords of wood; average cost at distributing point, $3 75 per cord. Bridges: Iron, 1; wooden, 1. CHARACTERISTICS OF ROAD. Trestles: Aggregate length, 2,504 feet. (2,010 feet filled in during 1893.) Tunnels: 1; length, 1,945 feet. Gauge of track: 4 feet 81⁄2 inches. Telephone: 25 miles of line; owned by the company. Number of stations on all roads operated by this company in California: 9. |