Name of Company. Northern Pacific Railroad company. Great Northern Railway company. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway company. The total expense of operating and maintaining each of the several lines of railway for the entire line of each railway company, for the year ending June 30, 1891, is as follows: Name of Company. Northern Pacific Railroad company Great Northern Railway company Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway company. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway company Chicago & Northwestern Railway company The percentage of expense of operating and maintaining the several lines of railway, to their gross earnings on entire line, for the year ending June 30, 1891, is as follows: Name of Company. Northern Pacific Railroad company. Great Northern Railway company Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway company. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway company. Chicago & Northwestern Railway company .... Per cent. 59.25 50.00 69.72 63.82 62.77 The total expense of operating and maintaining the several railway lines, within the State of North Dakota, for the year ending June 30, 1891, is as follows: Name of Company. Northern Pacific Railroad company Great Northern Railway company. .... Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway company. Expense. $2,463,366.85 1,415,590.79 28,174.99 363,263.76 58,927.13 The percentage of expense of operating and maintaining the several railway lines, to their gross earnings, in the State of North Dakota, for the year ending June 30, 1891, is as follows: Name of Company. Northern Pacific Railroad company. Great Northern Railway company Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway company.. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway company †Chicago & Northwestern Railway company.. Per cent. 60.42 53.27 110.55 84.84 The number of passengers carried one mile by each railway company, for the entire line of such company, for the year ending June 30, 1891, is as follows: *Proportioned according to mileage. Name of Company. Northern Pacific Railroad company Great Northern Railway company. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway company. .... No. Passengers. 244,321,201 82,327,486 19,760,159 262,551,100 311,054,319 The number of tons of freight carried one mile by each railway company, for the entire line of such company, for the year ending June 30, 1891, is as follows: Name of Company. Northern Pacific Railroad company. Great Northern Railway company .... Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway company. No. tons. 1,258,266,789 616,286,817 204,139,950 1,895,635,111 1,944,564,945 The average amount of compensation received, per ton per mile, for transportation by the several railway companies reporting, for the year ending June 30, 1891, is as follows: Nume of Company. Northern Pacific Railroad company. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway company. The average cost of transporting freight, per ton per mile, by the several railway companies reporting, for the year ending June 30, 1891, is estimated as follows: Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway company.. .460 cents Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway company .630 cents Chicago & Northwestern Railway company. .619 cents Accidents during the year ending June 30, 1891, on the rail roads reporting, in the State of North Dakota: Number of switchmen and flagmen injured, but not killed. 7 0 32 16 0 53 3 7 4 4 0 126 119 7 The number of employes of the several railway companies reporting, on the entire line of such company, for the year ending June 30, 1891, is as follows: Name of Company. Northern Pacific Railroad company (not reported by company). Great Northern Railway company Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway company Chicago & Northwestern Railway company Total employes (exclusive of the Northern Pacific). ... Number. 5,952 1,489 19,854 18,991 46,286 The number of employes of the several railway companies, in the State of North Dakota, as reported for the year ending June 30, 1891, is as follows: Name of Company. Northern Pacific Railroad company. Great Northern Railway company Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway company. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway company. Chicago & Northwestern Railway company Total employes in State of North Dakota...... Number. 1,636 977 41 409 12 3,075 The total amount of salaries and wages paid employes by the several railway companies, on their entire line, for the year ending June 30, 1891, is as follows: Name of Company. Northern Pacific Railroad company (not reported by the com Amount. pany Great Northern Railway company 3,468,374.66 Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway company. 847,558.65 12,463,362.94 Chicago & Northwestern Railway company... 11,743,005.13 Total amount of salaries paid (exclusive of the Northern The total amount of salaries and wages paid employes of the several railway companies reporting, in the State of North Dakota, for the year ending June 30, 1891, is as follows: Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway company. Total amount of salaries and wages paid in the State of ...... Amount. $ 1,140,133.92 523,364.10 22,942.90 245,974.53 4,930.75 $1,937,346.20 There has been built in the State of North Dakota, and put in operation during the year ending June 30, 1891, as reported by the Northern Pacific Railroad company, an extension of the Southeastern Dakota Railroad to Bayne, in the county of Richland, 4.94 RR Comrs 2 miles long; and as reported by the Great Northern Railway company, the Pembina Mountain branch from Grafton to Cavalier, in Pembina county, North Dakota, 31.71 miles; and since that time and before the 31st day of December, 1891, the Great Northern Railway company has built from the Red River west to Alton Junction about 12 miles; and the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway company has extended its road northwesterly from Hankinson to Valley City, a distance of about 81 miles, and westerly from Boynton to Merricourt, a distance of about 11 miles. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. The Commissioners made their annual visit and inspection of the main lines and branches of the Northern Pacific Railroad, pursuant to the provisions of Section 10, Chapter 122, of the Session Laws of 1890, after giving due notice thereof, in the following order: Davenport and Leonard, in the county of Cass; Sheldon, Lisbon and Marshall, in the county of Ransom; Oakes, in the county of Dickey; Valley Junction, LaMoure, Edgeley, Grand Rapids, Dickey and Adrian, in the county of LaMoure, and Montpelier, in the county of Stutsman, on the 3d day of June. Medora, in the county of Billings; Belfield and Dickinson, in the county of Stark, on the 4th day of June. Gladstone, Taylor and Richardton, in the county of Stark; Hebron, Glen Ullen, Sims, New Salem and Mandan, in the county of Morton, and Bismarck, in the county of Burleigh, on the 5th day of June. Menoken and Sterling, in the county of Burleigh; Steele, Dawson, Tappen and Crystal Springs, in the county of Kidder; Medina, Windsor, Eldridge, Jamestown and Pingree, in the county of Stutsman; Melville and Carrington, in the county of Foster; Sykeston, in the county of Wells, on the 6th day of June. New Rockford, in the county of Eddy; Oberon, Minnewaukan and Leeds, in the county of Benson; Spiritwood, in the county of Stutsman; Eckelson and Dazey, in the county of Barnes; and Cooperstown, in the county of Griggs, on the 7th day of June. Sanborn, Valley City and Oriska, in the county of Barnes; Tower City, Buffalo, Wheatland, Casselton, Mapleton and Fargo, in the county of Cass; and Grand Forks, in the county of Grand Forks, on the 8th day of June. Meckinock, Gilby and Johnston, in the county of Grand Forks; Forest River and Grafton, in the county of Walsh, and Drayton and Pembina, in the county of Pembina, on the 9th day of June. Milnor, in the county of Sargent, and Wyndmere, Mooreton, Farmington and Wahpeton, in the county of Richland, on the 10th day of June, 1891. The main line of this road in this State, from the Red River at Fargo to the Montana state line, a distance of about 377 miles, of which 5 miles is double tracked, from Fargo to Haggart, the tracks are laid with steel rails, 66 pounds per yard weight, and the roadbed is well ballasted with gravel, both track and roadbed in good condition. The ties are mostly oak, with some pine and tam arac. The Fargo & Southwestern branch of the Northern Pacific, from Fargo to Edgeley, a distance of about 109 miles, connects with the James River Valley Railroad at LaMoure. The track is laid with steel rails, 66 pounds to the yard weight. The ties are mostly oak, with some pine and tamarac. The track and roadbed are in good condition. The James River Valley branch from Jamestown to Oakes, a distance of about 69 miles, connects with the Fargo & Southwestern at LaMoure, and the Chicago & Northwestern Railway at Oakes, the track is laid with steel rails, 66 pounds to the yard weight. The ties are mostly oak, with some pine and tamarac. The track and roadbed are in good condition. The Jamestown & Northern branch from Jamestown northerly to Leeds, a distance of about 108 miles, together with the Sykeston branch from Carrington, on the Jamestown & Northern to Sykeston, a distance of about 13 miles, making in the aggregate on these branches a distance of about 121 miles, and connecting at Leeds with the Great Northern Railway. The track is laid with steel rails, 66 pounds to the yard weight. The ties are mostly oak, with some pine and tamarac. The track and roadbed are in good condition. The Sanborn, Cooperstown & Turtle Mountain branch, from Sanborn, on the main line, to Cooperstown, a distance of about 36 miles. The track is laid with steel rails, 66 pounds to the yard weight. The ties are mostly oak, with some pine and tamarac. The track and roadbed are in good condition. That portion of the Northern Pacific & Manitoba branch in the State of North Dakota, from Grand Forks to Pembina, a distance of about 94 miles. The track is laid with steel rails, 66 pounds to the yard weight. The ties are mostly oak, with some pine and tamarac. The track and roadbed are in good condition. That portion of the Northern Pacific, Fergus & Black Hills branch, in the State of North Dakota from Wahpeton to Milnor, a distance of about 41 miles, together with the Southeastern Dakota branch from Fairview Junction on the Northern Pacific, Fergus & Black Hills branch to Bayne, a distance of about 14 miles, making in the aggregate of both these branches a distance of about 55 miles. The track is laid with steel rails, 66 pounds to the yard weight. The ties are mostly oak, with some pine and tamarac. The track and roadbed are in good condition. |