*Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and Clarinda & St. Louis not classified. AVERAGE RECEIPTS AND COST OF CARRYING PASSENGERS PER MILE-EN ROAD. TIRE LINE. 678.167.51 3,130,463.09 3,079,527.49 6,492,690.28 24,642 2 615 2.605 Burlington & Northwestern. Burlington & Western Des Moines & Kansas City. Des Moines & Northwestern. 2.820 2.849 5.645 OPERATING EXPENSES AND EARNINGS-FOR IOWA. Gross earnings for Iowa for the year ending June 30, 1889, as reported...... Operating expenses for Iowa for the year ending June 30, 1889, as reported Net earnings. Per mile as reported Earnings for the year ending June 30, 1890, as reported and estimated by the Board. Operating expenses.. Net earnings.. Per mile.. The gross earnings were an increase of..... Total net increase of revenue........ Net earnings for Iowa for year ending June 30, 1889. Increase for 1890 over 1889... .$ 37,469,276.26 25,607.966.17 .8 41,318.133.69 27.296,283.93 .8 14,021,849.76 1,821.37 3,848,857.43 1,688.317.76 $ 2,160,539.67 11.861,310.09 14,021,849.76 $ 2,160,539.67 OPERATING EXPENSES, INTEREST, RENTALS, TAXES, ETC., COMPARED WITH EARNINGS-ENTIRE LINE. Gross earnings from operation... Operating expenses Interest on funded debt Interest on unfunded debt Rentals. Taxes.. Permanent improvements.. Other deductions... Total operating expenses, interest, rentals, taxes, etc.. Excess of earnings over operating expenses, interest, rentals, taxes. etc... .8143,500,341.73 93,937,579.66 29,156,137.95 63,624.65 2.852,630.75 4,740,327.47 193,505.67 1,681,878.98 $132,625,685.13 ..8 10.874,656.60 Excess of earnings over operating expenses and taxes for .8 41,318,133.69 37,469,276.26 .8 3,848,857.43 41,318,133.69 28,519,702.76 8 2,798,430.93 COST OF ROAD AND EQUIPMENT TO JUNE 30, 1890-ENTIRE LINE. Thirty roads representing a total of 26,430.75 miles, report total cost of road and equipment Cost per mile ................. .8851,456,779.42 32,359.39 Twenty roads representing a total of 11,286.39 miles, report cost of construction 340,679,357.99 Cost per mile 30,193.08 Seventeen roads representing a total of 11,237.22 miles, report a cost of equipment Cost per mile .... 44,979,329.24 4.029.41 PROPORTION OF COST OF ROAD AND EQUIPMENT TO JUNE 30, 1890-FOR IOWA. Thirty roads representing a total of 7,992.27 miles, report cost and equipment. Cost per mile $258,465,788.43 23,339.47 COST OF ROAD, EQUIPMENT, PERMANENT IMPROVEMENT DURING YEAR. Right of way Fences.... Grading and bridge and culvert masonry. Bridge and trestles Rails. Ties.. Other superstructure... Buildings, furniture and fixtures. Shop machinery.. Engineering expenses. Telegraph lines.. Wharfing Sidings and yard extensions.. Road built by contract and purchase of constructed road. Other items... Not classified.. Total construction.. Locomotives. Passenger cars Sleeping, parlor and dining cars Baggage, express and postal cars Freight cars Other cars, all classes Floating equipment.... Not classified..... Total equipment Credit, property sold..... Total by which property account has been increased... 108.999.77 9.353.48 25,702.40 1,118.166.24 37,296.58 14,008.01 493,223.48 $ 2,251,338.30 786,286.74 .$ 22,485,750.97 *The mileage of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern is 7.22 miles less than in 1889 because that number of miles operated under trackage rights were erroneously included in the mileage of that road for 1889. The mileage of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road is reported by the company as 7.32 miles less than in 1889, a condition which the officials are unable to account for, except as follows: CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD, W. W. AINSWORTH, ESQ., Secretary Board of Railroad Commissioners, Des Moines: In the upper table on page 39, the mileage given is 1,040.741, and is the total mileage operated including second and side tracks, the actual mileage of single track being the figures in the upper line, 751.274, which may be relied upon as the correct mileage at that time and to the best of our knowledge and belief. As you point out in your letter there is a difference between that mileage and the mileage shown in the report of the previous year, just how to account for this difference I cannot now tell, as at this late day I have not the materials at hand showing how the figures in the 1889 report were arrived at. Mileage does vary from time to time on the road even without the building of new tracks chargeable to construction; this may arise from new measurments of particular |