The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1879-01-28

And the Report Of the Commis.
0tonor0.

The report Of Tie railroad commissioner
says: The railroads in the State have all
bsen constructed since the Alb Of July 1851,
u which time there We 10 railroad vest
Of the Mississippi river and none reaching
il from the Atlantic coast. The people of
Missouri commenced building railroads
from that river - their base and terminus
Ass.in A. King vas governor Of the State,
Luther n. Kennett mayor Of st. Louis, and
Thomas Allen va president of the Pacific
railroad company. when on the above
named day the construction OF that road
wss commenced q St. Louis With imposinR
cerenonie.. On that occasion Mayor Ken
nett moved the first shovel full Of earth.
The int locomotive seen west Of the Mis-
siasippi vas put upon the No. Pacific track
in 1852. and ct the elo.e Of that year pee
senger lrain was run a far % Cheltenham.
The road Wss opened to Franklin in July,
1853.
At the Close of the var there were 925 !
miles of railroad in operation in the State. I
Al the cad Of 1873 the number of mi!es had /
been increased to 2,e6O There sre now
completed about 3, 352 miles.
NUMBER OF LINES.
The total number OF main and branch
lines is 6fty-one. covered by ei9hty-one
different franchise, ali now owned by
thirty -six different corporations and oper
sied BY twenty seven different companies.
The total earnings Of railroads in this
State for the year ending July, /. 1873. we're
SIS, 81. 800, being an average of s. 81 / Ter
mile.
There are over twenty ranafe miles uf
territory aud 625 inhabitants to one mile
Of railroad in the State. North of the
Missouri river there are fourteen equsre
miles and 40 people TO the mile. Souih
Of that river there are twenty reven square
miles. and. excluding St. Louis city, 5lS
inhabitants, and including St. Louis $50
inhabitsnts to the mile. vi the FORTY four ,
counties north Of the river, only four have
no railroads within their limits. vi the
seventy counties south of the river, twenty
Tx are without railroads.
By the Law Of March Goth, 1875. ps.aen- p
ger rates are limited to three cents a mile u
M all trunk lines, and four cents on other m
lines, and also 6xes certain freight rates. ii
THE HANNIBAL AND ST. JOSEPH. Il
3. r. Co., claims exemption by its charter g;
rom eli Law in regard 10 rates, yet il has re
zen compelled in self-defense 10 reduce &c
he passenger rates 10 the same as on other h.
oads, and the average il no, nov IL not in
'0v above the legal rate. The total saving e
. passenger changes BY this enforcement Il
{ the Law Of 1875 10 At the rsie Of nj least DR.
j !OOO, OO0 per annum. "a
THE PASSENGER EARNINGS. on
'er mile of the various roads during the &c
ear 1873. were - follows: Missouri Pa ali
i6c, $2.522 per mile; X. e., st. Joe 4 C. sa
J., $l.722 per mile; Hannibal & ST. Joe, ar
i 500 per mile: St. Louis, X. c. & North
m. 81 .7IS per mile; NJ, X. & T., $l,0ol W
er mile; 81. Louie, Keokuk Il n. w., ar
726 per mile; La. & Mo. River, S6S4 per al,
nile St. Louis & San Francisco, $675 per br,
,ile. tiy
All the roads are rapidly laying steel Ky
lils, snd on the 3ist of Dec. last the trunk th,
~ he'd the following number Of sleel VII
nils laid: piI
o. No. Pacific. go miles; st. Louis, X.
. 4 Northern, $50 miles; Hannibal & aff
l. Joseph. $50 miles; NJ, X. & L., IS Til
'ilss; 81. Louis Iron Mountain 4 s., 90 I'm
tiles; ST. Louis 4 San Francisco, 55 miles; for
,ansss City, St. Louis & Chicago, 1870 An
iIs; Kansas City. st. Joe 4 c. b., 20 ass
lies. POI