Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-28

| Answer-Operating expenses for 1882, exclusive
of interest taxes, general, legal, engineering and
| land department expenses, which amounted to
81, All 996 81, were Sl6,067 1888 81.
Operating expenses as above. s16 067, 1s3 CT
Other expenses as aoove..........,.. 4,4TT996 81
Total expenses ................. O5i5,Is0 "a
| Additional payments and requirements
from income of lSS2-company's
sinking iund. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1,03i, $50 %
United States Government sinking
fund and transportation eastward. 100000 90
Total ............................s2 2,G7o olO 81
l. State the per cent. of operating expenses, as
compared to gross earnings for each year since the
| road has been in operation.
Answer-The per cent. OF operating exp nses to
gross earnings each year, from 1854 to 1883 are as
| follows, to wit:
| lS65........23 %. sd IS75. Al Al
| 1S57............23 2Il tS76..............46 %
1865. SO 46l 1877. Al 20
| 1869 81. Isl 1873. 80 .0S
IIS7O...........49.3 81 1879. SO 81
IS7l..........43 81 1850 .............5S SO. 70
1872 ............ Al .SSl 1881. 81 %
1873. So GO 1882. 81 90
s. What is the total value Of all your property in
| this State at this time!
| Answer am unable to give you the desired in
| formation.
g. What was the total amount of taxes assessed
against the road in this State during the past fiscal
ty of this State and also whether the taxes assessed
have been paid.
NorE-For answer please refer to annexed sched-
ule the aggregate OF which is as follows:
Value of railroad. S23 ,O29 %
Value of other property. ........... 543l 600 w
Tot Il value ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2S9l6,69i W
| Taxes charged. .....'''..t'.''.-'.''. 51o,oSo II
| Taxes paid -oo,oo' %
| z. Please furnish sch due of the rates OF fare
| and freight CHARGED by you in this State!
| Answer-Full line of schedules has been se.t to
W. R. Andrus Secretary of the Board.
s. How much of your gross earnings came
from local passengers? How much from local
freights
Answer-Gross earnings for the entire system from
local passengers in 1882 were Si,9S0,SI0 81 ard
from local freight, s12 az 81. Our statistics
are not made up so as to show how much OF each
was in the State OF California.
! o. What were your total expenses for salaries to
employees for the year 1882? Please state the Names
official designations and salaries of every person in
your employment, in any capacity whatever, who
| receives much or more than 5000 per annum.
| Auswer-The amount paid to employees for sal
aries during the year 1882 was IS 2l3, 100 So OF
which there we're twenty three persons who received
as much as or more than S. 600 per annum. This
amount in the aggregate was s24So or an average
| of 50 $50 10.
| 10. What amount of money do you pay as rent
for each of your leased lines Please state the rent
per mile, as well as the gross sum for each lIne
Answer-Beow please find statement in detail:
Southern Pacific Railroad OF California,
| $3.50 per mile. ............,r......S1 650,6o0 90
Southern Pacific Railroad OF Arizona,
| SlS5 per mile. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 622, 355 40
| Southern Pacific Railroad Of New Mex
leo, $ls5 per mile. -: 1895 40
500 per mile ..:..........' $685. 90
Los Angeles and independence Railroad,
Amador Branch, s5l ii per mile 49,. 1900 90
| Berkeley Branch, $500 per mile. ....... 9,216 90
| Sacramento and placerville Railroad,
| between Sacramento and Brighton,
| Sl,440 per mile. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. POO 90
mlle...................::..::.:. oooOOo 90
s5io per mic ,.s.......,......... $4,000 90
Union Pacific Railway Company, be-
tween Promontory and Ogden, based
on net earnings per mile. ,.......... 1886 65
willows, sI5o per mile above willows t9oel7 20
per mile ...,................. 1906 90
! Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio
Railway ss3 SO per mile, s296, 759 24,
less paid I. and P. Railway, S54 900. l,s59 "a
Co orado River Bridge, 81, 900 per onth 1900 90
month .,................'. 1900 90
Total 199. 9s5 50
| OF this amount there is properly eharg-
| able to the previous year. S2,14 95
The above questions and answers pertain to Cir
cular No. l. The following to Substitute No. q:
In addition to the information heretofore re-
quested OF you we desire further statements and
| hibits showing:
First (B)-The name and principal place of bust.
| ness of your railroad company.
| Answer-Centra Pacific Railroad Company of Cal
ifornia, California Pacific Railroad Company, Stock
| ton and Copperopos Railroad Company, San Pablo
| and Tulare Railroad Company, Northern Railway,
| Amad0r Branch Railroad Company, Berkeley Branch
| Railroad Company, Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany of CaforDis, Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany of Arizona, Southern Pacific Railroad Com
| pany of New Mexico Los Angeles and San Diego
Railroad Company. Principal place of business,
| San Francisco, Cal
| Second (B)-A general description o. the line or
system of railroads it owns and operates.
| Third (B)-The same of its road or roads within
| this State.
| Answer-To these two questions beg to sub
| nit graphic answer in the form OF blue printed
| map, twenty six feet long, exhibiting the general
| physical characteristics Of all lines (owned and
| leased) operated by the Central Pacific Railroad
/ Company west of Ogden, Utah, and Ell Paso Texas,
excepting the lines for which our engineers
| have not been able to compile the necessary data,
| viz The extension Of the Northern Railway, from
Willows to Tehama, recently completed, and the
Colorado division of the Southern Pacific, now under
| construction from Mojave to the Needles, on the
| Coloradoriyer.
| Please note that the map in question bears pro.
files of the respective lines ION scales OF ten miles to
| the inch horizontal, and one thousand feet to the
inch yerticsl), the names OF all stations, and the
elevations Of same in feet and hundredths above sea
| level. The distances between stations in miles and
| hundredths OF mile: the maximum grade between
stations in feet per mile and the length of curved
line in miles, divided to show for short section Of
each road the aggregate length OF curves under SIX
degrees, those between six and eight degrees, and
those from eight to ten degrees, the latter rate OF
curvature being the mAxtnum. The location OF all
| fuel stltions water stations, station buildings
(depots ira scales, stock corrals, turn tables en-
CINE houses and section (track) houses are also ndi-
CITED on face OF he map
Fourth (B)-The interstate connections of the
overland and their local relations to each other
and to their respective feeders aad branches
Answer-The interstate connections with the
| overland roads as follows The Central Pacific
connects with the Union Pacific, the Utah and
Northern, and the Utah Central and Ogden; with
the Eureka and Palisade Railroad at Palisade with
the Nevada Central, at Battle Mountain, with the
Virginia and Truckee and Nevada and Oregon Rail-
roads at Reno. The Southern Pacific connects with
the California Southern Railway, at Cotton; with
the Sonora Railroad, at Benson with the Atchison,
Topeka and lnta Re, at Demiug, with the Galyes-
i ton Harrisburg aud San Antonio Railway, and Tex
| as and Pacific Railway, at Ell Paso. These inter-
state connections, in their local relations, indie
pendent OF each other, except that through rates
frequently made on low class freights to develop
| the particular resources OF localities which they
serve and the applicable to the feeders and
| branches within this state
Fifth (B The reasons, any, for differentia rates
ON system OF cooperating roads?
Answer-Assuming that the term eco operating"
means " branch in this connection there are many
reasons why rates branch roads should be higher
4
that the cost per ton OF moving freight over road
is in inverse ratio to the amount carried In opera-
ing short road with limited traffic, the fixed ex-
penses-by which meant interest, taxes station
expenses, renewals of perishabe property, such as
ties, fences, etc.-are the same regardless Of the
amount Of freight moved the motive power being
comparatively small part of the cost OF the service
and thus, where the volume of business is small,
| the cost per mile is eorrespondngly high.
| Sixth (B). The extent to which such feeders and
branches are dependent for continued existence and
rta do and
each
Answer-Branch roads, in most cases, could not
exist IN California without main lines and the ex-
tent to which this is true is evidenced by the follow
ing showing OF the gross earnings and expenses OF
three branches operated by this company, although
10 each case in apportionng earnings joint bust.
ness at through rates. the branch roads are allowed
| two miles for each mile Of the main line:
Amador Branch
Gross earnings. $50 692 ~
Operating expenses and interest on
bonded debt. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 81 ,203 05
Loss. $40 %
Los Angeles and San Diego Railroad
Operating expenses aud interest on
bolded debt. 72,92S o5
$40, 2ss o.
Los Angeles and Independence Railroad
Gross earnings. Sl5,4 6l II