The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-20
Railroad Valuation Engineers
Ready With Report.
Cost of Reproduction per Mile
Is S5s,5OO.
IN ENTIRE STATE S62, ,653, 500
Force in Topeka Offices for
Last IS Months.
Engineer A. J. Wise in Charge
of Valuation.

After eighteen months of field work
| and compilation out of Topeka, the
Rock Island ines is nearly ready to
make a report of the physical valua-
| tion of the road in Kansas to the state
public utilities commission. At the of
! nee OF the enginee in charge of the
work, A. J. :. ise, in the Rock Island
building today, it is stated that the
ROCK Island in Kansas will average
$5S,5Oo mile physical valuation. This
Will amount to more than $62, ,O00, 900.
From this report it will be seen that
the Rock Island Lines has an immense
investment in this state. It was a sur
| the condition of the road in this state
was up to the $5S,500 a mile standard
AT $5S,5OO mile and with 1,071 miles
in Kansas, the Rock Island will show
to the public utilities commission a
$62, ,655,500 valuation.
From these figures it is estimated
that the Rock Island will show the
second largest valuation in the state
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
railway will average above SIS, 500 a
mile on account of more ballast and
larger terminals The Rock Island will
come second with the Union Pacific or
Missouri Pacific a probable third
Inc task of taking the physical
valuation began in Kansas in Novem-
Der 1911 The field work lasted for one
year under charge of Engineer A J.
Wise with corps of five men, Since
December 1912 the office force has been
compiling the notes taken in field work
These notes have been compiled and
at this time the valuation men are
checking over the entire work with the
engineers of the state public utilities
commission.
state profile Of every mile of the
Rock Island in Kansas will be filed
with the commission. Also a map of
the entire right of way of the owner
ship in the state. In addition to this
information, the engineers will have
completed map of every station and
grounds. These maps have been made
mostly by the engineering force in To-
peka. A few maps were drawn up in
Chicago.
The value assigned by the physical
engineers represents the reproductive
value of the lines in this state. In
other words, it would cost $58,5OO a
mile or more than $62, 100000 to build
a railroad like the Rock Island in
Kansas.
The notes of Engineer Wise include
every tie, spike, engine, station. The
list includes in a general way, right
of way and station grounds, real es-
tate, grading, tunnels bridges, trestles,
ballast, track laying and surfacing,
roadway, tools, fencing, crossings,
signs and overhead bridges. interlock-
ing and other signal apparatus, tele-
graph and telephone lines, station
buildings and fixtures, general office
building and fixtures, shops, engine
houses, turntables, shop machinery
and tools, water stations, fuel stations,
grain elevators, storage warehouses
electric light plants, electric power
plants, electric power transmission,
gas producing plants, miscellaneous
structures, transportation of men and
materials, rent of equipment, cost of
road purchased, qualification and sea-
soning of roadbed, engineering, steam
locomotives, passenger cars, freight
cars, work, miscellaneous, law ex-
pense, stationery and printing, insur-
ance, taxes, interest and commission,
fuel, stock, stores, material and other
expenditures. .