PASSENGER, FREIGHT, AND TRAIN MILEAGE-Pacific System. Freight earnings per train mile-South or West... Passenger and freight: Passenger and freight earnings. Passenger and freight earnings per mile of road, average 4,071.25 miles Expense per mile of road. Total earnings per mile of road, including mails, ex Train mileage: 15,365,267 504,477,788 $11,157,177 05 Cents, 73 Cents, 2.21 Cannot state. 2,740 48 1 53 6,325,326 1,292,296,710 204.31 21,243,502 66 press, etc Miles run by passenger trains 7,289,590 Miles run by freight trains Miles run by mixed trains.. 9,371,349 3 36 Cents, 1.64 Cannot state. 5,217 93 2 27 32,400,679 71 7,958 41 Cannot state. 8,625 67 Nearly all equipped with Westinghouse air brake, and nearly all equipped with Miller platform and coupler. RENEWALS OF RAILS AND TIES. New rails laid during year, steel, 20,765.02 tons. Average price of rails at distributing point, steel, $45 and $50 per ton. New ties laid during year, redwood, pine, fir, and cedar, 1,695,045; average price at distributing point, 57 cents. Number, 63; maximum length, 6,966.5 feet; minimum length, 85 feet; aggregate length of all tunnels, 43,399 feet. Gauge of track: 4,096.51 miles of 4 feet 8 inches; 141 miles of 3 feet.. Telegraph: Owned by this company, none; operated by this company, December 31, 1888, for train purposes, 4,244.81 miles; number of stations on all roads operated by this company in California, 897; number of stations on all roads owned by this company in California, none. Leland Stanford, President of the Southern Pacific Company, and G. L. Lansing, Secretary and Controller of the said company, being duly sworn, depose and say, that the statements, tables, and answers contained in the foregoing thirty-four sheets have been compiled and prepared by the proper officers of said company, from its books and records, under their direction and supervision; that they, the deponents, have carefully examined the same, and that as now furnished by them to the Board of Railroad Commissioners, they are, in all respects, just, correct, complete, and true, to the best of their knowledge, and, as they verily believe, the same contain a true and full exhibit of the condition and affairs of said company on the thirty-first day of December, 1888. LELAND STANFORD. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this first day of July, 1889. E. B. RYAN, |