Hand brake, draw bar and link coupler used on cars, and cast-iron switches used on the road. Passenger cars heated with stoves, lighted with kerosene lamps, and ventilated by trunk lights along top of car. This road carries its own express under the title of Chateaugay Express Company. Contract with the U. S. Government for transportation of mails: We receive $370.58 per quarter, and pay for delivery to post offices and stations. Live stock DESCRIPTION OF FREIGHT MOVED. Lumber Pig and bar iron and steel. Iron or other ores.. All other manufactures All other merchandise All other articles not included above Total....... EMPLOYEES. Average number of persons employed (including officials) during year... OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY. Tonnage. 887 7,901 1,577 141, 343 10,695 4,374 14,543 181, 320 115 $44,539 18 5 1 6 Title of company, Chateaugay Railroad Company. General offices at Plattsburgh, N. Y. Date of close of fiscal year, September 30. Date of stockholders' annual meeting, May. For information concerning this report, address A. L. Inman, General Manager. INCOME ACCOUNT FOR YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 80, 1886. 18 $380,000 Received from the Northern Central Railway Company on account of net earnings... $22,885 00 Payments from income, as follows, viz.: Dividends declared, 6 per cent on $38,000 common stock Tax on capital stock... $22,800 00 Date of close of fiscal year, September 30. Date of stockholders' annual meeting, first Wednesday in September. For information concerning this report, address John S. Leib, Treasurer, Baltimore, Md. CHEMUNG. (Date of charter, May 14, 1845.) INCOME ACCOUNT FOR YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1886. Computed on earnings from carrying passengers and freight only. Average rate received per mile for carrying passengers, all classes.... Average rate received per mile per ton for carrying freight, all classes DESCRIPTION OF ROAD AND EQUIPMENT. Main line from Chemung Junction to Watkins, N. Y., single track. Grand total of tracks, sidings and turnouts... Cents. *2.105 .807 Total miles all in N. Y. State. 17.40 6.62 24.02 17.40 Laid with steel rail, main line..... Average life of ties, 8 years; weight of rails per yard, steel, 60 lbs.; iron, maximum, 60 lbs., minimum, 56 lbs; gauge of track, 4 feet 9 inches; ballasted with cinders and gravel. Westinghouse automatic air-brake and Janney coupler used on passenger equipment; hand-brake, link and pin coupling on freight equipment. Point switches used on main track. Should be 1.897 R. R. Commissioners. |