Number of shares of ordinary stock (subscribed) Total shares of stock, of par value of $100 per share (subscribed). 60,000 60,000 20 No distribution in detail can be given until final settlement with construction company. The equipment is not owned by the railway company, but is held by the Continental Construction Company to protect its liens until final settlement and delivery of property. This company leased the Saratoga Lake railway and the Hoosac Tunnel and Saratoga railway in July, 1882, and now controls and operates said properties under such lease, and have embodied the doings of said properties in this report. List of Branches Owned, Leased and Operated. (Built.) Gauge of track. Miles of steel rails (reduced to single track) in main line.. Miles of telegraph wire owned and operated, single wire. Dummy engines.. EQUIPMENT. Number of locomotive engines for passenger service.... Total number of locomotive engines owned........ Average weight (with tender and fuel and water) of each kind of locomotive engines, viz.: Passenger engines.. Freight engines Switching engines. Number of engine-houses.. Aggregate number of stalls in same. Number of first-class passenger cars.. Number of second-class and emigrant passenger cars. Number of baggage, mail and express cars. Number of freight cars controlled by the corporation for use, but leased instead of owned.... 980 MISCELLANEOUS. Number of machine and car shops..... Number of freight or cattle-yards, of two acres or more in area Miles of track laid in same.. 2104 Aggregate amount of salaries and wages paid to same for the year. Average number of persons directly employed by the company during the year.... 415 $246,224 10 DOINGS OF THE YEAR IN TRANSPORTATION AND TOTAL MILES RUN. Number of tons, of 2,000 pounds, of freight carried in cars. 1,048,743 Number of miles traveled by passengers, or number of passengers carried one mile (total movement of passengers").. 4,824,880 Number of miles one ton of freight was carried, or number of tons carried one mile (total movement of freight ")..... 50,957,143 Average rate of speed (miles per hour) adopted by ordinary passen. ger trains, including stops. Rate of speed of same when in motion. Rate of speed of same when in motion Average rate of speed adopted by freight trains, including stops. Average rate of speed adopted by express passenger trains, including stops AVERAGE RATE CHARGED PER TON PER MILE ON FREIGHT. General average of through and way.. 0.6565 cents. AVERAGE RATE CHARGED FOR PASSENGER PER MILE. Rate on way. 2.51 2.51 2.31 cents. |