Biennial Report of the Commissioner of Transportation ...: For the Years Ending December 31, 1877 and 1878

California. Commissioners of Transportation

F.P. Thompson, Superintendent State Printing, 1879 - Railroads - 464 pages

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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER	18

Statement CShowing reduction in rates in car load to San Francisco as per Tariff	28

Table showing reductions below legal rates on freights made by the San Francisco	43

Table IIIConstruction during the year	44

Table XConcluded Number of employés speed and casualties	39

Statement of wages paid employés in Wisconsin France Belgium and Germany	40

Table showing proportion of grain products transported to general markets of	49

The regulation of fares and freights by the establishment of competing lines owned	55

Wooden bridges including trestles and pilingtotal number aggregate length 152	152

57	155

Number of persons employed by companies	158

Persons killed from their own misconduct or carelessness in California_	164

Stockton and Copperopolis Railroad Company 167173	167

Table XIMileage traffic	170

Terminal Railroad Company 174176	174

Ton mileage to and from other roads	177

Inflexible rates	63

Table VIEarnings and income included in profit and loss account	66

The principles governing railroad rates by M de la Gournerie InspectorGeneral	69

Inland waters	75

Blank form of report furnished for the year ending December 31st 1877 329	3

Steamer line owned by company	4

Table VSources and applications of means applied to investments of company	5

Iron rail in roadway and sidingslength weight 12	12

Table IIIConstruction during the year	29

Reports of Railroad Companies for year ending December 31st 1877	32

44	36

Table IVCapital stock	40

Black Diamond Coal Mining Company 4448	44

45	45

Table VSources and applications of means applied to investments of company	47

Table VConcluded	54

California Pacific Railroad Company 5665	56

20	57

67	58

72	64

Central Pacific Railroad Company 6693	66

Total transportation earnings 78	70

33	71

Profit and loss profit	73

38	78

Summary of actual annual liabilities of the Central Pacific Railroad Company	79

Income leased lines	80

Table VConcluded	86

Table VIIContinued	91

Los Angeles and Independence Railroad Company 94100	94

Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad Company 101106	101

Table VIIConcluded	104

Table VIIConcluded	105

Northern Railway Company 107113	107

Pittsburg Railroad Company 114121	114

Sacramento and Placerville Railroad Company 122132	122

Table IXConstruction etc during year	130

Salmon Creek Railroad Company 133134	133

Table IXConstruction etc during year	136

Table XRolling stock and bridging	137

Table XRolling stock bridging number of employés speed and casualties	143

San Pablo and Tulare Railroad Company 144119	144

Wooden bridges including trestles and pilingtotal number aggregate length_ 146	146

South Bay Railroad and Land Company	150

58	180

Visalia Railroad Company 181183	181

Passengers carried from San Francisco excluding ferry and season ticket passen	183

Mendocino Railroad Company 189191	189

Table XIIIEarnings and expenses per train mile	199

Expenses freight department proportion of maintenance and movement	201

North Pacific Coast Railroad Company 207213	207

62	208

Table VIIINet profit	210

San Luis Obispo and Santa Maria Valley Railroad Company 214222	214

Net earnings per freight train mile	216

Santa Cruz Railroad Company 223229	223

Table XVRates of fares and freights per mile	226

Santa Cruz and Felton Railroad Company 230234	230

Table XVRates of fares and freights per mile	233

South Pacific Coast Railroad Company 236240	236

Table XVIAverages	238

Average dead weight carried one mile to each passenger	247

Date of incorporation 1	249

Average miles runfreight cars__	253

Reports of Railroad Companies for year ending December 31st 1878	278

Black Diamond Coal Mining Company 288291	288

California Pacific Railroad Company 295304	295

Total earnings passenger department	303

Central Pacific Railroad Company 305336	305

Los Angeles and Independence Railroad Company 337341	337

Northern Railway Company 345351	345

Pittsburg Railroad Company 352356	352

Salmon Creek Railroad Company 364365	364

Total income	368

San Pablo and Tulare Railroad Company 373378	373

South Bay Railroad and Land Company	379

Table VIIOperating and other expenses included in profit and loss account	380

Civil engineering	394

Stockton and Copperopolis Railroad Company 396400	396

Vaca Valley and Clear Lake Railroad Company 403408	403

Visalia Railroad Company 409411	409

Bay and Coast Railroad Company 414416	414

Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Company 423430	423

North Pacific Coast Railroad Company 431437	431

San Luis Obispo and Santa Maria Valley Railroad Company 438445	438

Santa Cruz Railroad Company 446452	446

Santa Cruz and Felton Railroad Company 453457	453

Sonoma Valley Railroad Company	459

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Aggregate length amount paid Average rate Average weight baggage cars Berkeley Branch Railroad C. P. Huntington California Northern Railroad California Pacific Railroad cash assets Central Pacific Railroad cents County crossings of highways December 31 Director ending December 31st fare per mile feet above track freight department freight trains Funded debt highway crossings Interest issued number Leland Stanford Length in Miles Length of iron Length of main lengths of steel locomotives main line Marysville mileage miles of road mortgage Number of crossings Number of highway Number of railroad number of shares Number of stockholders Number of telegraph Pacific Railroad Company Passenger and freight passenger cars passenger department passenger trains property account property purchased Rail Company railroad crossings rate of fare Repairs roads operated Sacramento San Francisco sinking funds Southern Pacific Railroad specifying steel rail tons Total length Total number Total on whole TRAFFIC EXPENSES train mile Western Pacific Railroad whole road

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Title	Biennial Report of the Commissioner of Transportation ...: For the Years Ending December 31, 1877 and 1878
Author	California. Commissioners of Transportation
Publisher	F.P. Thompson, Superintendent State Printing, 1879
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	10 Jul 2008
Length	464 pages

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