Annual Report - Iowa State Commerce CommissionFourth report is accompanied by "Map and profiles of Iowa railroads, 1881". |
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Agent Albia Average number bridge Burlington & Quincy business originating CAPITAL STOCK cars in train Cedar Rapids cent Centerville Chicago coal complainant Conducting transportation Council Bluffs credited to Iowa CURRENT LIABILITIES depot destined to points Dubuque Dubuque & Sioux earning revenue earnings from operation earnings is credited earnings per mile ending June 30 fencing freight business freight cars-north freight received freight revenue freight traffic funded debt Grand total Gross earnings INCOME Island & Pacific Junction June 30 Kansas City Keokuk locomotives Louis lowa Mason City mile of road Miles run Milwaukee & St Minneapolis & St mortgage bonds number of acres Number of passengers number of tons Passenger and freight Paul & Kansas Prairie du Chien proportion of earnings Railroad Company RAILS Railway Company rates receipts for freight receipts from passengers road in Iowa Rock Island Sioux City station Telegraph Total mileage operated Total number track train mile Westinghouse
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Page 733 - ... road and conducting its business is reasonable and expedient in order to promote the security, convenience and accommodation of the public...
Page 717 - Total freight revenue .. Average amount received for each ton of freight Average receipts per ton per mile...
Page 733 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act to make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, company, firm, corporation, or locality, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever...
Page 476 - Total passenger revenue Average amount received from each passenger Average receipts per passenger per mile Total passenger earnings Passenger earnings per mile of road Passenger earnings per train mile FREIGHT TRAFFIC— Number of tons carried of freight earning revenue Number of tons carried one mile...
Page 377 - The cost and actual present cash value of its road and equipment, including permanent way. buildings and rolling stock, all real estate used exclusively in operating the road, and all fixtures and conveniences for transacting its business.
Page 32 - This power to regulate is not a power to destroy, and limitation is not the equivalent of confiscation. Under pretense of regulating fares and freights, the state cannot require a railroad corporation to carry persons or property without reward : neither can it do that which in law amounts to a taking of private property for public use without Just compensation, or without due process of law.
Page 108 - Iron, pig and bloom . Iron and steel rails . Other castings and machinery . Bar and sheet metal Cement, brick, and lime . Agricultural implements . . Wagons, carriages, tools, etc. Wines, liquors, and beers . Household goods and furniture Other manufactures Total .... Merchandise .... Miscellaneous — other commodities not mentioned above Total tonnage . Freight originating on this road.
Page 284 - Date and authority for each consolidation? .6. If a reorganized company, give name of original corporation, and refer to laws under which it was organized?
Page 807 - Whenever, in the judgment of the railroad commissioners, it shall appear that any railroad corporation, or other transportation company, fails, in any respect or particular, to comply with the terms of its charter or the laws of the state, or whenever in their judgment any repairs are necessary upon its road, or any...
Page 829 - ... expedient in order to promote the security, convenience and accommodation of the public, said railroad commissioners shall inform such railroad corporation of the improvements and changes which they adjudge to be proper, by a notice thereof in writing, to be served by leaving a copy thereof, certified by the commissioners...