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aggregate ascent aggregate length amount apportioned approximately ascending grades ascertaining the cost average distance Bellingham Bay betterments and improvements boxes branch line bridges capital stock carload lots cast iron cast iron pipe cent charged Columbia River construction cost of moving cost of reproduction cost the sum cubic yards current liabilities earnings ending June 30th engine equipment estimated to cost exceed 300 feet expenses feet floor area fiscal year ending Ilwaco interstate business June 30 less carloads line extending lineal feet locomotives lumber main line miles of straight moving an average Navigation Company Northern Pacific Railroad Northern Pacific Railway Northern Railway Company operating order to reproduce Oregon Railroad Pacific Railway Company Port Townsend portion Portland pounds purpose of ascertaining Railroad & Navigation railroad purposes rails rates reproduction is estimated revenue road Seattle Spokane Falls square feet floor station buildings steel Tacoma tide tide land tion tonnage tons per car Wash Washington
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Page 345 - Fuel for yard locomotives Water for yard locomotives Lubricants for yard locomotives Other supplies for yard locomotives Operating joint yards and terminals — Dr. Operating joint yards and terminals — Cr.
Page 25 - The president of the board shall preside at all meetings of the board, and in case of his absence...
Page 341 - Tunnels ......... Bridges, trestles, and culverts . . . . .Over and under grade crossings . Grade crossings, fences, cattle guards, and signs Snow and sand fences and...
Page 329 - It was very early in the history of railroads perceived that if these agencies of commerce were to accomplish the greatest practicable good, the charges for the transportation of different articles of freight could not be apportioned among such articles by reference to the cost of transporting them severally...
Page 127 - ... or otherwise, and such findings, when so introduced, shall be conclusive evidence of the facts therein stated as of the date therein stated under conditions then existing...
Page 236 - There shall be nothing added to this distance to cover running of locomotives from enginehouses to terminals, doubling hills, running for water, switching, or other work at way stations, or for the service of helper or pusher locomotives or of extra locomotives on double-head or triple-head trains.
Page 331 - It is a question of fact to be decided by the proper tribunal in each case as to what is controlling.
Page 348 - General Expenses: Salaries and Expenses of General Officers Salaries and Expenses of Clerks and Attendants.
Page 333 - Good crops may increase the transportation, business and poor crops reduce, high or low rates may likewise effect; but the only fair judicial test is to apply the rates to the business that has been done in the past and see whether upon that basis such rates will be remunerative, or compel the transaction of business at a loss.
Page 232 - ... or by or for any new Company in favor of any bondholder, or any other creditor, or of any holder of any claim whatsoever against the...