The Mail Pay on the Burlington Railroad: Statements of Car Space and All Facilities Furnished for the Government Mails and for Express and Passengers in All Passenger Trains on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
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The Mail Pay on the Burlington Railroad: Statements of Car Space and All Facilities Furnished for the Government Mails and for Express and Passengers in All Passenger Trains on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company; Railway mail service -- United States
If the Government had paid their fare at two cents per mile the amount
paid would have been $62,174.94.
These items of station facilities and other service rendered to the
Government for the mails amounted to $86,689 for November, or at the
rate of more than one million dollars annually.
_Express Expense._
Rental value of space in station buildings used for
express, for which no rent is paid $488.68
Rental value of tracks used for advance loading
of express 191.11
Value of 42,298 miles of free transportation to
Express Company officials and employees at two
cents per mile. 885.96
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$1,565.75
In addition to the foregoing, the agents and employees of the railroad
company in the month of November rendered service at stations in
handling express and in other ways for the Express Company to the
amount of $10,274, but the Express Company paid to the same persons
$14,538 in commissions.
The Express Company also shared in the salaries paid to certain
baggage men and other joint train employees in November to the amount
of $7,480, in addition to the payment of commissions, as aforesaid.
All the items of expense to the railroad company on account of the
express in the way of space furnished and free transportation to
employees, and services of station agents, amount to $11,840, while
the cash payments by the Express Company to the railroad Company
indirectly, through payments in commissions to station agents and the
salaries of baggage men amounts to $22,018, a pecuniary gain or income
from express of $10,178 per month, or at the rate of $124,136
annually, compared with a large outgo annually on account of the mails
as shown in the foregoing items.
_Exhibit C._
[Form 2603.]
_Revenues and Expenses and Train and Car Mileage._
_Revenues._
Receipts in November from all passenger traffic
(not including Mail and Express) $1,859,839
Receipts from Express 187,825
Receipts from Mails 194,435
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Total $2,242,099
_Expenses._
Total Operating Expenses of the road for November $5,452,830
Passenger Operating Expenses, and one-twelfth
of the taxes and one-twelfth of the interest
on the funded debt $2,365,521
The passenger operating expenses are distributed as follows:
_Assignable Expenses._
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