The exaggerated mileages of the 1889 timetable would have added considerably to the freight charges, in the case of Ironton over 21%. It will be noticed beginning with Red Mountain that each Mears figure is 3 to 3½ miles more than the Kelly figure. Mr. Kelly was one of the ablest engineers of his day and his mileages cannot be questioned. The table below was copied from an Official Railway Guide of October 1893 but no date is given for the time it was in effect. It is interesting because the mileages are different and because, at the time, only one passenger train was running. 1 M Stations 2 7:30 A. M. 0 Lv. Silverton Ar. 11:50 A. M. 8:00 6 Burro Bridge 11:40 8:10 9 Chattanooga 11:30 8:30 13 Summit 11:10 8:40 14 Red Mountain 10:50 15 Vanderbilt 8:55 15 Yankee Girl 10:45 16 Paymaster coal track 9:10 17 Corkscrew Gulch 10:25 18 Paymaster ore track 9:20 A. M. 20 Ar. Ironton Lv. 10:00 All carrier lines issued paper passes but Mears wanted to do something special for _his_ railroad. Outside of the paper ones his passes fell into four categories—buckskin, plate, medallion and filigree. The first three were for the Silverton Railroad alone while the fourth, though made especially for the Rio Grande Southern Railroad, was usable on the S. R. There were two designs of the silver plate pass. It is supposed that the first die broke and a substitute had to be made. The medallion passes, ordinarily silver, have the date 1890, the number and the name of the recipient on the back. Two extra-special ones have come to light. Each is made of two _gold_ medallions set back to back and hinged to form a locket and each has a little diamond in the face. An odd silver pass, a spoon with a plate pass hanging from underneath, has been discovered. The filigrees, silver and gold, have been extensively treated in the book, _Rio Grande Southern Story_. According to an item in a Rico _Sun_ of November 28, 1891, copied from a Denver _Sun_, a company called “Ouray and Ironton Electric Railway, Light and Power,” consisting of Mears, Walsen, Charles Munn, James H. Cassanova and William H. Wallace, with capital of $800,000, filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State on November 20. Its purpose was to build a cog road from Ouray to Ironton, with a branch up Poughkeepsie Gulch (Uncompahgre River) to the head of Cement Creek. The following quotation is from Mr. Arthur Ridgway: