Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners of the State of Wisconsin, Volume 4 |
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accidents those numbered amount of cash bonds bridges capital stock carried one mile cash received cent chapter 57 Chicago Chippewa Falls conduct or want consin date of last double track Earnings per mile Earnings per train-mile ENDING SEPTEMBER 30 engineers entire line express companies follows were caused Fond du Lac freight carried FUNDED AND UNFUNDED Galena govern your employees Green Bay including stops Injured iron rail Killed lands been granted lands sold last report lease Length of branch Length of double Madison mile of road mile run Milwaukee Milwaukee & St Mineral Point mixed trains Number of miles numbered as follows parallel or competing passenger trains passengers carried Prairie du Chien preferred stock Railroad Commissioner railroad companies railroad corporation rates of freight Richland Center SEPTEMBER 30 Sheboygan speed allowed steel rail Stevens Point tons Total number UNFUNDED DEBT West Wisconsin Whole amount Whole Line Wiscon Wisconsin Central
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Page 199 - No railroad, canal or other corporation, or the lessees, purchasers or managers of any railroad or canal corporation, shall consolidate the stock, property or franchises of such corporation with, or lease, or purchase the works or franchises of, or in any way control any other railroad or canal corporation owning or having under its control a parallel or competing line...
Page 244 - What freight and transportation companies run on your road, and on what terms, and on what conditions as to rates, use of track, machinery, repairs of cars, etc.; do they use the cars of your company, or those furnished by themselves, and are their cars or their freight given any preference in speed or order of transportation, and if so, in what particular?
Page 12 - ... thereof, and shall also from time to time carefully examine and inspect the condition of each railroad in the state, and of its equipment, and the manner of its conduct and management, with reference to the public safety and convenience...
Page 32 - No railroad company shall charge, demand or receive from any person, company or corporation, for the transportation of any property or for any other service, a greater sum than it shall at the same time charge, demand or receive from any other person, company or corporation, for a like service...
Page 141 - ... any other railroad corporation owning or having under its control a parallel or competing line; nor shall any officer of such railroad corporation act as an officer of any other railroad corporation owning or having the control of a parallel or competing line ; and the question whether railroads are parallel or competing lines shall, when demanded by the party complainant, be decided by a jury, as in other civil issues.
Page 35 - ... and shall enter into bonds, with security to be approved by the governor, in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duty as such commissioner.
Page 32 - ... shall have power to punish for contempt, as in other cases of refusal to obey the process and order of such court.
Page 33 - It shall be the duty of any railroad corporation when within their power to do so, and upon reasonable notice, to furnish suitable cars to any and all persons who may apply therefor, for the transportation of any and all kinds of freight, and to receive and transport such freight with all reasonable dispatch, and to provide and keep suitable facilities for the receiving and handling the same at any depot on the line of its road...
Page 124 - ... etc. ; what kind of business is done by them, and do you take their freights at the depot, or at the office of such express companies?
Page 202 - Company, being duly sworn, depose and say that I have caused the foregoing statements to be prepared by the proper officers and agents of this Company, and having carefully examined the same, declare them to be a true, full, and correct statement of the condition and affairs of said Company, on the thirty-first day of December, AD 1876, to the best of my knowledge and belief.