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Excerpt from Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners: January, 1876 Salaries, wages, etc., per train mile, 7, 191. Saratoga combination a move in the right direction, 63 principles of, 63, 64. Saugus Branch of Eastern Railroad, cheap trains on, 53. Season-ticket passengers, number of, 168. Replies to special inquiries concerning, 98-114. Service, train, cost of, 6, 7. Sidings, statistics of, 148-153. Speed, rate of, on street railways, 202. Springfield, Athol 8c north-eastern Railroad, cost per train mile on, 31. Unsafe condition of bridge of, over Bos ton Albany Railroad, 81. Springfield 8. New London Railroad Company added to number of companies, 2. Report on, 83. Stations, number of, 10, 178. Statistical tables, contents of, 142-147 Steel rails, miles of, 8, 172. Different methods of' charging cost of, 28. Replies to special inquiries as to method of charging, 98-114. Stock of railroads, amount of, 3, 154. Per mile of road owned, 187. How owned, 17 8. Dividends on, 6, 164. Of street railways, amount of, 11, 198. Per mile owned, 208. Dividends on, 11. Stockholders, statistics of, 178. Street railway returns (see Returns). Street railways, statistics of, 11, 198 - 213. Number of, 11. Capital stock of, 11, 198. Debt of, 11, 198. Length of, 11, 200. Cost of, 11, 198-200. Per mile built, 11, 208. Income of, 202. Expense of operating, 11, 202. Expenditures charged to property account by, cost of round trip on, 11, 212. Dividends of, 11, 204. Equipment of, 11 198, 206. Car mileage on, 11, 200. Number of passengers on, 11, 200. Per round trip, 208. Of trips on, 11, 200. Supervisor of railroad accounts necessary to secure uniformity, 35. Should be satisfactory to companies, 35. How to be appointed, 35, 36. Surplus or deficit of railroad companies, statistics of, 164. Of street railway companies, statistics of, 204. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
