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$233,453.74

Total for construction

Parlor and sleeping cars (number, 1)

Furniture and tools, White Mountain division
Stocks, bonds, and investments

Total charges to property accounts

Balance-Sheet, September 30, 1886.

Cost of road

Cost of equipment

ASSETS.

$6,640,352.80

14,500.00 100.00

452,861.84

$696,915.58

1,199,029.41

Wharves and wharf property

911,537.41

Extension of Woburn branch

282,771.18

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Total liabilities (as per books of the company) $12,453,811.09

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Number of season-ticket

*

passengers

$2,240,303

1,702,119

3,942,422

648,105

90,956

4,681,483

539,003

40 passengers of 25 miles

Number of local passengers (including season), and mileage. Each 1000-miles ticket is estimated as

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6,334,450

Number of through passengers (to and from other roads going over and beyond this road)

365,580

Total number of passengers carried.

6,700,030

Local passenger mileage (local passengers carried one mile)

70,282,913

Through passenger mileage (through passengers

carried one mile).

18,083,625

Total passenger mileage

Number tons local freight

* Reckoning twelve passengers per week for time of each season ticket.

88,366,538

1,230,682

Number tons through freight (to and from other
roads going over and beyond this road)
Total number tons freight carried

1,350,973 2,581,655

Local freight mileage (tons local freight carried

one mile)

45,060,903

Through freight mileage (tons through freight

carried one mile) *

104,773,851

Total freight mileage

149,834,754

Average number of persons employed

DESCRIPTION OF ROAD.

3,543

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Total length of branches owned by company
Double track on branches

71.34

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Total road belonging to this company

Sidings and other tracks not above enumerated
Total length of track, computed as single track
Total length of steel rails in tracks, not including
steel-top rails

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[Weights per yard, 60 and 72 lbs.]

Roads and Branches belonging to other Companies operated by this Company under lease or contract.

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Total miles of road operated by this company.
Total miles of road operated by this company in

New Hampshire.

Number of stations in New Hampshire on all roads operated by this company

Number of telegraph offices in same

Number of stations on all roads owned by this company

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STATEMENT OF EACH ACCIDENT IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.

October 5, 1885.-James Davis found beside track near Warren station fatally injured. It is supposed that he attempted to get on to moving freight car and fell under wheels.

October 18.- Lucius Groves and John P. Emerson, engineers,

and E. F. Harvey, freight brakeman, were killed. Oscar G. Leighton and Frank C. Wells, firemen, Wm. W. Stone, express messenger, Frank M. Stevens, postal clerk, and William Turner, baggage master, were injured in a collision between passenger and freight trains near Andover Centre.

November 4.— W. G. Braley, employe, struck by cars and slightly injured while making up train at West Lebanon.

November 5. Wooster W. Dearborn, engineer, supposed to have been caught between engine and tender of a derailed locomotive at Plymouth; fatally injured.

November 5.- James Landers, employe, fell from freight car at Orange Summit and sprained his ankle.

December 14.-Augustus H. Wheeler, 14 years old, driving across track in Milford, was struck by passenger train and fatally injured.

December 15.-F. C. Coates, employe, had fingers injured while uncoupling cars at East Lebanon.

January 12, 1886. — H. H. Edwards injured by derailment of train at Tilton.

January 14.- Mr. Landre crawled under passenger car at Nashua and was instantly killed when train started; suicide.

February 1.- James Staples jumped from passenger car near East Andover and was fatally injured (not a passenger).

February 6.- Mr. Webster, walking on track, was struck by locomotive, but not seriously injured, at Tilton; intoxicated.

February 10.-James E. Sheean, employe, arm crushed while coupling cars at Concord.

February 16.-Joseph Progius, attempting to board passenger train at Hillsborough Bridge, fell and had foot crushed by wheels; intoxicated.

February 20.- Wallace Smith, walking on track near Wilton, was run over by train and lost a leg.

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March 3.

-J. S. Greeley, employe, was injured at Franklin by fall of a door from freight car.

May 6. Henry Williams, walking on track near Lisbon, was struck by locomotive and instantly killed; intoxicated.

June 25.- George W. Bayseu, employe, fell from freight car at Marlborough and was fatally injured.

July 23.-B. D. Brown, employe, hand injured while coupling engine to train at West Lebanon.

August 11.- John Aldrich, employe, fell from moving train near Warren Summit and was fatally injured.

August 21.-Jessie Colby was killed, Nora Colby, Blanche

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