EVANSTON. Round-house, Weber Cañon stone, 15 (20) stalls. (Five stalls are used for a machine-shop.) Blacksmith-shop, wood, 40 by 60 feet. Stationary-engine room, wood, 20 by 40 feet. OGDEN. Round-house, wood, 6 stalls. Office and store-room, wood, 20 by 28 feet. The shops are well provided with machinery of best quality, and seem sufficient for the present requirements of the road. Better, more commodious, and comfortable buildings should be erected at Ogden, or such point near there as is to be the permanent point of junction of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads. Generally on the line of the road the accommodations for passengers in the matter of eatinghouses, waiting-rooms, &c., are good, but at Ogden they are very deficient. The company has been very fortunate in overcoming one of the most serious difficulties that confronted it at and for some time after the opening of the road. We refer to the want of good water, which for some time promised to be a source of great trouble. The efforts of the company to master this subject have been so far so successful that but little difficulty is now experienced, even when the road is most crowded with business; and on a part of the line where for a considerable time no water fit for machinery was found, now the best is obtained. This has resulted from persistent search, the discovery of springs, and the sinking of artesian wells. The following statement will show the location of water-stations, dimensions of tanks, power used, and source of supply: Omaha.-Tank 20 by 30, supplied from creek by steam-pump. Ogallala.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill. Big Springs.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill. Julesburgh.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill. Lodge Pole.-Tauk 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill. Sidney.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by steam-pump. Totten.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill. Antelope.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill. Bushnell.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill. Pine Bluffs-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from well by windmill. Egbert.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill. Hillsdale.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from well by steam-pump. Archer.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from well by steam pump. Cheyenne.-Tank 16 by 28, supplied from well by steam-pump. Hazard.-Tank 16 by 16, supplied from well by windmill. Otto.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from springs by steam-pump. Granite Cañon.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from creek by steam-pump. Buford.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from spring by steam pump. Sherman.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from spring by steam-pump. Red Buttes.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from creek by steam-pump. Laramie.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from river by steam-pump. Wyoming.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from river by steam-pump. Cooper Lake.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from river by steam-pump. Lookout.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from well by steam-pump. Rock Creek.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from creek by steam-pump. Medicine Bow.-Tank 16 by 14, supplied from creek by steam-pump. Carbon.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from well by steam-pump. Percy. Two tanks, each 16 by 24, supplied from springs, self-feeders. Fort Steel.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from river by steam-pump. Rawlings. Two tanks, each 16 by 24, supplied from Cherokee Spring by self-feeder and from Rawlings Spring by steam-pump. Separation.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from artesian well by stationary engine and boiler and deep-well pump. Depth of well, 1,103 feet; cost, $17,541.97. Creston.-East, two tanks, each 12 by 16, supplied from well by steam pump. Creston.-West, tank 16 by 24, supplied from artesian well by steampump. Depth of well 300 feet; cost, $1,504.66. Washakie. Two tanks, each 16 by 24, supplied from artesian well by stationary engine and boiler and deep-well pump. Depth of well, 638 feet; cost, $3,340.37. Red Desert.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from artesian well by stationary engine and boiler and deep-well pump. Depth of well, 503 feet; cost, $3,345.30. Bitter Creek.-Two tanks, each 16 by 24, supplied from artesian well Self-feeder. Depth of well, 696 feet; cost, $8,230.45. Point of Rocks.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from artesian well by steampump. Depth of well, 1,000 feet; cost, $2,819.37. Rock Springs.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from artesian well. Selffeeder. Depth of well, 1,145 feet; cost, $15,331.62. Green River.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from river by steam-pump. Aspen.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from well by steam-pump. Eranston.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from well by steam-pump. Wasatch.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from spring, self-feeder. Castle Rock.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from spring, self-feeder. Hanging Rock.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from spring, self-feeder. Echo.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from spring, self feeder. Peterson.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from spring, self-feeder. Ogden.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from river by steam-pump. Making in all seventy-five water-stations, averaging something over thirteen and one-half miles apart, as the line of road from Omaha to Ogden is 1,038.68. Seven of the stations are supplied by artesian-wells, the aggregate cost of which is $52,113.74. At seven of the stations the water-supply is self-feeding; at twenty-eight wind-mills are used for raising the water; at thirty-eight steam-power is used, and one is supplied by hand. At the close of the year (30th June, 1873) the company had on hand at its several stations, and belonging to the several departments, supplies of different classes, including ties and fuel, an aggregate amounting to $888,035.64. Concerning the fuel question, to which we referred at length in the report for 1872, we know of no reason for changing anything in said report. In order to arrive at the real state of the account between the Wyoming Coal Company and the Union Pacific Railroad Company, the following letter was addressed to the superintendent of the former company : OMAHA, September 10, 1873. THOMAS WARDELL, Esq., Superintendent Wyoming Coal Company, Omaha : Please give the price at which you are furnishing coal to the Union Pacific Railroad Company at this time, and the amount the railroad company owed you 1st September, and at what price you charged the company for coal on which your claim is based. Yours, J. H. MILLARD, Government Director Union Pacific Railroad Company. The reply to this letter is here given: WYOMING COAL AND MINING COMPANY, SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE, Omaha, September 12, 1873. Mr. J. H. MILLARD, Government Director Union Pacific Railroad Company, Omaha, Nebraska : DEAR SIR: Yours of September 10 received and contents noted. In answer would most respectfully refer you to Mr. John Duff, president Wyoming Coal and Mining Company, for answer to your inquiries. Yours, respectfully, THOMAS WARDELL, Treasurer Wyoming Coal and Mining Company. This correspondence is quite characteristic of the conduct of those having in charge the affairs of the Wyoming Coal and Mining Company, so far as our efforts to obtain information relative to its business relations with the Union Pacific Railroad Company are concerned. The account kept at Omaha by the latter company with the former does not agree with the prices for coal as fixed by the contract existing between the two companies. It is alleged that the Union Pacific Railroad Company owns nine-tenths of the capital stock of the said coal and mining company; Mr. Wardell claims to own the other tenth. He is the superintendent and treasurer, in fact, the general manager, of the coal and mining company, keeping its accounts, handling its money, and attending to its affairs generally. Considering the alleged interest of the railroad company, and the absence of complete information in relation to the coal account, the application made in the foregoing letter for data was well and properly directed. The result is another evidence of the impropriety of the coal contract from the beginning. Its existence can in no way be justified. Other parties operating in coal on the line of the road express a willingness to furnish coal to the railroad company at three dollars per ton. The price now nominally paid to the Wyoming Coal and Mining Company is three dollars and fifty cents. The difference between this and the contract-price, as set out in our report of last year, is, we are informed, held in abeyance for adjustment at some future time. The coal and mining company claims full contract price, which, as we are informed, reliably we doubt not, amounted, on the 31st of July last, to a balance due to said company of $1,075,596.97, while the balance due at that date, at the nominal price of $3.50, was $263,382.15, leaving a balance of $812,214.82, not a dollar of which, in our judgment, should ever be paid. And we are firmly of the opinion that an entirely new policy with respect to the fuel-deposits along the line of the road should be adopted, both as to the supplies for the company and for general consumption. Our views upon this subject generally were set forth in our last report, and are not now changed. The total earnings of the road for the year ending June 30, 1873, were $9, 633, 965 09 For the year ending June 30, 1872... Increase of 1873 over 1872 7, 953, 014 20 1,680, 950 80 4,300, 816 94 Operating expenses for the year ending June 30, 1873.. 4,697,999 56 For the year ending June 30, 1872..... Increase of 1873 over 1872 Net earnings for the year ending June 30, 1873. Increase of 1873 over 1872 397, 182 62 4,935, 965 53 3, 652, 197 35 1,283, 768 18 There has been a steady increase in the earnings of the road since the 30th of last June, and for the year which will close June 30, 1874, a very large increase over the last year may be expected. The net earnings for the year ending June 30, 1873, being $4,935,965.53, by deducting the interest on the first-mortgage bonds, (including premium on gold,) which, with gold estimated at 9 per cent., $1,781,129.98, we ascertain the amount on which the Government is entitled to five per cent. to be $3,154,835.55 for the said year. The five per cent. où same amounts to $157,741.77. In stating this conclusion we adhere to the position assumed in our report of last year, that the Union Pacific Railroad is a completed road within the meaning of the acts of Congress providing for its construction. We shall maintain this position until informed that the Government regards it as erroneous. The floating debt of the company is represented to be about $2,000,000, the greater part of which was occasioned by advances made to connecting lines of road in cash, materials, freight, purchase of stock, &c. A statement concerning each road so aided is here given. The Union Pacific Railroad Company's interest in the Utah Central Railroad Company, owning a line connecting with the former at Ogden, is the value of 5,000 shares of the capital stock of the Utah Central Railroad Company, purchased at fifty cents on the dollar, $250,000. The certificates for the 5,000 shares were accounted for on the 4th day of October, 1873, as follows: Pledged as collateral with Horace F. Clark, for self and other directors, against loans to the company for The Union Trust Company of New York.. Total.. Shares. 3,000 2,000 5,000 This stock is believed to be worth more than it cost the company, and is now in process of transfer to John Duff, president of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, in trust for said company. Statement of amounts charged Utah Southern Railroad Company for cash advanced, materials furnished, &c., by Union Pacific Railroad Company: Cash advanced, notes issued, &c Materials furnished and labor performed.. $255,058 68 63, 430 90 93, 696 72 412, 186 30 Against which the Union Pacific Railroad Company have received 480 Utah Southern bonds, at 80 per cent., $384,000. Balance, November 19, 1873, $28,286.30. The 480 bonds received are accounted for at above date as follows: Pledged as collateral with Morton, Bliss & Company, New York. The Union Trust Company, New York.. In hands of the Company $160,000 00 220,000 00 100, 000 00 480, 000 00 Statement of amounts charged Utah Northern Railroad Company for materials furnished, labor, freight charges, &c.: Company for cash advanced, materials furnished, &c.: Cash advanced, notes issued, and drafts accepted.. $887,696 90 151,171 90 48, 777 78 40, 655 09 1,128, 301 67 |