The amount, character, and value of rolling-stock on the road Au gust 20, 1873, were as follows:

These were all reported to be in good condition at the date above given; and, touching the sufficiency of the above equipment, the general superintendent reported to us, "We have sufficient cars for general use, but at times could use one hundred more box-cars, and one hundred and fifty more flat cars. We are building sufficient freight-cars at the present time to meet future requirements.”

Our own observation satisfied us that more box and flat cars are needed to accommodate the business of the road, and would have placed the number required at more, rather than less, than named by the gen eral superintendent; and, in our judgment, the motive-power, instead of being reduced by sale or leave of Congress, should rather be increased. The following statement will give the location, dimensions, character, &c., of shops and buildings in the locomotive department:

OMAHA.

Machine-shop No. 1, brick, 60 by 120 feet.
Machine-shop No. 2, brick, 50 by 75 feet.

Boiler-shop, brick, 50 by 75 feet.

Blacksmith-shop, brick, 76 by 200 feet.

Tin-shop, brick, 40 by 50 feet.

Stationary-engine room, brick, 26 by 90 feet.

Store-room, brick, 76 by 83 feet.

Oil-house, with cellar, brick, 24 by 37 feet.

Sand-house, brick, 24 by 60 feet.

Fire-engine house, brick, 30 by 104 feet.

Foundery, wood, 76 by 200 feet.

Round-house, brick, 20 stalls.

Store-house, (for waste,) brick, 26 by 40 feet.

GRAND ISLAND.

Round-house, brick, 10 stalls.

Blacksmith-shop, wood, 204 by 32 feet.

Oil-house, wood, 9 by 24 feet.

Sand-house, wood, 12 by 16 feet.

NORTH PLATTE.

Machine-shop, brick, 100 by 150 feet.
Blacksmith-shop, brick, 60 by 100 feet.
Office, brick, 22 by 30 feet.
Store-room, wood, 18 by 24 feet.
Oil-house, wood, 16 by 16 feet.
Round-house, brick, 20 stalls.

SIDNEY

Round-house, brick, 10 stalls.
Blacksmith-shop, wood, 22 by 32 feet.

CHEYENNE.

Round house, mountain stone, 20 stalls.
Coal-house, wood, 30 by 25 feet.

Oil-cellar, wood, 20 by 30 feet.

SHERMAN.

Round-house, mountain stone, 5 stalls.

LARAMIE.

Machine-shop, mountain stone, 75 by 125 feet.
Blacksmith-shop, mountain stone, 75 by 100 feet.
Engine house, mountain stone, 32 by 39 feet.
Oil-house, mountain stone, 28 by 40 feet.
Iron-bouse, mountain stone, 34 by 44 feet.
Round-house, mountain stone, 20 stalls.

MEDICINE BOW.

Round-house, mountain stone, 5 stalls.

RAWLINGS.

Machine shop, mountain stone, 75 by 100 feet.
Stationary-engine room, mountain stone, 36 by 48 feet.
Iron and copper-shop, wood, 30 by 75 feet.

Office and store-room, wood, 30 by 75 feet.

Round-house, stone, 15 stalls.

Fifty feet of the machine-shop at Rawlings is used for a blacksmithshop. There is also another machine-shop of wood, capable of holding two engines undergoing repairs.

BITTER CREEK.

Round-house, mountain stone, 5 stalls.
Blacksmith-shop, wood, 32 by 70 feet.

GREEN RIVER.

Machine and blacksmith shop, wood, 40 by 60 feet.
Round-house, Weber Cañon stone, 15 stalls.

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 eating. houses, 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. Thes 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, d:meusions of tanks, power used, and source of supply:

Omaha.-Tank 20 by 30, supplied from creek by steam-pump.
Pappillion.-Tank 8 by 12, supplied from creek by hand.
Elkhorn.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill.
Valley.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill.
Fremont.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill.
North Bend.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill.
Schuyler.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill.
Columbus.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill.
Silver Creek.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill.
Lone Tree.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill.
Chapman's.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill.
Grand Island.-One tank 16 by 24, supplied from well by steam-pump.
One tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by steam-pump.
Wood River.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill.
Kearney.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill.
Elm Creek.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill.
Plum Creek.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill.
Willow Island.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill.
Brady Island.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill.
McPherson.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from well by windmill.
North Platte.-One tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by steam-pump,
One tank 16 by 28, supplied from well by steam pump,
O'Fallons.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill.
Alkali.—Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill.

Ogallala.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill. Big Springs.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill. Julexburgh.-Tank 12 by 16, supplied from well by windmill. Lodge Pole.-Tank 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 ary engine and boiler and deep-well pump. cost, $3,345.30.

artesian well by stationDepth of well, 503 feet;

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.
Bryon.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from river by steam-pump.
Granger.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from river by steam-pump.
Church Buttes.-Tank 14 by 24, supplied from creek by steam-pump.
Carter.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from creek by steam-pump.
Bridger.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from creek by steam-pump.
Piedmont.-Tank 16 by 24, supplied from well 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, sup plies 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, 1573.

THOMAS WARDELL, Esq., Superintendent Wyoming Coal Company, Omaha : Please give the price at which you are furnishing coal to the Union Pacific Railroad Corpany 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, 1-73 Mr. J. H. MILLARD, Government Director Union Pacific Railroad Company, Omaha, NebraskaDEAR 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, "of 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 be tween 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 teuth. 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