Amount of Expenses.

Main line (division not made under these headings), exclud

General Balance Sheet at Close of Business June 30, 1888.

Give description, extensions and character of improvements made during the year and the cost thereof:

Give concise statement of leases taken or surrendered, and consolidations or re-organizations effected during the year.

None.

The amount expended for new rolling stock during the year.

$221,204 41

Is your road willing to haul coal that comes from other roads and prorate the freight, the charge for the entire haul to be fixed by the road upon which the coal is mined, provided other roads will treat your road in like manner? We accept coal coming from other roads at agreed divisions. We would not be willing to allow the other roads to make rates over our road, as it would be ruinous to the mines located on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, and especially those in the State of Kentucky, none of which mines have an opportunity of marketing coal on the roads with which we connect.

Accidents Occurring in Kentucky During Year.

What freight and transportation company run over your road? B. & O. Express Company.

On what terms?

freight earnings.

Forty-five per cent. of gross express

Do they use your cars or their own? Our own?

Are their cars given any preference in speed or order of transportation? No.

I, Charles Schiff, of the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Company, being duly sworn, say that I have caused the foregoing statements to be prepared by the proper officers and agents of this company, and that I believe them to be correct.

C. SCHIFF, President.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 28th day of August,