CHARACTERISTICS OF ROAD-Continued. Maximum curve, 18 degrees. Maximum grade, 105 feet per mile. Bridges: Wooden pile bridge, one length, 200 feet. Trestles : Aggregate length, 3,418 feet. Gauge of track: Three feet. Telegraph. Number of stations on all roads operated by this company in California, 2. DESCRIPTION OF ROAD. 1. Date when the road or portions thereof were opened for public use: From Reno to Chat. Date of Opening. .Mar. 2, 1885. ...Mar. 1, 1888. June 6, 1888. -.Sept. 10, 1888. E. Gest, Manager of the Nevada and California Railroad, being duly sworn, deposes and says, that the statements, tables, and answers contained in the foregoing thirty-four sheets have been compiled and prepared by the proper officers of said road, from its books and records, under his direction and supervision; that he, the deponent, has carefully examined the same, and that, as now furnished by him to the Board of Railroad Commissioners, they are, in all respects, just, correct, complete, and true, to the best of his knowledge; and, as he verily believes, the same contain a true and full exhibit of the condition and affairs of said road on the thirty-first day of December, 1888. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this twenty-ninth day of June, 1889. E. GEST. H. L. FISH, VISALIA AND TULARE RAILROAD COMPANY. HISTORY. 1. Name of common carrier making this report: Visalia and Tulare Railroad Company. 2. Date of organization: September 13, 1887. PASSENGER, FREIGHT, AND TRAIN MILEAGE. Average receipts per passenger, 50 cents for 11 miles. Number. Total Number at End of Year. Rails-Steel. 11 1 1 1 1 3 1 2 REPORT OF BOARD OF RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS. CONSUMPTION OF FUEL BY LOCOMOTIVES. Locomotives. Wood-Cords. 100 feet 8 inches. Telegraph. CHARACTERISTICS OF ROAD. Number of stations on all roads operated by this company in California, 2. DESCRIPTION OF ROAD. Date of opening, October 22, 1888. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, County of Tulare.}s SS. V. D. Knapps, Secretary of the Visalia and Tulare Railroad Company, being duly sworn, deposes and says, that the statements, tables, and answers contained in the foregoing thirty-four sheets have been compiled and prepared by the proper officers of said company, from its books and records, under his direction and supervision; that he, the deponent, has carefully examined the same, and that as now furnished by him to the Board of Railroad Commissioners, they are, in all respects, just, correct, complete, and true, to the best of his knowledge; and, as he verily believes, the same contain a true and full exhibit of the condition and affairs of said company on the thirty-first day of December, 1188. Subsribed and sworn to before me, this tenth day of October, 1889. V. D. KNAPPS. D. O. ANDERSON, |