Second Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners: For the Year Ending December 1, 1884 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Second Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners: For the Year Ending December 1, 1884

Sir - In accordance with the requirements of the provisions of section 6 of the act of the Legislature of Kansas, approved March 6,1883,concern ing railroads and other common carriers, we have the honor herewith to submit to you our second annual report.

In this report we have included statements and statistics gathered from the returns to this office of the various railroad companies operating in this State, and such of the decisions rendered by the Board in the settlement of controversies and complaints as would in our judgment tend to throw light upon the workings of the system of railroad transportation in the State, in so far as the same are affected by the regulative features of the law.

The Board are in numerous instances able to settle causes of complaint without the necessity for formal investigation and decision, either through personal interviews with railroad officers, or through correspondence.

The orders and recommendations of the Board have during the past year been, in nearly every instance, adopted and obeyed by the managers of rail roads. They have quite promptly and adequately responded to the requests of the Board for information pertaining to their roads.

Railroad building has been much less active the past year than it had been for several years previous. In this State for the year ending June 30, 884, miles of additional main track had been built, and miles of additional side track.

Upon several of the leading lines or systems of railroads there has been a material falling-off of earnings compared with the preceding year. On the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fé road, including branch lines, the gross earnings for the year ending June 30, 1884, were against for the preceding year, a decrease of The Operating expenses were less in 1884 than in 1883 by still leaving a net decrease of income from earnings of compared with the previous year.

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