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Rh Company is $1,000,000, of which $980,600 has been paid in. The receipts for transportation of passengers for the year ending June 30, 1873, were $48,591, and for freight $71,071.91; total, $119,662.91. The expenses of the road and fixtures have been $3,723,700 The expense of the road for the fiscal year ending as above stated is $172,231.44. The companys indebtedness (in addition to the first-mortgage bonds, $1,600,000, and the Government loan, $1,600,000) is $303,058.45.

The amount of stock of the Kansas Pacific Railway Company subscribed is $9,992,500, and the amount paid is $9,655,950. Total amount of stock allowed by law, $10,000,000 The receipts for the transportation of passengers for the year ending June 30, 1873, are $1,393,633.96; for freight during same period, $2,285,038.52; miscellaneous earnings, $69.617.34; total, $3,748,289.82. The cost of construction and equipment of 639 miles of main line, and 33 miles of branch line (672 miles) has been $33,392.840.66. The total funded debt of the company is $27,452,100, of which $6,303,000 is due the United States. Other liabilities and indebtedness, $2,996,148.97, total, 830,448,248.97.

The amount of the stock of the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company subscribed and paid in is $4,000,000 The receipts for the year ending June 30, 1873, for transportation of passengers were $173,720.58; of freight, $149,012.42; and from miscellaneous sources, $13,215.25; total, $335,948.25. The cost of construction and equipment of the road to the date above stated was $6,493,800, and the indebtedness of the company to that date was $2,513,747.16.

Stock of the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad Company to the amount of $4,478,500 has been subscribed, of which $1,791,400 has been paid in. The receipts for the year ending June 30, 1873, from the transportation of passengers were 873,460.84; of freight, $169,507.36; of mails, $7,299.98; from express, 82,617.3S; and from miscellaneous sources, $9,044.56, total, $261,930.12 The expenses during that period were $201,164.60, leaving net earnings, $60,765.52. The indebtedness of the company is $3,339,743.80, of which $1,628,320 is due to the United States. This road commences at Sioux City, Iowa, and extends to Fremont, Nebr., where it intersects the Union Pacific Railroad, a distance of 101 miles.

At the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1873, the amount of subscribed stock of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company of California was $13,189,400; of which $11,965,400 was paid. Explorations and examinations of former preliminary lines have been continued since the last report amounting to 750 miles; 114 miles of road have been permanently located, and 64 completed. Twenty miles of this latter distance is on the route from Tipton to Delano, and 50 miles (commencing at the San Fernando Pass via Los Angeles, thence toward San Bernardino, ending about 29 miles easterly from Los Angeles) on the line from Tehachapi Pass to Fort Yuma. Forty-two and one-half miles have been completed on the branch line in the Salinas Valley. The