SIOUX CITY AND PACIFIC RAILROAD. Line of Road.-Sioux City, Iowa, to Fremont, Neb...... .106.8 miles. Sidings and other tracks, 11.25 miles. Gauge, 4 feet 8 inches. Rail, 56 lbs. to yard. This company also operate the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad, of which 51 miles have been constructed. Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines, 11. Cars-passenger, 8; baggage, mail and express, 4; officers', 1; and freight, box, 88; and platform, 65-total revenue cars, 166. Also 2 service and road cars, Operations. The company refused all information as to its earnings and expenses. By the Report of the Secretary of the Interior, they appear to have earned for the year ending June 30, 1872, $162,405, to wit, passengers, $63,549; freight, $85,803 ; miscellaneous, $13,053; expenses, $152,063; net earnings, $10,344. Financial Statement.-Capital stock paid in, $2,068,400; and funded debt, 1st mortgage 6 per cent gold bonds, dated July 1, 1868, and payable, interest semiannually, January and July, and principal July 1, 1898, $1,628,000-total stock and bonds, (representing cost of road and rolling stock,) $3,696,400. HORACE WILLIAMS, President.... ... .Cedar Rapids, Ia. J. Van Deventer, Vice-President and Asst. Treas...............Clinton, Ia. Treasurer-J. M. S. Williams. ..Boston, Mass. PRINCIPAL Office and ADDRESS.. 44 Reg. Lands-C. H. Clark. Cedar Rapids, IA. Missouri Valley, .Sioux City, " 66 ..Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., Ia. .No. 114 State st., Boston, Mass. PADUCAH AND MEMPHIS RAILROAD. (In progress.) (Consolidation, January 31, 1872, of the Paducah and Gulf, and the Mississippi River Railroads.) Line of Road.-Paducah, Ky., to Memphis, Tenn.. In operation: Paducah, Ky., to Troy, Tenn..... .165 miles. 631 The entire work is being pushed, and it is expected that the line will be completed from Paducah to Memphis in 1874. Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines, 7. Cars-passenger, 4; baggage, mail and express, 2; and freight, box, 26; platform, 34; and service, 11—total, 77. Operations during eleven months ending December 31, 1872.—Trains run-passengers, 133,467; freight, 335, 822-total, 469,289 miles. Passengers carried, 22,920. Freight moved, 21,589 tons; moved one mile, 1,041,618 tons. The funded debt consists of 1st mortgage 7 per cent gold bonds, dated February 1, 1872, interest payable in February and August, and principal February 1, 1902. Amount authorized, $2,805,000; issued, $1,000,000. Directors.-Extine Norton, New York City; L. S. Trimble, Paducah, Ky.; H. S. McComb, Wilmington, Del.; John P. Greene, Philadelphia, Pa.; J. S. Rogers, New York City; J. Elder, J. E. Garth, A. T. Lacey and John Overton, Jr., Memphis, Tenn. EXTINE NORTON, President. Treasurer-John L. Norton.. Secretary-N. Monsarrat.. .New York City. .Memphis, Tenn. | Superintendent J. W. Wilbur.... PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS. Paducah, Ky. .Paducah, McCracken Co., Ky. .41 Broad street, New York City. MISSOURI RIVER, FORT SCOTT AND GULF RAILROAD. .160 miles. Line of Road.—Kansas City, Mo., to Baxter Springs............ Sidings and other tracks, 16.1 miles. Gauge, 4 feet 8 inches. Rail, 56 lbs. to yard. The road was opened from Kansas City to Olathe, 21 miles, December 16, 1868; thence to Fort Scott, 109 miles, December 9, 1869; and to the State Line, (Baxter Springs,) 160 miles, May 2, 1870. A branch from Columbus to Chetopa, to connect with the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, is projected. The original name of the company was the Kansas and Neosho Valley Railroad, changed October 10, 1868, to the present title. Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines, 21. Cars-passenger, 12; baggage, mail and express, 5; freight, box, 250; platform, 80; and coal, 300-total revenue cars, 647. Also road and service car, 1. Operations for the year ending December 31, 1872.-Trains run-passenger, 213,242; freight, 247,544; other, 144,391-total, 605,177 miles. Passengers carried, 116,062. Carried one mile, 5,076,281. Earnings from passengers, $222,747.72; from freight, $391,500.89; miscellaneous, $67,662.37-total, $681,910.98. Operating expenses, $425,181.74; net earnings, $256,729.24. Financial Statement.-Capital stock, $5,947,000; funded debt, 1st mortgage 10 per cent land bonds, dated January 1, 1891, and payable, interest semi-annually January and July, and principal January 1, 1899, $5,000,000; 2d mortgage 10 per cent bonds, dated April 15, 1870, and payable, interest semi-annually April and October, and principal April 15, 1890, $1,947,000-total stocks and bonds, (representing cost of railroad and equipment,) $12,894,000. The amount due on account of lands sold to December 31, 1872, was $1,889,467.60. There remain unsold of the company's land-grant, 335,895 acres. Received from sale of lands, $131,459.05, less taxes, $65,023.01-$66,436.04; interest on county bonds, $34,125; sale of county bonds, $115,836.44-total, net income, $473,126.72. These lands are covered by the $5,000,000 mortgage. Directors, (elected May, 1872.)—-James F. Joy, Detroit, Mich.; Nathaniel Thayer, William F. Weld, H. H. Hunnewell, James H. Blake and Sidney Bartlett, Boston, Mass.; John N. A. Griswold, New York City; Kersey Coates, Kansas City, Mo.; and John T. Burris, Olathe, Kan. FORT DODGE AND MINNESOTA RAILROAD. (Projecte1.) Line of Road.-Fort Dodge, Ia., to Wells, Minn...... .117 miles. This road is intended to be a continuation of the Des Moines Valley Railroad into Minnesota, and a connection with the lines to St. Paul, etc. No part of the line is yet in operation; 56 miles are graded and bridged from Fort Dodge to Garner, on the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. B. F. GUE, President.... ....... .Fort Dodge, Ia. Treasurer......E. G. Morgan. | Secretary......W. N. Mezeroy. | Vice-President.....J. F. Dunscombe. FORT WAYNE AND PACIFIC RAILROAD. (Projected.) .143 miles. Line of Road.-State Line of Illinois to State Line of Ohio....... This road will continue the Muscatine, Kewanee and Eastern Railroad across the State of Indiana. The two roads are consolidated with the North American of Ohio, and the Muscatine and Western of Iowa. Some work has been done on the line, and it is now proposed to place it under active construction. R. S. DWIGGINS, President..... .Rensselaer, Ind. Vice-President-John Baker..... Fort Wayne, Ind. | Secretary-I. M. Stockhouse.... .Rensselaer, Ind. Treasurer-John Comstock....Liberty Mills, Chief Eng.-Joseph McWilliams.. Ft. Wayne, PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS. ..Rensselaer, Jasper Co., Ill. DETROIT, HILLSDALE AND INDIANA RAILROAD. Line of Road. -Ypsilanti, (30 m. W. Detroit,) Mich., to Bankers, Mich..65 miles. Sidings and other tracks, 3 miles. Gauge, 4 feet 8 inches. Rail, 56 lbs. to yard. This road, by its operations in connection with the Detroit, Eel River and Illinois Railroad, forms a part of what is known as the Detroit, Logansport and Indianapolis Line, constituted as follows: Detroit to Ypsilanti, by Michigan Central RR., 30 miles; Ypsilanti to Bankers, D., H. and I. RR., 65 miles; Bankers to Auburn, Ind., by Fort Wayne, Jackson and Saginaw RR., 46 miles; Auburn to Denver, by D., Eel R. and Ill, RR., 63 miles-total length of line as operated, 201 miles. At Denver, connection is made with Indianapolis by means of the Indianapolis, Peru and Chicago RR.-making the distance from Detroit to Indianapolis, 256 miles. Mortgage bonds secured by traffic guarantee of Michigan Central and Great Western of Canada, which jointly invest in said bonds 40 per cent of the gross earnings derived from all business received from the D., H. and Ind. Railroad. Directors, (elected January 14, 1873.)-C. H. Buhl, John Owen and James F. Joy, Detroit, Mich.; D. L. Quirk, Ypsilanti, Mich.; J. D. Corey, Manchester, Mich.; W. H. Davenport, Saline, Mich.; Ezra L. Koon, William Waldron and Benjamin Fisher, Hillsdale, Mich.; and Elijah Smith, Boston, Mass. (Opened, 1846. Leased December 1, 1859, by the Pittsb'g, Cin. and St. Louis R'y. Co.) 84 miles. .55 .16 Line of Road.-Cincinnati to Springfield, O..... Total .196 miles Sidings and other tracks, 65.5 miles. Gauge, 4 feet 9 inches. Rail, 60 lbs. to yard The report of this company embraces the Little Miami, Columbus and Xenia and Dayton and Western Railroad Companies, all of which are leased to the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway Company, and their characteristics and operations for the year are included in the report of that company. Prior to the lease of these roads to the P., C. & St. L. R'y Co., they were all under the management of the Little Miami Railroad Co., that company being the lessee of the roads of the other companies. The roads were operated as one linethe Little Miami Railroad and branches-that part of the L. M. RR. proper extending from Cincinnati to Xenia, with the Columbus and Xenia RR., extending from Xenia to Columbus, (forming a continuous line from Cincinnati to Columbus,) being known as the main line, and that part extending from Xenia to Springfield, the road from Xenia to Dayton, (old Dayton, Xenia and Belpre RR., purchased by the L. M. RR. Co.,) and the Dayton and Western Railroad, extending from Dayton to a point on the western State line, with a portion of the Richmond and Miami Railway, extending from said point on said State line to Richmond, Indiana, (leased to the D. & W. RR. Co., and by it sub-leased to the L. M. RR. Co.,) being known as branches. The Little Miami RR. Co., as the lessor of all these roads to the P., C. & St. L. R'y Co., receives the entire rental therefor, and is responsible to the other companies for their proportion of the same. Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines, 52. Cars-passenger, 42; baggage, mail and express, 21; freight, box, 432; and platform, 171; cattle, 138; and coal, 29total revenue cars, 833. Also 13 road and service cars. No report of operations for the year ending December 31, 1872, is furnished. The receipts on account of rent were $690,693.85, which was paid out for interest on funded debt and dividends on stock. Financial Statement.-Capital stock, (L. M., $4,607,950; C. and X., $1,786,500,) $6,394,450; funded debt, $2,556,000—total, representing cost of road and equipment, $8,950,450. Details of funded debt on which lessees pay interest: Directors, (elected January 28, 1873.)-Joseph C. Butler and Charles P. Cassilly, Cincinnati, O.; William H. Clement, Morrow, O.; Edmund Dexter, Henry Hanna and L. B. Harrison, Cincinnati, O.; Hugh J. Jewett, Columbus, O.; Richard Lewis, Joseph H. Rogers and Henry E. Spencer, Cincinnati, O.; Abraham Hivling, Xenia, O.; and Joseph R. Swan, Columbus, O. HUGH J. JEWETT, President.... .Columbus, O. Treasurer-Joseph C. Butler.......Cincinnati, O. | Secretary-Charles P. Cassilly.......Cincinnati, O. PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS.. Lafayette Bank Building, Cincinnati, O, |