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Author: Civic Federation of Chicago
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Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Author: Civic Federation (Chicago)
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Languages : en
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Author: Civic Federation of Chicago
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Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Author: Chicago (Ill.). Street Railway Commission
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Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Author: Frank B. Gilbert
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Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
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Author: John Archibald Fairlie
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Category : Municipal franchises
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1388
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Author: Civic Federation of Chicago
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781458938633
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Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT. EXHIBITS I TO VI. By Edmund F. Bard. EXHIBIT I.?CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY CO. Sec. I.?Financial Operations before Introduction of Cable Traction. This company was incorporated February 14, 1859, by special act of the Illinois Legislature, and immediately succeeded to certain rights granted to sundry other persons by the city council of Chicago August 16, 1858, for the construction and operation of street railroads in the city of Chicago, work upon which had already commenced November 1, 1858. By April 25, 1859, little over one mile of single track road on State St. from Randolph St. to 12th St. was in operation. Two months later, the road was extended to 22d St., the southern limits of the city at that time. The rails of this road were spiked to the planks of the corduroy road then existing in State St. The equipment consisted of four cars and 25 horses. Fourteen years later the mileage had increased to 23 miles single track and the equipment to 75 cars and 600 horses. Seven years later the mileage was 45.679 miles single track and the equipment 292 cars and 1,468 horses. Of the 45.679 miles of single track road existing January 1, 1881, three miles, on Cottage Grove Ave. from Oakwood Boulevard to 55th St. and thence on 55th St. to Lake Ave., was steam dummy road. Incidentally it mav be said that the cost per day of feeding each horse was 22.6 cents; grooming, 8.9 cents; for other help, including foremen, nurses, watchmen and watermen, 8.6 cents; of tools, blankets and medicine, .01 cent; of bedding, 4 mills, and of shoeing, 4.2 cents, a total of 46 cents. In 1881 cable power, as a means of transportation, was introduced, and by January 27, 1882, the first section of 9.033 miles single track cable road built in Chicago was in success...
Author: William K. Ackerman
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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