CONTRACTS, AGREEMENTS, ETC. Contract-Between the Eel River and Eureka Railroad Company and Pacific_Lumber Company, to transport lumber, shakes, shingles, etc., from Junction Station, on Eel River and Eureka Railroad, to South Bay. Said lumber to be loaded on cars of the Pacific Lumber Company, and handled on their cars for $1 per thousand feet, board measure, and not less than four cars to be taken at any one time; empty cars to be returned to said Junction Station free of extra charge. Also to transport material for constructing and equipping their mills and railroad, loaded on their cars, from South Bay to Junction Station at 50 cents per ton. Contract to run twenty years from August 4, 1883. Contract-For transporting redwood logs, loaded on cars of said Pacific Lumber Company, from Junction Station to mill of the Milford Mill, Land, and Lumber Company, and return empties. Said logs to be delivered for $1 50 per thousand feet merchantable lumber. Said contract runs for three years from May 1, 1887. Contract-With Milford Land and Lumber Company, to transport lumber on cars of said Milford Land and Lumber Company from their mill on Salmon Creek to their wharf at South Bay for 65 cents per thousand feet, board measure. This contract continues ten years from November 2, 1885. Gauge of track: 4 feet 8 inches. Telephone: Owned by this company, 26 miles of line; number of stations on all roads operated by this company, 9; number of stations on all roads owned by this company, 9. DESCRIPTION OF ROAD. Date of Opening. 1. Date when the road or portions thereof were opened for public use: From South Bay to Burrell's Station.. From Eureka to South Bay. John Nance, President of the Eel River and Eureka Railroad Company, and Wm. S. Riddell, Secretary of the said company, being duly sworn, depose and say, 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 their direction and supervision; that they, the deponents, have carefully examined the same, and that as now furnished by them to the Board of Railroad Commissioners, they are, in all respects, just, correct, complete, and true, to the best of their knowledge, and, as they verily believe, the same contain a true and full exhibit of the condition and affairs of said company on the thirty-first day of December, 1888. JOHN NANCE. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this second day of October, 1889. way NORTHERN CALIFORNIA RAILROAD COMPANY. HISTORY. 1. Name of common carrier making this report: Northern California Railroad Company. 2. Date of organization: September 6, 1884. Number of stockholders at date of last election: 5. Last meeting of stockholders for election of Directors: February, 1888. |