Testimony: Introduced Before the Railroad Committee of the New Hampshire Legislature in Favor of the "Atherton Bill" (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Testimony: Introduced Before the Railroad Committee of the New Hampshire Legislature in Favor of the "Atherton Bill"

Q. What is your business?

A. General freight agent of the Concord Railroad.

How long have you acted in that capacity?

A. Four years last March.

Whether you have caused a computation to be made of the freight that has been gathered up on the Concord Railroad and branches, and sent over the Boston and Lowell Railroad into their Boston station?

A. I have: commencing April 1, 1886, to March 31, 1887, inclusive, 68,990 tons.

Aside from paying the haulage over the Boston and Lowell Road, what sum have you paid for the use of their terminal facilities?

A. Thirty cents per ton.

Have you a computation of the amount?

A. $20,697 in one year.

Q. Whether that is exclusive of paying haulage over their roads?

A. That is for terminal facilities, exclusive of haul-age.

Whether you have also caused a computation to be made of all the freight hauled over the Concord Road, and over the Boston and Lowell Road into Boston, no matter where it came from?

A. I have, for same time.

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