Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/ICC valuations/Alton and Southern Railroad

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The carrier was incorporated August 1, 1913, under the general laws of the State of Illinois, for the purpose of constructing and operating a railroad from a point on the east bank of the Mississippi River in St. Clair County, Ill., opposite St. Louis, Mo., around and through East St. Louis, Ill., to a point on the east bank of the Mississippi River, in Madison County, Ill. The carrier subsequently acquired the railroad property of three other railroad corporations [...]
 * CORPORATE HISTORY

The owned mileage of the carrier, about 16.161 miles, was acquired partly by purchase and partly by construction. The property constructed by the carrier and by its predecessors, [...] and the manner in which the carrier acquired the property are indicated in the following table:
 * DEVELOPMENT OF FIXED PHYSICAL PROPERTY
 * Acquired by construction from—
 * East bank of the Mississippi River in St. Clair County, Ill., in a northerly direction to 29th Street in East St. Louis, Ill., and from a point 2,000 feet north of Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company's track to a point 1,000 feet south of Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad Company's track, 1913 5.79
 * A point 1,000 feet south of Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad Company's track northerly to a connection with that track, 1915 .19
 * Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad Company's track northerly to a connection with Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Railroad Company's track at Granite City, Ill., 1916-1917 5.61
 * Acquired by purchase from—
 * Denverside Connecting Railway Company, Sept. 6, 1913, constructed by that company, from 29th Street in a northeasterly direction to State Street, East St. Louis, Ill., 1912 2.80
 * Alton & Southern Railway, constructed by that company, from State Street, East St. Louis, Ill., northerly to a point 2,000 feet north of Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company's track, 1913 .99
 * Alton & Southern Railroad Company, purchased by this company from the Aluminum Ore Company, July 1, 1911; details of construction not obtained, from plant of the Aluminum Ore Company in East St. Louis, Ill., northerly to a connection with track of the St. Louis & Belleville Electric Railway Company at Louisiana Boulevard, East St. Louis, Ill. 1.00
 * Total 16.38
 * Difference between total recorded mileage and mileage inventoried as date of valuation .219
 * Mileage inventoried as of date of valuation 16.161


 * HISTORY OF CORPORATE FINANCING