Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/ICC valuations/Union Pacific Railroad

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The Union Pacific is a corporation of Utah, having its home office at Salt Lake City, Utah, and its executive and general offices at New York, N. Y., and Omaha, Nebr., respectively.
 * UNION PACIFIC
 * INTRODUCTORY

January 9, 1912, the corporate books and subsidiary records of the company were destroyed by fire. New corporate books were opened as of June 30, 1911. The transactions between that date and January 9, 1912, were reestablished on the new books from various available records. Price, Waterhouse & Company, public accountants of New York City, have certified as follows:
 * "In our judgment the restoration of the accounts has been accomplished as accurately as possible, and, while the fire necessarily involved some loss of detail, it did not otherwise appreciably impair the value of the company's records. We, therefore, certify that in our opinion, the assets and liabilities of the company at June 30, 1911, and the transactions between that date and January 9, 1912, have been reestablished on the new books in practically complete accord with the old books and records."

Therefore, it is impossible to give complete information concerning certain of the financial transactions of this company.

The records do not indicate that the Union Pacific is controlled by any individuals or corporation. This company directly controls, through ownership of capital stock to the extent shown, the following common-carrier corporations: Oregon Short Line Railroad Company, 100 percent; The St. Joseph and Grand Island Railway Company, 94.42 percent.

This company indirectly controls to the extent shown, through its ownership of capital stock of the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company, the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company, 100 percent; Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company, 60 percent.

This company also controls, through ownership of the entire capital stock, the Union Pacific Equipment Association. Through this association certain of the equipment of the Union Pacific and its affiliated companies has been acquired by purchase or by lease.

This company controls jointly with other companies, through stock ownership, to the extent indicated, the following common-carrier corporations:

The Denver Union Terminal Railway Company, 16.66 percent; jointly controlled with The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company, The Colorado and Southern Railway Company, and The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company.

Kansas City Terminal Railway Company, 8.33 percent; jointly controlled with The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, The Chicago and Alton Railroad Company, Chicago Great Western Railroad Company, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, The Kansas City Southern Railway Company, Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company, Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company, and the Wabash Railway Company.

The Leavenworth Depot & Railroad Company, 41.66 percent; jointly controlled with The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, The Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company, and the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company.

Ogden Union Railway and Depot Company, 50 percent; jointly controlled with the Central Pacific Railway Company.

This company, with the Southern Pacific Company, through ownership by each of 50 percent of its capital stock, jointly controls the Pacific Fruit Express Company.

The property of the Union Pacific has been operated by its own organization from February 1, 1898, until December 31, 1917, except for the section of road extending 5 miles west from Ogden, Utah, which has been operated by the Southern Pacific Company, lessee of the Central Pacific Railway Company. On January 1, 1918, the common-carrier property of the Union Pacific was taken over for operation by the United States Railroad Administration which still operates it on date of valuation.

The Union Pacific was incorporated July 1, 1897, in Utah, for the principal purpose of acquiring the property, rights, and franchises of The Union Pacific Railway Company. It subsequently acquired by purchase the property, rights, and franchises of 15 other railroad corporations. The Union Pacific, itself, and those corporations, together with their predecessors, total 41 different corporations, of which one underwent two changes of name, and comprise the line of corporate succession culminating in the Union Pacific as at present constituted.
 * CORPORATE HISTORY

The names of the corporations, the respective dates of incorporation, and for each predecessor the date and manner of succession follows.

The recorded mileage owned by the Union Pacific amounts to
 * DEVELOPMENT OF FIXED PHYSICAL PROPERTY

This company was incorporated by special act of the Legislature of the Territory of Kansas, approved August 30, 1855, as the Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western Railroad Company. By vote of stockholders, the name of the latter was changed on June 6, 1863, to the Union Pacific Railway Company, Eastern Division, which was in turn changed to the Kansas Pacific Railway Company by joint resolution of Congress, approved March 3, 1869.
 * KANSAS PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY — PREDECESSOR OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY, FORMERLY NAMED UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY, EASTERN DIVISION, ORIGINALLY NAMED LEAVENWORTH, PAWNEE AND WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY
 * INTRODUCTORY

No accounting records of the company were obtained for the period from its incorporation in 1855 to July 1, 1865. For that reason only partial information can be given from its accounts in connection with its financial dealings or investments. Certain of the information given herein pertaining to the period first mentioned has been taken from sources other than the accounting records of the company.

The records do not indicate whether the company was controlled by any individual or corporation on January 24, 1880, the date of consolidation with The Union Pacific Railroad Company and the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company to form The Union Pacific Railway Company. Jay Gould at that time owned $4,000,000 of its capital stock. This company controlled on date of consolidation through ownership of capital stock, the following common-carrier corporations: Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company, Golden, Boulder and Caribou Railroad Company, Junction City and Fort Kearney Railway Company, The Solomon Railroad Company, Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad Company, The Saint Joseph Bridge Building Company, and the Kansas Central Railroad Company.

The property of this company was operated by its own organization from the dates the several sections were placed in operation to November 20, 1876; by receivers from November 21, 1876, to June 14, 1879, and by its own organization from June 15, 1879, to date of consolidation. Although the company disposed of its property on January 24, 1880, its accounting records include the results of corporate operations to January 31, 1880.

The company owned on date of consolidation a single-track, standard-gage, steam railroad of 674.43 miles, located in the States of Kansas and Colorado extending from the Missouri-Kansas State line at Kansas City to Denver, Colo., with branches to Leavenworth, Enterprise, and Wyandotte, in Kansas. The road owned on date of consolidation had been acquired by construction.

A contract for the construction of the first mileage was given September 9, 1862, to Ross, Steel & Co., a contracting firm of Montreal, Canada, which began construction work at Wyandotte, Kans. This contract was later abrogated, and a new contract was given February 13, 1864, to Samuel Hallett, who was affiliated with the company. Before any road was completed, Hallett died, and John D. Perry & Company, also affiliated with the company, continued the construction work and completed the first 40-mile section, extending west from the Missouri-Kansas State line, together with the 1.82-mile branch extending to Wyandotte, Kans.
 * DEVELOPMENT OF FIXED PHYSICAL PROPERTY