Below is the report filed by the Jamestown and Lake Erie Railway with the New York State Board of Railroad Commissioners for the year ending June 30, 1898.
The report showed that the railroad owned five locomotives with four driving wheels, 11 first-class passenger cars, one second-class passenger car, two baggage, mail and express cars, and one flat car. These were the same as the prior year.
The report lists an expense of $216 as “Part cost of new station and Point Chautauqua.” It also included a cost of $811.18 for the grading and ballasting of the Falconer Branch, $628.50 for a new car shed in Jamestown, $396.80 for reconstruction of the Chautauqua Branch, and $1,099.10 for “removing sheds, Falconer branch.” I have no idea what that refers to.
The railroad operated 21.17 miles of main line from Jamestown to Mayville Junction and had two branches, one from Mayville to Chautauqua Institution (2.68 miles) and one from Clifton to Falconer (3.46 miles). In this report they also included the 1.2 mile section of the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway from Mayville Junction to Mayville that the J&LE had the right to operate over.
Source: 16th Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York, For the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1898, Volume II. Google Books.