Classification of cars: Coal Care.-Iron (8-wheel), 3, and (4-wheel), 2,477; and wooden (8-wheel), 5,241, and (4-wheel), 2,065. Total, 9,786=(8-wheel), 7,515, or (4-wheel), 15,030. Freight Cars.-Platform, gun (16-wheel), 1; house (8-wheel), 511, and (4-wheel), 46; cattle (8-wheel), 49, and (4-wheel), 4; platform (8-wheel), 778, and (4-wheel), 22; lime (8-wheel), 44, and (4-wheel), 121; and sand and ore (4-wheel), 6. Total, 1,582 (8-wheel), 1,483, or (4-wheel), 2,967. Passenger Cars.-Passenger (8-wheel), 599, and (4-wheel), 1; baggage (8-wheel), 30; and mail and express (8-wheel), 11. Total, 141=(8-wheel), 1404, or (4-wheel), 281. Transportation Department Cars-including wrecking, crane, wood and fuel, dump, etc.-(8-wheel), 30, and (4-wheel, 163. Total, 193=(8-wheel), 1114; or (4wheel), 223. Roadway Department Cars-including wrecking, crane, salt, dump, etc.-(8wheel), 73, and (4-wheel), 267. Total, 340=(8-wheel), 2064 or (4-wheel), 413. Aggregate stock of cars, 12,042-(8-wheel), 9,457, or (4-wheel), 18,914. The Company also own a large amount of other stationary and moveable property, viz. : In use of Transportation Department-43 steam engines for shops, pumping and sawing iron; 7 snow plows, 25 carts, wagons and drays; 194 horses and mules; 18 extra tenders for locomotives. In use of Roadway Department--5 steam engines at Pittstown shops; 1 waterwheel and pump at Norristown; 5 portable engines and pumps; 9 lumber and stone trucks; 4 carts; 1 dredging machine; 16 scows and 3 skiffs. The number of locomotive engines and cars (reduced to 4-wheel) in use on all the roads of the Company on the 30th November yearly, for the last eight years, was as follows: Operations for the year ending November 30, 1869: Trains run-on main line, 2,589,542; on Lebanon Valley, 636,966; on lateral roads in coal region, 1,660,926; on other lines, 271,867-total, 5,159,301 miles. Passengers carried, 1,527,769; carried one mile, 40,525,071. Freight moved, 1,422,738 tons (2,000 lbs.); moved one mile, 61,277,827 tons. Total tonnage, including weight of passengers, 6,667,190 tons (2,000 lbs.) Gross earnings-passenger, $1,184,006 33; freight, $1,579,622 53; coal, $8,346,240 15; U. S. mail, $29,169 87; sundries, $69,342 30; and balance of interest, $66,859 49-total, $11,275,240 67. Current expenses-running account, $1,897,973 04; workshops, $1,424,229 09 ; depots, $238,312 14; superintendence, $418,884 72; roadway department, $1,132,557 86; drawbacks and allowances, $194,668 62; rents and ground rents, $609,179 73; profit and loss, damages, premium on sterling, etc., $77,950 07; insurance, $18,502 25; State, county and city taxes, $68,598 73; State tax on tonnage, $76,402 80; and on gross receipts, $83,052 28; U. S. taxes on receipts, manufactures, etc., $32,521 86— total current expenses, $6,272,833 19. Nett earnings, being difference between gross earnings and current expenses, $5,002,407 48; from which were paid renewal fund (5 cents per 100 tons one mile), $603,479 48; interest on bonded debt, $184,303 03; sinking fund installments, $68,600; improvements, $569,105 78 ; July dividend, 5 per cent. on $27,639,619 32, $1,381,980 96, and U. S. tax thereon, $141,834 88; balance to credit of income, $1,753,103 35, subject to January, 1870, dividend. 1. Statement of operations for seven years: 2,721.689 3,328,299 3,688,309 4,261,336 4,356.385 4,500.135 5,159,301 3,065,261 2. Statement of results of operations for same seven years: 4,239.457 337,117 6,667,190 Gross earnings.... Expenses, rents, etc.... $6,252,902 $9.269,340 $11,142,519 $10.902,818 $9,106,497 $8,791,937 $11,275,241 2,546,002 4,584,848 5,905,864 6,221,500 5,767,858 5,641,100 6,272,833 Earnings, less expenses. $3,706,900 $4,684,492 $5,236,655 $4,681,318 $3,338,638 $3,150,837 $5,002,408 3. Statement of ordinary charges against nett earnings for same years: $2,378,336 $3,293,179 $2,604,089 $2,151,731 $1,298,877 $1,412,855 $1,725,488 $1,328,564 $1,391,313 $2,632,566 $2,529,587 $2,039,761 $1,737,982 $3,276,920 4. Statement of the "Reserved Fund," made up from nett earnings and other revenues, and liable for dividends, drawbacks, etc. : $990.956 $2.171.259 $372,050 $3,305,739 $2,920,118 $2,769,256 $1.921,976 1,328,564 1,391,313 2,632,566 2,529,587 2,039,761 1,737,982 3,276,920 $2,319,520 $3,666,572 $3,333,965 $6,605,968 $5.396,071 $1,618,186 $5,198,896 5. Statement showing the rate per cent. of the dividends paid on the Company's stocks, and the manner of payment: The payment of the January, 1870, dividend and tax, reduced the balance of November 30, 1869, by $1,634,541, or to $623,743. General Balances.-Abstract of general account of November 30, 1869 : Statement showing the assets and liabilities of the Company, the balance of which only enters into the above account: Statement comparing the general accounts yearly for seven years: $ Stock-common preferred. 1,551,800 Bonds 10,077,300 Bonds and mortgages. 590,028 Sinking f. stocks and bonds! Reserved fund.. Total........ 11,661,428 18,520,524 18,698,873 21,191.067 22,304,301 24.749,552 27,471,300 1,551.800 6.081.300 535,363 596,579 635,363 658,525 2,769,256 1,921,976 2,258,285 26,613,838 27,716,253 30,608,075 32,575,548 33,186,182 35,253,553 39,100,977 The funded debt, at the close of the years as above, stood thus: Of the 6 per cent. bonds, 1868-93, $608,800, were issued for the construction of the Pine Grove and Lebanon, and other branch roads. Directors (elected January 10, 1870).-H. Pratt McKean, A. E. Borie, R. B. Cabeen, J. B. Lippincott, John Ashurst and Stephen Colwell, all of Philadelphia. Gen. Supt.-Gustavus A. Nicolls.. PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS. No. 227 South Fourth St., Philadelphia, Pa. HANOVER BRANCH RAILROAD. Line of Road.-Hanover Junction (N. Cent. RR.), Pa. to Hanover, Pa..12.20 m. Gauge, 4 feet 8 inches. Rail, 50 lbs. to yard. Rolling Stock (December 1, 1869).-Locomotives, 5. Cars-passenger, 4; baggage, mail and express, 3; freight, 10-total, 17. Operations for the year ending November 30, 1869.-Gross earnings, $81,719 48; current expenses, including taxes, $50,967 72; nett earnings, $30,751 76. Dividends, 10 per cent. $11,685. General Balances.-Capital stock, $116,850. Per contra: Cost of road, etc., $254,126 80. The difference between cost and capital is made up of nett earnings. Line of Road.-Columbus, Ohio, to Athens, Ohio.... Completed: Columbus, Ohio, to Nelsonville, Ohio.... Gauge, 4 feet 10 inches. Rail, 56 lbs. to yard. [Road was operated in 1869, for 7 months a length of 30, for one month 50, and for 3 months 62 miles. Average, 374 miles. The line to be completed in July next.] Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines, 9. Cars-passenger, 8; baggage, etc., 3; freight (box, 30; stock, 10; platform, 10), 50; coal, 165-total, 226 cars. Operations for the year ending December, 31, 1869 : Passengers carried, 71,106. Freight moved, 71,120 tons. Earnings, $150,230. Expenses, $77,058 96. Balance to credit, $73,171 04. Statement (approximate) of Financial Condition-Capital stock, $700,000; funded debt (sinking fund bonds, 7s, due October 1, 1897), $1,200,000; and bills payable, $100,000. The total issue of bonds is limited to $1,500,000. Directors.-B. E. Smith, William Dennison, M. M. Greene, William G. Deshler W. B. Brooks, C. P. L. Butler, Isaac Eberly, John Greenleaf and Theodore Com. stock, Columbus, Ohio; Peter Hayden, New York City; C. H. Ripper, Logan, Ohio; John D. Martin, Lancaster, Ohio; and S. W. Pickering, Athens, Ohio. Line of Road.-New Orleans, La., to Carrollton, La....... ..6 miles [This road is now altogether used for horse cars carrying passengers.] Operations for the year ending December 31, 1869.-Passenger earnings, $228, |