H. C. STIMSON-President...... No. 62 Broadway, New York City. Secretary-J. R. Knox. Dayton, O. .Greenville, O. | Master Car Repairs-M. Creager... Greenville, O. Master of Machinery-A.T. Keenan. Greenville, 66 PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS.. .Dayton, Ohio. ROME, WATERTOWN AND OGDENSBURG RAILROAD. (Consolidation Oct. 1, 1861, of Potsdam & Watertown & Watertown & Rome RRs.) .24.24 .24.28-48.52 Total length of main and branch line owned by Company. .189.63 miles. Leased: Oswego and Rome RR.—Richland to Oswego............. 28.58 Second track, sidings, etc., 23.36 miles. Gauge, 4 ft. 8 inches. Rail, 56 lbs. to yard. Rolling Stock.-Locomotives, 38. Cars-passenger, 28; baggage and mail, 14; box and caboose, 275; cattle and barrel, 20; and platform, 359-total, 696 cars. Also, 40 snow plows. Operations for year ending December 31, 1869.-Trains run-passenger, 323,506, and freight, etc., 261,662-total, 585,168 miles. Passengers carried, 497,032; carried one mile, 14,604,381. Freight moved, 316,140 tons; moved one mile, 18,054,197 tons. Gross earnings (including O. & R. RR.)-Passenger, $496,473 96; freight, $699,975 25; mail, $22,093 33; and other $55,591 51-total gross earnings, $1,274,134 05. Current expenses, including taxes, $772,136 36; Oswego and Rome RR. Co., $50,540 85; coupons and interest paid, $119,090 72; dividends, two of 5 p. c. each, and U. S. tax, $262,500; surplus undivided, $69,866 12. General Balances.-Abstract from Balance Sheet of January 1, 1870: The capital stock was increased during the year by the issue of 5,000 new shares ($500,000), distributed to the stockholders pro rata, at $50 per share. Description of bonds issued and now outstanding: The bonds of the old companies are exchangeable for the sinking fund bonds of the consolidated Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad Company. The amounts given above include Bonds in the sinking fund to the amount of $354,176 13. Financial condition and results of operations for eight years, ending Sept. 30: * The nominal amount of bonds is $2,000,000, but the difference between that sum and the amounts above given results from purchases by the sinking fund or by the Company. Directors (elected first Wednesday of June, 1869).-William C. Pierrepont, Pierrepont Manor, N. Y.; Marcellus Massey, Charles E. Bill, Samuel F. Phelps, John Ferguson, C. Zabriskie and Isaac N. Phelps, New York City; David Utley, Rome, N. Y.; S. D. Hungerford, Adams, N. Y.; Talcott H. Camp, Watertown, N. Y.; Delos DeWolf, Oswego, N. Y.; and Gardner Colby and John S. Farlow, Boston, Mass. WILLIAM C. PIERREPONT-President.......Pierrepont Manor, N. Y. Treas, and Sec.-J. A. Lawyer.. Watertown, N. Y. Asst. Supts. JA. W. Soper. E. M. Moore.. Rome, PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS.. 66 Master Mechanic-William Jackson.. Rome, N. Y. BUFFALO, BRADFORD AND PITTSBURG RAILROAD. (Leased to and operated by Erie Railway Company.) Line of Road.—Carrollton (Erie Railway), N. Y., to Gilesville, Pa...........26 miles. Sidings, turnouts, etc., 2 miles. Gauge, 6 feet. Rail, 45 to 62 lbs. to yard. General Balances (November 1, 1869).-Capital stock, 22,860 shares, $2,286,000; funded debt-mortgage, 7 per cent. bonds, due Jan. 1, 1896, $580,000, and other bonds, $5,500-total, $583,500. Cost of road, etc., $2,869,500. Directors.-James W. Hilton, Daniel Kingsbury, James E. Blair and A. K. Johnson, Bradford, Pa.; J. T. Cameron and Theodore Springstein, Susquehanna Station, Pa.; S. V. King, Lackawaxen, Pa.; P. T. B. Emmons, Great Bend, Pa.; Jay Gould, James Fisk, Jr., A. S. Diven, W. J. Hilton and M. Smith, New York City. JAMES W. HILTON-President......... Bradford, Pa. Vice-President-Jay Gould........New York City. | Sec. & Treas.-Horatio N. Otis... New York City. PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS.. Bradford, Clearfield Co., Pa. ALBANY AND SUSQUEHANNA RAILROAD. .142 miles. Line of Road.-Albany, N. Y., to Binghamton, N. Y....... Sidings, turnouts, etc., 13.22 miles. Gauge, 6 feet. Rail, 53 to 56 lbs. to yard. Rolling Stock (Oct. 1, 1869).—Locomotive engines, 21; and cars (passenger, 24; baggage, mail and express, 7; and freight, viz.: box, 125; stock, 34; and platform, 76), 266. Also, 117 service cars. Operations (year ending September 30, 1869).—Trains run (passenger, 195,118; freight, 165,590; and other, 58,108), 421,816 miles. Passengers carried, 300,423; travel, 9,214,589 miles. Freight moved, 102,258 tons; transportation, 7,620,858 miles. Gross earnings (passenger, $259,345 42; freight, $356,848 26; mail, express, etc., $76,925 70; and other, $4,726 49), $697,845 87; and operating expenses, including taxes, $460,492 70; nett earnings, $237,353 17. Interest on bonds, $231,672 94; U. S. tax, $4,890 26; balance to credit, $789 87. Statement of Operations and Results for six years: General Balances (October 1, 1869).-Capital stock, $2,149,200; funded debt (1st mortgage 7 p. c. bonds of 1863, due July 1, 1888, $1,000,000; 2d mortgage 7 p. c. bonds of 1865, due Oct. 1, 1885, $2,000,000; 3d mortgage 7 p. c. bonds of 1869, due May 1, 1881, $175,000; Albany City 6 p. c. loan bonds of 1865, due Nov. 1, 1895, $1,000,000), total, $4,175,000; floating debt, $194,882 90. Per contra: Cost of road and rolling stock, $7,185,162 39. Statement of the Financial Condition of the Company for six years: $1,347,192 51 $1,604,145 50 $1,675,138 70 $1,774,824 35 $1,861.393 13 $2,149,200 00 800,000 00 1,000,000 00 2,114,000 00 2,486,000 00||2,802,000 00 4,175,000 00 43,089 55 190,461 36 19.643 28 239,767 53 560,000 00 194,882 90 $2,190.282 06 $2,794,606 86 $3,808,781 78 $4,500,591 88 $5,223,393 13 $6,519,082 90 2,156,158 56 3,381,865 42||4,628,691 48 5,415,929 58 6,387,455 94 7,185,162 39 The State of New York has appropriated about $1,000,000 to aid in the construction of the A. & S. Railroad. This does not appear as a part of the capital of the Company, having been a free grant. The Albany and Susquehanna Railroad Company was leased in February, 1870, to the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company for ninety-nine years, upon the follow ing conditions: The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company is to pay an interest of 7 per cent. upon $7,000,000, made up as follows: On paid stock, $2,500,000; on the Albany City bonds, $1,000,000; on 1st mortgage bonds, $1,000,000; on 2d mortgage bonds, $2,000,000; on equipment bonds, $500,000. To meet this interest will require an annual outlay of $490,000. The Delaware and Hudson Company assume the interest on all the bonds from March 1, 1870, ensuing, but the interest on the $2,500,000 of stock is not to be assumed until January 1, 1871. The 9,500 shares of subscribed stock upon which 10 per cent. was paid, are to be paid in full as the necessities of the road may require. Directors (elected September 7, 1869).-Joseph H. Ramsey, Robert H. Pruyn, James Hendrick, William A. Rice and Jonathan Herrick, Albany, N. Y.; J. Pierpont Morgan, New York City; Minard Hardee, Cobbleskill, N. Y.; John Westover, Richmondville, N. Y.; John Cook, Worcester, N. Y.; Jared Goodyear, Colliersville, N. Y.; Eliakim R. Ford, Oneonta, N. Y.; Harvey Hunt, Otego, N. Y.; Ira E. Sherman, Sidney Plains, N. Y.; and Rodney A. Ford, Binghamton, N. Y. JOSEPH H. RAMSEY-President... 66 PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS. Albany, N. Y. Master of Machn'y-R. C. Blackall.. Albany, N. Y No. 262 Broadway, Albany, N. Y. JUNCTION (Cinc. and Indianapolis Junction) RAILROAD. Lines of Road.-Hamilton (25 m. N. Cinc.), O., to Indianapolis, Ind...98 miles. Branch: Connersville (42 m. W. Hamilton), Ind., to New Castle, Ind......25 Total length of main and branch lines owned and operated by Company123 miles. Leased: Fort Wayne, Muncie and Cincinnati (New Castle to Muncie)......18 Sidings, turnouts, etc., 5.62 miles. Gauge, 4 feet 10 inches. Rail, 50 lbs. to yard. Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines, 16. Cars-passenger, 12; express and baggage, 5; freight, 214; and other, 30-total, 261 cars. Operations for the year ending June 30, 1869: Trains run-passenger, 170,842; freight, 72,800; and other, 7,800-total, 251,442 miles. Passengers carried, 125,880; carried one mile, 2,853,280. Freight moved (through 38,105; and local, 17,618), 55,723 tons; moved one mile, 2,052,740 tons. Gross earnings-passenger, $114,071 34; freight, $100,281 80; mail and express, $4,888 95; and other, $2,706 99-total gross earnings, $221,949 08. Operating expenses, including taxes, $213,680 60; interest paid, $8,225 07; surplus to credit, $43 41. General Balances.-Capital stock-common, $1,749,200; and 7 per cent. preferred, $1,278,250-total stock, $3,027,450; funded debt-1st mortgage 7 per cent. bonds, due January 1, 1885, $1,200,000; 2d mortgage 7 per cent. bonds, due March 1, 1893, $798,000; and income mortgage bonds, $35,000-total funded debt, $2,033,000; and floating debt, $776,398 21—total stocks and debt, $5,836,848 21. Per contra: Cost of property (construction, $4,241,874 37; right of way, $45,904 87; equipment, $369,518 54; other embraced in cost of road and equipment, $1,095,763 83) $5,805,061 61. Directors (elected first Monday of January, 1870).-Lewis Worthington, C. J. Acton, W. H. Chatfield and J. W. Donahue, Cincinnati, O.; William Beckett, Hamilton, O.; D. T. Haines, Muncie, Ind.; and J. M. Ridenour, Indianapolis, Ind. PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS.... Sixth and Hoadley Sts., Cincinnati, O. MEMPHIS AND ST. LOUIS RAILROAD (in Progress). Line of Road.-Wakefield Ark., to Morley, Mo..... .142 miles. 60 Branch Line: Wakefield (opp. Memphis), Ark., to Helena, Ark..................... ETHEL H. PORTER-President..... .Memphis, Tenn. Treas. & Sec.-J. T. Swayne....Memphis, Tenn. | Chief Engineer-Ed. W. Serrell....New York City. Financial Agents... PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS.. Union Trust Co., New York City. .No. 175 Main St., Memphis, Tenn. DENVER PACIFIC RAILWAY. 58 " Line of Road.-Cheyenne (516 m. W. Omaha), Wyom. T., to Denver, Col.106 m. Open December 16, 1869: Cheyenne, Wyom. T., to Evans, Colorado..................... Gauge of track, 4 feet 84 inches. Weight of rail, 56 lbs. to yard. The whole line will be completed before July, 1870, and form a connecting link between the Union Pacific and the Kansas Pacific Railways, the latter extending from Kansas City, Ks., to Denver, Col. See MANUAL for 1869–70. The Company have bonded their road for $2,500,000, of which $1,000,000 have been issued and are outstanding. These bonds, which are a 1st mortgage on the road and 800,000 acres of land owned by the Company, are dated August 10, 1867, and run 30 years, to November 1, 1897. Principal and interest 7 per cent. payable in coin. Interest payable May 1st and November 1st. Directors (elected January 17, 1870).—John Evans, John Pierce, W. M. Clayton, Frank Palmer, D. H. Moffat, Jr., and Walter S. Cheeseman, Denver City, Col.; Robert E. Carr and W. J. Palmer, St. Louis, Mo.; and R. H. Lamborn, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |