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Cars (*) include all kinds, (except service cars,) irrespective of wheelage. General balance, December 31, 1872 :

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Statement of bonded debt in detail: Preferred 6 p. c. bonds, 1st, $1,216,666.66 ; 2d, $1,381,646.68; 3d, (A) $243,333.32; (B) $144,868.51--total, $2,986,515.17.

Directors, (elected February 8, 1872.)—John Beverley Robinson, Toronto, Can.; H. M. Jackson, London, England; Frederick W. Cumberland, Angus Morrison and William Elliott, Toronto, Can.; Charles S. Roundell and William Lethbridge, London, England; and ex-officio, John Hogg, Warden, County of Simcoe, and Robert Bell, Alderman, Toronto, Can.

JOHN BEVERLEY ROBINSON, President...

.Toronto, Can.

H. M. Jackson, Vice-President....Lincoln's Inn, London, England.
Managing Director... Frederick W. Cumberland. | Master Transportation..
Secretary and Treasurer....... Thomas Hamilton. General Ticket Agent..
Chief Engineer....
...C. W. Moberly. Freight Agent...
Peter Clarke. Purchasing Agent...

Master Mechanic..

J. Harvie.
.A. Rolph.
J. F. McDonald.
.C. W. Postlethwaite.

PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS.......... Brock st., Toronto, Ontario, Can.
London Agency. Cutbill, Son & De Lungo, No. 103 Cannon st., L'n, E. D., Eng.

ST. CROIX AND PENOBSCOT RAILROAD.

(Consolidation of the Calais and Baring and the Lewy's Island Railroads.)

..22 miles.

Line of Road.-Calais, Me., to Princeton, Me....
Sidings and other tracks, 5.5 miles. Gauge, 4 feet 8 inches. Rail, 56 lbs. to yard.
Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines, 5. Cars-passenger, 4; baggage, mail
and express, 2; lumber, 141; and freight, 90-total, 237.

The road will be extended to Grand Lake Stream, and from thence to Passadum

keag, and so complete a line from Bangor to Calais.

Operations for the year ending December 31, 1872.-Passengers carried, 36,435.

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Payments from net earnings: Interest on bonded debt, $14,121; other payments, 7,254; balance, $1,382.91.

Financial Statement.-Capital stock, $100,000; funded debt, $232,700; bills payable, $12,000; other liabilities, $24,399.15-total, $369,099.15. Per contra: Cost of road and equipment, $364,000; stocks and bonds, $19,400; materials and other assets, $19,057.67; cash in hand, $2,059.51-total assets, $404,511.20-assets over liabilities, $64,588.05.

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1st mortgage C. and B. RR.

2d

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6 Jan. and July July 1, 1879 Calais bonds in aid of Lewy's I. RR... Dec. 1, 1856. 6 June and Dec. Dec. 1, 1876

Directors, (elected January 28, 1873.)—George M. Porter, E. A. Barnard, H. N. Hill, W. W. Sawyer and John McAdam, Calais, Me.

GEORGE M. PORTER, President...

..St. Stephen's, N. B.

Treasurer.. ..Samuel Black. | Superintendent...W. W. Sawyer. | Ticket Agent.. Samuel Black. Purchasing Agt...E. M. Sawyer. Master Mach.....Edward Bolton. Freight Agent......John Larner. PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS.

...Calais, Washington Co., Me.

PROVIDENCE AND WORCESTER RAILROAD.

(Opened, 1847.)

Line of Road.-Providence, R. I., to Worcester, Mass.

.43.41 miles.

Branch: At Worcester, connecting with Worcester and Nashua Railroad.. 1.00

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Total length of road (in Mass., 26.51, and in R. I., 17.90)............44.41 miles. Second track, 28.15; sidings, etc., 16 miles. Gauge, 4 ft. 8 in. Steel rail, 5 miles. Rail, 56 to 63 lbs. to yard.

Leased-Milford and Woonsocket Railroad: Milford to Bellingham, 3.88 miles.

During the last year, the company have arranged with the New-Jersey Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Coal Company for the building of coal wharves below India Point, connecting with the P. and W. RR. by a branch along east side of Seekonk River to Valley Falls, to be built on joint account with the Rhode Island and Massachusetts Railroad. The completion of the Hopkinton Branch will open communication with the Boston and Albany Railroad, at Ashland, by means of the Milford and Woonsocket Railroad. The P. and W. RR. Company have taken a ten years' lease of the latter named road.

'Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines, 27. Snow-plows, 2. Cars-passenger, 29;

mail and baggage, 6; and freight, (8-wheel,) box, 229; and platform, 128; and (4-wheel) box, 76; and platform, 561-total, 1,029.

Operations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1872.-Trains run-passenger, 216,506; freight, 267,510; other, 23,570-total, 507,586 miles. Passengers carried, 1,605,257; carried one mile, 14,471,984. Freight moved, 521,866; moved one mile, 15,864,734 tons.

Earnings.

Expenditures.

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20,283 99 Miscellaneous.. $895,897 19

80,625 47

$655,971 10 Net earnings, $239,926.09; payments from net earnings: Interest, $37,798.38; dividends, (10 per cent,) $200,000; balance to surplus fund, $2,127.71. Total surplus, $84,019.55.

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The official returns for 1869-70 covered only ten months. two tenths have been added to complete the year.

Construction...

Equipment..

Materials..

Cash.....

Balance Sheet, September 30, 1872.
$1,909,635 96 | Capital stock...

In the above statement,

665,568 55 Bonds and notes.
125,565 58 Dues and dividends unpaid..
107,861 47 Balance income account....

$2,808,631 56

Abstract of equipment and general balances :

$2,000,000 00

685,000 00

39,612 01

84,019 55

$2,808,631 56

Railroad Other Pro

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Directors, (elected February 3, 1873.)-Earl P. Mason, William S. Slater, John Carter Brown, George A. Leete, James Y. Smith, John R. Balch, Providence, R. I.; Paul Whitin, John C. Whitin, Whitinsville, Mass.; Isaac Davis, Henry Chapin, Elijah B. Stoddard, Worcester, Mass. ; Gideon L. Spencer, Pawtucket, Rhode Island; Lyman A. Cook, Woonsocket, R. I.; Estus Lamb, Blackstone, Mass.; Eben B. Phillips, Boston, Mass.

EARL P. MASON, President..

.Providence, R. I.

Treas. and Sec.-John R. Balch. Providence, R. I. | Master of Mach.-Joseph Kelly.. Providence, R. I. Supt. & Purch. Agt.-Wm. D. Hilton "

John J. Powers

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Master of Car Rep.-Olney L. Smith

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M. Trans.-A. E. Quackenboss.. Worcester, Mass.
Gen. Tkt. Agt.-Wm. M. Durfee. . Providence, R. I.
Gen. Fgt. Agt.-Julius E. Bacon.
Purchasing Agt.-W. D. Hilton.

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PITTSFIELD AND NORTH ADAMS RAILROAD.

(Opened, December, 1846. Leased and operated by Boston and Albany Railroad Co.)

Line of Road.-Pittsfield (115 m. W. Boston) to North Adams, Mass. 18.65 miles. Sidings and other tracks, 1.42 miles. Gauge, 4 feet 8 inches. Rail, 61 lbs. to yard. Operations.-Included in lessees' returns. Lease-rent, $27,000 per annum. Dividends, 6 per cent, less U. S. and State taxes.

Financial Statement.-Capital stock, $500,000; paid in, $450,000. Per contra : Cost of railroad and appurtenances, $450,000.

Directors.-C. W. Chapin, Ignatius Sargent, Henry Colt and J. A. Rumrill.
C. W. CHAPIN, President....

.Springfield, Mass.

Treasurer-Charles E. Stevens..... ..Boston. | Clerk-James A. Rumrill....

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Springfield.

PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS.........Springfield, Hampden Co., Mass.

SARATOGA AND SCHENECTADY RAILROAD.

(Leased in perpetuity to the Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad Company, and sub-leased to Delaware and Hudson Canal Company.)

Line of Road.-Schenectady, N. Y., to Saratoga, N. Y................. ..21 miles. Sidings and other tracks, 1.57 miles. Gauge, 4 feet 8 inches. Rail, 56 and 65 lbs. Operations included in lessees' report.

Financial Statement, September 30, 1872.-Capital stock, $450,000; paid in, $441,000; and funded debt, 1st mortgage 7 per cent bonds, $9,000. Per contra: Cost of road, etc., $484,684.15.

Directors.-Le Grand B. Cannon, New York City; George H. Cramer and George B. Warren, Troy, N. Y.; James M. Marvin, Saratoga, N. Y.; Hanford N.

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Lockwood, Stephen E. Warren and Henry C. Lockwood, Troy, N. Y.; Charles Cramer,
Waterford, N. Y.; and Alfred de F. Gale, Troy, N. Y.

GEORGE H. CRAMER, President..............

.Troy, N. Y.

Treas. and Sec.-Henry C. Lockwood..Troy, N. Y. | Superintendent-I. V. Baker........... Troy, N.Y.
PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS.
.Troy, Rensselaer Co., N. Y.

PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.

(Commenced, 1847. Completed, 1854.)

Lines of Road.-The several lines and branches constituting the system of railroads owned and leased by this company in Pennsylvania, east of Pittsburg, (except the Philadelphia and Erie RR.,) and embraced in their operating accounts at the close of the fiscal year 1871, are as follows:

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Steel rail, 544 miles.

699.0 353.8 199.0 1,251.8

Rail, 56, 64, 65 and 67 lbs.

Gauge, 4 feet, 9 inches. The Philadelphia and Erie Railroad is also leased and operated, but the accounts thereof are kept separately.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company also lease and operate the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroads and the railroads of the United Companies of New Jersey. The lease is perpetual, the lessees receiving all their assets and assuming all their obligations, and paying, in addition, $1,948,500 per annum for division among the stockholders of said companies. The lessees took possession of these roads December 1, 1871.

The leased railroads west of Pittsburg, including the Pittsburg and Erie Railroad, have been transferred to the charge of the "Pennsylvania Company," a separate organization, having its domicile in Pittsburg. The transfer was completed April 1, 1871.

Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines, 514. Cars-passenger, 1st class, 183; and 2d class, 50; sleeping, 68; baggage, mail and express, 102; freight, 6,685; and coal, 1,440-total of all cars, 8,528.

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