Directors, (elected January 6, 1873.)-W. K. Edwards, Alexander McGregor, William R. McKeen, J. H. Hager, D. W. Minshall and F. C. Crawford, Terre Haute, Ind.; and Josephus Collett, Newport, Ind.

.206.0 m.

Line of Road.-Hannibal, Mo., to St. Joseph, Mỏ................... (Palmyra, (15 m. W. Hannibal,) Mo., to Quincy, Ill.......15.0 Cameron, (171 m. W. Hannibal,) Mo., to Kansas City, Mo..53.5- 68.5 “

Branches:

.274.5 m.

Total length of main line and branches owned by company.... Sidings and other tracks, 27.7 miles. Gauge, 4 feet 8 inches. Rail, 60 lbs. to yard. Since the close of the fiscal year, a branch has been extended from St. Joseph to Atchison, Ks., 22 miles.

Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines, 79. Cars-passenger, 1st class, 45; 2d class, 16; baggage, mail and express, 62; freight, grain and merchandise, 162; combination, 745; stock, 124; and platform, 248; coal, 122; and caboose, etc., 41-total revenue cars, 1,565. Also hand, dump and other road cars, 103.

Operations for the year ending August 31, 1872.-Trains run-passenger, 511,974; freight, 1,036,039; construction, 100,625-total, 1,648,638. Passengers carried, 320,838; carried one mile, 2,1236,681. 67,728,662 tons.

Freight moved, 415,363; moved one mile,

Disposition of earnings not stated.

Abstract of earnings, expenses, profits, etc., for nine years:

Financial Statement.-Capital stock, common, $9,168,700; preferred, $5,082,128-total, $14,250,828. Bonded debt, $9,146,900. Total stock and bonds, $23,397,728, representing cost of road and equipment.

The amount of unsettled payments, including interest to maturity, is..

3,416,135 32

The amount paid on account of sales and interest has been disposed of as follows:
For 220,500 old land bonds and interest..

66 172,500 new land bonds and interest.

"1,457.12 shares preferred stock..... 26 remittances to trustees...

The trustees' account to December 31, 1871, shows purchase of $2,276,950 new land bonds, costing.

$5,500 new land bonds, costing

Premiums of exchange, etc...

Incidental expenses, etc., of trustees..

Salaries of three trustees..

Remittances as above..

Interest and premiums.

Cost of $5,500 bonds..

Balance of trustees' account

$200,700 bonds purchased by trustees in 1872.

$236,321 65

175,103 07

121,426 67

2,641,948 58

$3,174.799 97

$2,404,732 44

5,274 50

2,645 62

1,233 86

29,000 00

.$2,641,948 58
14,884 81

5,274 50

219,221 47

.$2,662,107 89 $2,662,107 89

Directors, (elected November 4, 1872.)—Alfred W. Lamb, Hannibal, Mo.; Henry N. Smith, Benjamin F. Carver, Charles H. Kerner, E. S. Higgins, Albert H. De Forest, John P. Acker, Charles A. De Forest and Jenkins Van Schaick, New York City.

Line of Road.—Aspinwall (Atlantic) to Panama (Pacific)................. Sidings, etc., 11.84 miles. Gauge, 5 feet. Rail, 68 lbs. per yard.

....47.57 miles.

Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines, 20. Cars-passenger, 26; baggage, mail and express, 4; box, 226; stock, 4; platform, 82; coal, 15; service, 155-total, 516. Operations for the year ending December 31, 1872.

Payments from net earnings: Interest on funded debt, $243,169.68; dividends, (10 per cent,) $735,000; other payments, $251,585.78-balance, $2,846.92.

Financial Statement.-Capital stock, $7,000,000. Funded debt, 1st mortgage sterling bonds, dated April 1st, 1855, interest 7 per cent, payable April and October, principal 1875, £19,350. General mortgage sterling bonds, dated October 1, 1867, interest 7 per cent, payable April and October, principal 1897, £597,800. Total funded debt, £617,150. Equalling at $4.85, $2,993,177.50. No floating debt. Cost of road and equipment, $10,000,000.

Directors, (elected April, 1873.)-A. B. Stockwell, S. L. M. Barlow, T. B. Musgrove, S. J. Harriot, H. W. Gray, J. M. Burke, W. B. Leonard, George S. Scott, T. W. Parks, George M. Pullman, H. H. Baxter, Alexander Masterton, F. W. G. Bellows, New York City.

PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS.. Nos. 59 and 61 Wall st., New York City.

PENNSYLVANIA AND WESTERN RAILROAD. (Projected.)

Line of Road.-Milton, Pa., to Clarion, Pa.............

..about 200 miles.

This road is intended to form as nearly as practicable à direct line between Milton, near the junction of the Philadelphia and Erie and the Catawissa Railroads, and Clarion, in Clarion County, and to create an outlet for the products of the counties through which it passes. Surveys have been made and right of way secured over

a considerable part of the line. It is also intended to construct branches from Lockhaven to Mill Hall, and Bellefonte to Black Creek.

Capital stock authorized, $5,000,000; subscribed, $3,250,000. Funded debt authorized, $5,000,000, 7 per cent gold, payable October 1, 1902.

Directors.-Samuel C. Johnson, New York; S. A. Cook, Benjamin Ligget, Centre Co., Pa.; A. G. Miller, Shippensburg, Pa.; W. J. Kealsle, Bellefonte, Pa.; J. A. Irvin, Philadelphia, Pa.

SAMUEL C. JOHNSON, President...

Treasurer J. C. Johnson..

Sec. and Supt.-J. A. Irvin...

.New York City.

.Philadelphia, Pa. | Chief Engineer-S. Brugger.. .Centre Co., Pa.
Fiscal Agency-Mechanics' Nat. Bank..N. Y. City.

PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS..
Secretary's Office...

66

.No. 50 Broad st., New York City.

.237 South 3d st., Philadelphia, Pa.

PHILADELPHIA AND TRENTON RAILROAD.

(Opened, 1834. Leased from December 1, 1871, to the Pennsylvania RR. Company.)

Line of Road.-Kensington, Pa., to Morrisville, Pa..... .26.60 miles. Second track, 26.4; and sidings, etc., 9.75 m. Gauge, 4 feet 9 in. Rail, 56 to 67 lbs. Steel rails, 22.37 miles.

Operated Connecting RR., 6.78; and Frankford and Holmesburg RR., 4.15 miles. Rolling Stock.-None owned. Furnished by lessees.

Operations for the year ending December 31, 1872.-Passengers carried, 1,561,080. Freight moved, 1,124,610 tons. Gross earnings--from passengers, $1,038,937.35; from freight, $629,472.06; miscellaneous sources, $91,348.73-total, $1,759,758.14. No separate account is kept of operating expenses, which are included in those of the New York division of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.

Under the lease, quarterly dividends of 24 per cent each were paid by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.

General Balances.-Capital stock, (12,591 shares,) $1,259,100; and profit and loss, $275,408.76-total, (representing cost of road,) $1,534,478.76. The company have also real estate, not connected with their railroad property, valued at date at $329,626. J. EDGAR THOMSON, President... .Philadelphia, Pa.

F. H. White, Sec. and Treas......233 South 4th st.,
PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS..

..Philadelphia, Pa.

GREENE RAILROAD.

(Leased and operated by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western RR. Co.)

Line of Road.-Chenango Forks, N. Y., to Greene, N. Y.
Sidings and other tracks, 0.62 mile. Gauge, 6 feet. Rail, 62 lbs. to yard.
Rolling Stock.-None owned; furnished by operators.

..8 miles.

Operations for the year ending September 30, 1872.-Trains run-passenger, 10,016; and freight, 10,808-total, 20,824 miles. Passengers carried, 37,773; carried one mile, 283,271. Freight moved, 151,848; carried one mile, 1,194,947 tons.

Net earnings, $5,611.43. Payments dividends, $12,000.

$9.409 75

4,090 01

16,606 51

$30,106 27

Financial Statement.—Capital stock, (all paid in,) $200,000. Per contra: Cost of road and equipment, $348,877.58.

MAURICE BIRDSALL, President....

...Greene, N. Y.

Treas. and Sec.... J. E. Juliand. | Engineer.. ......James Archbald. | Supt.....

G. F. Thompson.

PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS.

..26 Exchange Place, New York.

NEW ORLEANS, JACKSON AND GREAT NORTHERN RR.

(Opened, 1859.);

.206 miles.

Line of Road.-New Orleans, La., to Canton, Miss...
Sidings and other tracks, 31 miles. Gauge, 5 feet. Rail, 56 to 64 lbs. to yard.

The extension of the road from Canton, via Kosciusko and Aberdeen, to the Tennessee line, is provided for by an act of the Mississippi Legislature, approved April 11, 1871. Counties, towns and cities are authorized to subscribe to the company's stock or donate to the company any amounts deemed appropriate by two thirds of the legal voters thereof, and for this purpose they may issue seven per cent sinking fund bonds. The road is to be completed to Kosciusko in two years from January 1, 1872, and to Aberdeen in five years, and if so completed to Kosciusko within the prescribed time, then the company are to have transferred to them all the stock held by the government in any and every railroad company within the State.

The extension through New Orleans to the Gas Company's wharf on the Mississippi has been completed. Its cost, including land damages, is estimated at $1,000,000. Since July 1, 1870, the shareholders have expended, in the improvement of the line, up to October 31, 1872, $2,325,500.

Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines, 57. Cars-passenger, 31; postal, baggage and mail, 15; box, 553; flat, 271; stock, 25; caboose and dump, 86; dummy engine, 1-total, 1,039.

Operations for the year ending December 31, 1872.-Gross traffic, $1,754,488.60; expenses, $903,643.90; net earnings for 1872, $850,844.70; net earnings for 1871, $707,714.70.