The U. S. Government also, by act of Congress, approved July 25, 1866, granted to the California and Oregon Railroad Company every alternate section of public land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of twenty alternate sections per mile, ten on each side of its said road on the line thereof, and when any of said sections are found to have been granted, reserved, etc., other odd numbered sections of land, to be selected in lieu thereof, under direction of the Secretary of the Interior. Total number of acres of land granted, upward of thirteen millions, (13,000,000.) The location and character of these lands differ so much, it is difficult to estimate their value. They are subject to mortgage of $10,000,000. Directors.-Leland Stanford, Sacramento, Cal.; C. P. Huntington, New York City; Mark Hopkins, E. H. Miller, Jr., C. H. Cummings, William E. Brown, Sacramento, Cal.; Robert Robinson, San Francisco, Cal. LELAND STANFORD, President.. Treasurer-Mark Hopkins.. Chief Engineer-S. S. Montague. S. W. Sanderson 66 66 Sacramento, Cal. | Auditor-William H. Porter..... 66 Counsel: Robert Robinson...San Francisco, Cal. Division Supts. E. C. Fellows San Francisco. Cal. GENERAL OFFICE.. LOCAL OFFICES "Car Rep'rs-Benj.Welch STILLWATER AND ST. PAUL RAILROAD. (Opened, December 28, 1870. Leased to the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad Company for 999 years, from January 1, 1871. Lease assigned to Northern Pacific Railroad Company May 1, 1872.) Line of Road.-Stillwater, Minn., to White Bear Station, on L. S. & M. RR. .13 m. Side tracks, 1.5 miles. Gauge, 4 feet 8 inches. The road is leased to the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad Company. The lessees agreeing to pay interest on the bonds of the company, viz., $28,000 per annum, in gold; taxes; and $1,000 in currency per annum, for the maintenance of organization. The lease was assumed May 1, 1872, by the Northern Pacific RR. Company. Rolling Stock.-Furnished by lessees. Operations included in lessees' returns. Financial Statement, February 25, 1873.-Capital stock, $400,000; funded debt, 1st mortgage 7 per cent gold bonds, $400,000, coupons due June and December 1. The bonds are secured by a first and only mortgage on the railroad, lands and all the property of the company. Floating debt, $13,516.81. The city of Stillwater donated toward the cost of construction of the road, bonds of the city to the amount of $25,000. Cost of road and survey of land-grant, $438,516.81. This company has a land-grant from the United States government of 10 sections per mile, amounting to 83,200 acres ; title to 63,852.46 acres of which has been ob tained up to this time. The lands lie along the line of the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, and are some of the finest prairie lands in Minnesota. Directors.-David Brunson, John M. Cusick and H. R. Murdock, of Stillwater; William G. Moorhead, S. M. Felton and Frank H. Clark, of Philada.; and Charles Eliot Furness, of St. Paul. DAVID BRUNSON, President... .Stillwater, Minn. Secretary-II. R. Murdock....... .Stillwater, Minn. | Treasurer-Thomas M. Davis....... .....St. Paul, Minn. ELIZABETHTOWN AND PADUCAH RAILROAD. Line of Road.-Elizabethtown, Ky., to Paducah, Ky...... .185 miles. The line from Elizabethtown to Paducah was opened during the last year, but the officers of the company decline to furnish any statement of operations. It is intended to extend the line to Louisville. The statement here given is from the MANUAL for 1872-73. Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines, 10. Cars-passenger, 4; baggage, mail and express, 2; freight, box, 32; stock, 4; and platform, 25; and coal, 125-total of all cars, 192. Financial Statement.-Capital stock, $3,075,000;` and funded debt, 1st mortgage 8 per cent bonds, dated March 1, 1870, and payable, interest semi-annually, March and September, and principal March 1, 1890, ($3,000,000,) $2,900,000-total stock and bonds, (representing estimated cost of road to completion,) $6,075,000. The stock has been taken chiefly by Louisville ($1,000,000) and the counties along the line, ($1,700,000.) Directors, (elected July 1, 1871.)-W. H. Dulaney, R. A. Robinson and J. S. Lithgow, Louisville, Ky.; S. B. Thomas, Elizabethtown, Ky.; James Trabue, Dennis Long and T. L. Barrett, Louisville, Ky.; L. M. Flournoy, Paducah, Ky. ..Louisville, Ky. B. DU PONT, President.... Treas. and Sec.-A. A. Gordon.....Louisville, Ky. | Superintendent-D. Brock.....Elizabethtown, Ky. Chief Eng.-John McLeod....Elizabethtown, Ky. PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS. .Louisville, Ky. LITTLE ROCK AND FORT SMITH RR. (In progress.) Line of Road.-Little Rock, Ark., to Fort Smith, Ark. .160 miles. .100 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 com 4 munication 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. The balance of the road from Clarksville to Fort Smith is partly graded and ties ready. The whole is under contract and is expected to be completed by January 1, 1874. There is a land-grant of 1,100,000 in aid of the road, which passes valuable coal lands in the valley of the Arkansas River. Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines, 6. Cars of all kinds, 100. Operations. Not reported, as the road has only recently come into operation. Financial Statement, March 1, 1873.-Capital stock authorized, $6,000,000; paid in, $4,675,000. Funded debt authorized, $6,000,000, consisting of 1st mortgage sinking fund land-grant bonds, dated October 1, 1872, bearing 7 per cent interest in gold and payable in 30 years. Directors.-Elisha Atkins, Henry Saltonstall, Edward Atkinson and George Everett, Boston, Mass.; O. A. Hadley, Alexander McDonald, Henry Page, W. S. Oliver and John Stoddard, Little Rock, Ark. PORTLAND AND OXFORD CENTRAL RAILROAD. Line of Road.-Mechanics' Falls, Me., to Canton, Me.. .27.5 miles. Rail, 45 and 56 lbs. Also, Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines, 2. Cars-passenger, 1; baggage and mail, 1; and freight, box, 4; stock, 3; and platform, 15-total revenue cars, 24. service cars, 4. Operations for the year ending December 31, 1871.-Trains run, 55 miles daily. Passengers carried, 2,880. Freight moved, 6,375 tons. Gross earnings-passenger, $3,017.11; freight, $9,673.06; and other, $1,530.97-total, $14,221.14. Financial Statement.-Capital stock, common, $150,000; and preferred, $100,000; funded debt, 1st mortgage 6 per cent bonds of 1863, $218,500. Cost of road, $20,000 per mile. Town aid was given to a considerable extent. No later information can be obtained. The road has been condemned by the F. B. SMITH, President and Superintendent.... .Canton, Me. ...Canton, Maine. SALISBURY AND BALTIMORE RAILROAD. (In progress.) STREET (Horse) RAILROADS IN THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. An Abstract of the Third Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners, being for the year ending September 30, 1872. Lynn and Boston leases Boston and Chelsea, and Winnisimmet. Metropolitan leases Boston and West Roxbury. 51,253 22 65,076 17 296,572 14 249,871 49 5,650 00 5.8 5,650 00 46,700 65 45,576 92, 10 1,604 83 1,493 67 5,796 73 40,470 75 19,312 50 7.5 988 09 2,132 00 4 Middlesex leases Somerville, (in part,) Malden and Melrose, and Medford and Charlestown. Union leases Somerville (in part) and Cambridge. 3,077 26 Loss. A TABULAR STATEMENT of their Length and Cost, Capital, Bonds, etc., and their Earnings in the year ending September 30, 1872. RAILROADS. Cost of Road and Equipment. Dividends. etc. ings. Am'nt. p. c. Albany Railway. $111,400 $40,000 $151,400 6.50 1.50 $163,000 6.50 $72.522 $19,719, $92.241 $63,076 $29,175 $13,333 11.00 650,000 460,600 1,110,600 14.00 500,000 900,000 $133,748 1,533,748 7 63 9.00 4.20 534,264 14.00 130,712 2,922 133.634 109,384 24.250 763 211,229 18,064 229.293 200,246 29,047 5,600 5,600 1.53 6,142 1 53 1,510 Bleecker Street and Fulton Ferry. Broadway (Brooklyn). 1,510, 861 649 900,000 200,000 694,000 4,000 1,598,000 9.00 13.00 1,775,049 9.00 302,485 6,186 308,671 247,943 60,728 12,361 312,361 5.38 5.38 327,600 5.38 158,223 5.489 163,712 Broadway and Seventh Avenue. 129,006 34,706 2,100,000 1,500,000 200,000 3,800,000 4.00 Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island. 6.33 3.806,668 4.00 878,265 28,547 906,812 80,000 7.00 219,138 7.00 46,223 1,868 47,591 24.000 12.00 594,064 312,748 126,000 6.00 29,351 18,240 1,991,032 800,000 2,291,032 40.50 41.00 2,313,004 40.50 1,403,562 44.899 1,448.461 200,000 400,000 1,206,894 241,567 195,000 12.00 11,856 611,856 11.00 7.50 650,603 11.00, 157,640 8,300 165,940 120,858 45,082 300,000 300,000 15,471 615,471 13.22 6.61 637,003 13.22 165,515 4,284 169,799 135,432 34,367 73,000 352,214 68,745 493,959 8.81 7.00 493,174 8.81 195,625 17,042 212,667 196,586 16,081 302,000 52,000 4,178 358,178 3.50 4.00 336,005 3.50 85,384 4,514 88,898 81,272 21,130 7,626 6,000 27,130 1.63 0.11 Central Park, North and East River. 1,175,700 838.000 116,303 2,130,003 24.00 29,092 24.00 1,841,875 24.00 1.63 19,796 165 19,961 13,519 6,442 6,000 617,070 22,234 639,304 599,818 39,486 500,000 307,000 Dry Dock, East Broadway and Battery. 33,065 1,200,000 700,000 810,065 10.20 4.63 698,806 10.20 174,781 2,228 177,001 149,310 27,691 1,016,798 10.73 771,006 6,789 777,795 558,447 219,318 72,000 6.00 34,825 34,825 3.50 43,156 3.50 4,092 3,436 7.528 4,785 1,000,000 203,000 65,300 1,268,300 9.00 1,586,034 9.00 768,310 35,974 804,284 29,335 2,743 653.553 150,731 120,000 12.00 4,914 14.00 10,000 2,800 42,135 2.60 0.10 Forty-second Street and Grand Street Ferry. 44,767 2.60 13.868 188 14,056 13,147 909 748,000 209,000 957,000 5.13 5.13 1,054,679 5.13 368,664 9,012 377,676 278,511 99,165 14,020 6,075 20,095 74,800 10.00 2.50 Genesee and Water Street (Syracuse). 20,632 2.50 4,176 4,176 2,864 1,312 42,500 12.700 55,200 3.00 0.25 60,703 3.00) 15,225 938 16,163 12,399 3,764 170,000 1,800 3.00 90,000 24,571 284,571 6.00 3.00 Grand Street, Prospect Park and Flatbush. 320,467 6.00 94,884 2,301 97,185 88,336 8,849 200,000 200,000 Harlem Bridge, Morrisania and Fordham.. 33,407 433,407 4.00 4.00 419,185 4.00 53,375 18.6-2 74,057 74,057 299,100 138,500 437,600 6.75 5.00 275,730 6.75 !3,259 2,369 95,628 74,100 21,528 17,000 17,000 1.30 16,800 1.30 14,471 434 4,905 3,401 75,000 75,000 3.35 0.71 1,504 810 5.00 81,874 3.35 19,100 3,783 22,883 18,250 4,633 2,500 15,000 15.000 1.75 New Brighton and Onondaga Valley. 17,500 1.75 6,410 249 6,659 3,986 2,673 2,100 14.00 8,000 8,000 1.83 8,150 1.88 2,074 25 2,099 2,425 350,000 25.000 375,000 3.50 3.50 13,749 6,133 19,877 13,243 797,320 187,000 6,634 North Second Street and Middle Village. 19.210 1,003,530 6.10 994,842 6.10 101,539 6,491 108,030 111,635 134,600 25,000 13,368 172,968 5.25 3.13 173,075 5.25 47,312 2,016 49,328 56,412 200,000 200,000 20,000 420,000 9.40 5.00 337,313 9.40 50,986 4,569 55,555 49,511 6,044 31,500 15,500 14,059 61,089 2.00 0.50 59,367 2.00 17.260 1,660 18,920 17,518 70,000 1,402 20,000 17,500 107,500 9.00 1.00 135,990 9.00 70,419 2,126 72,545 64,472 8,073 2,975 1,099,500 1,163,500 88,181 2,351,181 10.00 10.00 2,376,130 10.00 625,220 1,512 626,732 463,432 163,300 750,000 250,000 37,544 90,000 1,090,000 4.00 4.38 1,904,754 4.00 711,830 32,929 744,759 150,000 100,000 11,741 261,711 637,830 106,929 63,750 3.75 2.75 253,414 3.75 44,813 238 25,000 25,000 45,051 44,065 986 50,000 2.00 0.07 26,478 2.00 15,622 2,162 17,784 10,263 7,521 3,500 87,000 37,000 2.60 38.620 2.00 12,542 1,477 14,019 1,170,000 2,000,000 161,856 3,331,856 8.00 10.00 3,450,939 8.00 1,541,593 8,543 5,476 4,480 26,432 1,541,593 *1,656,818 44,700 35,410 140,400 12.00 80,110 3.17 3.33 71,532 3.17 20,243 485 20,728 14,104 6,624 250,000 75,000 75,000 400,804 6.75 4.88 280,287 10.25 174,254 2,178 176,432 137,061 39,371 121,400 200,000 1,200 322,600 13.00 2.50 320,393 13.00 55,166 14,037 69,203 56,1511 13,052 27,865 20,000 6,350 54,165 2.50 0.25 54,165 2.50 5,102 32 5,134 5,223 75,000 18,000 93,000 1.25 1.25 Watervliet Turnpike and Railroad. 87,000 1.25 20,387 78 20.465 16,442 4.023 240,000 130,000 2,625 34 370,000 7.25 7.25 Williamsburg and Flatbush.. 331,425 7.25 115,884 2,958 118,837 89,170 300,000 175.000 5,600 480,600 4.20 4.00 474,100 4.20 29,667 16,800 27,722 4421 28,164 28.649 *Includes enlarging depots. |