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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..
C. P. Huntington, Vice-President.

Treasurer-Mark Hopkins..
Secretary-E. H. Miller, Jr..

Chief Engineer-S. S. Montague.
Land Agent-B. B. Redding..

S. W. Sanderson

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Sacramento, Cal. | Auditor-William H. Porter.....
Freight-A. D. Wilder...
Pass r-A. D.W. McCullough
Asst. Engineer-L. M. Clement...
Gen. Tkt. Agt.-T. H. Goodman.
Asst. Gen. Fgt. Agt.-J. C. Stubbs
Mast. of Mach.-A. J. Stevens...

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Counsel: Robert Robinson...San Francisco, Cal.
James H. Storrs.. New York City, N.Y.
General Supt.-A. N. Towne.....Sacramento, Cal.
Asst. Gen. Supt.-John Corning..

Division Supts.

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E. C. Fellows San Francisco. Cal.
F. W. Bowen...Sacramento, Cal.
R. S. Mattison.....Carlin, Nev.
James Campbell...Ogden, Utah.

GENERAL OFFICE..

LOCAL OFFICES

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"Car Rep'rs-Benj.Welch
Supt. of Bridges-Arthur Brown.
Road Master-R. II. Pratt.
Purchasing Agt.-J. R. Watson..
Gen.Agt.-C. P. Huntington......9 Nassau st., N. Y.

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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......
Sidings and other tracks, 4.7 miles. Gauge, 5 feet. Rail, 56 lbs. to yard.

.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.
In operation: Little Rock to Clarksville, Ark..........
Gauge, 5 feet. Rail, 56 lbs. to yard.

.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

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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.

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PORTLAND AND OXFORD CENTRAL RAILROAD.

Line of Road.-Mechanics' Falls, Me., to Canton, Me..
Sidings and other tracks, 2.75 miles. Gauge, 5 feet 6 inches.

.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
Railroad Commissioners of Maine.

F. B. SMITH, President and Superintendent....
PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS..

.Canton, Me. ...Canton, Maine.

SALISBURY AND BALTIMORE RAILROAD. (In progress.)

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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.

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Lynn and Boston leases Boston and Chelsea, and Winnisimmet.

Metropolitan leases Boston and West Roxbury.

51,253 22 65,076 17
5,650 00

296,572 14 249,871 49
22,462 28 22,657 45
15,890 02 13,896 35
21.346 19 15,549 46
493,461 84 452,991 09'
7,791 62 6,803 53
8.600 00 522 74
26,171 00 26,722 47

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.

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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.

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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
100,000

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.
Brooklyn City.

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
1,900,000 10.73

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.

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