Directors.-William Marshall, Temperanceville, Pa.; William H. Brown, Jehu Haworth and N. P. Fetterman, Pittsburg, Pa.; Richard Dewhurst, Allegheny, Pa.; and Jonathan Lenz, Economy, Pa.

WILLIAM ESPY-President...

.Pittsburg, Pa.

Secretary-N. P. Fetterman........ .Pittsburg, Pa. | Superintendent-William Espy.....Pittsburgh, Pa. PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS...... Temperanceville, Allegheny Co., Pa.

BELLEVILLE AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS RAILROAD.

(Leased and operated by St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute RR. Company.)

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Line of Road.-Belleville (14 m. S. E. St. Louis), Ill., to Du Quoin, Ill....56 m. In operation: Belleville (14 m. S. E. St. Louis), Ill., to New Athens..... Gauge of track, 4 feet 84 inches. Weight of rail, 56 lbs. to yard.

This road is leased by the St. L., A. & T. H. RR. Co. for a rental of 40 per cent. of the gross earnings up to $7,000 per mile; 30 per cent. of the gross earnings exceeding $7,000 and up to $14,000 per mile; and 20 per cent. of all excess over $14,000 per mile The remainder of the road from Athens to Du Quoin is under contract to be completed by the close of the current year. It is probable that the line will be ultimately extended to Paducah, Ky.

The Company have executed a first mortgage on the road, to secure an issue of 8 per cent. sinking fund bonds to the amount of $1,100,000. These bonds are dated October 1, 1866, the interest payable semi-annually, April and October, and the principal October 1, 1896. About $300,000 have been sold and are now outstanding.

Directors.-Robert Bayard, Samuel J. Tilden, Russell Sage and Thomas Denny New York City; and David L. Phillips, Springfield, Ill.

DAVID L. PHILLIPS-President...

Springfield, Ill.

Secretary-E. F. Leonard...... ..Belleville, Ill. | Transfer Agt.-Thomas Denny...New York City. PRINCIPAL Office and ADDRESS...

Belleville, St. Clair Co., Ill.

LAWRENCE RAILROAD.

(Operated under lease by Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chicago RR. Company).

Line of Road.-Lawrence Junction, Pa., to Youngstown, Ohio......17.4 miles. Sidings, none. Gauge, 4 feet 10 inches. Rail, 60 lbs. to yard.

Operations for the year ending October 31, 1869.-Passengers carried, 67,156; freight, 176,642 tons. Gross earnings-passenger, $18,896 31; freight, $64,244 33; and mail, etc., $3,322 01-total, $86,462 65. Operating expenses, $52,774 81; miscellaneous, $5,700 57; and interest, $26,359 20. Since July 1, 1869, the Company has received 40 per cent. of the gross earnings.

General Balances.-Capital stock, $5,209 shares, $260,450; funded debt, 1st mortgage 7 per cent. bonds, due August 1, 1895, $360,000; and floating debt, $20,000 -total stock, bonds and debt, $740,450. Per contra: Cost of road, etc., $614,869 34. President-Wm. McCreery... ..Pittsburg, Pa. | Sec. & Treas.-F. M. Hutchinson..Pittsburg, Pa.

PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS..

.Pittsburg, Pa.

LITTLESTOWN RAILROAD.

(Operated under contract by Hanover Branch Railroad Company.)

.7.25 miles.

Line of Road.-Hanover, Pa., to Littlestown, Pa.....................
Sidings, etc., 2,268 feet. Gauge, 4 feet 8 inches. Rail, 50 and 56 lbs. to yard.
Rolling Stock.-Supplied by Hanover Branch Railroad Company.

Operations for the year ending October 31, 1869.-Trains run, 16,425 miles. Passengers carried, 6,353. Freight moved, 17,164 tons. Gross earnings-passenger, $1,874, 96; freight, $6,286 11; and other, $1,020 88—total, $9,181 95. Operating expenses and taxes, $9,268 94. Deficit, $8,699.

General Balances.-Capital stock, 695 shares, $34,750. Per contra: Cost of road, $76,000. The road was recently sold, and bought in by the bondholders, who formed themselves into a Company.

EPHRAIM MYERS-President..

Littlestown, Pa.

Secretary-Wm. McShevy.. .Littlestown, Pa. | Treasurer-Geo. Stonesifer..... .Littlestown, Pa. PRINCIPAL Office and ADDRESS.... ....Littlestown, Adams Co., Pa.

LEHIGH AND LACKAWANNA RAILROAD.

(Operated at nett cost by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company.)

Line of Road.-Bethlehem, Pa., to Stroudsburg, Pa.......

In operation: Bethlehem, Pa., to Chapman Slate Quarries...
Sidings 5,480 feet. Gauge, 4 feet 8 inches. Rail, 50 lbs. to yard.

Rolling Stock.-Furnished by Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. Operations for the year ending October 31, 1869.-Trains run, 22,063 miles. Passengers carried, 8,091. Freight moved, 15,565 tons, chiefly coal and Slate. Gross earnings-passenger, $3,474 11; freight, $19,122-total, $22,996 11. Operating expenses and taxes, $16,626 44. Nett earnings, $6,369 67.

Directors.-Charles Brodhead and Augustus Wolfe, Bethlehem, Pa.; Mendes Cohen and John P. Ilsley, Philadelphia, Pa.; Fisher Hazzard, Mauch Chunk, Pa. CHARLES BRODHEAD-President.........

.Bethlehem, Pa.

Secretary-James Jenkins..... .Bethlehem, Pa. | Treasurer-Felix W. Leinbach.... Bethlehem, Pa. PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS.. ..Bethlehem, Northampton Co., Pa.

BUFFALO AND ERIE RAILROAD.

(Consolidation, June 25, 1867, of the Buffalo and State Line and the Erie and North East Railroads; and consolidated August 10, 1869, with Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad).

......88 miles.

Line of Road.-Buffalo, N. Y., to Erie City, Pa Second track, 3; and sidings, 40 miles. Gauge, 4 ft. 10 in. Rail, 60 lbs. to yard.

Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines, 47. Cars-passenger, 1st class 24, and 2d class 7; baggage, mail and express, 16; and freight, 1,057-total, 1,104 cars. Operations for the ten months ending August 31, 1869:

Trains run-Passenger, 266,564; and freight, 723,063-total, 989,627 miles. Passengers carried, 388,253; freight moved, 986,271 tons. Gross earnings-passenger, $614,454 54; freight, $1,195,007 14; mail and express, $61,328 55; use of cars, $16,594 43; and other, $883 11-total, $188.267 77. Operating expenses, including taxes, etc., $1,085,513 88; interest on bonds, $245,525; dividends, February and August, each 4 per cent., $480,000; surplus, $77,228 89. The two months' operations to October 31 are included in the returns of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, of which the road is now a portion.

General Balances (September 1, 1869).-Capital stock, 60,000 shares, $6,000,000; funded debt, 1st mortgage 7 per cent. bonds, $3,700,000-viz., due June 1, 1870, $400,000; due April 1, 1898, $3,000,000; due November 1, 1873, $100,000; due July 1, 1882, $200,000; and due September 1, 1886, $300,000-total capital and bonds, $9,700,000. Per contra: Cost of road and rolling stock, $7,008,901 03.

See LAKE SHORE AND MICHIGAN SOUTHERN RR.

LITTLE SCHUYLKILL (Navigation) RAILROAD.

(Leased and operated by Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company.)

3.00"

Line of Road. Catawissa Junct'n (78 m. W. Phila.), to Tamaqua, Pa....28.25 m. Branch: Panther Creek and Wabash Creek.... Leased: E. Mahanoy RR., E. Mahanoy Junction to Waste House Run......7.54 Second track, 8; and sidings, 16.56 miles. Gauge, 4 ft. 8 in. Rails, 60 lbs. to yard.

Operations for the year ending October 31, 1869.-Included in the returns of the lessees. Total receipts, $301,290 15; and current expenses—miscellaneous, $40,782 97 ; State tax on capital, $3,988 42 and U. S. tax, $13,578 43-total, $58,349 82. Nett receipts, $242,940 63; from which were paid-interest, $50,132 25; and dividends, January 44 and July 34, $192,808 38.

General Balances.—Capital stock, 52,922 shares, $2,646,100; funded debt, 1st mortgage, 7 per cent. bonds, due October 1, 1877, $795,500; total stock and bonds, $3,401,600. Per contra: Cost of road, etc., $1,466,283 14; real estate, $915,657 82.

President..

.John F. Blandy. | Sec. & Treas. PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS..

Joseph Lapsley Wilson. .Philadelphia, Pa.

TYRONE AND CLEARFIELD RAILROAD.

(Leased and operated by Pennsylvania Railroad Company.)

Line of Road.-Bald Eagle Valley Intersection, to Clearfield, Pa.....37.5 miles. Branches; Moshannon, 3; Madera, 1.5; Philipsburg, 2.5; Decatur, 1-8.0 Sidings, etc., 10 miles. Gauge, 4 feet 84 inches. Rail, 45, 56 and 64 lbs. to yard. Rolling Stock, Operations, etc.-Included in Pennsylvania Railroad returns. General Balances (November 1, 1869).—Capital stock, 10,200 shares, $510,000;

and floating debt, $404,069 18-total stock and debt, $914,069 18, a sum representing the cost of the road. In September, 1866, the road was sold and bought in by the bondholders for the amount of their claims, $310,000, and has since been reorganized. The original cost was about $1,000,000.

J. EDGAR THOMSON-President..

Philadelphia, Pa.

Secretary.... Edmund Smith Treasurer...... .Thos. T. Firth | Superintendent.. Geo. C. Wilkins. PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS..

Philadelphia, Pa.

CENTRAL RAILROAD OF IOWA.

Line of Road.-Missouri State Line to Minnesota State Line, about..250 miles. In operation: Ackley (D. & S. C. RR.), to Marshalltown (C. R. & Mo.RR.).. 46 Gauge of track, 4 feet 84 inches. Weight of rail, 56 lbs. to yard.

This road as projected forms a north and south line across the State at a distance of 150 miles from the Mississippi River, at the Missouri line, connecting with the North Missouri RR. at the Minnesota line with the Minnesota Central RR., making a part of the through line between St. Louis, Mo. and St. Paul, Minn. The completion of the grading on the entire line during the present season has been contracted for, and it is intended to open 150 miles for business during the present year, and to complete the entire line by July 15, 1871.

Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines, 5. Cars-passenger, 2; baggage, mail and express, 1; and freight (box, 12; and platform, 40), 52-total, 53 cars.

Capital stock authorized, $30,000 per mile of road. The Company have subscriptions from towns and individuals to the extent of $2,500 per mile.

Funded debt, 1st mortgage 7 p. c. gold bonds, issued in 1869, and due in 1899, interest January and July 15th, $16,000 per mile.

Directors.-J. J. Donaldson, W. A. Wheelock and W. B. Shattuck, New York City; John S. Gilman, Thomas Kensett and Horace Abbott, Baltimore, Md.; F. W. H. Sheffield, Dubuque, Ia.; G. M. Woodbury, Marshalltown, Ia.; J. B. Grinnell, Grinnell, Ia.; W. H. Seevers, Oskaloosa, Ia.; and Charles C. Gilman, Eldora, Ia. CHAS. C. GILMAN-President and Gen. Supt...... Marshalltown, Ia. W. H. Seevers-Vice-President.

Secretary-Charles Collins.

Treasurer-W. B. Shattuck.

. Oskaloosa, Ia.

Eldora, Ia. Mast. Mechanic-H. P. Vedder..Marshalltown, Ia. New York City. Tkt. & Fgt. Agt-J. W. Gilman Road Master-S. M. Churchill... Marshalltown, Ia. | Transfer Agent-A. L. Hatch....New York City.

PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS..

Financial Office....

Marshalltown, Marshall Co., Ia. .No. 32 Pine, St., New York City.

JAMESTOWN AND FRANKLIN RAILROAD.

(Leased to and operated by Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Company.)

Line of Road.-Jamestown, Pa., to Latona, Pa.....

In operation: Jamestown, Pa., to Franklin, Pa......

1.50

Branch: Stoneboro' (21 m. E. Jamestown), to Stoneboro' Mines.......
Sidings and other track, 2.5 miles. Gauge, 4 feet 10 in. Rail, 55 and 60 lbs. to yard.
Operations.-Included in returns of lessees.

Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines, 47. Cars-passenger, 1st class 24, and 2d class 7; baggage, mail and express, 16; and freight, 1,057-total, 1,104 cars. Operations for the ten months ending August 31, 1869:

Trains run-Passenger, 266,564; and freight, 723,063-total, 989,627 miles. Passengers carried, 388,253; freight moved, 986,271 tons. Gross earnings-passenger, $614,454 54; freight, $1,195,007 14; mail and express, $61,328 55; use of cars, $16,594 43; and other, $883 11—total, $188.267 77. Operating expenses, including taxes, etc., $1,085,513 88; interest on bonds, $245,525; dividends, February and August, each 4 per cent., $480,000; surplus, $77,228 89. The two months' operations to October 31 are included in the returns of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, of which the road is now a portion.

General Balances (September 1, 1869).-Capital stock, 60,000 shares, $6,000,000; funded debt, 1st mortgage 7 per cent. bonds, $3,700,000-viz., due June 1, 1870, $400,000; due April 1, 1898, $3,000,000; due November 1, 1873, $100,000; due July 1, 1882, $200,000; and due September 1, 1886, $300,000-total capital and bonds, $9,700,000. Per contra: Cost of road and rolling stock, $7,008,901 03.

See LAKE SHORE AND MICHIGAN SOUTHERN RR.

LITTLE SCHUYLKILL (Navigation) RAILROAD.

(Leased and operated by Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company.)

Line of Road. Catawissa Junct'n (78 m. W. Phila.), to Tamaqua, Pa....28.25 m. Branch: Panther Creek and Wabash Creek.... 3.00" Leased: E. Mahanoy RR., E. Mahanoy Junction to Waste House Run......7.54 “ Second track, 8; and sidings, 16.56 miles. Gauge, 4 ft. 8 in. Rails, 60 lbs. to yard.

Operations for the year ending October 31, 1869.-Included in the returns of the lessees. Total receipts, $301,290 15; and current expenses-miscellaneous, $40,782 97; State tax on capital, $3,988 42 and U. S. tax, $13,578 43-total, $58,349 82. Nett receipts, $242,940 63; from which were paid-interest, $50,132 25; and dividends, January 4 and July 34, $192,808 38.

General Balances.-Capital stock, 52,922 shares, $2,646,100; funded debt, 1st mortgage, 7 per cent. bonds, due October 1, 1877, $795,500; total stock and bonds, $3,401,600. Per contra: Cost of road, etc., $1,466,283 14; real estate, $915,657 82. President...

.John F. Blandy. | Sec. & Treas... PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS.

..Joseph Lapsley Wilson.
Philadelphia, Pa.

TYRONE AND CLEARFIELD RAILROAD.

(Leased and operated by Pennsylvania Railroad Company.)

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Line of Road.-Bald Eagle Valley Intersection, to Clearfield, Pa.....37.5 miles. Branches; Moshannon, 3; Madera, 1.5; Philipsburg, 2.5; Decatur, 1-8.0 Sidings, etc., 10 miles. Gauge, 4 feet 8 inches. Rail, 45, 56 and 64 lbs. to yard. Rolling Stock, Operations, etc.-Included in Pennsylvania Railroad returns. General Balances (November 1, 1869).-Capital stock, 10,200 shares, $510,000;