SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD. Line of Road.-Charleston, S. C., to Hamburg, S. C. (opp. Augusta)...137 miles. Branchville (62 m. W. Charleston), to Columbia, S. C...........68 Branches: Kingville (43 m. N. Branchville), to Camden, S. C..................38-106 .243 miles. Total length of main line and branch owned and operated.................. Sidings, turnouts, etc., 10 miles. Gauge, 5 feet. Rail, 50 to 60 lbs. to yard. Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines-effective, 33; rebuilding, under repairs, etc., 10-total, 43. Cars-passenger, 1st class, 21; 2d class, mail and baggage, 24; freight (box, 308; platform, 70; stock, 14), 392-total, 440. Three passenger, 50 box and 50 platform cars are to be built during the current year. In 1860, the rolling stock consisted of 62 locomotives, 59 passenger, and 790 baggage and freight cars. Operations for the year ending December 31, 1869.-Trains made, 2,522 trips and run 801,171 miles. Passengers carried-whole seats, 80,639; half seats, 57,272-total, 137,911=109,275 whole seats. Freight moved, 185,965 tons, including tonnage brought to Charleston; cotton, 206,284 bales; flour, 13,438 barrels; grain, 165,395 bushels; naval stores, 23,254; merchandize, 14,661 bales; live stock, 8,516 head. Statement of operations and business for ten years: Gross earnings-passenger, $325,180 85; freight, $1,009,067 40; mail, $30,088 46; other, $17,830 20-total, $1,382,167. Operating expenses, $731,425 53; damages, including cotton burnt at Columbia, etc., $18,993 68; stock killed, $3,241 23; intereststerling, $113,765 28; domestic, $149,909 94—total, $263,675 22; balance to profit and loss, $331,831 34. This balance was disposed of in the restoration of property, new rolling stock and the reduction of indebtedness. Statement of gross earnings and dividends for ten years: Years ending Dec. 31. Freight. Passeng`r Mails. Miscell. Total. Amount. p. c. 1001 The dividends paid, 1844–1858, were as follows: 5, 53, 51, 5,83, 24, 4, 6, 7, 7, 8, 81, 8, 10, 8 and 81, no year having been intermitted in those fifteen years.. General Balances.-Financial condition of Company January 1, 1870: The capital stock in 1860 was $4,879,475; in 1861, and since, $5,819,275. Directors (elected February 9, 1870).-George A. Trenholm, John Hanckel, George W. Williams, Henry Gourdon, C. M. Furman, L. D. De Saussure, Andrew Simmonds, F. J. Pelzer, B. H. Rice, H. H. DeLeon, Daniel Tyler, W. A. Courtenay, J. S. Gibbs and J. P. Boyce. Line of Road.-White River Junction, Vt., to Derby (Canada) Line.110.3 miles. Sidings and other tracks, 12 miles. Gauge, 4 feet 8 in. Rail, 56 lbs. to yard. Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines, 13. Cars--passenger, 11; baggage and mail, 7; freight (box, 131; rack, 71; coal, 13; platform, 104; ore, 10; freight and drovers' saloon, 5), 334—total 352. Also, 20 gravel, 12 wood and 28 hand cars. Operations for the year ending May 31, 1869 : Trains run-passenger, 89,302; freight, 81,829; other, 16,278-total, 190,409 miles. Passengers carried, 118,019; carried one mile, 3,747,271. Freight moved, 87,222 tons; moved one mile, 4,799,290 tons. Gross earnings-passenger, $177,346 47; freight, $330,549 64; mail, $11,117; express, $6,000; rents, $1,333 97—total, $529,347 08. Operating expenses, taxes, etc., $337,162 95. Nett earnings, $192,184 13. Dividends, two of 3 per cent. each, and U. S. tax, $129,691 58. General Balances.-Capital stock, $2,087,883 23; funded debt-1st mortgage sinking fund bonds of 1856, interest June and December, due December 1, 1876, $500,000; 7 per cent. notes, payable in 1876, $295,000—total, $795,000; Trustees of sinking fund, $93,000; reserve, $93,645 84; Lyndon lands, $12,760 07; Massawippi RR., $5,000; coupons and dividends uncalled for, $2,417 44; new shops, $2,055 09 ; earnings, $68,929 11... Total, $3,160,690 78. Per contra: Construction, $2,996,180 99; notes receivable, $5,193 94; Superintendent, including stock and material on hand and sundry accounts unsettled, $125,847 95; wood lots, $6,378 14; agents for collection, $449 04; cash, $26,640 72. Statement of affairs and results of operations for 10 years: * Opened from Boston to Newport, 14.4 miles, October 5, 1863. Directors (elected July 29, 1869).—Henry Keyes, Newbury, Vt.; Josiah Stickney, Emmons Raymond, William Thomas, Gardner C. Brown, Thomas Upham, Benjamin P. Cheney and F. S. Carruth, Boston, Mass.; Elijah Cleveland, Coventry, Vt.; Albert Knight, Stanstead, Can.; Timothy P. Redfield, Montpelier, Vt.; Henry Chase, Benjamin Pomeroy. 12 miles. Line of Road.-Carrollton, Ohio, to Oneida, Ohio..... Sidings and other track, 0.9 mile. Gauge, 4 feet 10 inches. Rail, strap. Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engine, 1. Cars-passenger, 1; express and baggage, 1; freight, etc., 3-total, 5 cars. Operations for the year ending June 30, 1869.-Trains run, 7,992 miles. Passengers carried, 3,606. Freight moved, 772 tons. Gross earnings-passenger, $2,704 78; freight, $1,770 29; mail and express, $700-total, $5,175 07. Operating expenses, $4,674 52. Nett earnings, $500 55. Interest paid, $150. Balance, $350 55. General Balances.-Capital stock, $14,400; debt, $1,800--total stock and debt, $15,200. Cost of road (original), $101,000. It is intended to carry this road to a point at or near Bowersville, on the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad. Directors.-James Huston, Jacob Helfrich, C. A. Shober, Samuel Sterling, Washington Butler and H. A. Stidger, all of Carrollton, Ohio. H. A. STIDGER-President and Superintendent... .. Carrollton, O. Sec. Auditor & Gen. Fgt. Agt.. Samuel L. Sterling. | Engineer & Asst. Supt.. PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS.. M. T. Wiggins. Washington Butler. . Carrollton, Carroll Co., O. LAFAYETTE, MUNCIE AND BLOOMINGTON RR. (Projected). Line of Road.-Muncie, Ind., cia Lafayette, to State Line of Illinois.. 115 miles. This road is intended to connect at State Line with the Lafayette, Bloomington and Mississippi Railroad. Capital stock, authorized, $3,000,000; paid in, $1,000,000. When the road is graded, bridged and the ties are on the ground, the Company intend to issue bonds to the amount of $1,500,000 for iron and equipment. Directors.-Adams Earl, Moses Fowler, Owen Ball, H. T. Sample, M. L. Peirce, John Purdell, J. H. Telford, W. S. Luigle and Hiram W. Chase, Lafayette, Ind. ; W. J. Templeton, Oxford, Ind.; C. E. Shipley and Jos. S. Buckley, Muncie, Ind. ; John Green, Tipton, Ind. ADAMS EARL-President.. Lafayette, Ind. Treasurer.....Thomas Coleman. | Secretary.. W. S. Peckham. | Chief Engineer....E. M. Talbott PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS.. ... Lafayette, Ind. ROCKFORD, ROCK ISLAND AND ST. LOUIS RAILROAD. (Consolidation, October 8, 1868, of Rockford, Rock Island and St. Louis, and St. Louis, Alton and Rock Island Railroads.) The following divisions and branches are completed and in operation: Sterling (Rock River), Ill., to Rock Island, Ill............. Main Line (Rock River Station) to Cleveland and Perry's.. 420 miles. Total length of main line and branches completed March 1, 1870...217 miles. It is intended to be opened from Rockfordto East St. Louis in 1870. Sidings, turnouts, etc., 20 miles. Gauge, 4 feet 84 inches. Rail, 54 lbs. to yard. Rolling Stock (March 1, 1870).-Locomotive engines, 35. Cars-passenger, 10; baggage, mail, etc., 4; freight and coal, 800; stock; 100; platform, 75-total, 989 cars. The Company possess 20,000 acres of valuable coal lands, one-fourth part owned in fee, and the remainder controlled under leases having fifty years to run. Capital stock authorized, $9,000,000. Mortgage debt authorized, $9,000,000. The bonds issued under this mortgage bear 7 per cent. interest free of U. S. tax, principal and interest payable in coin, payable in New York or London, each bond being for $1,000 or £200 sterling, interest semi-annually, February 1 and August 1. About a fourth of the capital stock and bonds has been used in the purchase of lands, etc. Directors (elected second Wednesday of October, 1869).-George Greene, Cedar Rapids, Ia.; H. H. Boody, D. A. Boody, Henry Budge, Leo Lehman and O. D. Ash ley, New York City; James R. Young, Chicago, Ill.; B. C. Coblentz, Sterling, Ill.; Calvin Tresdale, Rock Island, Ill. GEORGE GREENE-President............. Cedar Rapids, Ia. James R. Young- Vice-President and Gen. Manager... Chicago, Supt of Bridges-J. Thayer.....Rock Island, Ill. No. 12 Wall street, New York City. FLUSHING AND NORTII SIDE RAILROAD. (Consolidation of New York and Flushing, and Flushing and North Side Railroads.) Line of Road.-Hunter's Point, N. Y., to Great Neck, N. Y...................... 11 miles. Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines, 5. Cars-passenger, 16; freight 3. Operations for the year ending September 30, 1869.—Trains run-passenger 36,187; freight, 672-total, 36,859 miles. Passengers carried, 335,154. Gross earnings-passenger, $56,897 14; freight, $565 30; other, $320 04-total, $57,782 48. Operating expenses, $39,640 31. Nett earnings, $18,142 17. General Balances.-Capital stock, $201,000; funded debt, $825,000-total stock and bonds, $1,026,000. Cost of road and equipment, $399,235 32. Directors.-Orange Judd, Flushing, N. Y.; Conrad Poppenhusen, College Point, N. Y.; Samuel B. Parsons, Flushing, N. Y.; A. Poppenhusen, College Point, N. Y.; Morris Franklin, E. B. Hinsdale and Henry Clement, Flushing, N. Y.; John D. Locke, Whitestone, N. Y.; Herman Funke and Frederick Konig, College Point, N. Y.; W. Wetmer Cryder, New York City; John J. Locke, Whitestone, N. Y. CONRAD POPPENHUSEN-President.. Treasurer. Secretary.... College Point, N. Y. .H. C. Poppenhusen. | Engineer. S. F. Gooding. .F. E. Beardslie. .College Point, Long Island, N. Y. ST. PAUL AND PACIFIC RAILROAD (First Division). (Successors, Feb. 6, 1864, to St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company.) (St. Paul, Minn., to Watab, Minn. (completed)...... 80 miles. Lines. St. Anthony, Minn., to Breckenridge, Minn., 206 m.; completed..100 --with right to extend the line from Breckenridge, on the Red River of the North, to the boundary line between the United States and British America, and also from Big Stone Lake to a point on the Missouri River, north of latitude 45 deg. From St. Paul to Watab and from St. Anthony to Breckenridge, the Company have a land-grant of ten sections for each mile of road completed, viz.: 6 sections per mile under act of Congress approved March 7, 1857, and four additional sections under act of March 3, 1865. Rolling Stock (January 1, 1870).—Locomotive engines, 14. Cars-passenger, |