WICONISCO CANAL. Line of Canal.-Millersburg, Pa., to Clark's Ferry, Pa................. Dimensions: Width at top, 45, and at bottom, 28 feet; depth, 4 feet 2 inches. Boats: Own none. Average capacity of those using the canal, 95 tons. 12 miles. Operations for the year ending October 31, 1869.-Freight moved—coal, 113,452; other, 3,157—total, 116,611 tons. Gross receipts, $11,641 41; expenses, 14,279 58; excess of expenses, $2,638 17. General Balances.-Capital stock, 3,000 shares, $58,925; funded debt (6 p. c. bonds), $15,000; floating debt, $16,000. Per contra: Original cost of canal and fixtures, $512,000. Directors.-Charles E. Lex, Stacy B. Barcroft, Joseph W. Souder, Edward Gratz, Jr., E. Coppee Mitchell, Simon Gratz, William R. Valleau, Philadelphia. SIMON GRATZ-President...... .Philadelphia, Pa. Secretary..... Michael Nisbet. | Treasurer...... Edward Gratz, Jr. | Supt......... Francis Wenrich. PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS. Philadelphia, Pa. ST. LOUIS, VANDALIA AND TERRE HAUTE RAILROAD. (Leased in perpetuity to the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Company.) .158 miles. Line of Road.-East St. Louis, Ill., to State line, Ind.................... The tracks of the St. L., V. & T. H., and the extension (5 miles) of the T. H. & Indianapolis Railroads were joined at the State line April 14, 1870, thus completing, so far as track-laying is concerned, the entire road between St. Louis and Terre Haute. It is expected that the road will be opened for business June 1, 1870, at which date the T. H. & Ind. Company will assume management. Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines, 17. express, 4; freight, 315-total cars, 329. Cars-passenger, 10; baggage and Capital stock authorized, subscribed and paid in, $1,500,000. 1st mortgage 7 p. c. sinking fund bonds, guaranteed, due 1897, $1,900,000. 2d mortgage 7 p. c. sinking fund bonds, guaranteed, due 1887, $2,600,000. Estimated cost of road to completion, including rolling stock, $6,000,000. Directors (elected January, 1870).-J. F. Alexander, Greenville, Ill.; John Schofield, Marshall, Ill.; H. G. Henry, Greenville, Ill.; S. Peers, Collinsville, Ill.; Thomas A. Scott, Philadelphia, Pa.; J. Parks, Steubenville, O.; William K. Edwards, Terre Haute, Ind.; William Dennison and H. J. Jewett, Columbus, O. LEAVENWORTH, SOLOMON VALLEY AND DENVER RR. (Projected). Line of Road.-Leavenworth, Ks., to Denver, Colorado..... 700 miles. Directors.-A. Caldwell, L. O. Smith, J. G. Blunt, J. W. Morris, W. O. Ganed, Lucien Scott, H. S. Sleeper, Leavenworth; W. C. Butts, W. W. Allen, Jefferson, Ks.; Martin Anderson, Jackson Co., Ks.; R. McBratney, Junction City, Ks.; E. B. Purcell, Manhattan, Ks.; B. M. Hughes, Denver City, Col. A. CALDWELL-President... Leavenworth, Ks. .Leavenworth. Leavenworth, Ks. Vice-President-Martin Anderson ....Jackson Co. | Secretary-Wm. A. Martin.. PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS.. SIOUX CITY AND PACIFIC RAILROAD. Line of Road.-Sioux City, Iowa, to Fremont, Nebraska........... .101.77 miles. Branch Line: California Junction, Iowa, to Missouri Valley Station.... 6.50 Total length of main and branch lines owned and operated............108.27 miles. Sidings, turnouts, etc., 3.5 miles. Gauge, 4 ft. 8 inches. Rail, 56 lbs. to yard. Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines, 12. Cars-passenger, 4; baggage, mail and express, 3; and freight, 134—total, 141 cars. Also, 8 road and boarding cars. Gross earnings, 1869, $294,476 10. Nett earnings, $90,000. Interest paid, $26,260. Balance used in construction, $64,380. The construction of this road as a branch of the Union Pacific Railroad was provided for in the act incorporating the latter Company, by a Government subsidy of $16,000, in 6 per cent. bonds, and a land grant of 10 sections per mile of road, under which the Company are entitled to 50,000 acres, the balance having been occupied before the grant was made. The Company have also 48,000 acres of land from the State of Nebraska and 30,000 acres swamp land. The Government bonds constitute a second mortgage on the line, the Company having issued an equal amount of their own 6 per cent. bonds (due 1898) as a first mortgage on the property. The capital stock is $1,788,000. There have been issued of the Government bonds $1,628,320, and of the first mortgage bonds $1,628,000. Total stock, bonds and debt, $5,014,000. Directors (elected 1st Wednesday in August, 1869).—John I. Blair, Blairstown, N. J.; Oakes Ames, North Easton, Mass.; William B. Allison, Dubuque, Ia.; W. W. Walker, Cedar Rapids, Ia.; Perry H. Smith, Chicago, Ill.; Joseph H. Scranton, Scranton, Pa.; D. C. Blair, Belvidere, N. J.; William T. Glidden and F. Nickerson, Boston, Mass. JOHN I. BLAIR-President and Treasurer... William B. Allison-Vice-President.. Blairstown, N. J. W. W. Walker-Secretary, Gen. Supt. & Engineer.. Cedar Rapids, Ia. Assistant Supt.-L. Burnett...Missouri Valley, Ia. PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS.. Master Mechanic-J. Radow.. Missouri Valley, Ia. Cedar Rapids, Ia. NORTHERN CENTRAL MICHIGAN RAILROAD (Projected). Line of Road.-Amboy, via Jonesville, Mich., to Lansing, Mich.......80 miles. This Company have a land grant to the amount of 167,000 acres. There has been expended in grading the line under an old charter (Amboy, Lansing and Traverse Bay), about $120,000, and the towns on the route have subscribed $250,00 to secure the completion of the road. Capital stock paid, $410,000. Directors.-W. J. Baxter, Jonesville, Mich.; J. Riblett, Litchfield, Mich.; Geo. H. French, Homer, Mich.; S. V. Irwin, W. H. Brockway and C. J. Hollingsworth, Albion, Mich.; E. Landon, Springport, Mich.; A. N. Hart, Lansing, Mich.; E. W. Hunt, Windsor, Mich.; James Gallery, Eaton Rapids, Mich. .47.6 miles. Line of Road.-Aspinwall (Atlantic) to Panama (Pacific)........... Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines, 15. Cars-passenger, 23; freight, 131– total cars, 154. General Balances.-Capital stock, $7,000,000. Funded debt-1st mortgage 7 per cent. sterling bonds, due 1870-72, $762,000; 2d mortgage 7 per cent. sterling bonds, due 1872, $1,912,000-total funded debt, $2,674,000. Per contra: Nominal cost of road and equipment, $8,000,000. The Company own other large properties in accessory works, steamers, etc. No reports are made public. Regular 6 per cent. dividends on stock quarterly, January, April, July and October, $1,680,000. Directors (elected 1st Tuesday of April, 1870).-William H. Aspinwall, Joseph Alsop, James M. Brown, Henry Chauncey, Frederic G. Foster, David Hoadley, Charles G. Francklyn, Gouverneur Kemble, Charles P. Leverich, Howard Potter, Theodore W. Riley, David Stewart and William Whitewright, Jr. DAVID HOADLEY-President..... New York City. Treasurer-Henry Smith.. .New York City. | Superinendent-Wm. Barker...... Aspinwall, N. G. ....... PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS... CARRILLON AND GRENVILLE RAILROAD. .12.75 miles. Line of Road.-Carrillon, Canada, to Grenville, Canada....... Sidings, etc., 0.67 mile. Road only used in the summer months. Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines, 2. Cars-passenger and baggage, 6; freight (box, 2; flat, 4), 12-total, 18 cars. Cost of road and equipment, $110,000. PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS....... Grenville, Argenteuil Co., Canada. ELKHART AND LAKE MICHIGAN RAILROAD (Projected). Line of Road.-Elkhart, Ind., to Benton Harbor, Mich....... 42 miles. It is also proposed to extend the line from Benton Harbor down the Lake Shore to intersect some point on the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad. Directors (elected September, 1869).—Joseph Riford, H. C. Morton, Samuel E. Martin and Sterne Bronson, Benton Harbor, Mich.; W. S. Farmer, Pipestone, Mich. ; P. Kephart, W. Dougherty and James Graham, Berrien, Mich.; A. L. Burke, Berrien, Mich.; Franklin Muzzy, J. C. Larimore, G. W. Platte, G. A. Colby, Niles, Mich. FRANKLIN Muzzy-President........ PRINCIPAL OFFICE AND ADDRESS... .Niles, Mich. WESTERN AND ATLANTIC RAILROAD. (Constructed and owned by the State of Georgia.) Line of Road.-Atlanta, Ga., to Chattanooga, Tenn....... Side tracks, etc., 9.5 miles. Gauge, 5 feet. Rail, 56 lbs. to yard. .138 miles. Rolling Stock (October 1, 1868).—Locomotive engines, 52. Cars-pasenger, 1st class, 9; 2d class, 6; baggage and mail, 7; pay, 1; express, 2; freight, box, 403; flat, 69; stock, 28; coal, 73; wrecking, 2-total, 600. The road is earning nearly $1,000,000 gross per annum, and paying into the State Treasury between $250,000 and $300,000. Line of Road.-Keokuk, Ia., to Glasgow, Mo....... .131 miles. Sixty-seven miles of the line have been graded, and provision made for grading the remainder of it. The average cost of road-bed, including bridges and ties, will be about $9,500 per mile. An arrangement for ironing and equiping the road has been made, and it is expected that about 75 miles will be completed and put in oper ation the present year. Directors.-James W. Lewis and A. W. Roper, Glasgow, Mo.; Lucius Salisbury, Salisbury, Mo.; T. A. Eagle, D. W. Roberts and F. A. Jones, Macon, Mo.; James A. Reid and George W. Fulton, Edina, Mo.; V. B. Irish, Fairmount, Mo. JAMES W. LEWIS-President.. Glasgow, Mo. Treasurer........ .H. S. Glase. | Secretary......... .Albert Blair. | Chief Engineer...... A. W. Hyde. MISSISSIPPI, OUACHITA AND RED RIVER RR. (Projected). Line of Road.-Eunice, Ark., to Fulton, Ark............ 155 miles. Maximum grade 50 feet per mile; on 95 per cent. of the route the grades do not exceed 10 feet per mile. More than half the length was graded before the War and about $450,000 expended thereon. Capital stock authorized..... 1st mortgage 7 per cent. 30 years, gold, bonds, $12,000 per mile. 1st mortgage 7 per cent. 30 years, gold, land (257,000 acres) bonds. Bonds of the State of Arkansas, not yet determined, say $10,000 per mile. Total resources applicable to construction, etc.. $2,000,000 1,860,000 1,000,000 1,550,000 $6,410,000 The Company also own lands at Eunice and Camden, valued at $100,000. The lands as above were paid in by the State as stock, and are a part of the swamp and overflowed lands given by Congress to the State. A contract for the construction of the road by September, 1872, was made in April, 1869; but as yet nothing has ibeen done further than surveying the route. Cost agreed upon, $2,800,000. Directors.-James Thomas Elliot, Thomas M. Bowen, John E. Bennett, J. E. Sickels, O. P. Snyder, S. W. Mattory, W. W. Wilshire, T. P. Dockery, B. W. Martin, J. M. Lewis, W. H. Harrison and A. H. Southerland. KNOXVILLE AND CHARLESTON RR. (in Progress). Line of Road.-Knoxville, Tenn., to State line, N. C...... In operation: Knoxville, Tenn., to Maryville, Tenn... [This road, when completed, will constitute a link in the chain of railroads extending from the Ohio River, at Louisville and Cincinnati, to the Atlantic coast at Charleston, S. C. It is the Tennessee portion of the Blue Ridge Railroad. whole line is under contract to be completed by August 1, 1871.] Rolling Stock.-Locomotive engines, 1. Cars, 8. The Directors (elected November 1, 1869).-M. D. Bearden, C. W. Jones, C. M. McGhee and James Rodgers, Knoxville, Tenn.; David Goddard, R. I. Wilson and Alex. Kennedy, Rockford, Tenn.; R. C. Tucker, Maryville, Tenn.; M. Nelson, Knoxville, Tenn.; J. H. Walker, Maryville, Tenn.; William Rule, H. C. Tarwater, T. Rodgers, I. L. Hendiburg, Joseph A. Mabry, E. M. Parham, William R. McBath and J. W. Maloney, Knoxville, Tenn.; J. W. Harrison, Anderson, S. C.; M. L. Patterson, Knoxville, Tenn. |