134.35 miles. The Eastern Division embraces Albany Basin and the Erie Canal, from Albany to Oneida Lake Canal, a distance of.... The Champlain Canal and Glenn's Falls Feeder. Black River Canal and Improvement... Reservoirs connected therewith.... Total.. 78 do. 90.60 do. 12.95 do. 315.90 The Middle Division embraces the Erie Canal from Oneida Lake Canal to the east line of Wayne County.. The Chenango Canal... Oneida Lake Canal Oswego Canal.. Baldwinsville side-cut. Oneida River Improvement. Crooked Lake Canal.. Cayuga inlet. Total .... The Western Division embraces the Erie Canal from the east line of Wayne County to Buffalo The Genesee Valley Canal, including the Dansville side-cut. Total 155 miles. .118 do. 273 Making the whole length of the canals and public works of the State 899.60 miles, exclusive of the authorized extension of the Genesee Valley Canal, which will add about seven miles to its length. STATEMENT OF THE AMOUNT OF WORK ALREADY DONE, AND ESTIMATED COST OF COMPLETING THE WORKS AUTHORIZED BY THE CONSTITUTION. The amount estimated for work done, engineering, land damages, etc., upon the enlargement and other works authorized by the Constitution, from December 31, 1853, to December 31, 1856, was. $9,174,909 80 The amount estimated on the same account during the past year was...... The estimated amount of work to be done and payments to be made for engineering, land damages, etc., from and after this date is as follows: $1,743,964 58 2,862,923 07 448,027 37 Cayuga and Seneca Canal 161,677 24 Black River Canal 97,135 00 ESTIMATED COST OF FINISHING THE STATE CANALS. Extract from the State Engineer's Report, dated Albany, Mar. 24, 1858. The estimated "amount of money necessary to complete the unfinished Canals," from January 1st, 1858, is as follows: 1st.-ENLARGEMENT OF THE ERIE CANAL. Work remaining to be done on existing con tracts... Work not under contract. Engineering and land damages. Add 20 per cent. for contingencies. Total amount necessary to complete the $1,403,183 28 362,391 10 550,000 00 $2,315,574 38 2d.-ENLARGEMENT OF THE OSWEGO CANAL Work remaining to be done on existing contracts... $448,027 87 $3,421,731 25 3d.-ENLARGEMENT OF THE CAYUGA AND SENECA CANAL. Total amount necessary to complete the Cayuga and 324,836 44 $95,350 20 Add 20 per cent. for contingencies.. Add per centage retained to Dec. 31, 1857.. Total amount necessary to complete the Genesee Valley 6th.-ENLARGEMENT OF LOCKS ON CHAMPLAIN CANAL. tracts... Work not under contract. Engineering and land damages.. $24,480 00 104,700 00 30,000 00 $159,180 00 31,836 00 Add 20 per cent. for contingencies.... Add per centage retained to Dec. 31, 1857... Total amount necessary to complete the Champlain Canal 216,540 00 Total amount necessary to complete unfinished Canals. . $4,955,777 14 It appears from the above estimates that the amount of money necessary to complete the unfinished canals is four millions, nine hundred and fiftyfive thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven 14-100 dollars. DELAWARE AND HUDSON CANAL. OFFICE, 29 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK. This work belongs to an incorporated company, chartered by the States of New York and Pennsylvania, and is too important in its connection with internal trade not to be noticed. The work was commenced in 1825, and finished in 1829, extending from the Hudson River up the valley of the Rondout Creek, in Ulster; then across parts of Orange and Sullivan counties, to the Delaware River; then along its bank, in all 84 miles, when it crosses to the valley of the Lackawaxen Creek, in Pennsylvania, up which it runs 24 miles to Honesdale, where it meets a railroad, running 16 miles to the mining village of Carbondale, making the entire route 124 miles. The work was constructed by the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company; the entire cost of which was $6,156,000. The capital of this company, as originally incorporated, was $1,500,000, with the right to increase its amount from time to time, as business might require, and with the privilege of employing one third thereof for banking purposes, till 1844, when this privilege expired; present capital $7,500,000. This company is extensively engaged in miring and bringing to the New York market Lackawanna coal, constantly employing a large number of boats and men. GEORGE T. OLYPHANT, President. JAMES C. HARTT, Secretary. |