Sidebilder
PDF
ePub

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.
Seneca River towing-path.
Cayuga and Seneca Canal

Crooked Lake Canal..

[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]

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

[blocks in formation]

448,027 37

Cayuga and Seneca Canal

161,677 24

Black River Canal

97,135 00

[blocks in formation]

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.
Add per centage retained to Dec. 31, 1857...

Total amount necessary to complete the
Erie Canal.

$1,403,183 28

362,391 10

550,000 00

$2,315,574 38
463,114 87
643,042 00

2d.-ENLARGEMENT OF THE OSWEGO CANAL

Work remaining to be done on existing contracts...

$448,027 87

$3,421,731 25

[blocks in formation]

3d.-ENLARGEMENT OF THE CAYUGA AND SENECA CANAL.

[blocks in formation]

Total amount necessary to complete the Cayuga and
Seneca Canal..

324,836 44

[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]

$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
Canal......

6th.-ENLARGEMENT OF LOCKS ON CHAMPLAIN CANAL.
Work remaining to be done on existing con-

tracts...

Work not under contract.

Engineering and land damages..

$24,480 00

104,700 00

30,000 00

$159,180 00

31,836 00
25,533 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.
ROBERT SOUTTER, Vice-President.
ISAAC N. SEYMOUR, Treasurer.

JAMES C. HARTT, Secretary.

TOLLS ON THE STATE CANALS.

TABLE, showing the amount of Tolls, etc., received on the several Canals of this State, in each year, from 1823 to the 31st December, 1857. Also, the Canals in order of completion.

[blocks in formation]
[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]

ST. LAWRENCE RIVER AND LAKE NAVIGATION,

FROM FOND DU LAC, LAKE SUPERIOR, TO ANTICOSTI.

[blocks in formation]

Lake Huron is elevated nine feet above Lake Erie, and Lake Superior is elevated 26 feet above Lake Huron-making a total elevation above tide-water, or the ocean, of 600 feet, according to recent surveys.

« ForrigeFortsett »