ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD. This road, of 731 miles of track, is to be completed in all this year. The finished and unfinished portions are detailed in the annexed table :— TERRE-HAUTE AND RICHMOND RAILROAD. This road extends from Terre-Haute to Indianapolis, and is seventy-three miles in length. According to the fifth annual report, the income of the company for the last fiscal year, ending December 31, 1853, is as follows: PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAILWAY. The annual report of the President, John Tucker, Esq., of the operations of this road for the year 1853, shows a degree of prosperity that reflects very favorably with regard to the management. We give an abstract of the main facts. The old Board of Directors were re-elected. The earnings for the year were from the following Total dividend fund..... Which has been disposed of as follows:- Dividend on preferred stock, July 1853, and Jan. 1854.. Paid State tax on dividends, Dec., 1822, and July, 1853. $788,977 50 $108,626 00 172,934 83 23,283 71 25,000 00 75,000 00 101,400 29 $506,244 83 $283,732 67 Paid sinking funds for bonds, 1849 and 1870.. Paid for balance at the Dr. of interest account. Leaving for balance of dividend fund for 1853......... We learn that a dividend of 34 per cent has since been declared upon the common stock, for January, 1854, which makes seven per cent for the year, on all the stock, and leaving a surplus of dividend fund on hand of $52,152 89. The sinking funds give a fund for distribution in common stock of 14 per cent on both stocks, in addition to the cash dividends, and leaves a surplus of $1,075 29 for the preferred, and $43,094 97 for the common stock, for future division. The gross receipts for 1853 exceed those of 1852, by $207,661 18. The expenses in each department are less than in 1852, giving increased net profits of $213,762 78. THE WORCESTER AND NASHUA RAILROAD. Among the many interior short lines of railroad in Massachusetts, this is now be coming a favorite investment. The line is built from Worcester, Massachusetts, through a succession of thriving villages and towns, to Nashua, N. H. The line of steamers, the Connecticut and Worcester, via New London and Allen's Point, via the Norwich and Worcester Railroad, connects at Worcester daily with this road, and freight and passengers by that line are carried to Lowell, Nashua, Concord, Bellows' Falls, &c. The termini are among the most stirring and successful of our inland manufacturing cities, and the local traffic is of the most substantial and valuable character. This road likewise receives the benefit of a large through business from the North to the South. At a late meeting of the company the following exhibit of the business of the road was made for the year ending 30th November, 1853:— Total expenditures for the year ending November 30, 1853................... Interest $182,398 37 $90,592 07 It appears that the amount of capital actually paid in is about $67 per share, thus showing that the dividends for the current pear are but a fraction less than 7 per cent on the actual capital. The whole number of shares in the hands of stockholders is 15,236, of which 15,216 are preferred and entitled to dividends, leaving only 20 shares unpreferred. The company held 2,878 shares of its stock, 2,500 of which were purchased of the Norwich and Worcester Railroad Company and are paid for. The balance was purchased by the corporation for non-payment of assessments. VERMONT AND MASSACHUSETTS RAILROAD. This railroad extends from Fitchburg to Greenfield, a distance of fifty-six miles. It has a branch road, which at Grant's Corner, forty-eight miles from Fitchburg, extends to Brattleborough, sixty-nine miles from the former place. It seems, from the annual report of the directors presented to the stockholders, at the annual meeting in Boston, on the 8th of February, 1844, that there has been a constant increase of business on this road ever since it was opened in 1848, as will be seen by the following table. The earnings were, in 1849, $145,147 69; in 1850, $177,694 68; in 1851, $195,923 54; in 1852, $220,906 70; in 1853, $248,854 99. Leaving a balance in favor of the road of............$115,262 54 Out of this balance the road pays about $68,000 interest on its mortgage bonds and debts. The extra expenses of the past year for new freight cars, &c., &c., were about $27,000. The total indebtedness of the Vermont and Massachusetts Company is as follows: EARNINGS OF THE ERIE RAILROAD. The following is a comparative statement of the earnings of the Erie Railroad for EARNINGS OF THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. The following statement will show the earnings of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad by months for the year ending Dec. 31st, 1853 From an estimate made by Capt. John Childe, Chief Engineer of this road, in a letter to Joshua Richardson, of the Tennessee Legislature, we gather the following items of cost per mile of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, equipped ready for running. Taking actual contracts as the basis of prices: 108 tons of rail per mile, at $73 per ton, divided on the road Six tons of joint-pieces and bolts, at $90 per ton.... Laying track & switches, including spikes, castings, and forging therefor Buildings, turn-tables, water and water fixtures... One engine for 6 miles of road, at $9,500... One passenger car to each 10 miles of road, at $2,200.. $7,884 00 540 00 700 00 700 00 1,583 00 220 00 995 00 75 00 Total.. CAMDEN AND AMBOY RAILROAD AND CANAL COMPANY. $12,697 00 The report of the State Directors of the Camden and Amboy Railroad and the Delaware and Raritan Canal Companies, gives the gross receipts of the road for the year at $1,744,207 02, and the expenditures at $1,145,473 22, leaving for net earnings $598,733 88.' The gross receipts of the Canal Co. for the year are $382,243 33, the expenditures for the same time $154,754 90- excess, $227,493 84; making 8826,227 92 excess by both companies. The whole amount of revenue to the State from the joint companies is $150,545 044; 863,621 284 from the railroad; $35,088 76 from the canal; and $51,835 for regular and extra dividends on stock owned by the State, and interest on the bonds of the Companies. The increase of way freight on the railroad during the last year is 26,118 tons over that of last year. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD. According to the report, the income for the year from passage, freight, mails, &c. was $1,215,279 20, and the expenses of the management, ordinary and extraordinary (the ordinary equal to 43 per cent,) $555,536 88. Leaving a balance of $643,742 83. Out of which have been provided interest on foreign and domestic debt, and for claims for damages, &c., $199,773 72. And the remainder, $469,768 61, has afforded two dividends of 4 per cent each, amounting to $311,376, and transferred a balance of $152,592 61 to the credit of surplus income for the year. Mr. Caldwell, the President of the company, says the road will require extensive improvements during the present year. The injuries done to the Columbia branch, near the Congaree, by the freshets of 1852, have not yet been fully repaired. STATISTICS OF POPULATION, &c. CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1850. POPULATION, SQUARE MILES, DENSITY, ETC., OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1850. |