The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-11-28 00:00:00

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that the receipts would leave a large margin
at the present Moment without the 100 miles yet to be
opened for the entire amount of your bonded debt. It
I is for you, who are shareholders, to estimate what will
be the benefit to be derived from 100 miles yet to be I
opened, and from that development which in a ocular, I
like America must of necessity take place. In the great
west there have been, during the past fifteen yearN
20,000 miles of railways built without an additional
access to the east ; and we have now only +bootieso
New York, whereas when we get to uffalo we shall
have soma to New England and Boston, which is even
more important than New York, inasmuch as the Great
Western has more communication with New England
than with New York. We shall also be able to ocontnu-
nitwit/ with the Great Western of Canada, with which
company we are in close alliance,, and we shall send a
very large amount of traffic over the Grand Trunk. Is
deed, arrangements will be made to send oil to an
amount which must alter the future standing of the
company to an extent which you can hardly appreciate.'
I will not detain you longer before calling on Mr.
Forbes, except to say there will be an anneal report '
also presented at the end of the year, and also to
correct one thing which may possibly be of some value
ha Aim You will reoollect that when the certificates
of debentures were issued we stated our belief that is
the year following there would be taken as much as
E1.,001,000. That amount has been exceeded, therefore
what we stated at the time, which was doubted at the
time, has been more than realised. (Cheers.) I thought
it right to state that fast (hear, hear), and I will now
cell on Mr. Forbes to read the report.
Mr. Forbes read the following report :
"TO THO BOARD OP CONTROL OP THZ ATLANTIC AND
QUAY WROTRIN RAILWAY COMPANY, LONDON,

"Gentlemen,—ln aseortlanee with your request I
visited Amorist in the months of September and
October of tide year, and have inspected the Atlantic
and Great Weetarn system of railways.
"The main line oommenom at a junction with the
New York and Brie Railway at &lament:la, 414 miles
from New York, and runs in a south-westerly direo.
on (388 miles) to Dayton. From Diuton to CM-
'llfinsti (80 miles) the company have made mob arrange-
"nts as enable their trains to ran over that line, and
, kliey have the use of the passenger and goods depot at
'Meinnatti, as well as of • large snits of offices for the
liehteral business of the company ;to that Cincinnati
'ipity be regarded as the actual terminus of the Atlantis
d'Great Western Railway. At Cincinnati it is joined
to the , e Ohio sad Mississippi Railway, which nuns (340
) almost due west to St. Louis, on the Mississippi.
4 means of the three associated companies—the New
rk and Erie, the Atlantic and Great Western, and
' the Ohio and Mississippi—a new and unbroken com-
munication, 1,200 miles in length, on the six-foot gauge,
tias been opened between New York, Cinoinnatti, and
St. Louis, and between the Atlantic seaboard and the
Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
"The main line throws out a branch from Meadville
to Oil City, a distance of 32 miles, accommodating the
large passenger and goods tragic which has sprung up
within so short • period in the remarkable oil region.
Another branch rung north-west (50 miles) from
Leasittahurg to Cleveland, and south-east (31 1.
front Leavittaborg to Yousgstown and the Bubb,
eold.fields. Thee* two portions of line together are
known as the Mahoning Railway. It has been leased
by the company for a term of 99 ytars. and was con-
structed for • mineral line upon the narrow gauge, but
since it has been taken over by the company, the six-
foot gauge has been laid from the junction at Leavitta-
- . .
A third branch rans from near
the Silver Creek coal district (six