The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-09 00:00:00

RAILMAY INTELLIGENCE.

RAILROADS IN NEVADA —VIRGINIA AND TRUCKEE
RAILROAD.-Mr. E. L. Mason, of the surveying
party engaged upon the Virginia, Washoe, and
Truckee Railro id, has been iu this city and reports
that the lines for the grade have been run from
American Flat to Empire City. Between Empire
City and the summit at American Flat the grade
will he 116 feet to the mile. Grading will be
commenced in about four weeks.—Virsqinia Enter-
prise.

From the Report of the Auditor-General of the
State of Pennsylvania, for the year 1867, we learn
that more than two-thirds of the total tonnage of
railroads of the State last year consisted of mine-
ral productions, as follows :—Anthracite coal,
15,482,140 ; bituminous coal, 4,931,387 ; petro-
lemn, 834,624 ; pig iron, 628,779 ; railroad iron,
358,939 ; other iron or castings, 849,2271 ; iron
and other ores, 1,501.5641 ; lime and limestone,
736,6541. Total, 24,821,317 f.
The board of directors of the Boston and Albany
Railroad have fixed the annual salary of the pre-
sident at $lO,OOO ; that of the vice-president at
$5,000 ; superintendent, $5,000 ; assistant-super-
intendent•, $5,000; counsel, $5,000; treasurer,
$4,000 ; two assistants, $1,200 each ; clerk of
board of director, $2,700.
RAILWAYS OF THE DO3IINIONL—There are twenty
railways in the Dominion in operation, with 2,530
miles of main track exclusive of switches, of which
sixteen are in Quebec and Ontario, with 2,189
miles of track ; of the remaining four, 19.6 miles
are in New Brunswick, and 145 miles in Nova
Scotia. The total cost of construction and equip-
ment of these railways was $158.750,099, or an
average cost per mile of $62,765 68. The Grand
Trunk has been the most costly in its construc-
tion—namely, $74,683 40 per mile; after which
the Great 'Western, costing $70,340 47 ; the
Welland, costing $64,913 72 ; and the Northern,
costing $56,411 25 per mile. The Halifax, Truro
and Win tsor, European and North American, Lon-
don and Port Stanley, Truro and Picton, Ottawa
and Prescott ; Port Hope, Lindsay and Beaverton,,
Cobourg, Peterboro', and Marmora, New Bruns-
wick and Canada, and Brockville and Ottawa, cost
in the• order they stani, from $16,722 down to
$30,600 miles. The least costly in construction and
equipment are the Carillon and Greenville, and St.
Lawrence and Industry, the, former costing $7,746,
and the latter $1.508 per mile. The rolling stock
consists of 480 locomotives, 304 first-class, and 380
second-class cars. 4,110 freight, and 2,380 platform
cars. About 2,900,000 passengers are carried
annually. The Great Western is, in proportion to
its mileage, best supplied with passenger cars and
carries most passengers per annum. The receipts
from passengers per mile per annum are $1,772 65,
and from freight $2,522 96, making total receipts
$4,558 24, against $2,930 75 working expenditure.
This would give as the nett earnings per annum
about $4,000,000, or 21- per cent. per annum on the
cost of construction. Besides the railways in
operation there are in New Brunswick 175 miles,
and in Nova Scotia 85 miles under construction.

A PROFITABLE RAILWAY.—The following table
shows the receipts, expenses, and net earnings of
the Central Railway of New Jersey, from the be-
ginning of the annual reports to the Legislature to
the present time :
Rlceiptg. ErpAnses. Net Earnings.
1853 $149.018 $197.629 $151.389 41 per cent.
1851 378.145 197,349 180,795 48

1855 393,729 298,856 184:873 47

1856 553,479 258,303 295,171 53
1857 682,315 340,5,02 341,812 51.
1858 816,931 34014 591,320 58
1859 971,702 385,716 583,986 61

1860 • 1,185,833 475,457 710,391 60
1861. 1,201,895 522,452 679,443 57
1862 1,397,586 623,245 774,341 56

1863 1;911,975

81.4,732 1 127,234 58

1864 2,537,185 1,2317,554 1,305,631 51
1865 3,036,390 1,748,431 1,287,956 4.3
1866 3,581,241 1,963,976 1,617,268 45
1867 3,320,397 1,878,022 1,472,376 41

Total $22,396,853 $11,191,846 $11,205,997 50 per cent.
The operation of clearing out the central shaft of
the Hoosac Tunnel will commence immediately. It
is to be done by bailing with two buckets holding
each eight barrels. It is estimated that it will take
twenty days to reach the bottom, where the thirteen
dead lie.

THE NEW YORK CITY CENTRAL UNDERGROUND
RAILROAD COMPANY.—On the 17th of April of the
present year an act was passed " to incorporate the
New York City Central Underground Railway
Company, and to authorise the said company to
construct and operate a certain underground rail-
way in the city of New York." By the terms -of
this act 41 gentlemen are created a body corporate
and politic by the name of " The New York City
Central Underground Railway Company." This
company is to continue for 100 years, to be located in
the city of New York, and the capital stock, it is
provided, shall be $10,000,000, divided into 100,000
shares of $lOO each. The law provides also that the
business and offices of this corporation are to he
managed by a board of 13 directors, who shall be
elected annually by the stockholders ; the first elec-
tion to take place in the city of New York within
three months after the passage of the act. In ac-
cordance with this provision the stockholders held
an election at 58, Broadway, between 12 and 1
o'clock, on June 18, when the following named
gentlemen were elected :--William B. Ogden, John
I. Blair, William E. Dodge, Lewis B. Brown, Geo.
Griswold, J. Boorman Johnston, Clarence S. Brown,
William B. Duncan, Andrew H. Green, Edward
Dodge, George IV. M'Lean, Henry Smith, and 11.
F. Vail.

I tln Pittsburgh, a mortgage for $10,000,000, on
the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and St. Louis Railroad,
to J. Edgar Thomson, of Philadelphia, and George
W. 111‘Cook, of Stubenville, has been recorded in
the Register's office. The mortgage is given to
the parties as
,trustees to secure the bonds of the
company.
THE SOUTHERN ILLINOIS RAILROADS.—The St.
Louis Democrat, 6th June, gives the following items
respectiag these roads :—The BAleville Railroad
Company have been negotiating with the Illinois
Central Railroad Company for a lease of their road,
the latter company proposing to give the former
$llO,OOO per annum for a lease of their road, but
they "ask $125,000. . To overlap this Illinois Cen-
tral Itiatoad cowsay's project, the Chicago and

St. Louis Company have gone to work to try and
secure the Belleville Road. If they get it they pro-
pose to extend the road from Belleville to Du
Quoin, on the line of the Illinois Central, and from
thence to a point opposite Paducah, Kentucky, and
at that point bridge the Ohio River, so as to con-
nect with the Mississippi Central Railroad.