New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-03-11
Real Estate MARCH, 10.
Railroads.

The following are some statistics of the Massa-
shusstt. Railroads just reported to the Legislature
Tho Providence Railroad reports its capital paid to be
81 es0 900 and cost Of construction 81 92G 1884, For year
ending 3is December, the receipts wererom pa
Se9657; freight, SS7,3Ol and mails, rents &c Sc 142
total s2s370i. OF the passenger receipts S320l2 were
from Taunton and New-Bediord and Sls,379 from bed
ham Branch travel. showing the cheap trains to have
earned very pretty amount Of money The expenditures
iucIrdng So 400 for ferry at Providence, $3S34,
leaving net balance Of earnings Of Sl69SoG over nine
per cent upon the capital The dividends paid were Sill
COO and 0O charged off to account OF deprecla
flou In cars engines &c The number OF miles by To-
cornotves year 1877 1872 and the expenditures
being Sli3s3i the average mile nearly ninety
cents, which Is high and beyond most other roads.
The Charles0wn Branch reports its S2S0259 and
its capital paid in s25oOoo TIE receipts of 1874 were
ST. 1877 from passengers and S27G65 from freight rcnts
&c. less S799 discount on freight making total Of S346j3
The expenditures were S20GS3, and the net earnings
Sl4,370. The dividends 81 per cent about the in
come II Is expected that material additions TO the re-
ceiatB Of this road will from the West Cambridge
and Lexington Railroads and the progressed branch TO
Cambridge.
3lO69ll5. and the expenditures far NJ S992,i33 The
number Of passengers carried from LIST May TO January
LIST, ie45, was 1892 and the receipts thercirom
S22446 S203l2 were received from freight, rent, Re;
total Si2,759. The expenditures S5924 and the
earnings S26,S34 There Is proposition before the Legs
ature TO authorize this road build and in
crease its capital 70 three millions required
The Nashua and Lowell Road receipts for lS4A were
S9a,5s7, and the expenditures s596a3 net earnings
81
dividends were S3s,000 or ten per cent.
On the New Bedford and Taunton Road there were
ceyed hast year 997 expended S2i $780, leaving bal
OF S+0so7 OF net earnings It's capital paid in $780,
900. The dividends paid were S2i,00O and the balance
applied TO improving the road, &c
The Stoughon Branch Road cost SOB 015 OF which $685.,
075 subscribed aud $4,000 borrowed of Providence
Road. Its le,igth Is exactly miles.
The Taunton Branch Railroad receipts for ending
November 30th, S96,6S6 and the expenditures, in
ciuding S42s2 paid the Providence and 1878 to the
New bedford Road, S7i.525, and balance
left OF S2ol6 or ten per cent upon Its capital OF $751;
900. The dividends were $4,000 or per cent.
The Maine Railroad Company report capital paid In Of
Sl,24e4f, and the cost Of construction SiIS5,I6O, OF
which $19S.6l6 were expended In New hampshire. The
receipts for year ending November 30th Sl54,94
from passengers S70670 from freight and S1is6 misccl-
aneols total $685. 0. The expenditures were S39.9l
pa to Lowell Road transit dues. and sl3o5s TO Port
land Road for passengers that line and the aggregate
including those items and repairs of road engines and
fuel interest," &c. was Si57,0S6, being balance of
earnings 0T5 nearly eight per
the paid In capital The regular trains aversed l6s
096 miles, and tho expenses being S6906 the average
pense per mile but little 40 which is
very low rate The Maine Extension Co. report an eN-
pcndture 10 December LIST of 33i of which land par
chased and land damages took S223062 There four
miles Of rail laid down. and the remainder OF the road win
be ready FOR the supestructc the ost leaves
tho ground.
The entire length OF this line Is la miles, and isles
than the present by the distance from the Lowell depot
the hay scales There appears 10 be general desire in
all those railroads coming into the north and east portions
Of the city 10 enter upen the Maine Extension line and de-
pot but this, Of course. would be impractcable.