The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-08-14
Amount Of coal
fvansporfed dur-


ing the months. 42,sis IS IO4, oil 10000 IS
This is the largest months work done on the
Reading Rar bad but VIC have doubt the business
of August and September will exceed it. Tho gross
receipts for judy August and September this ear, vii
not be much less than hundred onsaad dollars
This is Of the extensive works In the
try but very few have any idea of the immense
business transacted by the company The statements Of
receipts &c. give but very vague idea of the
extent OF The facilities sc, for the transportation and
shipment of coal The depot Of this company at Rich
mond is probably the largest and most perfect of the
kind in NE world and merits a detailed description We
annex short one, which viii suffice for the present
Tho front the Delaware river is 1920 feet divided
into Ia wharvcs Of which ten have piers Ofhese piers
six having for the first $50 feet width Of 1876
feet and for the remaining distance of $50 feet feet in
width The four old piers, those constructed in the
first instance $50 feet long and 200 feet apart,
with four intermediate wharves. The whole amount of
immediate accommodation for vessels of the class
ally engaged in the coal trade between 90 and at
time, Of which number the work accommodates
co. The piers have three tracks each, and the
old two The plot of ground occupied by the depot
is l4Oo feet side by la4o the other with an
average depth of 1870 feet and front the Point Road
of 1885 feet and the Delaware of feet in the ex
treme yet such is the skill evnced the arrangement
OF the tracks within this space which lead to various
piers which the restes for shutes that already
there miles and three quarters of track inside
the depot grounds, in addition to the capacity of the
trestes themselves That portion of the road which
tends from the westernmost edge Of the depot to the
crossing of the Trenton Railroad adds to the efficiency
of the of receiving from the fact of ito being
composed of parallel tracks three fourths of mile
long EACH of which thirds is strictly applicable to
the purposes of depot thus making in fact eleven
miles of depot track laid entirely with edge rail of
first quality. In the centre stands the Engine House
built in the shape of the letter T. $50 feet 'front.' nclud
ing WINGS of which 100 feet is devoted to tempo
rary repairs Of engines and cars, the main engine
house of the company is at schuylkill Haven.
On the piers which project into the Delaware river is
stem of trestle work. which, for the practical work
ing of shutes and general usefulness for the transfer Of
coal from the cars the vessels is we think, unequal
led in this country The whole length Of these reses
is osa feet of which there Of the work 42a6
feet with three tracks, and of the old 5,s57 feet with
two tracks
The present means of the road obainable by the use
of the hutes these trete nearly equal to the de-
livery of 5000 tons day The length of the longest
trestle feet, having three tracks on It. Al
the particular wharf, which Is this treste seven large
class vessels have been loaded by the shutc and three
by barrows at one and the same time The other por-
tons are equally efficient pro rata of their length
tn. whole of the trese work is llK feet above the
wards at its Sides which average three feet above high
water mark ordinary tides The average rise and fall
of the tide at the end of the piers Is on feet.
In connection with those facilities there inside Of
the depot the necessary fuel houses Offices houses
and the other appliances and for the prosecution
of the enormous business which is passing through
it, The during the past year of the coal trade
ct this depot truly astonishing taking into consi
Iteration the absence of the competition of tho schuylk
Navigation.
Nearly seven hundred thousand tons Of shipping have
been engaged during the past year the transportation
ofcoal from tho depot Of the Reading Railroad Company
at Richmond to the different ports Of the East and South
The cearances for month ending the middle of July
this year, were a annexed.
For the week ending June 9th, there lis
schooners 10 briggs n barks, and 4s beats and barges
For the week ending July Ills schooners ~ sloops
IL briggs ls banks, and Is boats and barges.
For the week ending July 10TH io7 schoonsrs soops
steamboats,, brigs, and as boats and bsrges.
For the week ending July nth, I3l schooners, "a
sloops 40 boats and barges, steamboat barks and 10
briggs.
Making total Of AZ barks IS briggs 459 schooners, 90
sloops steamboats, and $50 bsrges and boats. These
vessels must employ several thousand As vsstas