New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-26
2 re pcr.,mOutb and RO.noke Railroad Isl slowly

= ax pc,.,,rcutb and Roanoke Railroad 10 slowly
Quilting, notwithstanding the nvairy oe'"ee"
Norftk and Portsmouth as 10 lis eastern terminus
Norfolk has withheld her subscription because
Port.mou,h is unwilling for it to cross the rl'er
NH n ,epsrnte. the two places, and It's uncertain
whether the amount can be raised elsewhere.
A pro;eot i, broached 10 some Of the New Bruins
,,,;.L ,.ns,s for a railroad from Halifax 70 Calais,
| tbroueb New Brunswick. From HALIFAX 70 sue
d;so. the line has already been explored aud iaid
DOWN by the Commissioners for the HALIFAX ana
| Oaebec Railway; from shediac TO 81. John me
l,s been carefully surveyed and marked by Mf.
" ilkipsoD; from St. John to Calais the coan''y
! hiss not vet been explored. There VII lnnouO'
edy soon be railway communication between
| the Kepnebec and Bangor, and thence eaS' % "a
| lais. When these links are completed, ana nan
road built through New Brunswick 10 ha'aA'
tere v III be an unbroken chain OF Railroad COM
rupicatjon between Halifax and the Guh oil
Mexico.
the first Railroad charter is said TO have been
granted by the New.Jersey Legislature, and the
FIRST surveys made about forty years ago between
! New-York and Philadelphia. The Legislature oil
| lsll-l5 chartered "The New-Jersey Railroad
| Company for the erection Of a Railroad, passing
and repassing from the river Delaware near Ifen'
| ton to the river Raritan, at or near New bruins
wick" The Commissioners were Authorized W
| lay out Railroad to be composed oil either "o" VI
wood for the running Of the wheels lne 'e'"
for the completion OF the work was hxed a. 'e"
wears. Its authors were rather ahead OF lnen
times and the important object OF the act was
therefore not accomplished, though the PROJECT was
| nsver sbsndoned The first Railroad In the coun-
! r. we believe, was the Quincy hairoau lot
transporting granite from the quarry IN quincy
upon a gradual inclined plane to the Neponset
Aver" which flows into Boston Harbor' This
/ sss put into operation in the year 1927 The
i. Ison and Mohawk Railroad Company was in.
aa-oorated in the State of New York the year pre-.
yisas. Up to the year 1888 nine companies had
been chartered for making Railroads, with an ag-
eregste capital of s7,l4OOOO The West Jersey
/ Railroad Company was authorized to make road
from Camden to PENIS Neck, in Salem Co. in
1891; the Paterson and Hudson River, aud the
Elizabethtown and Somervile were chartered the
same year, and in 1892 charters were granted for
the New-Jersey Railroad and Transportation Co
the PATTERSON ana OH Lee hdllIOduJ anu IOI u
road to run from point on the Delaware, in Sus.
sex County, to any railroad terminating on the
Hudson opposite New-York. The next year the
Delaware and Jobstown Railroad Company was
chartered. -Four of these are now, and have been
some years, 10 successful operation; and we may
add in the same connection, the Morris and Essex
Railway, which was chartered at subsequent
session. Previous to the introduction Of Railroads,
turnpikes were looked upon as great improve
raents and no less than "a were authorized by the
Legislature during the first 80 years OF the century
From the Ninth Annual Report of the Concord
Railroad we learn that -the whole amount of its
Receipts Fs,voo 70
Expenses ifo"f 10
Balance. lfso'f .
Two dividends lS5oO W
l4,324 %
p,d Irnoer Roads 1921 AZ
Carried to deterioration tccount 6t52 ~
Add surplus Of last year 20 ols 10
Making whole. s''t
From official returns made to the Secretary OF