New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-03-12
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The North american saws that with few
eepous the holders Of Reading 1850 Bonds have granted
tho extension asked by the Company AID denies that sn
suits have commenced for the purpose Of testing e
consntudonay Of the law recently passed BY me Legsl'
ture Of Pennsylvania The North AaerieaH finds fault with
our figures in regard to the Reading Road rather TIE IN
ference from the figures Brd charges with hostility %
thai great public work which sure we DO not feel
We are friendly 10 al IdcOus Improvements ami ere en-
tifey without sectional bias. The american remarks
1.-THE writer anu compiler ofthe above evidently wished
10 produce the impression that while the net earnings o.
ts Reading Railroad were falling of from year year
increasing It's debt a. he rate OF million ana qpr
every twelve mou,us The Table, unexplained u sls
eepabe OF no other inference Now let see what ere
the facts OF the really stated In bib Tue nominal
III the onpapy wa as stated Sll $50 SOS with floating
debt Of four hye millions more AZ me pres
time, te whole Of the debt has been funded ana henco W
s43 the apparent Increase Of iGve-,ment from egysh
sixteen millions In 1896 true, the net earnings OF ne
~ s q - MAJ d,,np bst wear The road hal II q
whole OF the carving trade Of the Schuyt coal region 10
consequence OF the unfinished condition o. ne Schny
Cana, then undergoing enlargement and IN pung DO"
the net earnings OF 1913 al Sjjo50 the fact a-D ~ tp
pressed that curing the early part of last season me coe
OF Schuylk County owing to low pnc-s, suspended ne
shipments for nine ,eecks which was equivalent to oss o
sl25,O0O 10 the Company"
Now we gave simply what we pretended to giye--lhe
figures a. presented 10 the Reports without any eXpsna
uOns We could with equal justice be charged with " d.
ingeuuousy suppressng hundred other Important iao
contained in voluminous Annual Reports Of his Com
we can only say there is nothing keh in the Report Of
that year.
We give from the albany EUeRng Journal, the
following table showing the articles upon which the to
have been changed By the Canal Board -
cls m IT, cts M. II
on pork, bacon and lard per 1000 pounds
mile. Observation-Disclosures y I
On sailed h.h and nan in brine per 1000
On foreign salt for 900 pounds per mile.
On tan bark per cord .................... q
On black walnut lumber per 1000 pounds
per mile. ..........s............ss..N / y
On stovepipe aud furniture for stoves MOI
cast iron per 1000 pounds per Iue.....o o 0 0
boats ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Free
Ga oals per l. 600 pounds per MILE G
On tumips and all esculeui roots per l,uN
pounds per mile. .......................O % &
On sugar molasses cOlee iron Tn bars.
nail rods, nails and spikes, rslrOad and
boiler Iron per 1000 pounds per me....O q
On threshag, moving aud reaping ma
chimes, flaming mills pioughs, harroWs
and dril barrows per 1905 pounds per
mile ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. u y
per mile northumberland 6 O
On domestic distilled spirts gong towards
tide water per 600 pounds per mi!e....O q
90 pressed hay per l,Uto pounds per mioo q
On unwrough stone, per LOCO pounds per
niue .s.....s...ss..s... " 4 .
On BROKEN castings, scraps and pig iron
per loo pounds per mile, ....,.........
On charcoal, per GOO pounds pei m,le... q ,
Packets may for tolls upon passengers 10y pay
ing al additional toll OF one cent per mile.
The changes are all reductions excepting on siovcpirc
ard furniture for stoves which has been increased ore
hundred per Ct The tolls foreign ga will be seen
has been reduced 50 per CT These reductions VIII no
doubt have favorable effect upon the trade in these aces