New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-18

appointed CsshieT Of the Bans OF me henoponss new
York. st. q M llrf ana ae I /
Tho Hartford aud New Haven Railroad Com |
nav h.,e declared dividend on per cent
pamphIet on Plank Roads by Mr.. Kingsf0rd
.les sbat Gbers this nineteen plank rosds of
ire aggregate length Of lice miles which S3s60
o. a. average per mile Of 81 $685. The in ihsss
ROADS kss all been subscribed for by individuals and al
rsy tsr5some dividends The Troy and Lansugbnrg /
roBs sSss 10 p semtnuual; the Uies and Barring.
Ton 70 cent, and ii is believed that none in operation
psy lees tran 10 p annually. The value Of lands on
the line OF these improvements has also materially Cd
ysnced-in some instances from S. to $40 p acre. In
Canada there 442 miles of road open, at cost Of
S1735oo, or average OF 81 75opeT mile
The stockholders Of the Cape Cod Branch Raj. |
road have accepted the Report ofhe Committee appoint
ed % take into consideration the extension of the road
yArrogth Port. Hyannis The Committee reported IN
fayor osihe latter place as terminus.
IT Boston the Money Market continues quite |
seve and the demand for loans stocks and the discount
Of paper is considerable.
The following is a statement of the receipts Of |
the Mad River AID Lake Erie Railroad for the month OF
February. The earnings for February, 1851, were:
For local business. sl2ss9 70l Mails, Sc... S7T6 el
Through 1851 Isl - :
TO for February is5o 1855 q
Increase %
cent over last yea.
The bill granting charter TO a Company to con
stuct Railroad between Norfolk and Petersburg passed
The House OF Delegates Of Virginia MONDAY. It 10 with
out the threehhs provsen Ii provides fer the c0nstruc.
ton ola Read from the City Of Norfolk, to connect with
the soaihsoe Railroad its eastern terminus al
Petersburg.
1t is stated that survey her just been com
pleed on beha'fof the Harlem Ralrt ad Company from
Troy 70 Vslstle Columbia Co., with the view OF finding
eessie for that road direclto Troy The route out
OF no city in the vicinity Of the Nail Factory and the
J grade Is leis than fifty feet
The grading on the Troy and Boston Road is
progressing highly satisfactory Large gangs OF
Horlmen ere engaged between Troy and HoosicI.
Tbe Annual Report of Byron Kilbouru, Esq
Chief Engineer of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad
hes been published The road Is completed and in
operation 10 Weukesha, rgery and hslf miles. and ID
actual cost OF constructing that distance all comp etc. H.
GLIDING substsntal road bed ballased with feet Of
gravel in every part and Surmounted by RAIL- OF the
most approved pattern ie only Nine Thousand -Four Hun
dred and Ninety Five Dollars per mile. The total acua
cost oftat part OF the rs. Division Of the Road extend
Ing from Milwaukee 10 Vaukesha Sl9659 q. The to-
tai estimated Of that part OF The First Division extend
ingfrom Waukesha whitewater Is S265,747 g Add to
this the actual and estimated ofxureS and equipments
including locomotives cars depos water stations, right OIL
way, &c and the total OF the First Division Of the
road from Milwaukee to Whitewater, 30 miles, Will be
S6e760 8l or this amount there been expended Eas
ofWaukeshs, $ss474 49, and West Of Wsukesha, $50 800
There ksS been expended the Second Division, from
Whitewater to Madison for Engineering Stock Expenses
&C. S92l2 49, making total Of sl the Expenditures up 10
this date Of three hundred and thirty three thousand
hundred and n.netyone dollars and fhy-two cents. The
road s being carried foiwari to Whitewater, in Wall
worth county and If the Stockholders pay their
ments it will be opened to that point by next autumn. The
| Company haze OF this whole
section and when II is opened to Whitewater It VIII
mand email portion of the trade Of Rock River Valley.
The Commercial Bank at Lynchburg, recently
chartered By the Virginia Legislature the Free Bank
system of NewYork The basis Of lie circulation will be
tie State Stocks OF Virginia.
We annex statement of the Exports from this
port from the 10Th to the l7lh OF March: