The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-13

Net increase SO .S79
Thc great bulk of the increase is Just where it
should be (n the passenger receipts) to pay the
bcoyant per cent profit. We understand that the
company have reduced it's current expenditures
81 oct 81, 600 per month. This with the extra com
pcasstion il will receive from the New Haven Rail-
road Company after October, must considerably in
grease its net income another year.
The stock of the Reading Railroad Company being
nov the first on the list let examine the super
structure location and appointments, and determine
how far it may be considered as model to all future
operations Of the k'nd in the country. Its length.
"a every body knows, is ninety-three miles, and be
sdes double track, with sidelings the line ofthe
road equal to half the distance 1t is laid down in
the most substantial manner, with the heaviest iron
rails ia the country It's grade descends twenty-five
fee. to dead level, which single engine can
haul 600 tons at a speed OF ten miles per hour. In
deed. 40 nicely is the grading adjusted that the
full power Of the engine j. only required
in the return OF the empty cars. At the
cad Of the road, and exactly at the point
where the elevation is required for dumping faci.
ties short plane, at the rate OF 40 feet to the mile
j. encountered. On this ascent which, in any other
position wouid seriously interfere with the bust.
ness, three engines required to carry up the
load; and, the fact thus tested not only deter
mines the advantages over undulating roads, but
gives the data by which the cost can be estimated
IL may be regarded as an important truth in rail-
road science. In all our roads the grades have been
regarded secondary objects; hut now when the
expense account is running away with the dividend
fund. this matter, with some other Of less impor
lance. are worthy the attention 81 stockholders.
Besides the advantages o. superstructure and
grades the location Of the Reading road is pecn-
is.iy adapted TO business. On the east, the
branches divergng to the several colcres, including
the Catasissa road, pass into IL with rapidly de.
ascending grades. In the middle portion Of the re-
gioa like advantages present themselves in it, IA
yor; sud on the south il meets not only the same
facilities to the coneries but the Mahanoy road at
t,chipe IL to Sunbury and Erie, and the Dauphn
aud Suaouehanna with the Pennsylvania Central
These works, without the main lines branching to
ths nostn and west in q connected form, extend TO
ever 500 miles, and If we view the work ~ the
chief outlet to the business OF the valley Of the
s>chu.kin. (the richest valley in the country. &C.
eoriing 10 its lengtb,) we will be able to determine
it. future business. 3attrh
atba foil knowledge Of all these facts, and in
view OF the prospects which cannot be forcstaed or
superseded. what has bet the course OF the managcrs
Instead OF securing the objects required by the trade
10 themselves. they anticipated the advantages and
secured the railroad into the ci,y-the depots and
tae wharf property, Ny which the capacity of the
rad Is determined, TO the stockholders. On the
wharf property they have now in operation eighteen
~hssEes. with sidelings equal 10 the accommodation
cl ;,Oco.DO0 tons Of coal and they have vet soace
tore similar number, which will eventually be r,
ossrei ny the trade. For the depots they secured
tro eat,e squares, at prices far below their present
vsine. and the bridge and railroad, with the right
O. way into the city, was obtained at onethird the
Gust. cannot he said that selllshness, fashiona.
be IN other quarters, has had any influence in the
oas0ascneot Of the Reading. The increase in the
ssue os the property secured 10 the stockholders is
alone estimated OF from two and y half to three
million OF dollars On the road, according 10 tho
rcpost OF last weeks coal business. the traffic i.
eqrsl 70 100000 tons per annum; and when their
excessive workshops, their -idelings At the severn,
deoo,s, and their numerous stone and iron BRIDGES
an taken into the catalogue Of their assets the "a.
iool.ng part OF the matter il. that the cot Is but
sissSsJIa 6l-on which the gross income this
scar all exceed 80 per cent
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