New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-23
x lat year The figures for the pat six mosshs are:

| The eabirgs Of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Road
in June shout n, OGO against $4,000 in June.
1855. The July receipts estimated at ~. 90.
The lower end Of the ruad doing al that the mao.
ayers Anticipated from it.
The Horizon Road will be completed from Ripon 70
| Berlin in the course Of two weeks. The business
the completed portion of the Road is satisfactory Tho
scheme Of this Company TO raise by stock sub,crptoss
| the MONEY to purchase at Government price mhss
Of acres of public land has met with success and tho
Company anticipate that the subscnpton will BE-
| filed up.
The Miiraukce Ners states that the Committee
which went from the East to examine the affairs of
the La Crosse Railroad have concluded their task aud
| will make favorable report.
| Albert II. Nicoay's regular semiweekly auctioa
sale Of stocks and bonds will take place tomorrow
Thursday, at hafpast Il O'Clock, at the Merchant
| Exchange.
| The Peter Cooper Fire Insurance Company has
declared Q semi-apnual dividend of six per oeo,
| payable August /.
Aston Fire Insurance Company, 10 cent, payable
August l.
The New-York Floating Dry Dock Company. Q
quarterly dividend Of four p cent, payable August I.
The Greenwich Insurance Company, semi annual
dividend of ten y cent payable August l..
The Galepa and Chicago roion Railroad Company
have declared dividend of 5 y cert, pspstle st
Clicsgo, Avg 10
The annual meeting of the Cleveland. Painesvils
and Ashtabula Railroad Company take. place lith
August for she election Of Director The books close
on the LIST and reopen the 18th August.
The Arabs to day took 81 iO0,977 in specie, which
is nearly half million larger than was expected.
The Board of Directors of The Lake Ontario and
HID Pair hay ed III
subscribers for 81 600 Of the bonds of the Con-
pany that the tenth call Of 10 cent thereon will be
payable on Tuesday, the 2Sth inst.
The cost Of fuel in some locations is estimated to be
onef,h part Of the whole expense Of operating rail-
road; and the time has arrived when large portion
of the expense demands the most serious consideration.
In many instances the stock of railroads rendered
valueess by the enormous expenses of their opera
tion and the saving effected by the Of bitumncus
coal a. fuel in the patent engines invented for this
purpose would add much to their profits and relieve
the travelling public from unnecessary taxation. 1t
will he perceived by experiments 8ftested and al
remd fret: that the saving in cost of fuel varies from
50 to 20 " cent.
The further advantages in the use of bitumnsus
coslburring engines, as at present invented, are:
q That they emit smoke, sparks or gases, IS these
are entirely consumed, thus relieving travellers from
the most unpleasant annoyance attendant upon the
use Of wood locomotives. g. In consequence, no dan
ger fom fire to adjacent property can arise. On some
roads the damages occasioned 10y fire communicates
from the present locomotives, il estimated at $Uo
annually for each engine. a. The costs Of site, for
woodsheds and the repairs thereof is entirely saved,
for sufficient coal for the day be taken on board
at once Thus the labor in handling wood is dispensed
with end the rick If Losses by fire to wood and sheds
saved s. greater degree of durability is obtained BY
thsfom Of boiler ard the expenses of repairs are much
cssentd, the fre-box can be replaced without dis
turbng the tubing and from its vertical position tho
tubing il not liable TO be clcgged and choked on the
inside or costed on the outside. g. The convenience
in using b,uminous coal observable 10 this, that the
er CINE may remain constantly fred up for week
without cleaning ont. the fire may be covered up
for fourteen hours with fue coal! without
wasting either fuel or water, and remain with head
Of steam ready for immediate use-the coat in
the mean time forming fine bed OF coke.
:. StesdiDess Oh the track, and safety in running
IL injured, from the fact that the principal
weight of the boiler is below the bearing of the
a1es rendering the running of the engine on the road
bed steady and safe, and atteDded with less injury 70
the track. As evidence Of this the 23d Of Octo-
Der, 1876, the coal-eDgine Phunix while running on
the New jersey Transportation line at rapid rate,
er countered obstacle in the shape of green white
oak log As feet long, 80 inches diameter at the but,
and 20 inches at the top lying four wheels directly
across the track On being observed by the engineer.
the engine was reversed but struck the log with suoh
force that carried the but of 81 feet and the top 20
feet opg the track throwing it clear of the train, but
breaking it where the pilot struck it. This extraordi-
nary feat was not known to the passengers in the cars
until they reached jersey City. 1t bent the pilot and
broke the lantern, but no other injury was done TO the
PhGbix. The disaster which would have attended so
ordinary road engine, where the boiler is above tho
bear of the axles under Ike circumstances may DO
imagined.
Experiments have already been made on various
roads with coal-bunDg locomotives, run sgsinse
Woodworking locomotives of the same power and tho
resul. proved az follows:
In the month of August, 1856, on the Providence
aid Worcester Railroad, cOal-burning locomotive.
"Sater,' was run for eight days against the wood
burning locomotive Grafton, Of the same power, viz;
Eight cay, burning sne running I'D miles and usins
The Bo.su an eos.p.ne Slater running 10 mile. In
the time and doing the ssms WORK. USED - ~"
rs Of coal, sting at sc y tun'.'''''''''"siW "a.
Ore cord Of wCodfo kiDdlng. s-lo
Making difference in co.t Of fuel in sds,s...:;..ese
Att the sneers and other ocers Of the Povidsseo
end Worcester Railroad.
which in 81 weeks Of the year, makes the annual
difference Of $7174. Aud the usual life VI sn en-
CINE ~ years. the saving by the use of the coal en-
CINE amoupts 70 the large rum of s93,22 making Il
very evident that would be far better policy for say
Railroad Company to pay $4,000 for a cosi looomo-
tive than to accept woodworking locomotive ~
present. ~
At the present time, 900 locomotives are annually
buit in the United States and the saving to Raisosd