Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1857-06-26

Board exclude certain items from the Mo-
tive Power and Repair expenses, locomo-
tives, &c. These excluded expenditures on
the Columbia road amounting to $l60,S34
Il. The motive power payments ale con-
fined strictly to these classes of expenses
only; Running, Workshop, Superinten-
denee aud Transportation, as given in the
Report of the Superintendent. The Re-
pair account is also that given by the Su-
perintendent under that head. But were
these amounts the total expenditure on the
road for 1856? Here, fortunately, the
Report of the Superintendent and the Re-
port of the Auditor General agree in fur
nishing the means of proving negative
Attached to the Report of the Superintend
ent is tabular statement of his account
with the State Treasurer for 1856, on one
side charging himself with the amounts re-
ceived from the Treasury, aud on the 9th
er claiming credit for payments made
These payments were:
Motive power for '55 & '56, 1921, ,62S O6
Repairs for '55 and SO, 96,273 So
Opening Columbia street, 397 90
Farm and Road Bridges, 931 81
$620,230 l6
Add debts due On motive
power and on Repair, Sl,223 05
SOL ,453 q
Deduct debts paid in 1856,
but contracted in, and
charged against 1855, 9l,005 36
s6lO, O,447 IS
Add pay of Collectors,
Weigbmasters, &c, 1921 OF
Add damages, 28,544 IS
$685., ,2S3 "A
Add amount expended on
the Improvement of trackt 309,49 10
Total amt chargeabIe to '56, S961,7S3 So
Total amt reed in sc, S53,e34 %
Excess Of expenditures over
reeeipts, SS,T49 24
Showing that on the Columbia road there
were rrtatar TSsss'sNarIta rFaa raeeint~ -.
the last year, in which an immense busi~
uess was done.
The actual expenditures were S96l,7S3 SO
Those reported by the Canal
Board we're 1856 90
Amount suppressed by the
Board, $513,226 60
Equal to $S,749 a more than the re-
ported profits. IN this summary of expenses
is not included the interest on cost, which
amounts to over S25S,00G per annum. Ad-
ding that, which it is entirely legitimate to
do In the account between the Road and
the State, the annual loss becomes still more
startling in amount-aud this on portion
of the works which, the public have been
assured, yielded in 1856 profit of half a
million of dollars
On the portage railroad similar sys-
tenn prevails In making up this statement
the Canal Board excluded $l0,250 paid for
locomotives, Sl0,983 SO from the Motive
Power Account; and $5,G57 81 from the
Repair Account. They also excluded frouI
all consideration the old Portsge debts paid
IN 1856 Including these items, the Por-
taee account will stand thus:
Motive power $l62,259 5S
Repairs 43,l57 81
Use of part of Pennsylya-
MIA Railroad, 12,5oO 90
Damages, 5,459 SO
Pay of Collectors, Weigh
masters, Be-, 1854 SO
Old debts paid, 1878 54
S945,670 IL
Deduct debts of 80, paid in
'56, and charged against
'55 34,73S 66
S3l0,93l As
Deduct receipts, 20,047 %
Loss on the Portage Roads
iu 1856, s290,Ss4 %
Loss according to the Canal
Commissioners statement. l73,I57 30
Mis-statement of the Canal
Board, $lI7,126 90
La these figures is not included the annu-
nj interest on the cost of the Portage, which
was reported in 1854, by the Auditor Gen.
eral and State Treasurer, at $2,708 ,672
IL, but has since been increased over 5000
900 by work on the new Portage road.
Were this included, as it should be, for it is
part of the payments of the State on ac-
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