The Messenger. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1858-18??, 1860-01-19
PRESIDENTS REPORT.
OFFICE OF J. & B, Il. K. Con-.


TO the Stockholders of the juno.
tion & Bredkwater Rail Rail Road
.eae Company:
GENTLEMEN:-1'he Board of Di-
rectors take pleasure in announcing
in their second Annual Report, the
success that has attended your en-
terprise in the partial completion oi
the Junction Il Breakwater Rail
Road.
The first division Of the road be-
tween Harrington, on the Delaware
Railroad, and Milford, a distance Of
eight and ahalf miles, was finished
for business, and formally opened
on the seventh of September last;
since which time it has been opera
ted with Locomotives, under a con-
tract with S. M. FELTON,, ESQ.,, Pre-
sident of the Philadelphia, Whining
ton & Bait. r. r. Co., and lessees
of the Delaware r. r., at cost TO
the upper company for such services,
of $17 per day, for two trains.
Your Board thought it prudent in
the commencement, to experiment
with one train day, at a cost Of
nearly eleven dollars, and continued
this ass.aAFssaent for q brief period;
but having entered into a contract
for carrying the mail, and to secure
a greater travel, we felt justified in
ordering a second train, which was
put on the 18th of October, at an
additional expense only of about
seven dollars per day.
The Board congratulate you ON
the completion of this division of the
Road, and its successful operation
thus far, and would add thst they
arc encouraged to hope that even a
more favorable arrangement will be
entered into for the future manage
ment of the road. 1t is not deemed
necessary at this time, so recently
after the commencement Of opera
tions, to render a special exhibit Of
the receipts of the road, but to
state for your satisfaction, that the
business done in passengers and
freight has fully met the expecta.
tions of its friends, and clearly JUS
titles the Board in saying that the
road will, at least, be self.sustain-
ing one. Like all other new and
untried public enterprises, it
must grow and strengthen with the
business it makes, gathering for the
daily sustenance, the fruits of its
own necessary development. Ex-
perience has demonstrated the fact
that when the proper facilities and
accommodations are afforded, ready
to meet the ever-varyiug exegences
Of the times, then trade will be re.
gulated in its adaptation to those
avenues and channels of business,
For the accommodation of passen-
gers, we have had constructed at
Milford, suitable brick building for
a station house, and frame engine
house, sufficiently commodiouo to
admit two locomotives, also turn
tables, platform, &C., all of which,
including graduation, bridging, iron,
fastenings, cross ties, joint-blocks,
tract-laying, fencing, and engenoer-
ing, with some contingent expenses,
amounting to the sum of $77040,17,
which has been met in part by col
lections upon stock subscription,
exclusive of that which has been
subscribed for the extension to
Georgetown and payments antici-
pated until January, 1st 1861, out
Of the appropriation made by the
State, in the act entitled "An Act
for the encouragement Of Internal
Improvements in the State of Della
ware," leaving balance upaid, the
exact amount Of which we are not
now able to lay before you, and for
the liquidation of which your Board
regret they have not the means pro-
Yided. Unlike most roads, they