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PROSPERITY OF GEORGIA RAHRoADs-The report
the Muscogee (Ga) Railroad for the fiscal year end
ng July 81, is just published:
The gross earnings for the year were S233,2lS SO,
md the expenses for the time were SI3l 1872
Is, leaving net profit of slOO3S6 IS, or about l6
per cent on the capital stock.
The financial condition of this company has never
been good as it is now, and the future looks fat
ering for an increase of business over this line. A
dividend of 81 per share, payable on demand, was
declared and S45 600 appropriated to buy some of
heir bonds maturing in '62; only 81 500 of them '
Gould be obtained and the remainder of the apprO-
1riation was invested at per cent. a
The exhibit of all the other roads of the State, it
s said, will be equally favorable. &