Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-05

I No ugIuC houses and shops 30
No. Miles double track...-.... $40
Capital stock authorized .......... gj,63j,l2d
Capital stock subscribed .......... gl,l37,9t3
Capital stock now paid iu......... lj5,@S6,5+7
| Funded oJ,,+o.-u
/ Floating J,-55 J-5
No. of depots....-.....-..-"..- 80
Value of real estate heidi. $3.50 52'
I Passengers in 1865 ................. l7,4UI, 500
/ Tuus of freight carried~......... 22.Iig252
The freight carried includes 5000 tuus
petroleum, 2.SJi,S5S Jun bituminous coal,
/ and u.3gl.lg1 tuns Of anthricite coal; also,
/ sIGgSI tuns of iron ore, 1874 tuns of agri-
cultural products, and 79l,Jj4 tuns Of mer-
chaudise.
! Expenses for lS65,~.~.".."-.-"Si22jL5I
RECEIPTS for N65...-.-..-........- 0Jr'V!,JJy
Fifty passengers and one hundred and
forUv-three employees were killed in 1860
rs well as one hundred and n~Inety-two
others, not clsssed as either passengers or
employees, making the total killed $50, or
more than one per diem injured, 80, OF
whom I7J were passengers, and 2't en-
ployees.
The greatest dividend declared in 1865
was that Of the Cleveland, gainesville and
Ashtabula Railroad (Luke Shore T0utel,
which was So per cent. Other heavy diyi-
deuds were as follows:
Delaware K Hudson Railroad 81 per cent.
PENNSYLVANIA Coal O.,.......-....5 > per cent.
Er ed Northeast Lake Shore).25 per cent
OIL Creek Railroad ............,.-2O per cent
Phil. 6 Reading r. R......-....l5 per cent
Del, Lackawanna 4 Westeru.lj per cent.
No other road in the State declared a
dividend Of over L per cent.
RAILROAD DEclsTox.-The great railroad
suit between the Atlantic and Great West
ern corporation and the Philadelphia and
Catawissa companies, which has been pend
ing for some weeks, was decided in Phila-
delphia on Monday against the Atlantic
and Great Western Railroad Company.
The Philadelphia Ledger thus refers to the
matter:
Yesterday the long expected decision in
the case in which the Philadelphia aud
Erie and the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
paSIcs were cOmplainants aud the Gaia
wissa and the Great Western Railroad Com
pauies were defendants, was rendered 10y
Judge Read, of the State Supreme Court.
The purpose of the suit was TO test the va
liiity of the contract by which the Gaia
wissa Railroad Company was leased To the
Great Western for nine hundred and ninety
9 nine years. at q AAEA ANAAb Va tAIS Ah'AaA-'A
dollars per day. On the strength OF the
validity of this contract the preferred stock
of the Catuwissa Road advanced to nearly
par, and after many lamentations in prices,
during the progress Of the trial, ana SINCE
yesterday, on the announcement Of the de
cIsiOn, which was against the validity of
the lease. sold largely as low as 81 for the
preferred, aud about % for the common.
Over seven thousand shares sold during the
day. and since the operations in the stock
began, in consequence of the lease, probably
the sales exceed twice or three times the
amount of the entire capital of the COM
panv. with very heavy losses and gains Oy
the parties interested. During the time OF
the trial It was announced that the de-
cision, whichever side it favored, would not
end it. Yesterday, however, the decision of
Justice Read, being so very decided on all
material points, it was pretty generally
conceded that the decision, SO far as the
courts are concerned, Is final.
The Atlantic and Great Western interests
were quite willing to ~aaquiesce in the de-
cision. This change in feeling, the Cincin-
natl Gazette says, is the result of the new
and unfsvorable aspect of monetary AHA s
in England. Upon this point he New York
Post says:
It is rumored that the tightness Of money
and the consequent loss of credit in London
by some Of the leading railway contractors,
may defer for a time the realization ofspne
Of the plans proposed by Sir Morton Pet0
when in this country, but nothing Is Ger
tainly known.