Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-15

resist it. Does the city, however suffer in its fnan-
cal relations to the Company. including this tax re-
CURED by the United States? The city receives
Per Per cent on three and half millions of stock of
the Company $3.50 00G; the city pays per cent on
similar amount of bonds for which it is indebted,
making S2lO0O0, leaving difference in favor Of the
CITY OF SQUOO, and with the deduction Of the SIS COO
SUN showing a profit beyond per cent on her in
pestment IN the Baltimore and Ohio Road of $50 900
per year IRE pectve of all the vast advantages con-
stantly flowing into her lap by this channel, from
me me trade and business by which her commerce is
strengthened, increased, and extended
AGAIN the Mayor asserts ''you haye no double
IracK. The fact is, the Company has now. betwixt
baltimore and cumberland, l0i miles ofdoube track
% miles nt which is first class continuous dou bic track
hetwixt Baltimore and Point Of Rocks, and even at
thls period, when the cost of construction is enOr
mousy enhanced BY the high prices of ,n.foriaf I'D
LABOR 1t Is vigorously prosecuting the work with tbe
deSgn OF completion Northumberland during the pres
The Mayor discusses elaborately the subject of rates
OF transportation on coal. His profound Ignorance
OF the subject IS so clearly exhibited by his state
mentS and he thus makes himself 80 ridiculous
INA un.L tese would be unworthy Of response, did they
not proceed from the Mayor of Baltimore lie states
mat one cent per ton per mile, is pdyiag price p"
ana t2at Sl'S per ton should therefore be the rate
from Cumberland to Baltimore. lie asks Gor a com
paTlSon Of theresult in Philadelphia where the Read
ing Road has made her depot. Surely under such a
less than the Baltimore E Ohio Road. Surely espe-
cially should this be the case where that road fr,,
me coal mines to Richmond, has descending grade
with not only double but additional tracks and with
me greatest advantages for economical working per
How unfortunate for the Mayor that the very rc-
verse, however, should be the case The Baltimore
aHu ONO company charges from Piedmont to Tpcust
font 2Jo miles S+lO per ton OF 1000 lbs The Read
HS itiIroad company charges from Port Carbon to
Fhlladelpha "a distance Of "a miles only IS IS per
long ton. Making the weight equivalent the Doiti-
more and ONO Company charges 81 gg uer ton npr
mile. whilst the Reading Road charges s. 40 per Ton
per hlie thus the very road which the Mayor pre-
sentS Tor the guidance of ihe Baltimore md Ohio
company charges % per cent. ton per mile more
than the Baltimore and Ohio Company.
How SubIImelV IcIj ffarpur fha So a.,
istlS condition Of cost Of materials, labor and If
working expenses. 1t is quite beneath hls notir% "a
recognize the fact that iron has nearly oubjci in
value thdt locomotives and cars aud croSS-tes and
almost every element Of expenditure in the con r,o
ton and working of railways have nearly doubled in
cost were ms theories adopted, the tax payers of
OF thousands Of dollars of taxes from the failure Of be
Baltimore and Ohio Road 70 pay dividends upop lis
capital. "io' i'S
lie Omits reference to the Northern Central Road
upon wren our people chiefly depend for their sup
plles OF coal Tor domestic purposes vet here again We
see rates, exceeding by 46 per cent the charges ner
Ion Per mIc Tor the TRANSFORMATION on coal bv the
Baltimore & ONO Road compared respectively from
the Anthracite and Allegheny coal ieldst0 Baltimore
lie appears not to he aware Of another great cle-
nent OF cost IN the present manaeeuent of railways
Inc Unltod States now require a tax upon the gross
revenue OF railroads; upon the net eiruin-s mo,
ears ana engines, and the repairs of each u6n iron
ana nearly every manufacture and material required
lor ILt use 4t me company. The estimate of taxes
pad to the United States in various forms from he
amounts received for the transportation Of coal now
exceeds 81 cents per ton.
But has the Baltimore E Ohio Company neglected
tle interests 0l the community in connection with
the coal trade? The bitumipOus Goals OF tba Cn,,,
berlaUd region were introduced in 1872 and we find
from an interesting compilation, recently made from
uihcal sources that that trade which was