The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-04-17

From passage and extra 1osssa $
From Government transportation ........... 1898 35
From mails 1855 90
r. : ,; ; - !. ss4s,s4s SO g g
Net earnings ordinary expenses $4s312 rs
extraordinary expenses 10000 90
Net balance after paying Al expenses whatever in
CURED during the year. both ordinary and extra
The account of extraordinary made expenses
Cured in building and rebuilding mate
rial used for the rebuilding bridges and sc including the
bridge Rocky Rive Anderson which
burnt April 1865 the Of wood purchased paid
during the year over what consumed the surplus being
the line Of Road expenses incurred in the estora
tion Of the property destroyed war;
provement of the Road which formed part ordinary
repairs working and cannot properly be included
that account
The improved condition Of the oadbed track
creased quantity and improved rolling during
the but be every
habit of travelling the Road
BY reference tables that the net
of accounted the payment
chargeabe to conducting
prior 1868 and the reduction of the of bills payable
and increase Of cash hand compared previous year
The rolls for the for labor and salaries have all @
paid, and the material used has also been paid
By reference to table No it will earnings
the any previous years
been operation except those of 1860
little more except years war when
the receipts in Confederate money
These results must be gratifying prosperity
of the Road and the country through which passes clearly
that the Road has passed through greatest
and difficulties and the future sustain and protect ITSELF and
that the country along its line rapidly recuperang with
prospect, it is hoped of prosperous future.
By reference to the tables which
of the compared with the business
since the it will be that the materially
Increased department. instance the number
of carried the Road
number 3220lan of 1903 bales
OF cotton carried in 1868 49, Ill for 1867
of l1S2S The number of miles in 1868 223O44
1867 83s2; and in 1866 Jls446 being
of IS ,l72 and of 1866 of 1O4,59S
F, the present year. are that the EARNINGS Of tc
Road will be largely of the last quarter
1869 ending March 3s the gross earnings while
for the corresponding months of 1868 they being
an cxCss OF d that extensive and active prepaa-
along the line tmay be remarked first quarter Of tbe
present there have been sent the Road tons
gnno and other fertilizers which believed than the
quantity the was built And while
creased 1T gratifying to be able has been no
detention OF delay whatever i'll moving it. BY the energy
duryn those having the transportation department charge
and the willing, cheerful on
poyees IN that department. all freghs promptly for
wacd to their several points but while this has
been done it has been by the greatest continual
use OF a he rolling stock through arrangement the
South Carolina Railroad Company eps both nm and
down sent through without breaking bulk in Columbia has also
facilitated the transportation of freigHts to very considerable
extent. - O
In looking forward to the prospect largely increased crop
the present and the increase rcsn teero
1T clearly evident that the quantity rolling stock boud ho
creased at an early day This be to sufficient oxten
IS believed to meet all the requirements Road without te
that which has been laid aside and active use for Some o
past There five locomotives bo
rebuilt some or oil of which is expected will be completed and
re E or use IN moving the coming and the