The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-11-25

Train expenses. $l35, Ga o.
Depot expenses. 47,752 IL r.s .,...
Miscellaneous EXPENSES. 17,2l3 ca N-..r.
Train Losses and damages. 9.l55 So
n.aintenance OF way....... Isl s65 %
Repairs of depnts, hmld
Repairs Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. s2.7pl ia
SaIarles. ..............'.......s az, az ~
IaSes.. ..........-...-......-.. lStns "
insurance .................... S,o8' Of 49, .
Net receipts. $50, $50 p
There is an increase in the revenue from a#a
passengers of.............. ...-.......... s24G T.
frel ut 30, e52 q
Tie decrease on the exp ess freight
From unsed st ;cs mai ihsre is de- y
diease IN receipts cf.................... sass o.
TOTAL lncI case. ....... Fla, 800 x
This decrease In mail revenue is due to
the fact that in the previous year the sum
Of 81 ,0S2.44 was received from the Orange
and Alexandria railroad for back mail ser.
vice on our road between Gordonsyille and
Charlottesville. 49,. - f,.- &
There was an increase from October 1st,
business, of Sl5, 242.29. -. ~, -. -,
There was an increase for the same period
on freight business Of $31 1880. .
There was falling of in revenues during
July, August, and September, in both pas
senger and freight business, owing the one
to the fact that not so many persons visited
the watering-places on the line this season,
the other to the effect of two successive
seasons of drought upon the farming inter-
ests Of the country trrversed by the road.
Of the sum charged to maintenance OF
way, S111, 24l. 01 was expended in relaying
with new iron and ballasting Is GAIL 900
miles Of road. "
The expenditure on account of taxes,
which included revenue stamps for bonds,
exceeded the expenses on like account of
previous year by the sum Of SS,52l So. OF
the sum total of the transportation eX-
penses, S7,561.33 was paid on account of
claims contracted before and during the
war.
PASSENGER BUSINESS.
The number of passengers carried west
ward was 6G,074: the number of passen-
gers carried eastward was 6S,747 the num-
Der of passengers carried in both directions
was 1881 Total mileage, 6.0s6,373;
average distance travelled by each passen-
ger, "A miles; amount received per passen-
ger per mile, Az cents.
FREIGHTING BUSINESS. ..s +,
The tonnage has increased 3,SG4.4 tons,
the increase being altogether in eastward
bound freights.
Two blast furnaces have been put into
operation on the line Of the road-one at
Siberton and the other near LoDgdale. The
object is to get the mines at these points
fully opened by the time we can bring them
coal from the New river and Kanawha coal
fields, and they will give us handsome
addition to our tonnage of metals hereafter.
ROADWAY.
The roadway is in very excellent condi.
ton and greatly improved the past year.
We have relayed with new iron of the L pat
tern and fish-bar joint, and thoroughly bal
lasted. IS G47-1000 miles of road.
We have relaid with the best Of the old
rails two miles of road.
We have substituted 14S,047 feet of old
rails with old iron of better quality, and
have put into the main track 99,137 new
cross Lies and 5,G17 into sidings.
We have used i43, 240 lbs. Of spikes.
The Whitcomb mo. 16) exploded her
boiler on the 9Th OF March. ....,
Nine miles OF old track has been ballasted
with gravel or slate ballast.
We have on hand II ,235 cross ties.
A large amount of ditcbing has been done,
and the road-bed improved at many points
by widening. r. =.
We have constructed Howe truss-bridges
during the past surnmerOver Great Calf Pas
ture, Mechum's and Southanna rivers, Of
an aggregate length of 97S feet, at an aver
age cost of S23 per lineal foot.
Howe trusS-bridges are framed for Little
river and South river.
The timberS for the bridges at Smoky
Row creek, Middle and Little Calf Pasture
rivers are contracted for, and those for
Moore's creek bridge are in place. All Of
these bridges will be completed by January
1st, 1871. T.
Several of the bridges have been covered
and rooted, and the timber is III place for
covering others. ... 1
MACHINERY.
We have So locomotives, four of which
have been added to the equipment this
year; 81 have steel tyres, have wrought
tyres, II have chilled tyres 16 of them are
in perfect order, 10 Of them are in good Or
der, and the other are In running order;
aud have been repaired in our shops at a
cost Of s., 340.75, and are now better en-.
snes than when new. =.
The Allegheny NO. 15l was thrown OFF
track, and burst her fines. She was re-
paired in our shop at cost Of S3,076.68.
We have built in our shops: One first
lass passenger car at cost of ID, 9Gl.2l
wo baggage cars at a cost Of 81 1921 each
wo mail and express cars at cost OF
%, I27. 30 each; tWent-One box cars, to be
added to equipment, at cost of about $3.50
ZACH; fifteen stock cars at cost OF S75O
ZACH we have converted two mail and pas
enger cars into second-clasS passenger cars,
md have ten platform cars ready Tor the
wheels and aXles; we have built twenty
me dump cars for construction at q cost OF
300 each; we have also improved the value
# our general equipment by extensive re-
,airs on both passenger and burden cars.
From the report Of Chief Engineer b.. d.
" hitcomb we make the following extracts,
which will be found of general public in
crest: g.a ..7s
HE FINAL LOCATION OF THE LINE OF ROAD.
at the date of the last annual report the
ocatiou OF the Allegheny division had been
and alternate lines had been
I'm on a part Of the Greenbrier and New
liver divisions, and on the whole Of the
division. The western division,
With the exception Of q few miles next to
he terminus, had been definitely located.
'he final location Of the whole line has since
,een fixed as follows: Leaving the present
Western terminus at the White Sulphur
springs, it follows the left side. of the valley
u noward's creek to Greenbrler river; IL
hen passes along the left bank or the
ireenbrier one and half miles, and crosses
n the lipht hapk.. II fhon' i'll lntvs tha ri rhE