The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-04
Supplementary Renort.

The annual report refers only to the business of
The repairs to the Delaware Division Canal at that
time in progress, were completed on the 14th of
SRH a sSas IN
the aqueducts was due to the frequent and heavy
away from work on the piers by raising the streams
fourteen times in about as many weeks, and delayed
their completion about o month. The contractors
for the superstructure did not their portion of
the work with proper vgor and the two causes lost
about three weeks business at the opening Of the
10th of April, was followed by severe freshet in
the Lehigh on the 18th of April, with the river at
Mauch Chunk within s,A inches lGtt az nga as IN Ccto
to the Lehigh Canal and none whatever to the Della
ware Division proper. A portion of the guard wall
river can be turned to its usual course we have no
means of transfer from the Lehigh Canal to either
the Delaware Division or Morris Canal. Unless un-
expected causes intervene, boats pass freely
Saturday OF Monday next.
The total outlay in repairs to both guard wall
and canal can hardly amount to so much as $4,000
Our customers have many canal orders which they
are anxious to fill, and we have completed arrange
or freshets do not interfere we shall pass q large
amount of coal through the cahal The loss of
tonnage on the canal has been partly made up by a
gain on the railroad, and the cash receipts of the
latter have been increased almost to the extent of
the loss on the former. The principal cause of
diminished revenue, thus far this year has been
the suspension OF work at our Summit and Room
Run mines. During long term Of years there was
wen eG m th azato easng and tne
regions and at our mines. We did not participate
in the demands of the operators last fall, which
resulted in the second suspension, and when work
resumed in November we lost our relative posi-
tion Our efforts to regain the lost ground resulted
IN suspension of our men, who have done no work
since February 12. At the time of the suspension
we were paying higher wages than any other opera
tor working on the sliding scale or "bass plan We
have offered our men wages equivalent to those
paid in the Beaver Meadow region, and considera-
bly, higher than the rates the schuykill county men
offer to resume work at, and which the operators
there decline for the reason that they too high
We cannot yield the point In dispute without esta-
blshing the precedent of paying much higher wages
than any of our neghbors in the Lehigh region, and
they now pay excessive rates compared with the
Schuylkill and Wyoming regions.
The Nesquehoning Valley Railroad was turned
over to us on the 18th of April, and we commenced
running freight trains on the I'd of May. We shall
find full employment for all the cars send to
the Catawissa road in the lumber, ore and miscel-
laneous trade and shall start passenger trains soon
with the promise of fair and increasing business
We using the Burleigh drills in the work the
tunnel, and they have already given good results,
and promise better when the workmen have ac-
quired greater skill in the use ofthem.
When we sold our Wilkesbarre Coal and Iron
Companys stock we gave that Company the right
to terminate the contract binding their tonnage to
our line by giving six months notice. We have re-
Gently closed new contract with them for long
term OF years. by which they agree to send not
than 400 900 tons of coal per annum over works.
giving us the choice of routes by which 1t shall be
sent to the New York market from the terminus of
our lines. We regard the new contract as more
favorable to us than the one previously in force.
We did very little remuneratiye business last
year previous to the 9th OF july and the only very
good months we had were July and August. 1t is
hardly likely that the commencement of our paying
business can be SO long delayed this year and when
ii does begin we shall be very much better pre-
pared for 1t in every department than we were at
any time last year.
By order OF the Board of Managers of the Lehigh
Coal and Navigation Company.
Philadelphia, May 8, 1870.