The New York herald., 1872-11-06

The The amount S S sasta sst s. By artor
T The @ total amount @ now q capital stock paid in
The The funded iu,s d. debt. debt by last report p
Th The to,ai aai an amount cunt now q funded debt
The amount OF floating debt
The The total amount now funded and floating debt
inc average rate per annm OF interest on funded debt
For; For graduation d and N. masonry BY last report
the o bridges 81 as repor e same
The total amount now expended for the same.
The amount for superstrucure, including iron, by last
Total amount expended for the same.
FOR PASSENGER and freight stations, building and fix
Total amount now expended for the same
For engine & and car houses machine shops and ma
For locomotives and fixtures and snow plougls
For passenger and baggage freight ears engineer
Total equipment Of the road.
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ROAD
must be described as to the .'length OF road, road
laid, double track, including sidings, branches
owned by company laid, wsight OF rail 10y yard or
main track, the number of engine houses and
shops, OF engines and cars and their character
THE DOINGs OF THE YEAR IN TRANSPORTATION
and total miles run by passenger ana freight cars
rates OF fare for passengers per mile, number OF
tons of 1000 lbs.l OF freight carried, OF speed
by all trains, DC. &c.n Then there must he emu
merated
THE EXPENSE or MAINTAINING THE ROAD
iron and in renewals, with weight and cost repairs
OF buildings fences and gates, taxes on real estate,
expense OF machinery or personal property OF the
corporation, repairs OF engines and tenders,
depreciation Of same, repairs OF passenger
baggage and freight cars and their deprecia-
ton In value, repairs OF tools and machinery
in shops Incidental expenses, including fuel, oil,
clerks, watchmen about shops, total expense OF
repairs OF machinery, agents, clerks, labor, hand
ling freight, loading and unloading, p0rters watch
and switchmen, wood and water station attend
ance, conductors, baggage and brakemen, engine
men and firemen, fuel Oil and waste for baggage
ana passenger cars, loss and damage OF goods and
baggage, damages for injuries Of persons, damages
to property, including fire, general superintend-
ence contingencies and total expenses OF operating
roads.
All these items must he set forth snccinctly and
in detail. At the time the receipts and earn
ings must be described, equally as plain, and with
full particulars.
Our object in going so ninutey into every little
detail concerning the expenditures on rail-
roads is TO show the thousand and one chan
nes OF expense that have to be brdged over
by railway corporations the OF their daily
operations The above extensive items fully show
what it requires to run railroad. II Is not only
bed with rails on, and locomotives, passenger
and freight cars which constitute railroad. After
the road is built and fully equipped, then the run
ming expenses begin to count, which may be said
to constitute the major portion Of the company's
outlays
OF all the railroads in this country OF the most
extensively operated is the Erie railway, and an
exhibit Of that road is fair criterion to judge
others by.
Through the kindness OF Mr.. j. b. Hodgskins the
Treasurer OF the Erie Company. we have been en-
abled to obtain an abstract OF the transportation
expenses for SIX years past, which at glance win
show the difference in the running expenses OF each