The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-01-25

hicutnOHu, FREDERICKSBURG ana POt0Tna(
Railroad Company paid 81 per cent, and the
Seaboard aud Roanoke Railroad Company
3Ss per cent.
9Th. That from the date of the re6peninc
Of the Seaboard and Roanoke railroads.&c.
to 1864, both inclusive, fourteen years-the
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
Railroad Company paid ia per cent. while
for the same period. the Seaboard aud
Roanoke Railroad Company paid only 3sA
per ccnt.-a little more than one-thfrd Of the
amount paid by the Richmond, Fredericks-
burg and Potomac Railroad Company.
9th. That the whole amount OF dividends
on common stock paid by our two compn.
nies respectively up to the present date is as
follows:
Richmond fredericksburg and
Potomac Railroad Company, 1.37 per cent.
Seaboard and Roanoke Rail-
road Company. 994
Respectfully submitted:
[Signed1 j. B. WtNsroS,
Treasurer Richmond Fredericksburg and
Potomac Railroad Company.
JOHN T. HILL.
Treasurer Seaboard and Roanoke Rail-
road Company.
RICHMOND, L FREDERICKSBURG AND POTOMAC)
RAILROAD COMPANY,
PREsIDENT's OFFICE.
RICHMOND, VA, January 25, 1873.
John NJ. Robinson. Esq, President Rich
nrond. Fredericksburg and Potomac Rail
road Company:
Dear Sil,-From the accompanying state
ment, carefully made up from the books OF
our respective companies, it will appear
1st. That the receipts Of the Richmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Com
pany for passengers from 1855 to 1872 lex.
Guiding the years 1863, '64, and 'G5, during
which alI through business was suspended
by tue wary exceeded those of the Seaboard
and Roanoke Railroad Company from the
same source by 81, ,52G,3 G,320.09.
I'd. That the receipts Of the Richmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Com
pany for passengers from 1855 to 1862, when
all through business was interrupted by the
war, exceeded those of the Seaboard and
Roanoke Railroad Company from The same
source by 1921, ,S74.57.
Sd. That the receipts Of the Richmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad
Company for passengers from 1SG1-the yeal
when through traffic was resumed after the
war-to 1872, both inclusive, exceeded those
of the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad Com.
pany from the same source by $704 4,445.52.
4th. That the excess of passenger re
ceipts of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Potomac Railroad Company over those o.
the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad Com
pany for eight years preceding the war WA:
1921, ,S74.51, while tue excess OF such re
ceipts for six years succeeding the war wa!
704,445.52-or, in other words, that tht
ratio Of excess subsequent to the war wa:
greater by 14.2 per cent. than that prior te
the war.
9th. 1t will be remembered that passen-
ger business was the only class Of business
which the Richmond, Fredericksburg ant
Potomac Railroad Company were prepared
to do up to this time, the breaks heretofore
existing rendering its line impracticable as q
freight route, and even now the tunnel into
and through Baltimore is incomplete ant
wanting to connect it with the lines at and
north Of that point.
Respectfully submitted.
[Signedl J. B. WINSTON,
Treasurer r., f. & p. Railroad Go.
JcuN Y. HILL.
Treasurer S. e. K. Railroad Co.
Con,pnrotire Statement of RerCnue Of The
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
Rdtir0dG LOmPdny and Seab0drI and
Roanoke Ra'TOdd Company der1rco
from. the Transportation Of Passengers.
Ercess in faro,
r., Eand P. Sand r. If r., E;and