The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-09-04

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rnE PExHsYLvAsIA RAlLeoAD.
From the Chiesso Tribune
The Pennsylvanis railroad, often improp-
erly called the Pennsylvania Central, 4 per
g, almost or wholly . Pennsylvania State
system Of railroads, and has within The State
500 milee Of man stem and branches, and
about 800 miles OF Lesser llnes. which amount
to pefpefuiiy In the term Of the lease. These
may Be described a. uoin Sem from Phil
adelphia to Pittsburgh, with cos lines ct
Harrisburg to Erie, Canandaisua, aad Bal
timore, and other lines looping up The skein.
To carry this rosd to New York the syssem
Of roads and canals intermediate = lsased in
perpesuity, amounting to 456 miles Of rail,
65 Of canal, and 80 steamboats,. WeA Of
Pittsburg, the Pennsylvania. Failroad takes
another name and charter, namely:
''THE PENNSYLVANIA COMPANY"
This corporation was chartered by the
State of Pennsy lsania, April 2, 1870 in order
to assist the Pennsylvaaia railroad to m'n-,
age it, lines vest OF Pittsburgh. Twelve
millions capital sock Wa % arranged a. to
give Sc, 00O. 900, which i "prefesred' to the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. This
preferred stock Is guaranteed 6 par cent. per
aLnum, and the profits in equity. The com
mon stock Is not guaranteed, bat il promised
per cent next after the preferred stock.
This corporation controls and operates
1923 miles of road, and controls besides
about !, 800 miles of road, all west Of Pitts
burgh. II owns half interest in the lines
from Indianspolis to St. Louis, a wellsor in
all, about $500 miles of road. Thomas
Scott il the President Of the Pennsylvania
Company, and William Thaw, of Pittsburgh
is It's only Vice President. Of Thaw, more
anon.
The railroad lines OF the Pennsylvania
Company reach from Pittsburgh to Chicago:
to Youngstown, O.; to Cleveland; to Girard
and trie; to Wheeling; to Cincinnati; to
Indianapolis; to Louisville; to st Louis; and
dozen lesser terminal points. 1t owns the
great bridges 1t Louisville, Cincinnati and
Steubenville; and al other points must cay:
And IL i've thee . oliver pound
To row mo 0'er the ferry.
TOTALS AND EXPLANATION.
The Pennsylvania Railroad and its alias,
the Pennsylvania Company, own, lease, Or
operate, therefore, upwards Of 2, 900 miles Of
steam highway east Of Pittsburgh, and :, 800
miles west OF Pittsburgh. OF the great parent
consolidation John Edgar Thompson ia
President, and he and his friends claim that
his railroad has no association, except BUSH
ness interchsnges, with the many railroads
of which Mr.. Scott is President-noihine TO
do officially with The Southern Security Com
pany, nor the lines southwark, nor with the
Texas & Pacific Railroad, nor With the
many lesser railroads and systems in which
his official associates are casually interested.
ENGrNERY.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has upon its
own State liner, 5l4 engines; upon the Jer-
sey leases, $50; and, calculating at this
basis, upon its Western leases. 700. Proba-
bly, it may be just to estimate the entire
steam squadron at !, 400 locomotives, or a
to every twenty men in the reg
rlar army OF the United States. The loco
motives of this corporation alone could trans
port our whole regular army without any
cars to assist them.
THE DEBT
Of the Pennsylvania home or State system,
stock, was $50. 600 900 at the close
Of 1871. The obligations of the New Jersey
leased system were S37 600, 900 in 1870. To
The former may be added SIS, 900 900 for the
Northern Central, since absorbed, and prob
,bly S2s, 600, 900 for the Philadelphia and
Erie. The following are the obligations Of
he different lines leased west of Pittsburgh:
NINETY-THREE MILLIONS MORE.
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & st. Louis, POI
miles long, So. 100000.
Charters Railway, % miles, 81 900, 900.
Little Mama, PIG miles. 50. 5O0, 900, Of
which s., 600, 900 is due in 1883.
Columbus, Chicago & Indiana Central,
is6 miles, $50, 600, 900. of which So, 30, 600
8 funded debt.
Jacksonville, Madison & Indianapolis,
&c miles, s., 5000
Cincinnati d Muskingum Valley, -
niles, 81, 5OO,O
indianapolis 4 Vincennes, liz miles,
a. SOC, 200.
st. Louis, Vandalia Il Terre Haute, l5S |
niles, 81, 100000, OF which fve-sevenihs is
ended bebt.
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The above eight railroads. are not only
eased but controlled ~ sfock-ownersh'p.
y the fennsyivaaia COMPANY, ana the same
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