The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1881-05-03
RECEIPTS.

Expenses. s.................. sos, ,03S A
Taxes. ......... ...., 1862 6t
2O2,30l II
Expenses, taxes, &C., 29,826 Il
Interest on branch bonds. .... 1927 n
Redemption Of branch bonds, 1,40O W.
Receipts, less operating expen-
ses, taxes, interest and Ie-
demption OF bonds. ..... 26,09S So
The gross earnings exceeded hose OF
$40 by SIT 7,422.s4.
The net receipts have been mainly de-
voted to outlays for the properly, neces-
Stated by the increased business OF the
road, the chief items and cost of each
being as follows:
Two locomotives. SO, ,614 GO
Water rights for LOCOMOTIVES. 300 90
AR brakes for passenger tr lins, 1870 00
New sidings on main line, 4,149
feet. :. 4,90s e7
Freight building 1T Wilmington,
Including lot. lot..................1 1856 90
Extension of telegraph line to
French Creek. ek.............. sOo SO
Cost Of French Creek and r Jck-
land branches, In excess OF
ponus SoIu' u''..sss....ss.... O,lTZ As
| Six hundred tons Of steel rails and
SO,Vol cross ties were laid during the
| year, 200 feet OF wooden trestle has been
filled, and 104 freight cars rebuilt.
The French creek branch has been
completed at a cost of $45, ,352. .01 and the
RocklaDd branch at cost Of 500, ,82O. Al.
10 this end the remaining $4,000 OF
French creek mortgage bonds, and the
| $4,000 uninsured Rockland bonds were
sold at par aud accrued interest. Under
the agreement made With the purchaser
OF the bonds, portion Of the freight
passing over the branches is payable in
bonds, and in this way 1,40O of the
bonded indebtedness has been cleared
away. Both branches have been in
operation since last summer, with salts
factory results.
AT the adjourned stockholders meet
ing, held on July 20, IL was voted to in
crease the capital stock by $40 shares
for the adjustment of outstanding claims
for land damages, amounting, with ill.,
terest, to $26,046.26. This new stock
has been Issued at par, In full settlement
with the claimants AMI it Is believed
that every claim against the company
IS now adjusted.
| The report recommends substitution
at as carrying, a date as possible, of steel
rails for the IRON ones now in use, also
the rebuilding of certain culverts, and
illing Of certain trestles. The repairs
on the Schuylkill bridge will cost nearly
$4,000. Special attention is called to the
inadequacy of the terminal facilities of
the road in this city.
The first part OF the general superin--
| tendents report Is restat 3ment of the
| figures of the board or their report.
The earnings in excess of operating ex-
penses were Sl4,A per cent of the gross
receipts. The operating expenses show
| an Increase over those OF the previous
year of $50, ,25S,l9 or 1887.
The company now own thirteen engines
varying in weight from twenty, ei ght tons
to thirty-six tons. The total number of
miles travelled during the year just
passed by the passenger engi nes In % / OF
and by the freight engines, 79,054.
| The following Abatement exhibits the
average mileage Of engines during the
/ year; On passenger trains, IL, $40 miles
Oh freight trains, 1, 7,673
| Miles run 10 one ton of coal Passen-
ger trains, 60,05; freight, 1920; cost of
| running passenger trains one mile S0.44.-
mile, 81, sc. 30.
Passenger and baggage cars owned by
the company: First class passenger cars,
| 4; first class baggage cars 3; second class
passenger cars, 2; second class baggage
cars, 2; total IL.
The company also own ninety-five
freight cars in good cond.t.Gu; six need
ing repairs and forty-nine requiring re-
building.
Arrangements have been made to
strengthen and repair the Poplar Neck
bridge across the Schuylklll IL having
been found imperatively necessary to do
so without delay. Much of tho masonry
of bridges, eulvelts and retaining walls
along the line is now in rnlnous eondi-
ton, owing to original faulty construc--
ton. 1t has beeR only possible to make
repairs at the most necessary points, as
follews; Box culvert, near WILMINGTON;
large open culvert at No. thbrook; open
calvert At Coatesviile: large open cnlvert
noIth OF Ceaiesvllle, near Spungfi I'D
all rebuilt aud oulvert south of Brinton'a
bridge, and at Gsigetto wn, repaired.
The French Chregk branch, six miles
In length. was completed and opened
for bulsLess about the fir.t day of MAY
last and the telegraph line has been
extenaed from Springfield to St. Peters,
and an office and staGlun established al
the latter place. A small station was alse
erected at Warwick.
The Rockland branch, one mile IL
| lonBIn, ef -nulDg nom DUPONT static
to the Rockland Mills of The Jessup h
Moore Paper Company, vas finished ans
went Into operation IN June.
. Seven sidlngs and connections were
constructed on the French Creek branch
and two sidings on thu Rockland branch
their cost being charged to the oonstruc
ton of the branches
At Wilmington new frei ght offices
have been ted up In a small ,bui ldiul
recen ly purchased by the company neal
the old freight shed. They are convent
emily located, and supply "a long-ueedeC
| ! accommodation for our business men q
/ that point.
The roadbed has b ,en maInt lined in a
good order as possible. A great deal o
I oallasting will be necessary during tn
: the coming summer, and the embInk
ments II many places need Widening.
4 All the trestles aud bridges have beel
kept in repair, 1861 feet OF lum be
having been used for the purpose, an in
!. crease Of about $1,000 feet over cores
ponding repairs for 1879. Two hun
dred feet OF trestie at Birdsboro' bridg
Q have been filed.
!. About one-half of the short sIa