(No. 18.) BOSTON, HARTFORD AND ERIE. STATE OF NEW YORK, SS: GEORGE M. BARTHOLOMEW, President, and EDWARD APPLETON, acting Superintendent of operations of the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad Company, being severally sworn, each for himself, deposes and says, that said Company has purchased the rights of franchise and property of the Boston, Hartford and Erie Extension Railroad Company, formed by articles of association, filed Oct. 1, 1863, by authority of an act of the Legislature of New York, passed April 25, 1864. The line is not definitely settled. The Company is engaged in purchasing land, procuring rights of way, and examination of routes preliminary to construction. Only a small amount of construction is as yet done, so we can make no more extended or more definite report. GEO. M. BARTHOLOMEW, President. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 4th day of January, 1866, JNO. B. I. FENTON, Justice of the Peace in and for Orange Co., N. Y. (No. 19.) BUFFALO, BRADFORD AND PITTSBURGH. STATE OF NEW YORK, New York City and County, S SS: JOHN ARNOT, Vice-President, and HORATIO N. OTIS, Treasurer, of the Buffalo, Bradford and Pittsburgh Railroad Company, being severally sworn, each for himself, deposes and says, that the statements in the annexed report, which has been signed by each of them, at the end thereof, are true and correct, according to the best of his knowledge, information and belief. Total amount now paid in of capital stock,.. 1, 100, 000 00 Total amount now of funded debt, Average rate, per annum, of interest on funded debt, 1, 540, 000 00 7 per cent. The road, from its junction with the Erie Railway, south to the bituminous coal fields of Pennsylvania, is being constructed but is not yet completed, and has not, therefore, fully passed into the possession of this Company. CHARACTERISTICS OF ROAD. Length of road, Length of double track, including sidings,.. Y., to Lafayette, Pa.,... The road has no equipment, and as far as completed is operated by the Erie Railway Co. NAMES AND RESIDENCES OF OFFICERS. Communications intended for this Company should be addressed, No. 187 West street, Erie Place, New York City. The undersigned have caused the foregoing statements to be prepared by the proper officers and agents of this Company, from the books and records, and have examined them as far as practicable, and believe them to be correct. (Signed) JOHN ARNOT, Vice-President. (No. 20.) BUFFALO, NEW YORK AND ERIE. STATE OF NEW YORK, New York County, SS: ROBERT H. BERDELL, President, and HUGH RIDDLE, acting Superintendent of operations of the Erie Railway Company, being severally sworn, each for himself, deposes and says, that the statements in the annexed report, which has been signed by each of them, at the end thereof, are true and correct, according to the best of his knowledge, information and belief. (Signed) ROBERT H. BERDELL, President. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 8th day of December, 1865, J. D. WHITE, Notary Public, New York. This report is made by the Erie Railway Company for the Buffalo, New York and Erie Railroad, and the Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad, the said roads being under lease to the Erie Railway Company, and for the items omitted in this report, reference is to be made to the reports of those Companies respectively. CHARACTERISTICS OF ROAD. Number of engines, Number of first class passenger cars (rated as 8-wheel cars), Number of baggage, mail and express cars (rated as 8-wheel cars),.. 28 25 7 Number of freight cars (rated as 8-wheel cars), Length of main line of road from Corning to 411 10 141 miles. DOINGS OF THE YEAR IN TRANSPORTATION, AND TOTAL MILES RUN. carried one mile,.... Number of miles traveled by passengers, or ..... number of passengers carried one mile, Number of tons, of 2,000 pounds, of freight carried in cars, Total movement of freight, or number of tons Average rate of speed adopted by ordinary passenger trains, including stops (miles per hour), Rate of speed of same, when in motion, Average rate of speed adopted by express trains, including stops, ... 14, 262, 207 278, 807 16, 297, 937 20 26 Rate of speed of same, when in motion, trains, including stops, 10 Rate of speed of same, when in motion, 14 Average weight, in tons, of passenger trains, exclusive of passengers and baggage, 105 Average weight, in tons, of freight trains, exclusive of freight, 210 The amount of freight, specifying the quantity in tons : |