RAILROADS IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY. STATEMENT showing the Share Capital, Indebtedness, Cost, Mileage, Receipts for transportation of Passengers, Receipts for transportation of Freight, Receipts for transportation of Mails, Operating Expenses, Net Earnings, and Dividends paid by the Railroad Companies of the State of New Jersey, for each year, since the opening of the first road in 1833: Amount Gross Earnings Operating Earnings less 2,337,630 351,955 157,838 37,210 547,003 281,384 265,619 2,473,915 1,152,700 27,912 3,654,527 3,613,917 89.43 502,319 236,623 38,120 777,062 369,171 407,891 90,000...1834 2,975,106 1,472,326 49,111 4.496,543 4,275,327 109.08 637,998 259,117 37,543 934,658 468,829 465,829 237,500...1836 132.31 279,132 194.20 50,728 971,997 538,602 433,395 255,000 1838 165,000...1837 ... 197 20 701,592 374,172 95,365 1,171,129 579,642 591,487 168,906...1841 53,105 6,737,703 6,822,319 197.20 799,812 304,083 101,305 1,205,200 619,441 585,759 212,695.1842 6,950,371 7,213,115 197,20 779,518 409,878 107.922 1,279,319 620,331 666,987 267,310 ...1843 859,299 407,725 111,522 1,376,546 678,105 698,441 296,500 ... 1844 892,305 375,097 113,417 1,380,819 682,111 698,708 314,866.1845 1849... 517,643 122,989 1,542,033 812,878 27 yrs.. 171,328,863 118,227,647 10,148,872 299,705,382 306,092,309 6,820.79 33,407,274 17,851,792 4,756,789 56,015,855 30,460,193 25,555,662 11,683,524 .27 yrs. 375,884 11,100,199 11,336,752 252.62 1,237,306 661,177 176,177 2,074,660 1,128,154 946,506 432,723. Aver. Aver. 6,345,513 4,378,802 NOTE-In the above table only so much of the funded debt of the Camden and Amboy Company is included that, with the share capital, makes up the The income of leased roads is placed in the column appropriated to "Mails, etc." The floating debt, after 1855, is largely swelled by cost of the railroad. the introduction of the floating liabilities of the Belvidere Delaware and the Camden and Atlantic Companies. 901,381 426,404 ...1851 LENGTH OF ROAD-Belvidere to Trenton Junction..... Second Track, including Sidings, about 10 miles. 64.21 miles. 13 ROLLING STOCK-Locomotive engines. SHARE CAPITAL-Authorized, $1,000,000, in 10,000 $100 shares. Paid, FUNDED DEBT-$2,049,500: described as follows 1st Mortgage, 6 per cent. convertible coupon bonds.. $1,000,000 -dated in 1852, and payable, principal in 15 years, and interest semi-annually, 1st June and 1st December, at New York. 2d Mortgage, 6 per cent., coupon bonds -$500,000 -dated in 1854, and payable, principal in 1885, and interest semi-annually, 1st March and 1st September, at Princeton. 3d Mortgage, 6 per cent., coupon bonds -$549,500 -dated 1857, and payable, principal in 20 years, and interest semi-annually, 1st February and 1st August, at Princeton. The third mortgage provided for an issue of bonds to the amount of $750,000. The payment of all the above bonds is guaranteed by the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company. FLOATING DEBT-$188,888, of which $78,609 consists of special loans. COST OF ROAD AND EQUIPMENT $3, 192,269. No detail. INCOME ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31ST DECEMBER, 1859. 7 Y'rs. 18,410,543 390.00 503,787 734,142 115,319 776,595 576,653 nil. 55.71 2,630,078 71,969 104,889 16,474 193,321 110,942 82,379 1,353,248 Aver... NOTE. The value of materials on hand January 1, 1860, was $43,147, which, added to surplus earnings, makes this sum and the expenses equal to the gross earnings. BURLINGTON AND MOUNT HOLLY RAILROAD. CHARLES BISPHAM, President. PRINCIPAL OFFICE.. .Burlington, N.J. .Burlington, Burlington Co., N.J. LENGTH OF ROAD-Burlington to Mount Holly..... 7.12 miles. ROLLING STOCK-Locomotives... 2. | Cars. 12 The Burlington and Mount Holly Railroad and Transportation Company was chartered on the 11th March, 1848. The road was completed and opened for traffic on the 14th June, 1849. SHARE CAPITAL-Authorized and paid in, $100,000, in 4,000 $25 shares. FUNDED DEBT $20,000, viz.: 1st Mortgage, 6 per cent. bonds. COST OF ROAD AND EQUIPMENT $120,000. No detail. INCOME ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31ST DECEMBER, 1859. Year. 1853.. .... 1854.... 99,551 Cost of MileRoad, etc. age. $99,551 7.12 7.12 1855.... .... 13,753 COST, EARNINGS, EXPENSES, ETC., YEARLY. -Gross Earnings-Pass'r. Freight. Mail. 12,365 $3.559 8643 13,418 5,343 438 99,550 7.12 15,914 6,639 436 1856.. 111,396 7.12 Operating Earnings, -Div.Total. expenses. less exp. $ $16,567 $13,769 $2,798 p. c. nii. nil. .... 1857.... 120,000 7.12 14,199 14,747 7 years. 770,049 49.84 Average. 110,007 7.17 98,235 42,502 3,239 143,976 92,496 51,480 21,249 20,568 13,214 7,353 3,036 31 CAMDEN AND ATLANTIC RAILROAD. BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS, 1859-60. Stephen Colwell.......Philadelphia, Pa. | Enoch Doughty......... Absecom, N. J. LENGTH OF ROAD-Cooper's Point, Camden to Atlantic City..... Second Track, none. Sidings, etc., about 5 miles. ROLLING STOCK-Locomotive engines.. 60.23 miles. Cars: Passenger, 5; baggage, mail and express 2; freight, 67....... 4 74 The Camden and Atlantic Railroad Company was chartered on the 19th March, 1852; and the road was completed and opened for traffic on the 1st July, 1854. Successive sections had been brought into use in 1852 and '53. SHARE CAPITAL-Authorized, $1,000,000, in 10.000 $100 shares. FUNDED DEBT-$1,006,800: classified as follows 1st Mortgage, 7 per cent., coupon bonds - -$1,000,000 -dated 1st August, 1852, and payable, principal 1st August, 1872, and coupons semi-annually, 1st February and 1st August, at Philadelphia. FLOATING DEBT $435,655. COST OF ROAD AND EQUIPMENT $1,798,141. No detail. INCOME ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31ST DECEMBER, 1859. The Company for several years past has been embarrassed, and unable to pay the interest on its funded debt. Its affairs are about to be re-organized, but the plan of re-organization cannot be given as an application for information in reference thereto was refused. COST, EARNINGS, EXPENSES, ETC., YEARLY. -Gross Earnings Div. $72,336 $50,079 nil. nil. 5 yrs.. 8,835,082 301.15 448,445 190,072 10,087 648,604 377,081 CAMDEN AND WOODBURY RAILROAD. LENGTH OF ROAD-Camden to Woodbury.... ... 9 miles. The Camden and Woodbury Railroad Company was chartered on the 11th March, 1836. It was opened in 1839, and operated for several years, but was finally abandoned. Its route is now occupied by the West Jersey RR. DELAWARE AND RARITAN CANAL AND CAMDEN AND AMBOY RAILROAD. (Financial year ending 31st December, 1859.) BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS, 1860–61. Edwin A. Stephens...... Hoboken, N. J. | John L. McKnight....Bordentown, N. J. Robert F. Stockton.. William Cook........... John R. Thompson. Benjamin Fish.. Richard Stockton. James S. Green.... John W. Mickle..........Camden, ...... .Newark, " .Princeton, "6 James Neilson.....New Brunswick, John J. Phelps.....New York City, N. Y. State Directors-JACOB HERBERT and THEO. P. HOWELL. EDWIN A. STEVENS, President..... R. S. VAN RENSSELAER, Superintendent 66 ...Bordentown, .PRINCETON, Mercer Co., N. J. LENGTH OF ROAD-Main Line, South Amboy to Camden..... Second track, on Main Line, none; on Branch Line, 4 miles. Sidings and other track, on Main Line, 19.41 miles; on Branch Line, 4.83 miles. LENGTH OF CANAL-Main Line, Bordentown to New Brunswick...... 43.00 miles. Navigable Feeder, Bull's Island to Trenton... |