Annual ReportIncludes charters, acts, engineers' reports, decisions, addresses, etc., 1835-1849, and also W.C. Redfield's Sketch of the geographical rout[!] of a great railway, by which it is proposed to connect the canals and navigable waters of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio [etc.], 2nd ed. New York, G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1830. |
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ACCOUNT amount annual average Branch bridges built Butter Canal carried Cars Cattle cent Central ceries Cheese Chemung chndise Coal Company completed construction CONTINUED Corning cost December Delaware Deposit distance Division dollars DOLLS dries Dunkirk earnings east Eastern Elmira ending Engines Erie Railroad estimates expenses extending February Feed feet five Flour four Freight Furni Genesee grade Grain greater Grocer Hides Hornellsville Hudson hundred increased interest Iron July June Lake Leather length Lime lines Lumber March mile run millions Months nearly Newburg November October Office operations Otisville Pass Passenger Pork portion present Rail Receipts received repairs Report River road Salt September 30th shipped showing STATEMENT Stations Stock Sufferns Superintendence Susquehanna tables Telegraph Termini thousand tonnage Tons track trade trains transportation tributary ture Union Valley Wants repairs West Western whole Wood York and Erie
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עמוד 12 - ... preliminary remark, I opened the conversation by asking my companion whether he did or did not consider the existence of Battrybius put in doubt by the voyage of the Challenger. It is needless for me to attempt to give here, in my imperfect language, the entirely new and startling theory in regard to the past history, the present condition, and the future prospects of the human race, which absorbed me by its entrancing interest throughout the whole of dinner. Mr Tompkins found me such an intelligent...
עמוד 57 - ... 41. Thus the conclusions are arrived at, that those products and articles which are now profitably transported over the railroads, could not, in most instances, be moved upon the canal without serious loss to the owner or producer, and that the diversion of thia business from our navigable channels has served to augment the legitimate business of the Eric Canal.
עמוד 127 - Schenectady, in 1842, (94,213 tons) was left on the several canals, in the following proportions, viz : — On the Erie canal, tons 59,925 " Champlain canal " 10,395 " Oswego canal, " 9,245
עמוד 63 - ... Thirteenth Ward House, on the same street. Within the next few years several cattle and hog yards were opened, on the Tifft Farm and elsewhere, in the southeastern part of the city. John Dickey, Leonard Crocker, and James H. Metcalfe were men of early prominence in the business. About 1855 or 1856 the New York Central and the New York and Erie Railroad companies began building pens and chutes for loading cattle and hog cars. In 1863 the New York Central and Hudson River RR Co. opened the stock...
עמוד 66 - To meet these challenges, the Board recommended "the establishment of a system" to assure the better accountability of expenses and more effective appraisal of performance of men and managers. The Directors hoped to achieve this aim by making available "comparisons of the expenses of the various operations with those of other similar roads, with the several divisions of the road itself; and the expenses of different conductors, engine-men, etc. with each other.