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Dividends for

1848.

Amount of Dividends paid since Road commenced.* Surplus on hand.

Total Expenses in 1848.

The following list of Railroads in Massachusetts all the aujaloin saved, anu i Now vin, to very complete and accurate, being compied im öfficial

returns made near January, 1849. But the remainder is quite imperfect, though more full than anything which has been given before. We insert it in the hope, that, by the kindness of our correspondents in the several States, and of the officers of the railroad companies, we may obtain materials for a far more perfect enumeration in our next volume. 1. Railroads in Massachusetts.

Name of Road.

Berkshire,†

Boston and Lowell,
Boston and Maine,
Boston and Providence,
Boston and Worcester,
Cape Cod Branch,
Connecticut River,
Eastern,
Fall River,

year. miles.

$

$

1841 21.14 600,000 600,000 33,684 13,314 20,370
1835 25.76 1,800,000 2,013,687 267,184 174,660 72,882
1843 74.26 3,249,805 3,571,832 354,753 264,440 62,913
1835 41.00 3,160,000 3,031,107 243,090 182,430 56,160
1835 44.62 4,245,175 4,650,393 466,297 256,989 192,487
1848 27.80 343,010 587,116 39,998 27,722 12,064
1846 50.00 1,234,970 1,588,185 147,092 95,278 42,332
1840 38.11 2,655,700 3,095,394 271,976 224,640 33,696
1846 42.24 1,050,000 1,145,983 139,852 95,648 43,344|
1845 49.30 2,735,910 2,945,631 377,520 241,115 120,346
1848 12.35 200,000 283,249 18,062 15,850 1,050
1838 14.58 525,000 525,063 53,410 27,006 22,750
New Bedford and Taunton. 1840 20.13
400,000 499,966 136,532 101,422 34.622
Norwich and Worcester,§ 1839 66.00 1,658,500 2,187,829 212,601 132,221 72,958
1845 37.25 1,601,415 2,080,903 191,588 137,708 36,412
18.65 500,000 447,755 25,404
1847 43.50 2,232,000 1,873,896 125,891 78,626 28,339
1845 5.00 85,400 96,111
1836 11.00 250,000 305,086 79,368 57,170 21,932
1842, 156.00 5,150,000 9,899,154 804,492 243,152 454,272

Fitchburg,

Lowell and Lawrence,

Nashua and Lowell,!

Old Colony,

Pittsfield & North Adams, 1846
Providence & Worcester,
Stoughton Branch,||

Taunton Branch,

Western. T

Worcester and Nashua,** 1848 45 64 934,499 1,010,538 19,320 19,320

Total,

844.33 34,611,384 42,438,878

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*The cars commenced running on sections of the various roads as they were finished, and dividends were declared from the net earnings, in some cases,
before the road was completed.

Leased to the Bridgeport and West Stockbridge Road at seven per cent. net on the capital of $ 500,000.

5.33 miles in New Hampshire.

$ Includes branch from Norwich to Allyn's Point, seven miles.

This road is maintained by the Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation.

This includes the Albany and West Stockbridge Railroad, from Albany to the State line. Length 38.25 miles. Built at a cost of $1,924,702, and leased **6.62 miles are in New Hampshire.

by the Western Railroad.

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The Woburn Branch, 2 miles long, belongs to the Lowell road; the Medford Branch, 2 miles, the Methuen Branch, 3 miles, and the Great Falls Branch (in New Hampshire), 3 miles, to the Maine; the West Roxbury Branch, 5.35 miles, and the Pawtucket Branch, 4.2 miles, to the Providence; the Brookline Branch, 1.6 miles, the Newton Lower Falls Branch, 2.5 miles, the Saxonville Branch, 4 miles, the Millbury Branch, 3.2 miles, and the Milford Branch, 12 miles, to the Worcester; the Marblehead Branch, 3 miles, the Gloucester Branch, 13.5 miles, and the Salisbury Branch, 3.4 miles, to the Eastern; the Fresh Pond and Watertown Branch, 6.75 miles, to the Fitchburg. The Worcester Branch road is half a mile in length, the Bridgewater Branch, 6.5, the Chicopee Branch, 3 miles, and the Granite (in Quincy) road, 3 miles. Including these, the total length of what may be called the Massachusetts roads is 1,141.10 miles. Besides these, there are numerous roads in process of construction, leading from the main lines in Massachusetts into other States. During the session of 1846, the Massachusetts legislature chartered eighteen roads and branches, with an aggregate capital of $5,795,000; during the session of 1847, sixteen, with an aggregate capital of $ 4,822,000; during the session of 1848, nineteen, with an aggregate capital of $7,105,000, and the capital stock of the railroads already in operation was increased $3,945,000; and during the session of 1849, fourteen, with an aggregate capital of $2,470,000, and the capital stock of the railroads in operation was increased $1,150,000.

2. Other Completed Railroads in New England.

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3. Principal Lines of Railroad in Process of Construction in New England on the 1st of September, 1849.

Name.

Atlantic and St. Lawrence, From Portland to the Canada line, which it strikes at the town

of Canaan, Vt., where it connects with the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad, which is open from Montreal to St. Hyacinthe, 30 miles. Whole length, 156 miles. Open to Mechanics' Falls, 37 miles. Branch from Mechanics' Falls to Buckfield; length, 10 miles. The whole of the road to the State line is under contract.

Kennebec, Bath, & Portland, From Portland to Augusta. Length, 60 miles.

There is a

branch to Bath, 9 miles long, now open. The road is open from North Yarmouth, where it intersects the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad, to Brunswick, 144 miles.

Androscoggin and Kennebec, From Waterville to Danville, where it connects with the Atlan

York and Cumberland,

tic and St. Lawrence Railroad. Length, 60 miles. Open from
Danville Junction to Winthrop, 29 miles.

From Somersworth, N. H., to Portland. Length about 50 miles.
Graded from Portland to Gorham, 12 miles.

Portsmouth and Concord, From Portsmouth to Concord, N. H. Length, 40 miles. Track laid to Newmarket, 10 miles. The rest of the road is nearly graded.

Manchester and Lawrence, From Manchester, N. H., to Lawrence, Mass.

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Great Falls and Conway,

Length, 23

miles to State line in N. H., and 3 miles in Mass. The road
will probably be opened by January 1, 1850.
From Concord, N. H., via Plymouth and Haverhill, to a point
of intersection with some one of the Montreal roads. Length,
69 miles. Open to Fogg's Road, in New Hampton, 41
miles.

From Concord, N. H., to Claremont, where it intersects the
Sullivan road. Length, 50 miles. Open to Warner, 18 miles.
From Dover, N. H., to Haverhill.

miles.

Open to Farmington, 17

From Somersworth, N. H., via Rochester, to Conway. Open to
Rochester, 12 miles.

Connecticut and Passumpsic River, From the mouth of White River, at Hartford, Vt., up

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the west bank of the Connecticut to the State line at Canaan,
where it will connect with the St. Lawrence and Atlantic road.
Length, 114 miles. Open to Wells River (Newbury, Vt.), 40
miles.

From Windsor, Vt., via Montpelier and the valley of the Onion
River, to Burlington. Length, 115 miles. Open to Mont-
pelier, Vt., 764 miles.
From the Vermont Central Railroad, at Stanton's, in Essex, Vt.,
to the Ogdensburg road, at Rouse's Point. Length, 40 miles.
From Bellows Falls, Vt., via Rutland, Middlebury, and the valley
of Black River and the Otter Creek, to Burlington. Length,
117 miles. Open from Bellows Falls to Ludlow, 28 miles, and
from Burlington to Middlebury, 34 miles; will be opened to
Rutland, 60 miles from Burlington, by Nov. 1, 1849. A branch
is projected from Rutland, via Castleton, to Whitehall, N. Y.
From Groton, Mass., where it leaves the Fitchburg road, to Pe-

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terboro', N. H. Length, 30 miles. Open to the village of West Townsend, within 3 miles of the State line, 12 miles. Length, 12 miles.

From deep water at East Boston to the Worcester Railroad in
Brighton. Length, 6 miles.

From Essex Road in South Danvers to Lowell and Lawrence
road in Tewksbury, 16 miles. Whole distance from Salem
to Lowell, 24 miles.

From Nashville, N. H., on the Nashua and Lowell road, to Wil-
ton. Open to Amherst, N. H., 8 miles, Nov. 1, 1848.
From Newburyport, Mass., to Georgetown. Length, 12 miles.
From New London, Conn., via Willimantic, to Palmer Depot,
Mass., on the Western Railroad. Length, 68 miles.

From New Haven to Springfield. Open to Plainville, 28 miles.
Open from Bridgeport, Conn., to Winsted, 62 miles.

Hartford, Providence, and Fishkill, Under contract from Plainville, Conn., to Willimantic,

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about 40 miles.

From Ogdensburg, N. Y., to Rouse's Point on Lake Champlain. Length, 117 miles. Will be opened to Ellenburg, 30 miles from Rouse's Point, in October, 1849.

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