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, year. miles. $ $ 1841 21.14 600,000 600,000 33,684 13,314 20,370 Fitchburg, Lowell and Lawrence, Nashua and Lowell,! Old Colony, Pittsfield & North Adams, 1846 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 *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, 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. 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. 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 From Somersworth, N. H., to Portland. Length about 50 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. Great Falls and Conway, Length, 23 miles to State line in N. H., and 3 miles in Mass. The road From Concord, N. H., to Claremont, where it intersects the miles. Open to Farmington, 17 From Somersworth, N. H., via Rochester, to Conway. Open to Connecticut and Passumpsic River, From the mouth of White River, at Hartford, Vt., up the west bank of the Connecticut to the State line at Canaan, From Windsor, Vt., via Montpelier and the valley of the Onion 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 From Essex Road in South Danvers to Lowell and Lawrence From Nashville, N. H., on the Nashua and Lowell road, to Wil- From New Haven to Springfield. Open to Plainville, 28 miles. Hartford, Providence, and Fishkill, Under contract from Plainville, Conn., to Willimantic, 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. |