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COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL CHRONICLE.
PUBLISHED

ON

THE

LAST

SATURDAY

OF

EACH

MONTH.

Furnished Gratis to all Subscribers of the Chronicle.
[Entered according to act of Congress, In the year 1879,
bY Wm. B. Dana & Co., in the office

NEW

INVESTORS’

YORK,

of the Librarian of

SEPTEMBER 27,

SUPPLEMENT

bonds

can

1879.

hardly be called

is little doubt that

Congress, Washington, D. C.l

an

investment, but still there

part of the money now used in this
way has come from the sale of more substantial securi¬
ties, and possibly not a little of it from the payment of

OP TUB

Cnmnterrial nttfo financial Cjmmtck

a

called bonds

by the Government. Many a person hav¬
complete exhibit of the Funded Debt of States and
Cities, and of the Stocks ing money invested in governments would never volun¬
and Bonds of Railroad and other
Companies.
tarily have disposed of those bonds and invested the pro¬
It is furnished without extra
ceeds in St. Louis & San Francisco
charge to all regular subscribers of The
common; but having
Chronicle; no single copies are sold at the office, as a sufficient
supply is the money paid in against his
will, he takes the opportu¬
printed for subscribers only.
nity while it lies unemployed in bank to take a flyer in
WILLIAM B. DANA &
CO., Publishers,
the stock market. The truth
is, that people accustomed
79 cfi 81 William sir eel.
only to look at the stock board sales in their daily news¬
INVESTMENTS IN SEPTEMBER.
paper, and who never bought or sold a share of stock
The money market has been
sufficiently steady to offer before, have become demoralized by the immense
no
impediment to operations at the Stock Exchange. advance which has taken place during the past months
The large amount of
gold received from abroad added of the year, and by the immense sums which have thus
The

Supplement is

issued

on

the last Saturday of each month,

containing

a

much to the resources of the banks that
in the
money market was
so

a

stringency

averted, which except for that

been realized from small investments.
of some of the most

assistance might easily have occurred.
following list showing
In Government bonds there has been little
of interest 1878, and the present
beyond the daily quotations, and these have shown but named:
moderate fluctuations. The
process of

drawing into the
due on subscriptions

Treasury the balance

of the money
to the 4
per cent bonds goes on steadily, and the called
bonds are paid as
presented. At last accounts from

Washington, September 20, the following
made by
Secretary Sherman:

statement

was

That the balance in money and ca'lei
bonis to be paid in the United
States for 4 per cent bonds is
to be paid to the Government $3,150,731. The balance already paid or
Agent in London, either in called bonds or
coupons, is $6,950,850. These payments will be
made next week, when
the Government wiU cease to draw
from the market into the
Treasury
any money except for current taxes. The following statement of the
outstanding called bonds, amounting to $30,806,450, the last of which
matured and ceased to bear interest on
July 17 last, has been prepared
from tbe books of the Loan
Division:

L?an*

Five-twenties of 1862, act Feb. 25. 1862
Five-twenties of 1864, act June 30, 1864
Five-twenties of 1865, M. & N., act March 31, 1865
Consols, 1865, act March 31,1865
Consols, 1867, act March 31, 1865
Consols, 1868, act March 31,1865
Ten-forties, March 3,1864
Total

outstanding
Transactions in State and

minimum, and the attention
chiefly concentrated on the

Amount.

$400,300
70,450

125,500
981,850
8,179,000
2,860,750
18,188,600

$30,806,450

city bonds have been

at

a

of financial circles has been
movements of railroad and

miscellaneous stocks and bonds at the Stock Board.
The general course of affairs has been one
of

almost

striking instances,

Price
in 1878.
....

....

....

Cleveland Columbus Cincinnati &
Indianapolis

Columbus Chicago & Indiana Central
Hannibal & St. Joseph, common
do
do
preferred
Kansas Pacific
Missouri Kansas & Texas stock
do
do
1st bonds
do
do
2d bonds
New York Lake Erie <fe Western (Erie)
Northern Pacific, common
do

Ohio &

do

L.

....

....

....

...

....

....

....

....

....

...

.

..

....

preferred
1st preferred

Sep^23,

1003t
56

683a
83

23

543a

2%

12%
24%

2158

52%

4
2

71%
17%
77%
33%

...s39ia
....

preferred

preferred

8%
13%
27%
32^

....10

common

do
do

...

....

St. Louis & Iron Mountain
St. Louis Kansas City &
Northern, common
do
•do
preferred...
St. Louis & San Francisco, oommon

do
do
Wabash

....

....

preferred

Mississippi,

exhibit

we

Lowest price

Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul, common
Chicago & Northwestern, common..

do

an

present the
the lowest prices made last year,
price of the stocks and bonds

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fo stock
Central of New Jersey

do

As

....

...

....

9

75s
21%
1*2
123*
63*
12
5

312
19

Ii2
1%
512

12%

283a

53%
23
51
s

18%
49

43%
25%
61
20

22%

48%

43%

The

foregoing is presented, not for the purpose of
asserting that the stocks named are or are not worth the
prices at which they are now selling, but simply to show
the extent of the movement which has
given rise to the
present u craze” for low-priced stocks and bonds. The
list might be increased
by the addition of a hundred
different issues of bonds which have
similarly advanced,
and

unprecedented buoyancy and activity,
the effect of this general movement
particularly in
has been to
low-priced stocks. Since the first number of the Chron¬ induce the
purchase of stocks, not for their intrinsic
icle was
published on July 1, 1865, just after the close
merits, but merely to sell again, and so to realize the
of the war, we have never had occasion
to record such advance
which the buyers believe is sure to take
an
place.
extraordinary movement in the stocks of railroads
As to the views which
may be taken of the prospects of
previously considered almost worthless—stocks which, a
re-organized railroad, we endeavored to analyze
on the most favorable view
briefly
of the earnings of their in the
Chronicle of Sept. 20, on
page 294, the several
respective companies, have no prospect of earning divi¬
positions in whioh such a road may stand, and the
dends over and above their interest
charges for a long changes in its management or
surroundings which may
time to come. The purchase of this class of
stocks and give new value to its securities.




STOCK AND

BOND TABLES.

NOTES.
These tables are expressly intended to be used in connection with the information
concerning Investment matters, published frOxh week to
week in the Chronicle—to which an index is furnished in the remarks at the foot of the tables.^
Animal reports are in black-faced figures.
A full description of U. S. Government Securities is
published regularly in the Chronicle each month, as soon as the official “Debt State¬
ment” is issued.
Prices of all active Stocks and Bonds are quoted weekly in the
Chronicle, and a list of general quotations is published monthly.
The following will give explanations of each column of the tables below:
Description.—Railroads leased to others will often be found under the lessee’s name. The following abbreviations

“mortgage,” 8. f. for “sinking fund,” 1. gr. for “land grant,” reg. for “ registered,” coup, for “coupon,” Br. for
end. for “ endorsed.”
“ Coupon*” indicates that the bonds are coupon, but
may be registered.
Date of Bonds.—The date of issue on the face of the bond is referred to in this column.
Miles of Road.—Opposite Stocks, this means the miles of road
operated, on which the earnings are

frequently occur, viz.: M. for
“Branch,” guar, for “guaranteed,”

based; opposite bonds, the miles covered

by the mortgage.

Size or Par Value.—These figures are dollars,
showing the denominations or par value. The figures “ 100, &c.,” signify $100 and larger.
Rate Per Cent.—The interest per annum is given for bonds, but the
per cent of last dividend for stocks; g means gold; x,
extra; s, stock or scrip.
When Payable.—J. A J. stands for Jan. & July; F. A A., Feb. A

Aug.; M. & 8., March A Sept.; A.
D., June A Dec.; Q.—J., quarterly from January; Q.—F.,.quarterly from Feb.; Q.—M., quarterly from & O., April & Oct.; M. & N., May & Nov.; J. A
March.
Ronds, principal when due; Stocks, last dividend— The date in this column shows the period when the
principal falls due of bonds, but the time
when the last dividend was paid on stocks.
.

Subscribers will confer

great favor

a

DESCRIPTION.
For

explanations

sec

Date of
Bonds.

notes above.

Arkansas— Funding bonds of 1869 aud 1870...
Funding Bonds 1870 (Holford)
Levee bonds (or warrants)
Old unfunded debt, including interest
Ten year b’ds, Act May29.’74
Secured sinking fund bonds (Act. Dec., 1874
To Memphis & Little Rock Railroad
To Little Rock A Fort Smith Railroad
To Little Roek, Pine Bluffs & N. Orleans RR..
To Miss., Ouachita A Red River Railroad
To Arkansas Central Railroad
State scrip

California—Soldiers’ relief
capital bonds

bonds, 20

1876
1876
1876
1874
1869 to ’70
1870
1871
1838 to ’39
1874
1875
1869
1870
1870
1870
1870
1863

1863

year

>

do
not taxable. 20 year.. )
New bonds, coupon, 10-20 year

or

par

$100Ac,
100 Ac.
100 Ac.

Coupon
or

regist’d.

Disttof Columbia— Perm’t imp’t, gold, coup—
Permanent improvement bonds, coupon..
Bds for fund’g (Act June 10, ’79) coup, or reg.

1,000
1,000
100 Ac.
.....

.

.

.

.

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
....

500 Ac.
....

1873
500 &c.
1863
1*000
1864
1,000
1865
100 &c.
1877
1,000
1872
500 Ac.
1873
1879
1874
50 <fec.
1872
50 &c.
1871 to ’73
1,000
1872
100 &c.
1871
1873
1,000
1870
1.000
....

....

Fund, b’ds (U.S. guar., Acts June,’74 A Feb.,’75)
Market house bonds, coupon
Water stock bonds, coupon
Wash, fund’g, gld,($660,000 are M. AN.,1902).
Florida—State bonds
Consolidated gold bonds ($300,000 are 7s)....
Loan to Jacksonville, Pensacola A Mobile RR.
Georgia— Atlantic & Gulf Railroad bonds
1858 to’66
500
1866
Bonds, act of Mar. 12, ’66 (renewal W. & A.)..
500 Ac.
....

.

Quarterly gold bonds, act of Sept. 15, 1870..
Bonds, act of Jan. 18, ’72
Bonds for funding (Act Feb. 19, ’73)

u

Bonds to fund coupons on endorsed bonds...
Bonds exchanged for endorsed RR. bonds—
New funding bonds, small.
*
Illinois— Refunded stock bonds
Normal University bonds
Thornton loan bonds
War bonds

Indiana—Bonds, short loan.
Bonds, coupon, (payable after April I, 1884).
School fund bonds (non-negotiable)
Iowa—War and defense bonds
Kansas— Bonds, 1861 to ’69, funding,
Bonds for various State purposes

Military loan
Louisiana—Bonds for relief of State Treasury

1870
1872
1873
1876

1877
1879
1847

1876
1879

.

Bonds in aid of various railroads
Levee bonds—Act 35 of 1865
do
Act 115 of 1867
do
special—Act 32 of 1370
Bonds funding coupons
to Boeuf A Crocodile Navigation Co...
do
do
issued to State Penitentiary

1853
1866
1867
1870
1866
1870
1869

notice of any error discovered In these

Amount

$6,358,600
535,000

593,000

Rate.

2 Ac.
5
2 Ac.

When

J.
J.
J.

A J.
A J.
A J.

8
6
6
7

J.

ation, 10 mills.

The State is in default for interest,
per cents of 1cj74 and secured
sinking fund bonds, issued under the law of Decem¬
ber, 1874. Assessed valuation of taxable property,
$94,095,243. (V. 25, p. 101; V. 27, p. 15, 40; V. 28, p.

except

on

the ten

171, 276.)

California.—The State holds intrust for School
and

University funds the $500,000 Capitol bonds

and $2,204,000

of bonds 1873.

Total valuation of

property, 1876 and 1877, was as follows: Real estate,
$418,840,023 in 1877, against $454,990,351 in 1876;
personal property, $199,243,292 in 1877, against
^ 139,317,695
in 1876-total, $618,083,315 in 1877,




July 1,1906
July 1. 1906
July 1.1906

July 1,1884

800,000
3,600,000
2,097,000

250&C.

300,000

1,000
1,000

542.000

500 Ac.

1,000
1,000

....

....

....

100 Ac.
100 Ac.
....

307,500
2,298,000
500,000
357,442
23,000
36,000
142,300
200,000
510,000
3,904,783
300,000
101,175
739,000
289,000

500

63,500

1,000
1,000

284,000

1,000
500
100 Ac.

1,000
1,000

6,

3,995,000

923,100

57,000
112,000
49,000
49,500
80,000

12,000

J. A J.

do

1899
1900
1900

do
*

1,031,000

4,000,000

N. Y.. Union Trust Co.

10

1,350,000
1,353,120
95,500
500,000
2,801,000
877,000
1,318,500
1,741,100

350,000

Due.

Montgomery.

J.

c'

375,000
1,200,000
1,000,000
1,200,000
600,000

1.830,000

A

Principal—When

by

New York.
do
do

J. A J.

1,886,000
1,316,000
1,986,773
1,985,955
258,300

-

7
7
7
7
7
A
7
7
6
6
6
6
5
6
7
5

A
A
A
A
A
A

8

g.

J. A J.

g.

J. A J.
F. A A. N. Y., Fourth National B’k.
J. A J.
do
do
do
Q.—J.
do

g.

g.

A J.
A J.

do
do
do
Hartford. Treasury.
do
do
do
do
do
de
Wash, or N. Y.. U. S. Treas.
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
N. Y.. Importers’ A Tr. B’k.
do
do

A J.
A J.
& J.

A O.
A N.
A J.
A J.
A J.
A A.
A J.
A J.

A J.

r

A

[

A J.
A S.

Georgia.—The constitutional amendment in 1877
declared void several issues of bonds and railroad
endorsements.
The So. Ga. & Florida RR. has

$4(44,000 of bonds endorsed, but the Company pays
interest and the road is estimated to be nearly worth
the bonds, Assessed value of

property in 1878

S.

A J.

Florida.—Less the sinking f und of $130,700, and J.
P. and M. loan, the total debt is
$1,284,100, which
does not include $132,000 bonds of
1357, held by
Indian Trust Fund. Coupons of the consol, bonds
are receivable for taxes.
Real and personal prop¬
erty assessed in ’77 at $30,898,247; tax rate, 9 mills.
The Jacksonville Pensacola & Mobile RR. loan is
in litigation, and the State Supreme
Court has de¬
cided that the State is not bound for it. (V. 23, p.
576; V. 25, p. 212.)

was

April, 1900

do

J.
do
do
A. A O.
do
do
J. A J.
do
do
J. A J.
do
do
Jan.
State Treasury.
J. A J. N. Y., Am. Exchange Bank.
J. A J.
do
do
M. A S.
do
do
J. A J.
do
do
J. A D.
N. Y., Winslow, L. A Co.
A. A O.
do
do
Various
J. A J. New York. Kountze Bros.
N. Y., Am. Exeh. Nat. Bk.
July.
J. A J.
do
do
J. A J.
do
do
J. A J. $15,000 1
Various 119,000
Various
Amounts
not
M. A N.
fundable, per
M.
J.
J.
M.

1900
1900
1900

Sacramento, Treasury.

J. A

e

*1899*’

'*1883*

g.

g.
g.
g.

report of Jan. 1
1, 1878.

80,000

*

1884

J. New York, Latham, A. A Co.
0.
N. Y.. Union Trust Co.
0.
do
do
O.
do
do
0.
do
do
O.
do
do

J.
J.
J.
J.
J.
A.
M.
J.
J.
J.
F.
J.
J.
J.

3-65
7
7
6
7
7 A 6
8
6
7
7
7
8
7
6
4
6
6
6
6
6
5
6
7
6
7
7
6
G
8
6
8
G
8
7

J.
A.
A.
A.
A.
A.

Alabama.—The State gave 30-vear bonds, dated against $595,073,177 in 1876.
Tax rate for 1876-7,
July 1, 1876, bearing 2 per cent till 1881, then 3 per 72% cents per $100.
cent till 1886, 4 per cent till 1896, and 5 per cent for
Connecticut.—Tke debt of Connecticut was all
last 10 years, for old bonds, without any allowance
for past-due coupons. Ala. & Chat, endorsed bonds created originally for war purposes. Assessed value
of real and personal property, 1878,
are exchanged (for $1,000,000 of the new bonds,
$335,382,854;
class C, which bear 2 per cent till 1881 and 4 per rate of taxation, 1% mills. (V. 24, p. 387.)
cent for remaining 2» years).
For railroad endorse¬
District of Columbia,—The total assessed value
ments the bonds issued bear 5 per cent.
An
analysis of the debt and funding operations is in of taxable real estate in 1877 was $97,609,890; per¬
V. 24, p. 28.
There were $3,705,000 of railroad sonal property, $21,000,000. The interest on the 3-65
obligations unprovided for in the “adjustment.’’ bonds is provided for by Congress. See law of 1878,
Tax rate, 167o-9, 7 mills.
The assessed valuation V. 26, p. 599. There is due the sinking fund $256,211
of real estate and personalty is about $125,000,000.
per year.
(V. 26, p. 599; V. 27, p. 303; V. 28, p. 553,
578; V. 29, p. 17, 40, 95.)
(Y. 21, p. 28, 420; V. 27, p. 94; V. 28, p. 199.)
Arkansas.—The State Supreme Court has decided
Levee bonds of 1869 and 1870 invalid. Rate of tax¬

Where Payable and
Whom.

Payable

i;ooo,ooo

670,000
1,092,300
13,504,900
150,000
423,000

Tables.

INTEREST.

Outstanding

1,000
1,000

1,000
100 Ac.

1861
1861 to ’69
1861 to ’75
1864 to’65

Ac

SECURITIES.

2,810,670

....

1870 to ’72

Funded debt bonds of 1873
Connecticut— war bonds, 20 year— l
War

Size

Value.

Substitute b’ds for RR. (B) ($596,000)
do
for Ala. A Chatt. (C) ($1,000,000
Educational funded debt
Funded “ obligations ”

State

STATE

by giving immediate

•

1885
1893
Jan. 1, 1883
Jan. 1, 1884
Oct. 1, 1885

Mayl, 1897
July 1, 1891
July 1, 1891
„

July 1, 1899
Aug. 1, 1924
July 26, 1892

)ct. 1,1901 to ’0
1892 & 1902
Jan.

i, i903

1881 and 1886

May, 1886
Oct., 1890
July, 1892
April 1,
July 1,
Jan. 1,
Jan. 1,

1886
1896
1889
1885

At will.

Jan., 1880
Jan., 1880
Jan., 1880
Dec. 1, 1879
April 1, 1889

July

*3*,’

1831

1883 to ’84
1879 to ’99
1884 to ’99

July, 1893
1872 to 1906
1886

May 1,

1907

March 1,1875
1886 & ’88
Jan. 1, 1890

March 1,1909

follows: Lands, $36,255,473; city and town
prop¬
erty, $48,370,413; total, including persoral, $226,221,718, against $235,659,530 in 1877, $245,853,750 in 1876,
and $261,755,884 in 1875; rate of tax in
1878, five
mills. (V. 25, p. 138, 162; V. 27, p. 653; V. 28,
p. 17.)
as

Illinois.—The Illinois Central RR. charter tax
For 87- the total

earnings is about $300,OoO.

on
as¬

sessed value by local assessors was: Lads, $412,208,278; town and city lots, $177,567,098; personal
property, $151,629,963. (V. 24, p. 40.)

Indiana.—'There

are also $139,090 of 6
per cent
loan bonds.
There has been some
question as
to the State’s obligation to
pay the Wabash & Erie
Canal debt. Valuation, 1877, of all taxable
war

prop¬

erty, $855,190,125, against $864,720,440 in 1876 and
$897,739,783 in 1875. Tax rate, 1’3 mills. (V. 22,

p.

104, 209, 615.)

Kansas— Kansas has but a small State
debt, but
the issues of municipal bonds amount to
$13,000,000.
The valuations in 1879 were: Real
estate,

$101,103,127; personal, $27,334,715; railroads, $16,165,829—
total, $143,930,279, against $133,698,801 in .878, and
$136,019,113 in 1877.
Tax rate, 5% mills for
State purposes.
State funds hold $713,7i0 of the
bonds. (Y. 24, p.40.)

Louisiana.—The Constitutional Convention in
May and June, 1879. discussed the debt question.
New bonds
Railroad in

were

voted for New Orleans A Pacinc

1878,

and their validitj' is affirmed

September

STATE

27, 1879.J

Subscribers will confer a great favor

Size

outstanding.

S.
explanation see notes on first page of tables.

Value.

Louisiana— ( Continued)—
Bonds to fund floating debt of State
do
to Mississippi & Mexican Gulf Canal.
do
do
do
to N. Orleans, Mobile & Chatt. RR.
to N. Orleans, Mobilp & Texas RR..
do

1870
1869
1869
1857
1870
1871

$1,000

1,000
100 &c

1878

\ Coup.

Maine—YVar loan bonds.

Bounty loan bonds
do

do
Municipal war

debt assumed

1863
1864
1868

—

Railroad

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal
Susquehanna Railroad
Annapolis & Elkridge Railroad
Defense Bounty Loan
Deaf and Dumb Asylum Loan
Maryland Hospital Loan, 10-15 years
Maryland State Loan
1
Treasury relief loan, 10-15 years
Massachusetts—Back Bay Lands Loan

.

.

.

Coast Defense Loan

Bounty Fund Loan
Bounty Fund Loan
do

500 &c.
100 &c.
•

m

sterling.

sterling
Troy & Greenfield Railroad loan, sterling...

do
do
home
do
do
sterling...
do
do
sterling...
do
do
dollar bone
do
do
do
Southern Vermont Railroad Loan

.

.

....

,

Boston, Hartford & Erie Railroad, sterling.
Harbor Land Improvement (5-20s)
Danvers Lunatic Hospital

s

.

.

Lunatic Hospital, Worcester
New State Prisons, sterling

-

„

1872
1873

Municipal war loan
State bonds
Loan of 1879
New Jersey—War

taxable
Under Art. 7, Sec. 3, of

Con-<
stitution, and Art. 7, Sec. 12.s

by the Supreme Court, but the Governor declined

sign them and was sustained by the courts.
Constitutional provision of 1879, see V. 29, p. 98.
Interest of .Ian. 1, 18.9, w*b paid, one-half cash and
one-haif scrip.
The assessed value of property
in 1879 is $177/00,1)00; personal property, *31,361,to

State tax rate,

11 mills.

The interest tax is

5% mills, which the auditor estimates will produce
$730,1*25 in 1819. In 1878 (fever year) collections for
interest were $536,762. There Is overdue interest of
the years 187t to 1878 inclusive, $S93,604. (V. 27, p.
41, 122, 200, 303, 677; V. 28, p. 18, 42, 173, 224, 526,
553, 624, 641; V. 29, p. 18, 06, 277.)
Maine.—The sinking funds ($1,032,995), January,
1879, reduce the total debt to a net amount of

$4,815,905.
Valuation of total taxables in 1875,
$255,000,000; tax rate in 1877, 3 mills. For 1878,
treasurer advises 3% mills.
(V. 28, p. 42.)

Maryland.—The assessed valuation of property in
1877 was $478,168,028; in 1878, $464,425,790, on
which the rate of taxation is 18% cents per $100.
The State has larsrely assisted canals and railroads,
and holds $4,735,821’ of stocks and bonds ranked

productive, leaving $6,037,088 of debt without
any offset; the State also holds $23,762,430 in un¬
productive securities. (V. 28, p. 42.)
as

Massachusetts.—All interest on the funded debt of
Massachusetts is paid in coin.
The credit of
the State stands high in London and at home.
During 1878 the funded debt was reduced
$200,000.
The sinking funds m Jan., 1879, were

$11,263,599.

The Hoosac tunnel and connections
about $18,854,024, including interest
paid. Real estate assessed m May, 1878, *1,118,557,164, against $1,191,533,169 in 1877; personal,
including bank shares, $476,667,106 in 1878, against
$505,784,594 in 1877. Savings Bank deposits Nov. 1,
.1878, $210,461,396; Nov. 1, 1877, $243.972,i25. The
cost the State

loan to Boston Hartford & Erie Railroad was
secured by deposit of $3,600,000 “Berdell” mort¬

bonds, afterwards exchanged for N. Y. & N.E.
sinking fund of $1,084,578 Jan.
1, 1879. (V. 26, p. 40, 523.)
J

gage




1,000
1,000
100 &c.
100 &c.

1,000

1861
1863

100 &c.
100 &c.
100 &c.

1864
1875
1872
1873
1873

1874

RR. stock, and had a

1,000
1,000

1879

loan bonds, tax free
War loan bonds, tax free

402.

mt

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

1873
1858
1865 to ’66
1868
1872
University and Lunatic Asylum bonds
1874
State Bank stock refunding
1854 to ’58
Bonds to North Missouri Railroad
1857 to ’59
Bonds to Cairo & Fulton Railroad
1859 to ’60
Bonds to Platte County Railroad
1854 to ’59
Bonds to Iron Mountain Railroad
1853 to ’59
Pacific Railroad of Missouri
1874
Funding bonds
1875-6-7
1857 to ’75
Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad
do
1874
do
renewal
1877
Nebraska—Bonds (act Feb. 14,1877) coupon...
1871
Nevada—State bonds
1872
-Territorial bonds
1864
New HampshircANfav loan, coupon bonds

<

•

....

1863
1865
1859
1869

War Bounty Bonds
Sainte Mane Canal bonds
Minnesota—State BuildingLoan.
State Building loan, coupon
Railroad Bonds (not recognized)
Missouin—State bonds, proper
Consolidated bonds

Canal debt,

m

•

1839
1868
1870 & ’74
1872 & ’76 100 Ac.
1872
1878
1861 to’62
500
1863
1,000
1863
1,000
1864
500 &c.
1864
£100 <fec
1869
£200
1858 to’61 £200 &c*
1861 to’63 500 &c.
1871
200 &c.
1875
£500
1873 to ’74
1,000
1875
1,000
1860
5,000
1868 to ’69
£200
1874 & ’76
1,000
1874 & ’76
1,000
1875-’76
1,000
1875
£500

Michigan—Two Million Loan

do

•

691,291

500,000
220,000
888,000
200,000
4,379,500

.

War Loan,

do
New York—

m

1839

Baltimore &

do

m

1,000

1838
Various.
1839
1837
1870

.

-

m

500 &c.

1838

g

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, sterling
Railroads and canals
Eastern Shore Railroad
Baltimore & Susquehanna

m

1863

\ or
f regisj tered.

260,000
10,000
48,000
70,000
2,500,000
875,000
11,777,100
(?)
385,000
307,000
2,330,000
2,826,900
2,010,000
2,502,555
155,615
31,069
269,000
528,355
,298,435
62,605
3,326,750
225,000
465,000

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

1869
1874

B

Consolidated funded bonds.

.

4,000,744
999,944
5,506,952
1,366,500
3,598,450
1,497,980
670,000
1,300,000
200,000
3,599,024
700,000
1,350,000
1,100,000
1,292,280
591,000
299,000
46,000
50,000
250,000

2,275,000
*

439,000
2,727,000
401,000
104,000
1,693,000
267,000
504,000

1,361,000
2,971,000
1,000,000
4,350,000
1,518,000
1,482,000
549,267
160,000

380,000
600,000
2,206,100
200,000

300,000
600,000
900,900
595,400
473,000

1,562,900
®

rH

847,500

S.aa's

4,302,600
2,000,000

r-l

+2

INTEREST.
Rate.

When

Principal—When

Where payable and by
whom.

Payable

due.

6
M. & N.
$
1
7*30 M. & S.
'260,000 Amounts not
A. & O.
8
6
Various
48,000 ^ tundable, J
per
8
J. & J.
70,000 Jan.report of
1,18/8.
A. & O. 2,500,000
8
S
875,000
J. & J.
N. Y„ Winslow, L. & Co.
7

$6,000

liOOO

discovered In these Tables.

error

Amount

or

par

For

v

by giving immediate notice ot any

Date of

DESCRIPTION.

SECURITIES,

May, 1910
1899
1909
1897

_

•

•

m

m

-

-

•

m

•

6
6
6
6
5 g.
5 g.
5
5
3
6
6

6
6
6

6
g.
g.
g.
g.

gg.
g-

5 g.
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
6
7
6
7
7
7

g.
g.
gg.
g.
g.
ggg.
g.

6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6

8

9^ <fc 10
9*2
6
6
6
5
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6

J.
J.

g.
g.
g.
g.
g.

S.
A.
D.
0.
J.
& J.

Boston, Suffolk Bank.
do
do

March 1, 1883

do
do

Aug. 15, 1880
June 1,1889
Oct. 1,1889

Augusta and Boston.
London, Baring Bros.
do

1890
1890

do

Baltimore, State Agency.

Q.-J.

do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do

Quart’y
J.

& J.

Q.-J.
& O.
& J.
& J.

& J.

New

1880 & 1890

do
do
do

1890
1890
1885

do

1890

do
do
do
do

1890
1883
1885 & ’89

1887 & 1891
1887
1888 to 1893

do

J. & J.
do
M. &N.
Boston, Treasury.
J. & J.
do
do
J. & J.
do
do
M. & N.
do
do
M. & N.
London, Baring Bros.
J. & J.
do
do
A. & O.
do
do
A. & 0.
Boston, Treasury.
J. & J.
London, Baring Bros.
J. & J.
do
do
J. & J.
Boston, Treasury.
J. & J.
do
do
A. & O.
do
do
J. & J.
London, Baring Bros.
J. & J.
Bostoa, Treasury.
Various
Boston, Treasury.
Various
do
do
J. & J.
London, McCalmonts.
J. & J. N. Y., Am. Exchange Bank.
M. & N.
do
do
J. & J.
do
do
J. & J.
St. Paul, Treasury.
do
J. & J.
do
J. & D.
J. & J. N. Y., Bank of Commerce.
do
J. & J.
do
J. & J.
do
do
do
J. & J.
do
J. & J.
do
do
do
J. <fc J.
do
do
J. .& J.
do
do
J. & J.
do
do
J. & J.
do
J. & J.
do
do
J. & J.
do
do
N. Y., B’k N. America.
T. & J.
do
J. & J.
do
A. & 0.
State Treasury.
Various
State Treasury.
do
M. & 8.
M. & S.
Concord or Boston.
do
do
J. & J.
do
do
J. & J.
J. & J. Bost.jNat.Bk.Commonw’lth
J. & J. Trenton and Jersey City.
do
J. & J.
do
do
J. & J.
do
N. Y., Manhattan Bank.
,T. & J.
do
T. <fc J.
do
do
do
J. & J.
do
J. & J.
do
do
A. & O.
do

Michigan.—The debt has been largely diminished

i914

Jan.,

m

&
&
&
&
&

A. & 0.

A.
J.
J.
J.

6
6

5
5
5
5
5
5
5

M.
F.
J.
A.

July 1,1910
April, 1911

Jersey.—The debt

was

May
July
July
May
May
July

1,
1,
1,
1,

1880

1883
1883
1894

1, 1894

1, 1889
Oct., 1888 to ’90

April, 1891 & ’93
July, 1891
Jan. 1, 1895
1893 <fe ’94

July 1, 1895
April 1, 1890
July 1,1900
Sept. 1, 1894-96
Jan. 1, 1895
Jan. 1, 1883

May, 1890
July, 1879
July 1,1879
July 1, 1883
Dec., 1887
1883
1888

July, 1892

April 1, 1894
1879
1879
1889
1879

to
to
to
to

’88
’89
’90
’89

1879 to ’87

July, 1894
1895-6-7
1887 to ’95
1894-5-6

April 1, 1897
1881 and ’82

March, 1887
ept., 1884 & ’89
Jan., ’92 to 1905
July 1, 1880
J lly 1, ’89-’90-’91
Jan., 1880 to ’84
Jan., 1886 to ’96
Jan.,’97 to 1902
Oct., 1893
July, 1887
Jan. 1,1883
July 1, 1891
Oct. 1, 1892

created for

war dui-

in the last few years.
Assessed valuation of real
and personal property, 1877, $610,000,000. and tax
rate 2 i mills.
Surplus revenue is applied to pur¬
chase of bonds.

poses, and is provided for by sinking funds,
which amounted Jan. 1, 1379, to $1,458,852.
Of the
first
two classes of bonds the principal is pay¬
able $100,001 per year. In 1878 total valuation of

Minnesota.—All the State bonds are now held by
the permanent school fund. Minnesota has refused
to recognize the “State Railroad bonds” of 1858
to the amount of $2,275,000.
A proposed compro¬
mise with the holders was defeated by a large major¬

property was $531,851,849. Valuation of real property
in 1877. $419,729,490; personal $123,838,381; total,
$566,250,697, against $596,834,707 in 1576. and$il2,731,094 in 1875. State tax, 3% mills. (V. *<8, p. 58.)

ity in 1817. Taxable property, 1S75, $213,855,743. of
which $45,162,467 was personal; in 1876, $218,850,744,
of which $45,302,485 was personal; in 1877, $220,925,638. of which $45,141,659 was personal. State tax,
2 mills; tax for all purposes iu counties averages
17% mills. (V. 22, p. 63, 567; V. 24, p. 40, 170,
227.)
Missouri.—The valuation of all real and personal
property in 1378 was $628,329,412, of which $433,663 920 was real and $173,543,091 personal. Rail¬
roads and bridges were assessed
separately at $26,122.201; the gross valuation exclusive of railrosds
and bridges is $509.824,4 ;3. The tax rate is 40c. per
$100. In 1877and 1878 bonds maturing were met by
sale of renewal bonds and by sinking fund. The
Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad provides for its own
debt. (V. 27, p.-200, 409.)
Nebraska—Of these the State school fund holds

$426,267. There are also $50.00) 10 per cent “Grass¬
hopper” bonds of 1875, due Mar. 1, 1885, interest
paid J. & J. Real estate in 1877 assessed at $37,975,987; personal at $33,335,591; tax rate, 6% mills.
(V. 24, p. 204.)
Nevada.—The debt of Nevada is hardly more than
nominal, as the bonds are principally held in State

funds.

New Hampshire.—The debt of New Hampshire

created for war purposes, and is being gradually
reduced. The Municipal loan of 1872 was issued to
cities and towns, the proceeds to be applied to their
war debts.
Total valuation in 18'«9, $169,95 ,517.
Tax rate, $2 per $1,000.
(V. 29, p. 171.)
was

New York.—The following were valuations

tax rate

for State purposes

1865, and from 1871 to 1878
r\r\l

Year.
1859....
1865...,
1871....
n

T>

Real Estate.

n

,.

$1,097,564,524
1,158,327,371

^

and
in the years 1859 and

:
D/svn

Personal.

$307,349,155

^

am

State tax.

2%

,

4 53-80
392,552,314
5 79-120
1,599,930,166
452,607,732
1872....
1,644,379,410
447,248,035
9',
1873....
6 95-100
1,692,523,071
437,102,315
1874....
1,750,698,918
418,608,955
7%
1875....
6
1,960,352,703
407,427,399
1876....
3 11-24
2,108,325,872
357,941,401
1877....
3 1-6
2,376,252,178
379,4^8,140
1878....
2 9-10
2,373,418,490
364,969,110
The
general fund debt was paid in July, 1878,
and the canal debt only, of abouc $9,000,0;O. now
remains. Town,county, and city debts estimated by
State Comptroller at $259,0;0,000.
(V. 24, p. 17, 49;
V. 26, p. 18, 117; V. 28, p. 42.)
Noi'th Carolina.—Total property was assessed in
1876-7 at $148,564,557; 1875, $152,546,023: 1874, $139,953,361; 1873, $143,723,813. Tax rate 1878, 38 cents
on $100. Interest is paid on bonds issued to N. Car.
RR.($2,800,000), as the State holds $3,000,200 stock
.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

and receives dividends thereon.
Other interest in
default. A funding bill passed the Legislature Feb.

1879, which provides for funding old ante-war bonds
lace value ; “ New” raim.-ad
bonds recognized as valid at 25 per cent; funding
bonds of I860 and 1863 at 15 per cent. All over¬
due coupons are t be surrendered ; h* j ew bonds
run 3 > years, an* bear 4 per cent interes ; cou. ons
are receivable
for taves, the first coupon of 2
per cent being payable January, 1881.
Special
at 40 per cent of the

STATE

VI

Subscribers will confer

a

explanations see notes

on

Date of

do

Size

Value.

1879

$50 Ac

...

do
do
South Carolina—State stock
State House stock
do
bonds

1,000
1,000
100 &e.
100 Ac.

Flue Ridge Railroad bonds

Dec., 1873
1873
1873

m

m

Funding Bonds, 10-40s

tax bonds are ignored, and also bonds t) Chatham
RR. 1F6S. $1,020 i CO, and to Wilmington & Tarboro RR *.$15 ,000, and for Penitentiary under acts
of 1868. (\. 24, p. 17, 226; V. 27, p. 678; Y. 28, p.

69, 200, 327.)

small State debt, but

large local debts, amounting in 1578 to $41,295.840, against $3.1,328,5 9 in 1677. and $36,059,978 in
1877

Real estate in

were:

cities, Ac., $378,443,113; other, $706,347,619; per¬
sonalty, $490,5^4,810. Total taxes levied in 1877
$4,541,235 for state purposes, 2 9 mills, and $22,975,512 on all local taxes. (V. 21, p. 17; V. 28, p. 69.)
Oregon—The debt is provided for by sinking
funds, payable from land sales. Taxable property
in 1875 was assessed at $41,197,149;
mill tax
was

laid for Relief bonds and

1 mill for

bonds.

Pennsylvania—The

new 5 per cent

Bounty

loan of $8,000,-

000 was sold to take up maturing bonds.
Total
debt
November 30, 1878, $21,584 200;
sinking
fund, $8,504,899.
No tax is laid for State
purposes on real estate, and revenue is raised

principally from
on

at

corporations. Taxes are levied
personal property, which was assessed in 1877

|i59,318,817,

and the tax

1,000
1,000
1,000

....

.

in

1,000

....

m

Valuations

50 Ac.
50 Ac.
50 Ac.

....

Tennessee—New funding bonds, act of 1873
1874
Bonds regist’d, act of 1873,($292,300 are 5s).
Various.
Held by E.T. University (not to be funded)...
Texas—Funding State debt (act May 2,1871)..
1872
Frontier def’se,gold,act Aug.5,’70(red’ble ’91)
1871
Revenue deficiency bonds, act Dec. 2, 1871..
1872
Bonds, act Mar.,1874 (for paying float’gdebt)
1874
Yet’n Pension bonds, act Apl.,’74, (red’ble’79)
1874
Redemption of debt, act Aug. 6, ’76
1876
Vermont— War loan bonds, registered
1862
Virginia—Old bonds, 23 fundable, coupon
1851 to ’66
Old bonds, 23 fundable, registered
1851 to ’66
do
sterling, not required to be funded
1851
Consol.) Act Mar. ’71) coup, tax receivable
1871
do
do
reg., conv. into coup...
1871
do
(Act 1872) “ Peeler,” cp. not rec’ble
1872
do
do
reg.,
do
1872
Deferred certificates (W. Ya.)
1871
Interest on sterling debt, funded (Act 1871)..
1871
Interest unpaid Sept. 30, ’78, on debt proper.

very

1,000
1,000

1868
500,Ac.
1869
500,Ac.
1869 to ’70 500,Ac.
1838
1838
1869

Conversion bonds and stock
Land commission bonds
Fire loan bonds, sterling
do
stock, domestic
Bonds—Relief State Treasury
Reduction of Public Debt stock
Consolidated bonds, coup. (Funding act)
do
stock (Funding act)
Railroad endorsements

a

100 Ac.
100 &C.
100 Ac.

1864
1794
Various
1836 to ’61 Various
1853 to’54
1,000
1866
50,Ac
1854
1,000
1868
1,000
1868
1,000

unding bills receivable
Payment of interest
Funding bank bills

Ohio.—Ohio has

....

1863

Funding bonds and stock

1876.

6
6
6
6

....

1870
1877
1879
1879
1852
1852
1867
1867
1867
1872
1862
1863

Rhode Island—War bonds
War bonds

New

1,469,000
2,231,000
1,657,600
383,045
44,000

100 Ac
100 Ac

....

do

!!)

6

1860
1856

Coupon loan (except $53,000 reg.), April 2...

1;

1,890,000

1868

Loan

4;

4
6
6

war

April 2
Stock loan of Fel). 2 (registered)
do
do
(registered)
do
do
(registered)
Agricultural College land scrip

was

$574,817.

State

expenses have lately exceeded revenue, and sinking
funds have been diverted to meet the deficiency.

The State holds $1,754,331 in stocks and $7,900,000
of railroad
bonds.
Any coupon bonds may
be changed to registered. The bonds due in 1877
are payable at any time till 1882; those of 1882 till
1892.
(V. 26, p. IS; V. 27, p. 149, 229; V. 28, p. 43,
146. 600; V. 29, p. 193.)
-Rhode Island— The debt was all created for war
purposes and is being steadily diminished.
The
raluation of real property in 1876 was $185,159,848,
and personal, $86,89;,928, and tax rate 15 cents on

$160.
South Carolina.—The funding law approved Dec.
$2, 1873, provided for scaling down the old debt by
giving new bonds to the extent of 50 per cent, and

Rate.

$4,738,800
3,639,400

1866
1868
1867

war

do

bonds
Willamette Canal and Lock

n

outstanding.

1,000
1,000

......

Oregon—Bounty bonds

'

INTEREST.

Amount

500 &c
500 &c

Registered certificates of literary fund
Penitentiary bonds, act Aug. 24, 1868
Special tax bonds
Ohio—Register’d loan, payable after June, 188 L
Registered loan, payable after Juno, 1886...
Modoc

or

par

first page of tables
6

Railroad and improvement bonds, old
Railroad and improvement bonds, old
RR. and improv’t bonds, new (not special tai >
do
do
do
do

Funding bonds, since

[Vol. XXIX.

great favor by giving Immediate notice of any error discovered In these Tables.

DESCRIPTION.
For

SECURITIES,

....

Various
Various

1,000
1,000

1,000

•

....

1,000
1,000
1,000
100

1,000
500,Ac.
500Ac }
Vari’s 5
£100 Ac

100,Ac.
100,Ac.

100,Ac.
100,Ac.
Various
Various

.::::

(?)

2,400,000
26,500
130,991
160,000

8,000,000

5

41-2

2,000,000

5

J.
J.
J.
J.
J.
F.
F.

A

J
J
New York.
A 0
do
A J
do
A 0
do
A J
do
A O
do
A J.
Raleigh, Treasury.
A O.
New York.
A O.
do
A J. N. Y., American Exch. B’k.
A J.
do
do
A J.
State Treasury.
A J,
do
do
A J.
do
do
A A. Phila., Farm. A Meek. B’k.
A A.
do
do
do
do
A J.
do
do
A J.
do
do
A A.
do
do
A A.
do
do
A A.
do
do

723,950
500,000
975,000
200,000
631,000
738,000
17,411
289,172
192,000
238,933
469,000
72,000

149,000
242,350
451,000
13,000
481,944
151,780
7,000

241,257
4,023,000
149,254
4,797,608
4,867,000
14,957,300
397,000
75,000
697,000
500,000
1,000,000
1,153,974
1,564,000
137,000

6
5 A
6
6
7
7
7
10
6
6

6

f

6

l

2,331,250
18,582,900

5
6
6
6
6
6

1,641,615
2,359,500
923,646
mm

«

•

-

J.

6

g.
g.
g.
g.

A J. N. Y., Fourth Nat. Bank.
A J.
do
do
A J. N. Y., Fourth Nat. Bank.
Various
State Treasury. .
M. A S. N.Y., Donnell,La wsonA Co.
J. A J.
do
do
J. A J.
do
do
J. A J.
State Treasury.
J. A J. New York A State Treasury.
J. A D.
Montpelier, Treasury.
J. A J.
New York.
J. A J.
Richmond, Treasury.
J. A J.
London, Baring B. A*Co.
J. A J.
Richmond, Treasury.
J. A J.
do
J. A J.
do
J. A J.
do
J. A J.
J. A J.
London, Baring B. A C.o.
J.
J.

Indefinite.

Oct., 1898
1698 to ’99

July, 1881
Jan., 1887
,

1884
1880
1880'

Feb. 1,1902

Aug. 1, 1904
July, 1882
July. 1882
Feb., 1877-1882
Feb., 1882-1892

Feb., 1882-1892
1922

Sept. 1, 1882
April 1,1883

July 1, 1893
Aug. 1, 1894
At pleasure.
1877 to ’86
1871 to ’80

•July 1, 1888
July 1,1888
July 1, 1889

July 1,1882

July‘i, 1868
July 1,1868
1888

July i, i893
July 1,1893
July 1, 1914
1875 to 1900

Various.
1891
1911
1892

March 1,1904
1894'

July, 1906
Dec. 1, 1890
1886 to ’95
At pleasure
1886
1905
1905

Contingent

....

properly issued

was

Jan., 1900
Oct., 1898

•

appointed in 1877, and reported January, 1878
(V. 26, p. 143), rejecting certain numbers of the

bondholders

1909
1868 to ’98
1868 to ’98
1868 to’98
1868 to ’98

A

declared void the conversion bonds to the amount
of $5,965,000. A committee to
investigate bonds
and ascertain what consols were

consolidated bonds.

Due.

...

9,251,850

was

Principal—When
pal—1

Where Payable and by
Whom.

4 "
5 g- J.
4 !gg. J.
5
F.
6
F.
F.
5
6
Harrisburg Treasury.
6
M. A S. Providence, R. I. H. A T. Co.
6
A. A O.
do
do
6
J. A J.
do
do
F. A A.
6
do
do
3 gQ.-J. Columbia, State Treasury.
6 g- J. A J.
do
do
J. A J.
6
do
do
6 g. J. A J. Columbia and New York.
6 g. J. A J.
Columbia, Treasury.
6 g. A. A O. Columbia and New York.
6 g. A. A O.
do '
do
6 g- J. A J.
do
do
6 g. J. A J.
do
do
6 g- J. A J.
do
do
5 gLondon.
Q.-J.
6 g.
Q.-J.
Columbia.
J. A J. Columbia A Fis.
7
Agen. N.Y.
J. A J.
6
J. A J.
6
New York or Columbia.
J. A J.
6
do
do

395,000
87,000
90,400

15,239,370
212,833
4,640,990
(V

A.

7
7

2,000,000

6,139,943

A.
J.
A.
J.
A.
J.
A.

6
-6
6
7

4,072,640

Payable
J.
J.

6

11,366,000

When

A court of

claims to hear the
appointed, and in December a re¬

Poll tax
Miles of RR. in the State ass’d for taxes...
Value of railroads, &c
55,950,038 acres of land assessed at
Value of lots assessed in the State

(V. 23, p. 452; V. 24,

p.

535; V. 25, p.

$211,034
1,493

$16,577,503

110,288,629
45,674,101
115.)

port. was made, of which the purport is expressed

in Chronicle, V. 28, p. 18.
Total valuation of all
property—in 1878, real estate, $83,270,998; personal.
$32,836,-64; railroad property, $6,520,772; the total
for 1876-9, including counties not embraced in ab¬
stract, is put at $132,237,956. Rate of taxation, 4%
mills. (V. 26, p. 68, 143, 232, 257, 420, 463; V. 27, p.
141, 165; V. 28, p. 18, 378, 402.)

Tennessee—New

Vermont— This State has a very small debt—all
war purposes.
Of the registered bonds
$135,500 are held for Agricultural College. The
created for

sinking fund, Aug. 1., 1876,

was

$135,932.

Virginia—The law of April, 1879, for re-funding
given in Chronicle, Vol. 28, p. 353.
The
the debt, is

funding law is given in Vol. 28,
Funding act of 1871 provided tba4: coupons
The total debt Jan., 1879, was $20,221,300 in of the funded bonds should be
receivable
outstanding bonds, and $4,156,522 in overdue int.: State taxes. For two-thirds of the old bonds a for
new
there were also $416 000 bonds yet to be renewed and bond was
issued, and for the other
a deferred
$373,000 yet to be registered. The State’s endorse¬ certificate given (as the
proportion due by West
ments for railroads are $1,308,000, which is taken care
Virginia). The act of 1872 amended that of 1871
of by the roads. Total valuations in 1878
$223,303,- by not allowing coupons to be received for taxes.
305, of which $192,340.8)5 was lands and “town The report of W. F.
Taylor, Auditor, estimat¬
lots,” and $20,871,338 “other taxables.” The total ing the revenue for ihe year
1878-9, takes the real es¬
was $236,000,000 in 1877, $278,020,534 in
1876, and tate assessment for 1877, which is $3,688,(.90
greater
$288,038,583 in 1875. The rate of taxation was re¬ than that of 1878. and estimates the
assessed
duced from 40 cents on the $100 to 10 cents by the value of
personal property at $2,194,069 more
Legislature, in March 1877. Tennessee bonds sold for 1878; and without including interest on than
the
in New York as “old,” are those issued before
1862; literary fund, he figures a deficit of $770,698.
“New,” issued since 1862; “New Series,” the new The annual interest on the
principal debt of $28.funding bonds. (V. 26, p. 68; V. 27, p. 42, 165, 599, 350,826, amounts to $1,742,865, of which
$1,215,678
678; V. 28, p. 44, 97, 174. 200, 277, 353, 429, 454, 526, was met for 1878 by the
receipt of the coupons toe
580; V. 29, p. 226, 272, 278.)
taxes, leaving a balance of
$527,187 unpaid, not
Texas.—For all bonds, except 10s of 1894, the including unpaid interest on the literary fund.
Assessed values in 1878 were: real
interest and 2 per cent of principal yearly are pro¬
estate, $242,702,vided for by special appropriations.
The valuation 503; personal, $73,984,368; total, $316,686,872; in
1877, $326,027,346; of real estate in 1276 was $242,of taxable property in 1878 was
$243,202,424,
against $257,632,Of,-0 in 1876. Tax rate, 50. From the 756,548, against $251,573,611 in 1873. Tax rate, 5
Comptroller’s report, for 1876, we have the follow¬ mills. A case involving the taxation of consols id
on appeal to the U. S.
Supreme Court. (V. 26, p.
ing statistics:
68, 135, 181, 209, 232, 342, 359, 384, 420, 524; V. 27,
Total value of taxable property assessed.
$257,632,009 p. 384, 599, 658; V. 28. p. 44, 70, 97, 121, 147, 174, 328,
State tax
1,288,249 353, 429; V. 29, p. 198.)
p.

353.

.

X ■




September 27,

CITY

1879.J

Subscriber** will confer

a

on

Date of
bonds.

first page of tables.

Albany. N. Y — Albany & Northern Railroad l’n
Relief of drafted men
Purchase Congress Hall Block
City improvement
Washington Park ($40,000 are 5s, due 1920)
.

New Post Ofiice site

High School
W

1854
1S64

18(56
1870-’71

1870-’78
1874
1875

*

Addit’nal supply ($406,000 due 1666^3 are 7s)
Western Avenue improvement bonds
Bonds loaned to Albany & Susquehanna RR..

Atlanta, Qa.—Bonds for streets, &e

"...

Bonds, A. L. Railroad and State House
Bonds for West. RR. and floating debt
Bonds, 1st and 2d series, waterworks

Redemption bonds

18^1 ife *52

1874-’77
1877

1877
1875

Public parks (Druid Hill)
Park improvement loan
Five million loan to Baltimore
Ohio RR....
One million loan to Pittsb. & Connellsville RR
New City HaU..
do
do
do
do
Consolidated loan
Court house loan

'

Various.
1879
Various.
1877
1878
1863
1865
18G0
1863
1853
1853

1868
1870
1874
1864

Funding loan

1870
1872
1872
1873
1874

Western Maryland Railroad
Jones’ Falls

Valley Railroad
Water loan

($263,000 only

are

6s)

Endorsements for Western Maryland RR
do

do

Bangor, Ale.—City
Municipal loan

or

par

$223,000
23,000
150,000
448,000
664,000
113,000
70,000
230,000
900,000

1,000
250 &c.
100 &c.
100 &e.
100 &c.
100 &c.
100 &c.
100 &c.
100 &c.
100 &c.
100 &c.
100 &c.
100 &c.
100 &c.
100 &c.
100 &o.
100 &c.
100 &e.
100 &c.
....

100 &c.
....

....

1858 to ’72 100 &o.
1874
1,000
Water loan bonds, coup. (Act Feb. 22, 1875).
1875
500 &c.
European & North American Railroad
1869
1,000
Bangor & Piscataquis Railroad
1S69
1,000
Bath,Me.—Fund, debt ($24,500are6s, ’87, J.&J.
Various.
Railroad loan
Various.
1861
Various.
Androscoggin Railroad..
:
Knox & Lincoln Railroad ($23,750 each
1869
Various.
year)
do
do
(F.&A. and M.&S).. 1871-’72 Various.
Boston— For city purposes, war debt, <fcc
1852 to ’64
1,000
For city purposes
1864 to ’77
1,000
do
(lo*
1878-V9
registered
Burnt district, sterling loan
1873
£100&c
Consolidated street improvem’t, sterling loan.
1869
£100&c
Roxbury debt, assumed
1860 to’64
1,000
Dorchester debt, assumed
1861 to’69 Various.
Gharlestown debt, assumed
1862 to ’73 500 &c.
Mystic water debt, assumed
'1862 to’76
1,000
Brighton debt, assumed
'1868 to’73 Various.
West Roxbury debt, assumed
Various.
Water loan, Chestnut Hill reservoir
1867 to ’71
1,000
do
renewal of loan due ’70-71, all reg.
1871
do
do
’72-73
1872
£100 &e
Water works, Roxbury, coupon and registered 1868 to ’70
1,000
do
Roxbury & Dorchester
1871 to ’74
1,000
do
Dorchester, all registered
1871
do
W. Roxbury & Brighton, all reg 1875 to’77
do
do
1876
reg....
Additional supply water
1872 to ’75
1,000
do
do
1878
registered
do
do
do
1878
Various purposes, for water works
1871 to ’74
1,000
Water loan bonds, gold, coupon or reg
1858-’7G
1,000
Public park and school buildings, registered..
1877-’78
Improved sewerage, registered
1877-’78
Improved sewerage bonds, coup, and reg
1878-’79
100 &c.
Brooklyn— Debt of Williamsburgh, local irnpr’t 1859 to ’61 1,000
...

....

....

....

....

....

^

....

....

•

1861

1857
1865
1867
1866
1865
1866
1867

Soldiers’ aid fund loan
Third street improvement loan, local
Gowauus canal improvement loan, local
Bushwick avenue
do
do
do
South Seventh street do
do
do
Union street
do
do
do

165,000

1,000,000
436,000
400,000

•

•

•

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

Rate.
6
6
6
7

5, 6 & 7
7
7
6
6 <fc7
6
6
8
7

418,000

8

430,000
77,000

7
8
10
7
6
6

52,000
2,033,000

....

Union Railroad
debt proper

Brooklyn local improvement loan
Mount Prospect Square loau

outstanding.

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

500 &c.

INTEREST.

Amount

$1,000

1865
’66-’67-’72 500 &c.
18G9-’70
1,000
1872 & ’ll 500 &c.
1874
1,000

do

Auqusta, Qa—Bonds for various purposes
New bonds (for $63,000)
Baltimore—Consolidated loan of 1890
Water loan, reg. stock, red. at will after 1916
Funding loan. reg. stock, tax free..
Consolidated bounty loan
Exempt bounty loan

Size

value.

.

stock

YU

great favor by giving immediate notice of any error discovered in these
Tables.

DESCRIPTION.
For explanations see notes

SECURITIES

7,306,546
5,000,000
1,000,000
2,211,068
410,353
555,566
185,723
5,000,000
1,000,000
1,000,000
1,000,000
500.000

943,161
85,900
800,000
1,000,000
755,900
1,015,300
2,779,700

1,375,000

\ 5
5
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5
5
6
6
6
6
5 &6

117,000
146,000
100,000

6
6
6
6

495,500
1,000,000

6
6

814,000
102,500

193,000
425,000
475,000
420,600
3,501,300

13,224,000
525,003
4,997,604
3,391,848
311,150

97,500
1,060,000
1,153,000
57,141
370,000
2,040,000
688,000
1,947,273
700,000
415,000
375,000
360,000
100,000
648,000
588,000
12,000

426,000
3,454,000
550,000
3 68,000

1,230,000
138,000
213,000
90,000
552,000
302,000
212,000
200,000

238,000
260,000

6 & 7
5 & 6
6
6
6
6
5 g.
6
4
5 g.
5 g*

5, 5^, 6
7
5 & 6
5 & 6

6ifl&7
61® & 7
6
6
5 g.

6
6
6

5 & 6
5 g-

6
4
5
6
5 &

4i#
5
4
6
7
6
7
6 & 7
7
7
7
7

When

M. &
J. &
F. &
M. &

N.
D.
A.
S.
Various
M. & N.
M. & N.

F.
F.
F.
M.
J.
J.
J.
J.
J.
M.

of Baltimore ends
now with December 31, instead of Oct. 31.
The
total of all the sinking funds,
January, 187:).
was $6,978,965.
Baltimore & Ohio RR. pays in
The
tereat on $5,000,000 loan: Water loan is paid
by in>
come of water works, and Public Park
by City Pas¬
senger R’y, and against a total debt of .f 31.968.29;,
the city has
959,098 productive assets, leav¬
ing $11,009,199, against which are held $4,841,612 of
unproductive assets. The basis of taxation is
$255,000,000. The amount required to be raised in
1879 is $2,959,633 by the
Register’s estimate.

Various
& D.

rate to cover fourteen months was in¬
creased in 1878 from $1 75 to $1 90 on Ihe
$100.
State taxes having been increased from
17i(rcents
to l8?i ci nts on the
$1(H\ the total was therefore n
creasfd <-f city *nd tatetaxes from $1
92^ In 1877
to $2 t-8!a
the

$109. Population in 1870




was

267,-

Sept. 1, 1885

Augusta.

J.

1879 to lV‘03

do

Q.-J. Balto., Farm. & Plan. Bank.
M. & N. Balto., N. Mechanics’Bank.
M.& N.
do
do
M. & S.
do
do
M. & S.
do
do
do
Q.—M.
do
do
Q.—J.
do

June 1, 1899

July 1, 1890
July 1,1916
After July, 1916
Sept. 1, 1893
Sept. 1, 1893
Sept. 1, 1890
Jan. 1,1895
Jan. 1, 1890
Jan. 1, 1886

Q.—J.

Balto., Farm. & Plan. Bank.
J. & J. Balto., N. Mechanics’Bank.
Q.-J. Balto., Farm. & Plan. Bank.
do
Q.—J.
do
do
Q.-J.
do
do
Q.—J,
do
Q.—J. Balto., N. Mechanics’ Bank.
Q.-J. Balto., Farm. & Plan. Bank.

July 1,1884

April 15, li900

March 7,1902
After 1885
At will.
_

July 1,1900

J.

& J. Balto., N. Mechanics’ Bank.
Jan. 1,1902
do
do
April 9, 1900
A. & O.
do
do
Oct. 31,1886
J. & J. Baltimore,Register’s Office.
July 1,1894
J. & J. Balto., N. Mechanics’ Bank. Jan. 1 ’90 &
1900
J. & J. Baltimore, Franklin Bank.
Jan. 1, 1895
Various Boston, Merchants N. B’k.
1879 to ’92
J. & J.
Boston or Bangor.
Jan. 1,1894
J. & J. Boston, Merch’ts’ Nat. B’k.
July 1, 1905
J. & J.
do
do
Jan. 1, 1894
A. & O.
do
do
April 1. 1899
M. & S
City Treasury.
1887 & 1898
Various
do
’83, ’85 & ’98
A. & O. City Treasury and Boston.
April 1, 1891
J. & J.
do
do
July 1,1880 to’99
Various
do
do
1891 & 1902
Various Boston, Treasurer’s Office
1880 to ’87
Various
do
do
1880 to ’97
Various
do
do
1887-89
A. & 0. London, Baring Brothers.
April, 1893
J. & J.
do
July, 1899
Various Boston, Treasurer’s Office
1879 to ’84
Various
do
do
1879 to’81
Various
do
do
1882 to ’93
Various
do
do
1881 to’94
Various
do
do
1880 to’81
Various
do
do
1880 to ’91
Various
do
do
1880 to 1901
A. & O.
do
do
April, 1901
A. & 0. London, Baring Brothers.
Oct., 1902
Various Boston, Treasurer’s Office.
1880 to’99 *
do
Various
do
1901 to 1903
J. & J.
do
do
Jan., 1901
Various
do
do
1905 to 1907
A. & O.
do
do
April, 1906
Various
do
do
1902 to 1905
A. & O.
do
do
1908
A. & O.
do
do
1908
Various
do
do
1901 to 1904
A. & O.
do
do
1905 & 1906
do
Various
do
June <fc Oct., 1887
A. & O.
do
do
Oct., 1897
J. & J.
do
(lo
Jan. 1, 1899
J. & J.
Brooklyn. ] -s*
(
1879 to ’81
M. & N.
do
1891
rri g
2m
C3
J. <fc J.
do
r*
1887
J. & J.
do
1885 to ’94
J. & J.
do
1881
J, & J.
do
1879 to 90
J. & J.
do
1879 to ’90
J. & J.
do
1879 to ’90
J. & J.
do
O
1879 to ’86
l

Q.-F.

year

The tax

New York.
May, 1879
do
Juiie, 1880 to ’84
Boston, Merchants’ Bank. Feb., 1885 to ’94
New York.
March, ’80 to 1900
do
1910-20
do
May 1,1904

do
May 1,1879 to’85
A.
do
Feb., 1881
A.
do
Feb. 1, 1893-1912
A.
do
Feb. 1,1883-4-5
N.
New York.
1895-’97
& J. Atlanta & N. Y. Park Bank.
1881, ’86 & ’92
& J.
do
do
J. & J., 1890
& J.
do
do
J. & J., 1902
& J.
do
do
Jan. I, 1904
& J.
do
do
Jan. 1, 1897
& 8.
do
do

mortgages on the Knox & Lincoln for its propor¬
tion of $895,000 out of a total of $2,395,000 bonds
issued by several cities in aid of the latter road.
Unexpended balances of appropriations and 3 per
cent on city debt are appropriated
annually to the
liquidation of the principal. Tax valuation, 1877,
$7,267,690; tax rate, $24 50 per $1,000.

Boston.—1The population of Boston in 1870 was
292,497, against 177,840 in 1860; in 1875 it was 341,919.
Valuation of real property in 1879, including the re¬

cent

Due.

whom.

&
&
&
&

Albany.—The loan to Albany & Susquehanna 354, against 212,418 in 1860. (V. 22, p. 589; V. 23,
p.
mortgage.
The valuation of 514; V. 24, p. 12; V. 25, p. 137, 334.)
city property in 18:8 was: Real estate, $32,5:.'4,0i0;
persona f, *1, 748,800, estimated to be about onethird of true value. City tax rate 1S79,
Bangor, Me.—The valuation of real and personal
2*84, against
3*20 last year.
property in 1879 is $9,078,445; rate of taxation, 2 14.
The loans to European & North American Rail¬
Atlanta.—The total bonded debt Jan. 1, 1879, was road and to Bangor & Piscataquis Railroad are
secured by first mortgages on those roads.
$1,815,500; floating debt, $382,415. Assessed value
of real estate in ls78, $12,230,000; personal
property,
$5,166,530. Tax rate for all purposes, £2 30 per
Bath, Me.—The city holds a first mortgage on
$110.
the Androscoggin road for the debt, and 2d and 3d

Baltimore.—The fiscal

Principal—When

payable and by

Payable

is secured by 1st

Augusta.—Of this debt, $600,000 was issued for
railroads, and balance for canal enlargement,
water works, &c. linking funds, Jan., 1819,
$73,500.
Taxable valuation: real estate,. $9,049,i55; personal,
$4,692,370; tax rate, $1 50 per $109. (V. 38, p. 17.)

Where

annexations, was $42J,786,700, against $440,836.300 in 1878; and Dersonal, $183,457,300, against
$l90,060,90u in 1876; upon which the rate of taxation
for 1879 is $12 50, against $12 80
per $1,000 in
1873.
The total funded debt April 30,
1879, was
The total valuation in 1819 is $612,$42,359,816.
253,600. The total valuation last year was $630,446,800. The decrease this year is $11,589,600 on
real estate and $6,603,600 on personal,
making a
total decrease of $18,193 2r0. The valuation of real
estate in 1875, when it was at its maximum, was
$558,769,500, and since then there has been a depre¬
dation of $129,000,000. The loss ompersonal since
1875 has been $51,000,000, making a total
depre¬

'

•

gT£
gS’g

ciation

in

real

and personal in four years of
The total tax levy is reduced from
$10,523,136 in 1875 and $7,879,150 in lfc78 to $7,492,Tnis tax is divided as follows: State.
510.
$2C6,370; county, $369,200; city, $6,916,"40. The rate on
is divided as follows: State. 20 cents;
$1,000
county, 46 cents; city, $1164. The total number

$181,514,300.

of

27,

polls is 89.'45v,✓a gain of 3,539.
p.

40; Y. 2?, p. 145.)

(V. 26,

p.

39; V.

Bivoklyn.—There are also $25,000 7 per cent
National Guard bonds due 1880-81. The whole
city
debt was as follows on December 1,1878 :
Permanent loans

$29,401,500

Sinking funds

4,781,978

Balance
Loans chargeable on specified
property
Tax certificates

$24,619,522
.

Total net debt

9,75n,000
3,100,000

$37,475,318

The uncollected taxes were $449,156 on
personalty
and $4,675,715 on real estate. The debt increased
in 1871 $781,623, m 1877
$659,382, and in 1878 $1,235,566Population in 1870, 396,200. against 266,n«] in
1860. Valuation of property and tax ratts
per $1,000
for five years have been:

Real.
1874...
1875....
1876....
1877..
.

1878....

$204,130,803

Personal.
$18,136,304

20?,904,750

16.287,125

213,134,543

13,88,580
13,111,215

34 27
32 54
81 10

14,969,911

27 02

Rate.

$ 6 50

CITY

Vlll

Subscribers will confer

great favor by giving: Immediate

a

DESCRIPTION.
For

SECURITIES.

Date of
Bonds.

explanations see notes on first page of tables

Size

or

notice of any

Value.

error

When 1

Rate.

avenue

do

do

do

do

1862

do

Prospect Park loan, registered and
Prospect Park loan

coupon

...

Permanent water loan
do

Sewerage fund bonds, continuous, local

do
do
S’tli B’klyn
Assessment fund bonds, continuous, local....
Central and Knickerbocker av. sewer bonds..
Boulevard bonds

Temporary tax certificates

Buffalo, N. Y.—Funded
Buffalo

debt bonds

$1,000

1867
1867
1870

do

New York Bridge loan, registered and coupon
Bonds for N. Y. & Brooklyn Bridge, cp. or reg.

do

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

1876-’79
1860
1860
1857
1872

to ’73
to ’72
to’72
to’75

1877-8-9
1877-8-9
1877-8-9
1870
1873
1876 to ’78

.

Charleston, S. C.—City stock
City bonds, coupon

Water loan

Sewerage bonds
*

ao

South Park loan (secured on South. Div.)
West Chicago Park (secured on West. Div.)...
Cook County debt
Cincinnati- Loans to Railroads. F, A, G,H,I& M
Bonds to 0.& M. RR. to purchase whf. prop.N
Bonds for erection of a Workhouse
Bonds for Water Works
C2&C3
Bonds for Common School purposes
P
Bonds to O. & M. RR. to purchase whf. prop. .N
Bonds for ext. ana impr. Water W..C, D. &E
Bonds for funding floating debt
A2
Bonds for new Hospital
S&S2
Bonds for funding floating debt
L
Extension and improve. Water Works.. .K &F
Bonds to purchase Orp’n Asyl. grds. for park.O
Bonds for sewerage
R
Bonds for improving Gilbert avenue
U
Bonds to build Eggleston avenue sewer... .B3
Bonds for improvement
W
Bonds for Water Work purposes
C4&C5
General improvement
W2
Cincinnati Southern RR

($3,142,000

1869

1869
1871
1871-’72
1871
1872-’74

are

gold 6s)

1876
1878
1874
1875

D1

1875
1876
Street improvement bonds, short
1876-’77
Cleveland—Water works ($225,000 are 6 p. ct.). 1854 to’75
Funded debt ($100,000 are 6 p. ct.)
1854 to ’74
Lake View Park
H872 to ’74
Canal and canal lock
1874 to ’76

Hospital bonds

The debt of Kings County, separate from the debt
of Brooklyn, is $4,181,821, of which the city is

responsible for nineteen-twentieths.
Y. 26, p. 282; V. 28, p. 41.)

(V. 25, p. 358;

1875 real and personal property
were assessed at $39,968,105; in 1876 rule of valua¬
tion changed and assessment was'$lll,995,905. In
Buffalo.—In

$91,130,870; personalty, $8,844,705; total, $99,975,575. Buffalo also pays 7-10 (being
$712,390) of Erie county debt. City tax-rate, 1877,
$12 43 on the $1,000. Since June 1, 1877, coupon
bonds have been exchaugeable for registered. (V.
22, p.233, 521; V. 23, p. 135.)
was

Cambridge, Mass.—The sinking funds amounted
$876,566. December 1, 1877. The investments

are

nearly all in city bonds at par and stamped “ not
negotiable.”
Only $52,000 debt matures before
1881.
Tax valuation, 1875, $66,623,014; 1877, $55,000,000.-Total debt, $4,805,175. Population, 1875,

47,838.
Charleston, 8. C.—The bonds of Charleston are
mostly held within the State of South Carolina.
issued in

exchange

for city stock.. The assessed value of real estate in
1879 was $17,1?2,610; personal, $7,114,754; rate of

p. 360;

V. 27,

p.

407.)

•

Chelsea, Mass.—-Sinking fund, $70,548? and $21,000
to be added annually. Tax valuation, 1878, $15,767,407; rate, $1 76.
Total debt, $1,591,252. Popula¬
tion, 1875, 20,737.
Chicago.—The

net funded debt January 1,
1879, was $13,057,000. Old certificates of indebted¬
ness, $821,000
Advances and warrants, $2,210,401.
Assessed value of real property, 1878, $104,420,-




•

m

m

100,000

m

m

1000 &c
500 &c.

704,632
50,000
175,000
99,000

1,000

100.000

1,000

150,000

500 &c.

1,597,000

500 &c.
500 &c.

689,000
514,000
100,000
774,000
55,000
485,000
162,000
1,252,354
51,500
252,700
500,000
2,646,800
149,000
1,170,000
100,000
200,000
624,500
3,625,000
87,000
2,543,000
2,611,000
195,000
3,408,000
2,000,000
640,000

1,000
500 &c.

1,000
1,000
1,000
•

•

•

^

®

^

.

1870
1,000
1863 to ’72 500 &c.
1844 to ’54
1,000
1855
1,000
1868
1,000
1868
1,000
1860 to ’61
1,000
1855
1,000
1847 to ’50 500 &c.
to ’48 500 &c.
1847
1867-’68
1,000
1853
1,000
1853
1,000
1858
1,000
1869
1,000

Floating debt bonds, coupon...'

(V. 26,

m

500 &c.

1874*

Park improvement
Water-works bonds

tax, $2 00 per $100.

m

1,000
1,000

Municipal bonds
Municipal and School bonds

are

m

500 &c.

River improvement bonds

Conversion !bonds of 1879

•

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
500,&c.
1,000
1,000

Water loan, coup

to

•

1879

Chicago—W ater loan

1877 real estate

•

•

1,000

m

.".

do
do
do

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

1853 to ’54
1866

■

do
do
do

1,000
1,000

•

Fire loan bondsT coupon
Conversion bonds, to redeem past-due debt...
do
coup, or reg. (non-taxable)
Chelsea, Mass.—Funded debt, coup
Funded debt, coup
!
t

6
$170,000
7
201,000
7
453,000
7
3,000,000
4,900,000 5, 6 & 7
7
8,019,000
6
1,217,000
6
9,777,500
7
1,439,500
1,650,000
4, 5,7
7
100,000
4,612,000 4, 5, 6, 7
7
618,000
7
842,000
6 <fc 7
3,100,000
7
2,099,250
7
1,000,000
7
700,000
7
2,729,382
6
100,000

1,000

1853 to ’75
11873 to ’75
11871 to ’73
1868 to ’76

& Jamestown Railroad
Buffalo New York & Philadelphia Railroad...
Water works bonds
Water bonds, coupon
1876
Park bonds (Act May 17,1875)
1876
Tax loan bonds
!
1876-77-78
Water bonds, reg
1878
Bonds, coup, or reg
1879
1858 to’63
Cambridge, Mass.—City bonds
City bonds
1864
do
1863
do
1856 to ’76
do
1873-’74
do
1874-5
Water loan
1866
do
.•
1866 to ’77
do
1865
do
1867 to ’75
do
1869-71

do

Due.

Whom.

i

improvement loan, local

Wallabout Bay

Principal—When

Where Payable and by

Payable 1

Brooklyn— ( Continued)—
Fourth

discovered In these Tables*

INTEREST.

Amount

outstanding

par

[VOL. XXIX.

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
500 &c.

1,000
500 &c.

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
....

•

•

•

•

•

•

m

m

m

1,062,000
210,000
250,000
300,000
99,000
195,000
397,500
146,500
750,000
60,000
175,000
100,000
150,000
150,000
100,000
136,000
450,000
600,000
700,000
9,300,000
6,000,000
2,000,000

7
7

7
7

m

6 & 7
6 & 7
7
7

1853..
1855..
1856..
I860..
1862.
1866.
1867.
1868.
1869.
1870..
1871.
1872..
1873
1874.
1875.
1876.
1877.
1878..

a

,

o

oo

3 years
3 years
3 years

W

d

9

P.PQ
d

1880
1875
1878-1881
1879 to 1895
1893 to 1895
1881 to 1893
1879 to 1926

o

o

Y., Gallatin N. Bk.

July 1,1896
Prior to 1936

do
do
do

do
do

July, 1879-’83'

Sept. 1, 1898
1899
1879 to 1882

April 1,1889
Jan. 1, 1893
Jan. 1,1881 to ’96
Jan. 1, 1903-4-5
Apr.& Oct. l,’84-5
July 2,1886
July 1,1881 to ’97
Aug. 1, 1883
Apl. 1, 1887-1895
May, 1889-1891

Charleston

1878 to '98
1883 to ’84
1890

do
do

do
do

1909
1879 to 1883
1879 to 1895

Boston, N. Bk. Redemption

Various

do
do
do
do
Feb. 17, 1883
do
do
Aug. 1,1887-’95
New York and Boston.
1880 to ’98
do
do
July 1, ’82 to ’95
do
do
July 1,1880
do
do
1880 to ‘95
do
1890 to ’95
do
do
do
July, 1895 & ’96
do
do
1881 to ’99
do
do
1878 to ’79
New York (see remarks.)
1890
N. Y., Metropolitan Bank.
May 1,1880-’92
N. Y., Am. Exchange Bank.
1880 to’84
do
do
Nov., 1885
do
do
June, 1888
do
do
1888 & 1889
do
do
Jan., 1890
do
do
Nov., 1890
do
do
April 1, 1895
do
do
March, 1897
do
do
1897

F. & A.
F. & A.
J. & J.
J. & J.
J. & J.
J. & J.
J. & J.
J. & J.
J. & J.
J. & J.
J. & J.
M. & N.

c

Various
M. & N.
J. & D.
Various
J. & J.
M. & N.
A. & O.
M. & N.
Various
J. & J.
do
do
Jan., 1900
Various
do
do
June & Oct., 1900
M. & 8.
Cincinnati
March, 1908
M. & 8. N. Y., Am. Excli. Nat. Bk.
Sept., 1899
M. & 8.
do
do
Sept., 1899
A. & 0.
do
do
Oct., 1899
do
' M. & 8.
do
March 1,1886
do
F. & A.
do
Aug., 1886-’97
J. & D.
do
Dec. 1,1891
do
J. & J.
do
do *
July 1, 1902
J. & J.
do
do
July 1, 1902
M. & N.
New York or London.
May 1, 1906
M. & N. N. Y., Am. Excli. Nat. B’k.
Nov. 1, 1908
M. & N.
do
do
May 15,1904
J. & J.
do
do
Jan. 1, 1896
F. & A.
do
do •
Aug.,’85, ’90 &’95
M. & N.
do
do
May 1,1906
1879 to’82

Various N. Y., Am. Exch. Nat. B’k.
Various
do
do
Various
do
do
Various
do
do

*

Tax

$3,711,154

$....

1879
1878
1887
1894

66,495,116
140,857,040
174,505,410
223,643,600
239.154,890

262,969,820
258,549,310
125,468,605
131,222,460
113,584 314

5,355,393

named, there remain several smaller amounts, as fol¬
(YY2, &
O.) 6s, 1886-88; $17,000 6s (Q.), Nov., 1890; $27,000
6s (A.), Mar., 1897; $50,000 (H2.), Aug., 1897. City
holds

$950,000 of

Cincinnati Southern bonds in

sinking funds. In 1870 the population was 216,239,
against 161,044 in 1860. Tax rate for 1877, $29 IQ
per $1,000.
The following table from the books
of the Auditor of Hamilton County, Ohio, exhibits
the assessed valuation of the city of Cincinnati in
the year I860, and from 1870 to 1877:

45,155,830

00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00

48.295,641
36,815,718
34,715,834

2? 04

28 60
104,420,053
27,561,383
Population in 1870 was 306,605, and in October, 1878,
436,731, against 109,260 in 1860. The South Park,
West Chicago Park, and Lincoln Park loans are not
debts of the city, but of distinct corporations.
(V. 23, p. 622; V. 24, p. 443; V. 26, p. 192, 289, 436,
522; V. 28, p. 223.)

addition to

the

Rate tax
Real

Personal

issues above

Total
valuation.

per
Year.
estate.
estate.
$1,000.
1860.. $61,620,904 $31,411,812
$93,032,716 $17 45
1970.. 78,736,482
57,370,754
136,107,236
31 60
1871.. 123,427,888
22 20
56,9:34,044
180,361,932
1872.. 119,621,856
55,462,410
175,034,29)
20 10
1873.. 121,479,230
64,166,460
23 06
185,645,740
1874.. 123,231,790
58,718,284
23 38
181,950,074
1875.. 125,976,835
58,521,730
184.498,565
28 82
1876.. 127,143,900
56,809,066
183,952,956
27 04
1877.. 128,320,270
50,609,872
179,430,142
29 10
1879
168,000,000
—The city is the sole owner of the stock of the
Cincinnati Southern Railroad, which is leased to &
company formed to operate it. (V. 23, p. 379, 514;
V. 24, p. 11; V. 25, p. 16; V. 26, p. 384, 469. 522; V27, p. 94, 172, 251, 280, 677; V. 23, p. 624; V. 29, p. 17.)
Cleveland.—The valuation of property for taxation,
m 1877 was $51,732,029 real, and $19,296,122 personal;
tax rate, 1878,17 17-20 mills, of which 8 1-5 mills are
levied for interest and sinking fund. The sinking
-

15
20
13
14
15
15
10
15
18
18

to ’95
to ’94
to ’92
to ’96

lows: $108,000 5s, November, 1884; $56,000

Rate.

5,843,776
5.855,377
5,552,300
19,447,941
51,392,604
53,939,469
51,653,640
52,342,950
52,847,820
45,042,540
49,103,175

from date
from date.
from date.

A. & 0.

Personal.

31.19j.135

Cincinnati.—In

£

eg o

do

....

$13,130,677
’21,637,590
25,892,303

...

•

c3 d

£

Buffalo & New York.

J. & J.
A. & O.

Real Estate.

..

N.

Q.-J.

an income

Assessed Value.

m
ao

Buffalo and New York.
Buffalo.
Buffalo and New York.
do
do

Various

$897,176.

v„_
iear*

do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do

Various Boston, Bank Redemption.
A. & O.
do
do
J. & J.
Boston, Tremont Bank.
J. & J. Boston, Bank Redemption.
J. & J.
do
do
A. & O.
do
do
J. & J.
do
do
J. & J.
do
do
F. & A.
do
do
A. & O.
do
do
M. & N.
do
do

on

of

3
03

....

Various
Various
Various
Various
J. & J.
M.-& 8.

?[uent decision held city scrip of 1878 valid. of the
Of the
unded debt, $4,248,000 is
account
Works, which in 1878 yielded

do

& J.
& J.
& J.

053; personal, $27,561,383—total, $131,981,436. Tax
rate, 1878, $2 86 3-10 on the Illinois State valuation,
and the city debt is limited to 5 per cent of that, A
decision of the Ill. Supreme Court in Feb., 1878,
held the certificates of debt issued prior-to May,
1877, as in violation of this and void. A subseWater

1879 to’95
1879 to ’95
1879 to ’90
1901 to ’24
1907 to 1912
1915 to ’24
1915 to ’24
1881 to 1908

Brooklyn.

6 & 7 J. & J.
M. & S.
5
5
Various

5
5
5 g.
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
7
7
4
5^
6
7
6
6
7
6
7
7
6
7
7
7
7
6
6
7 3-10
7 3-10
6
6
6
6
7 3-10
6
6
6
7 3-10
7 3-10
7 3-10
7 3-10
7
7
7
7 3-10
6g. or 7-3
6 & 7

50,000
300,000
50,000
300,000

1,431,000
315,000
264,000

....

5,

1,000,000

1,700,000

•

»

4,191,500

6

*

& J.
& J.
& J.
& J.
& J.
& J.
& J.
& J.
<fc J.
& J.
& J.

J.
J.
J.
J.
J.
J.
J.
J.
J.
J.
J.
J.
J.
J.

fund, Jan.,’76, amounted to $1,700,000, market

value.

The sewer, street improvement and street opening
bonds are for special local improvements, ana

redeemed by assessments
fitted. (V. 27, p. 677.)

on.

the property bene-

CITY SECURITIES.

September 27, 1870. j
Subscribers will confer

a

great favor by giving immediate notice of any
Date of
bonds.

DESCRIPTION.
For explanations see notes on first page

Size di

1,335,441
1,010,463

....

1877

1878
1870

1875

„

.

_

111,000

....

r,ooo
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

1878
Detroit, Mien.- Bonds for various City purposes 1855 to ’59
Bonds for Water Work Co., on city’s credit... 1855 to ’76
1859 to’71
Public Building stock (City Hall) bonds
1872 to ’74
Public sewer bonds.
1879
Bonds for purchase Belle Isle
1871 to ’74
Elizabeth, N. J— Improvement bonds
Consol, improvement bonds
Funded debt bonds
1870 to’75
1872 to ’73
School House bonds
1865 to’66
Market House bonds
1875-’76
Consolidated improvement bonds
Funded assessment bonds.«...
Tax arrearage bonds.
.'
1868
Evatisvillc, Indiana.—E. H. & N. RR. bonds
1869
City wharf bonds
1869
E. C. <feP. RR. bonds
•
1869
do
,
.do
1870
Water works bonds
i
1876
Redemption bonds
1876
do
do
do
1877
do
1878
do
do

1,000
....

1,000
.

.

.

.

•

....

•>

1,000

m

r,

CT

®

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

Where

Principal—When
due.

payable and by
whom.

payable

FaU River, Mass.—City notes

City bonds

.

.

.

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

.

1,000
.

ran®®

.

1,000

Water loan
do
Galveston. Texas- Bonds for various purposes... 1869 to ’75
Limited debt bonds (sinking fimd 2 per cent). 1877-8-9
1873
Bonds to purchase blk. 321
1876
Galveston County bonds, G. C. & S. F. RR—

1,000

Hartford, Conn.—Water bonds ($50,000 due ’81)

1,000

....

1,000

1,000

....

—

100 &c.

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

....

City bonds (H. P. &F. RR.)

Park bonds (4 of these bonds are for $500 each)
Funded debt

Capitol bonds.
Holyoke, Mass— City notes
City bonds, sinking fund

....

*
....

1871-’74
1874

1872
1873
($60,000 are J. & J.).
1869 to ’70
Indianapolis— Bonds to railroads
1877
Bonds to Un. RR. Tr. Stock Yard (mortgage).
1873
Loan bonds, series A
1874
do
do
B
1874
do
do
C
1875
do
do
D
1874
Purchase-money bonds—Southern Park
Jersey City—Water loan bonds, mostly coupon. 1852 to ’67
1869 to ’73
Water loan bonds, mostly coupon
1877
do
do
do
1873
Forty-year bonds
1871
Improvement bonds
1872 to’76
do
do
1870
Morgan street dock
1872
Funded debt bonds
Old Jersey City bonds, coupon
Various.

1,000
1,000
1,000

do
do

500

1,000
1,000

1,000
1,000
1,000
500

1,000
1,000
1,000
1.000
500 &c.

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

Various.

Various

1869
1869

Hudson City bonds

l,000&c
LOOO&c

Various.

Various

Various.

500 &c.

Bergen school loan bonds
bonds

do ' bounty loan
Greenville street improvement bonds, &c
Assessment funding bonds
Revenue bonds, coupon or registered

Two-year temporary loan, June 17, 1873

1875-’76
1876
1878

Des Moines, Iowa.—Assessed value of property,

debt, $900,009.

cent of true value.

4
7

297^500
986,000
755,000
90,000
66,000
1,575,000

.

Various N. Y., Farmers’ L. & T. Co.
do
do
Various
do
do
v
do
Various
do
do
Various
do
A. & 0.
do
do
.

7
7
7
7

7
7
7
7
7 3-10
7
7

100,000

....

.

600,000
340,500
200,000

100,000
100,000
200,000
300,000
300,000
105,000

....

Fitchburg, Mass.—City notes
City bonds.

3,401,000

.

250;000

lOOO&c.

....

do
do
Water loan
do
do

213,000
378,000
174,000
229,000
175,000
130,400

.....

‘

1879 to’81

.

1880
1881
1879
1885

to ’95
to ’93
to ’86
to ’96

244,000

Large.

....

1,568,000

Various N.Y., Amer. Exch. Nat. Bk.
1878 to’88
J. & J.
do
do
1878, ’83 & ’84
Various
do
do
1878 to ’92
Various
do
do
1878 to ’84
do
Various
1878 to ’86
do
6
do
1878-’87
do
do
1893 & 1907
do
5, 6, &7 Various
6
M. & S.
New York.
Sept. 1, ’78, to ’86
6
do
1898
10
J. & D.
New York.
June, 1880
J. & J.
7
do
July, 1885
J. & J.
7
do
July, 1888
7
Various N. Y., Metropolitan N. Bk.
1879 to’89
7
do
Various
1879 to 1906
do
7
do
1879 to ’91
Various
do
F. & A.
7
do
1892 to ’94
do

712,000

-

per

!

When

6 & 7
7
6 & 7

200,000
647,259

....

Funding bond fund

$5,104,249, whch is about 50
Tax rate, $5 per $10).

Rate.

$409,000

....

Bonds
Bonds
Dcs Moines, Iowa—Bridge bonds
Renewed judgment and loan fund

street improvement

INTEREST.

outstanding.

$....

1876-77
Infirmary and River dredging
Viaduct (mostly F. & A., A. & O. and J. & D.) 1873 to ’77

do

discovered in these Tables.

1
1864 to ’71
1868
1860 to ’76

House of Correction
Main sewers, special assessment
Street improvem’ts do
Street openings, &c., do

Water loan
Railroad loan

error

Amount

par
value.

of tables.

Cleveland—(Continued)—
School (§5294,000 are 6 p. ct.)

Water bonds
do
do

ix

•

100,000
280,000
250,000
600,000
400,000
200,000
372,000
850,000
50,000
400,000
300,000
100,000
467,800
362,700
35,000
414,000
250,000
125,000
475,000
202,000
500,000
130,000
300,000

1,000,000
205,000
271,000
250,000
226,500
155,000
500,000
300,000
300,000
300,000
200,000
109,500
1,163,000

3,109,800
416,000
622,000
1,869,000
2,161,500
125,000
500,000
885,400
173,550
150,000
400,000
73,000
125,500
900,000
400,000
500,000

....

Bonds all coupon.

6
6
7

<fc
&
&
&
&
&
&
&

N.
N.
D.
D.
J.

New York.
do

May 1, 1898
May 1, 1899
Dec. 1, 1890
Dec. 1, 1895
July 1, 1895
April 1, 1906
May 15,1906
June 1, 1907

do
do
do
do

•<

0.

do

N.
D.

do

do

5, 6,7

.

M.
M.
J.
J.
J.
A.
M.
J.

5 g.
6
6
6
6
7

6
6
6
10
8

1908

City Treasury.

1881 to 1888
1880 to 1891

Boston, Revere Bank.
Boston, Bank Redemption.

Aug. 1,1894

Various
Various
F. &
M. &
M. &
M. &
F. &
M. &
J. &
J. &
J. &

do

A.
N.
N.
N.
A.
N.
J.
J.
J.

May 1,1895
Nov.1,1879-1880
Nov. 1,1892-1906
Aug. 1,1899-1905
Nov. 20,1882
City Treasury.
Boston, Merchants’ Bank.
July 1,1893
do
do
July 1,1891
do
do
July 1,1895-1906
do
do
do

do
do
do

Various

8
10
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6

Galveston.

M.
M.
J.
J.
J.
J.
F.
J.
F.
J.
J.

do
do
New York.

&

&
&
&
&
&
&

&
&
&
&

8.
S.
J.
D.
J.
J.
A.
J.
A.
JJ.

6 & 7

Merchants’ Bank, Boston.
do
Phoenix

do
July 1, 1881
Bank, Hartford.
July 1,1890-’93
City Treasury.
Aug. 1, 1900
Suffolk Bauk, Boston.
June 1, 1891
Merchants’ Bank, Boston. Aug. 1,1882 &’84
Jan. 1, 1893
City Treasury.
do
Jan. 1, 1897

Various,

6
6
7
6
6

A. & O.
J. & J.
A. & 0.

73
7*3
73
7*3
73
6
7
6
7
7
7
7
7
6 & 7
7
7
7

7
7

do
do
do

....

Oct.

do
do
do
do
do

& J. N.

Jan.&Apr.l, 1894
Jan.l, 1889, to ’90
Jan. 1. 1897

do

July 1,
July 1,
July 1,
July 1,
Jan. 1,
Jan., 1879

do
do
do

do

Y., Merch. Ex. N. Bank.

Various
J. & J.

do
do

do
do

J. & J.
M. & N.

do
do
do
do
do
do

do
do
do

Various
J. & J.
M. <fc N.

1894
1895
1899
to’95

1899 to 1913

July 1, 1907
July 1,1913

May, 1891

1892 to 1906
June 8, 1900

do
do

»

May 1, 1897

do
do

1879-’90
Various.

do
do
do

Jan., ’98 to 1900

do

Various.

do
do

do
do

1905-6
June 1,1886
June 17,1880

do
do
do
do

J.
J.

& J.
& J.
Various
J. & J.
Various
J. &

July, 1889
Various.

....

Galveston, Texas.—The total city debt is $865,500,
Detroit, Mich— The amounts of bonds outstanding of which all are 10 per cent currency, except
given less those held by sinking fund. The $35,0C0park 8s, due 1892-1902, and the limited debt
population in 1370 was 79,001 ;'in 1874, by State cen¬ bonds. Assessed value of real and pei\-onal prop¬
sus. 101,083.
The value of waterworks is $•),483,880, erty. 1878, $17,000,000. Tax rale, $1 25 on $100.
against a debt of $1,401,000. The waterworks bonds (V. 25, p. 283.)
are issued on a pledge of the city credit, and $75,000
per year collected in taxes to pay interest on them.
Hartford, Conn.—Total debt, April, 1878, $3,050,Assessed valuation, in 1878, real and personal prop¬ 003; net. after deducting resources, $2,152,100. Tax
erty, $87,865,685, against $93,709,375 in 1877, which rate in 1877, 9% mills for city, and 8)6 for town pur¬
is made on. the basis or true value, but prior to poses; for 1878, 8)6 mills for city was recom¬
1876 assessments were on basis of 30 per cent of mended. (V. 28, p. 599.)
real value.
Tax rate, 90 cents per $100.

1893

1894

do

Various
Various

Tax valuation, 1879, $9,570,997.
Population, 1875, 12,289.

1,1889

Jan. 1, 1900

City Treasury.
N. Y., Winslow, L. & Co.

D.]
1

7 ■

1879 to 1886

City Treasury.

Jan.
J. & J.
J. & J.
1 vT. di J.
1 J. & J.
1 J. & J.
J. & J.
J.

1880 to’91
1907-1909
1893-1902
1906
June 1,1879 &’81

What is reasonably to be expected out of these
arrears of assessments, which almo>t cost more
than they can ever be worth? The best w >y to come
at this is to review the assessment account up to

January 22, 1879.

Thi3 reads as follows:

are

Holyoke,

Elizabeth, JV. ,7.—Default

made in interest
Feb. 1, 1S79, spe V. 28. p. 116. Suits on bonds are
pending. Total bonded and floating debt Jan. 1,
1879, was stated at $5,823,865. Estimated true value
was

of real and personal
property, $28,000,000; assessed
valuation, $14,400,000. Tax rate is $3 56 within
the lamp and water district. Population in 1875,
25,000. (V. 27, p. 461, 539; V. 28, p. 146. 599, 634,64!;
V. 29, p. 120, 225, 277.)

Evansville, lad.—No floating debt.

ment of real and pe s„nal

500,000;

tax rate, $1.25.

Total assess¬
property in 1878, $23,-

Eall River, Mass.—The sinking fund
amounted to
$143,068, January 1, 1877. The water works are
how

completed.

tion, 1675,45,340.

Total debt, $3,5^7,047.

Fitchburg, Mass.—Sinking fond, $101,000.




registered.
$96i,500.

Mass.—Bonds all coupon, but can be
Total debt.
Sinking funds, $45,500.
Tax valuation, 1377, $9,399,820. Popula¬

tion. 1875. 16,260.

Indianapolis —The assessment of taxable prop¬
erty in 1878 was $50,029,975; tax rate, $1 08 per
$180. The School Board is a distinct organization
and levies its own tax, which is included in tax
rates aud amount above given.
There arc a few
other small issues, amounting in all to about

$50,000.

A. Total amount for which assessment
bonds were issued
B. Total amount of assessments as orig¬

inally confirmed
.

in

the

failure to collect back assessments.

The

Popula¬

Evening Post writes, as quoted at length in the
Chronicle, (Vol. 28, p. 173) that au~ examina¬
tion of tne assessments charged against property

Total

enough to nay more than the interest on its own
bonds, and since 1874 it has not sufficed for that.

will show that this

account

ha*

never

yielded

5,532,539
3,939,262
1,152,759
1,894,219
2,354,747

1,558,733
396,782

H, and subtracting from the result

1,588,676

itemF)i...

In this balance due of $1,588,676. the interest
accrued has not been included. This would amount
to about $200,000.
It is concluded that $1,250,000 is
a reasonable net sum to be expected out of the back
E^86SSQlCIlt8

Jersey City.—One of the main causes of the
temporary embarrassment of Jersey City is fonud

...

Amount of re-assessment
Amount placed on the city Dy this
re-assessment
E. Amount collected on original con¬
firmation
F. Amount collected on re-confirmation.
G Amount placed on city on assessments
not re-a?ses?ed
H. Amount of assessments not set aside.
I. Amount now confirmed and due (ob¬
tained by subtracting from the sum
of items C and G, the sum of D and
C.
D.

$6,060,090

*

the city January, 1579, was
sinking funds,
$1,014,536;
taxes
due and unpaid.
$2,394,491.
Assessed valua¬
tion, 1877: Jersey City, real $54,581,869, personal
$6,013,150; Hoboken, reul $14,016,900, personal
$1,449,490; Bayonne, real $5,183,255. person it $159,*75. Population by State census in 1875 was 116,883,
against 85,000 by U. S. census of 1870. (V. 28/p.
173, 199, 352, 454; V. 29, p. 120.) *
The

total debt

$16,352,014;

of

CITY"
Subscribers will confer

a

great favor

DESCRIPTION.
For explanations see notes

on

Size

Lewiston, Me—City bonds ($25,000 each year).
City bonds ($50,000 each year)
do
($110,000 due 1885, $210,000 1891)

Value.

outstanding.

1859 to’64 5000&C.
1862 to ’75 5000&C.
1874
1,000
lS73-’75 500 &c.

Water works

1852
1854

1857 to’67

do
For improvement of streets

1873
1866 to’67
1873
1871 to ’73
1853 to ’70
1868
1871
1868 & ’73

Re-constructing street

Public buildings and institutions
Public school and school houses
Sewer bouds
do

Elizabeth & P. Railroad
Wharf property
Jail bonds.
For old liabilities
do
do

’54/62,3,8

1868
1869
1870 to ’74
Louisville, New Albany & St. L. Air Line RR.
1871
Change of gauge, Louisv., Cin. & Lex. RR
1871
Road bed
do
do
1871 to ’73
City bonds pay’ble by RRs.(mostly L.&Nasli.) 1851 to’63
Lowell, Mass.—City notes
1852 to ’75
Water notes
1871 to’76
Water bonds
1870

Lynn, Mass.—City notes
Water notes

City Hall and School House
Manchester, N. II.—City bonds
City bonds ($70,000 1884, $10,000 1885)
do

($100,000 each year)
do

1874

do

1,000

1,000
1,000
1,000

1,000
1,000

Large.

Large.
1,000
Large.

L867, ’8, ’9 500 &c.
1870
1,000

i’857

do

Water bonds, coupon
do
registered

Minneapolis, Minn.—City bonds
City bonds

|

1,000

1,000
1,000
10,000
1,000
1,000

$78,295,114; in 1878 it

was

$63,194,487.

Assessed

being then
Rate
$2 17

or

taxation for all city purposes in 1878 was
on
$100 in each district. The following figures give
the assessed property valuation for the
past eight
years
For 1871, $76,845,995; 1872, $77,156,642; 1873,
$77,225,372; 1874, $78,295,114; 1815, $75,536,812; 1876,
$71,849,772; 1817, $68,522,947; 1878, $63,194,487. In
order that this shrinkage in values
may be better
understood, the following table is added:

1874.

Grounds*

1876.

1878.

9,696 40 1

Residuary

8.061,150

5,664,930
714,860

7,213 601

6,897,733

6,614.321

Personalty.

Lowell,Mass.—All the

509,92i

notes held

595,969

by savings banks.
Water loan sinking fund, $215,000.
Sinking fund
for deb' of ’76 $8,f0Q. Tax valuation,
’79, $39 605,000. Total debt, *2,281,009. Population, *79,
50,600.
Lynn, Mass.— Total debt, $2,256,000. Sinking




A. & O.
J. & D.
Various
M. & S.
F. & A.
J. & J.

Various
Various
Various

J.

J.

7
G
5
7
7
7
7

City Treasury.

1886/ 96, ’97
July 1, 1903
1891, ’92 & 1903
1883 to ’89

July, 1898
June, 1901
1888 & 1903
1879 to 1898
Oct. 1, 1898
1889

1880, ’94 & 1901
Sept., 1891
Feb. 1,1880
July, 1901 & 1903
1881 to ’93
1879 to 1894
1886 to 1894

Nov.

1, 1890

1887 to 1890
1885 to 1890

do

8
8
8
10
8
7
8
7
6
6
6

184,000

1,227,500

700,000
2,500,000
3,030,000
450,0.00

do

July 1.1890 &’95

City Treasury.

1887-’92-’97-1902

do
do

Memphis.

<

1873 to 1902
1873 to 1900

Nov., 1900

-

6 & 7
6 & 7
7
7
6
7
7
6
7

73,000

1,840,000
500,000
400,000

do

J. & J.
Charleston, S. C.
July, 1872
J. & J.
N. Y., H. Talmadge & Co.
1907
J. & D. Milw. and N. Y., A. Goettel.
June 1,1891
J. & J.
do
do
Jan. 1, 1901
J. & I).
do
do
June 1,1896
J. & J.
do
do
Jan. 1,1902
J. <fc J.
do
do
Jan. 1, 1902
J. & D. New York, Park Nat. Bank.
Dec. 2, 1892
F. & A.
do
do
Feb. 2, 1894
M. & N.
do
do
May 1, 1905
Various
do
do
1881 to 1885
J. & J.
do
do
1886 to 1900
J. & J.
do
do
„aly/91-’96-1902
F. & A.
do
do
Feb. 1, 1891 & ’9
M. & N.
do
do
Nov. 1, 1901
M. & N. Mobile, Mob. Savings Bank
Nov., 1905
Various
New York.
1875-77-79
Various New York and Nashville.
1870 to ’96
Various
1879 to ’93
Newark, City Treasury.
Various
do
do
1879 to ’91
A. & 0.
do
do
pril, 1888, to’ 91
& J. Newark, Mech. Nat. Bank.
J.
July 1, 1895
F. <fc A.
Aug. 1, 1908
M. & S. Newark, Mech. Nat. Bank.
1879 to ’93
Various
do
do
1879 & 1892
do
do
1909
F. <fc A.
do
do
1886-’87
A. & O.
1879 to 1889
City Treasury.
A. & 0.
do
1891 to 1910
A. & O.
1879 to 1884
A. & O.
1900 to 1904
A. & O.
1885 to 1909
A. & O.
1883 to 1909
A. & O.
it. 1, ’91 & 1901
City Treasury.
J. & J.
do
July 1, 1881
A. & O.
do
J. & J.
do

'

6,7
6
5
5
6
7
7
6
G

/

5

Assessed valuation of real

years,
funds

Minneapolis, Minn.—Total debt, $971,500;
valuation, 1876, $21,834,078; bonds all coupon.

tax

Mobile.—The valuation of property in 1877 was $11,estate and

City Treasury.

& J.

for all the bonds.
There is also
about $47,000 scrip issued to settle old railroad
bonds.
Population by State census, 1875, 101,000.
(V. 23, p. 622.)

tax

N. Y.t Bank of America.
do
do
Louisville and New York.
do
do
do
do
do
do
N. Y., Bank of America.
do
do
do
do
New York and Louisville.

M. & N.

fer1878, valuation was assessed valueSinking
cent of its average $55,255,711. for five
provided

Louisville, City Treasurer.

J. & J.
J.
J.
J. <te J.
F. & A.

£79.)
Milwaukee.—The city cannot issue debt beyond 5
n

Louisville.

& J.

estate, 1875, $19,329,600; personal, about $6,500,000.
Tax rate, $2 per $100.
Population in 1870, 40,230.
(V. 25, p. 114; V. 27, p. 652, 678; V. 28, p. 121,146, 224,

are

1879-1884
1880 to 1892

N. Y., Bank of America.
N. Y., Bank of America.
New York and Louisville.

Various
Various

Is-

1,785,122

the payment of 55 cents.

do
do
do

do
M. & N. Boston, Bank
Redemption.

fund, $166,470.
Tax valuation, 1870, $20,’-27,115.
Population, 1875, 32,600.
Manchester, N. If.— Total debt, $929,000; assets,
$83,36?.
Memphis, Tenn.— The city has been in default for
interest since Jan. 1, 187-3. The legislature passed
a bill, January,
1879, repealing the city’s charter, to
enable it to avoid its debts. A receiver for Ihe
city
was appointed
by the U. S. c< urfes. The circular of
July, 1877, urged the city creditors to accept the
proposition to issue the new compromise bonds in
exchange for the present indebtedness (including
interest on past due indebtedness) at 50 cents on the
dollar. For judgments the Legislature authorized

impr,ts.$62,918,922 i 56,380,964 $48,770,596 022,049 real

Merchandise

Various
Various

6

110,000
115,000
125,000

100,000

do
do
do

J.
July 1,1894
O.
Oct. 1, ’90, to 1906
J.
City Treasury.
July 1, 1882
D.
do
June 1,1883 &’88
J.
do
July 1.1885&1901
J.
do
July 1, ’93-1913
0.
do
0ct.l,’97-1907-’17
O. N. Y., Mercantile N. Bank.
April, 1882
0.
do
do
April, 1883
Various
N. Y., Bank of America.
1887, ’89, 91
M. & S.
do
do
March 1,1883

6

60,000
124.500

400,000
200,000
499,000
60,000
160,000
150,000

•

<fc
<fc
&
&
&
&
&
A. &
A. &

Various

'

429,000

128,000

Boston, Tremont Bank.

J.
A.
J.
J.
J.
J.
A.

J. & J.
J. & D.

6
6
5

341,000

223,000

Due.

.

1,300,000

888,000
72,000

Various
Various

lpaiPrincipal—When

Boston, Bank Republic.
July 1, ’91-’94-’96
5,5^6 Various Treas’y & Bost. Bk. Repub.
1879 to 1896
Various
do
5, (3
do
1882 to 1896
6
J. & J.
Jan. 1,1880-1894
City Treasury.
6
A.
O.
do
April 1, 1884-’85
6
M. & N.
Suffolk Bank, Boston.
May 1, 1893

1,171,000
250,000
70,000
50,000

.

Where Payable and by
Whom.

Various

(3

60,000
300,000
900,000
328,289
242,000
100,000

500 <fcc,

When

Payable

J. & J.
Various

6,7
6,7

400,000
32,000
29,500

do
500
Western division
500
do
500
do
*
1,000
do
500
do
500
Mobile— Funding bonds (act March 9,
1875)
1875
500
Nashville, Tenn.— Nashville & Chatt. Railroad.
1849
1,000
Various city bonds
1870 to’77 100 &C.
Newark— Bonds, city purposes (s. fund of 1859)
1,000
War bonds, floating debt, &c. (s. fund of
1864)
1,000
Public echo ol bonds
1,000
Clinton Hill bonds, coup. & reg. (s. fd. 3
1875
p. c.).
1,000
Corporate bonds, coup, or reg.(act Apr. 21/76)
1878
1,000
Sewer and improvement bonds (local liens).
1,000
Aqueduct Board bonds
1,000
Bonds
1879
1,000
Tax arrearage bonds
1876-’77
New Bedford, Mass.—City bonds
1861-’74
City improvement
1875
10,000
War loan
1,000
Water bonds
1876
1,000
do
1867 to’76j 1,000
do
1872-’74
1,000
New Haven, Conn—Sewerage
1871
1,000
City Hall
1861
1,000
For Derby Railroad ($20,000
payable yearly)
1867
1,000
City bonds (10-20 bonds)
1877
1,000

Lawrence, Mass.—Total debt, $1,79),700, of which
$20,000are 7 percents. Sinking fund, $10,000. Tax
valuation, 1879. $23,038,897; tax rate, $16 40. Popu¬
lation, 1875, 34,916.
Lewiston, Me.—Total debt, $1,096,100; sinking
fund, $90,410. The railroad bonds were irsued lo
build the Lewiston & Auburn RR., which is owned
by the cities of those names. Assessed valuation
1877, $11,740,602; tax rate, 20 mills on the $1.
Louisville.—The funded debt, January l,
1879,
exclusive of loans payable by
railroad-*, was
$8 079,010, against $=<,182,0i6 January 1, 1878. The
sinking funds on January 1, 1879, amounted to
$4,501,489. Of the $8,079,000 there is payable out
of the sinking fund *3,561,000; payable
by special
tax, $4,518,000. Population by census of 1870 was
100,750, against 68,033 in 1860; now Qatiraated npon

G

6
7
7
6
6
7
7
6
6
6
7
7
7
7
6
5 to 7

200,000

1,000
1,000

1877
1861
1871
1876
1872
1872

6, 6^

6
6
6
7

175,000
121.500
450,000
387.500
44,200
117.500
80,000
70,000

100 &c,
1867 to '68

5

1.300.000

1,000

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

1,000

Funding loan, gold
Mississippi River Railroad bonds.
Endorsement Memphis & Little Rock RR
Compromise bonds, coupon
Milwaukee— Re-adjustment bonds
General city bonds

the basis of 7 to a voter makes 120,000.
value of property was highest in 1874.

6
6
6
6
6

500,000
137,000
377,000
1,311,000
56,000
193,900
600,000
650,000
180,000
79,000
425,000
1,993,000
288,000
133,000
75,000
605,000
500,000
107,000
350,000
1,508,000
481,000
500,000

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

100 <fcc.
100 &c.

1872

Sewer bonds ($8,000 1880, ’81, ’83, ’85)
Suncook Valley Railroad
Memphis, Tcnn.—School and paving bonds
Post bonds

do

6 & 7
6

1,300,000
25,000
100,000
320,000

1870-’3-’5
Large.
1871-’4-’6
1.000
1862 to’76 500 &c,
1857 to ’67
1,000

Water bonds
Funded debt

do
Water bonds

5*2

133,000
262,000

224.000

Louisville, Ky.—For Jeffersonville RR. stock...
Subscription to stock of L. & N. RR

„

Ji\uiLvt

$74,000

Lewiston & Auburn Railroad
Water bonds

error discovered in tliese Tables*

INTEREST.

Amount

or

par

first page of tables

Funded debt
do
Water loan

fVOL. XXIX.

by giving Immediate notice of any

Date of
Bonds.

Lawrence, Hass.—Funded debt

SECURITIES.

$6,118,462 personal property;

rate, 1 6-10 per cent. Interest was in default
from July, 1873. A settlement with bondholders was
offered by Act of March 9, 1875, viz.:
$510 in 6 per
cent bond for $1,000 of the old 8
per cent.
The 5
per cent bonds have a lien on city revenue, and
exchange for these was offered at 75 per cent of
their face.
Up to Jan., 1878, there had been
settled, of old bonds, all except $12,109 of old

bonds. A, B & C ; $56,6°0 of bonds D. E & F; $38,1871; $123,000 of Mob. & Gt. Northern RR.
8s; $16,000 wharves 8s; $30,000 Mob. & Ala. Grand
Trunk 8s; and $151,000 Mob. & Northwestern RR.
8s. Also about $145 000 overdue interest on these
issues. In February, 1879,- the Legislature repealed
the charter of the city. Population about 38,000.
(V. 28. p. 2?4, 327; V. 29, p. 278.)
Nashville, Tenn.—At the close of the fiscal year,
Sept. 30/78, there were $301,185 of past-due coupons,
judgments, overdrafts. &c. The total debt wM
500 8s of

$1,712,685, against $1,671,360 Oct 1, 1877.

Assessed

valuation of all property, about $11,000,000; tax rate,
1878, 2 per cent.
Newark.—The bonds in the first Kne in the table
are payable out of the
sinking fund of 1859, which
amounts to $114,900; those In second line out of

sinking fund of 1864, $ 1,017,090; public school bonds
out of public school fund, $179,000; Clinton Hill
bonds by sinking fund, $53,200; tax arrearage,
$275,000; against local improvement bonds the
city holds $2,039,724 of assessments unpaid and a
lien on the property. Temporary loan bonds, Jan.

1, 1879, were $683,500.
Valuation of real prop¬
erty, 1879, $78,632,000 Tax rate for all purposes,
1879, $2 06 per $100. Population in 1870, 1D5.059.
(V. 26, p. 253.)
N. Bedford, Mass. - -To t al debt, $1,123,000. Ne sink¬
ing fund. Tax valuation in 1878—real estate. $12,808,709; personalty, $13,137,011. Tax rate, 1878, $16 00
per $1,000, against $18 §0 in 1877. Population, 1879,
27.0C0.
New Haven, Conn.—Total debt, Jan., ’79,

Sinking fund

bond

on

-

t869$00.
City Hall loan, $54,832; municipal

fund, $12,617. The city made a special loan or
$75,000 to the N Haven & Derby RR and guaran¬
teed $225,000 of its 2d mortgage bonds. Population,
1870, 50,840. Tax rate, 1878, 9 mills.
,

September 27,

CITY SECURITIES,

1879.j

suDNortbers will confer

a

great favor

DESCRIPTION.
For explanations

by giving: Immediate notice of auy error

Date of

Size or
par
Yalue.

jjOHus«

see

notes

on

xi

first page of tables.

discovered In these Tables.

INTEREST.

Amount

outstanding.

Rate.

f When

'payable

1852
6
J. & J.
$1,000
$4,377,250
New Orleans.
Railroad debt
1854-55
6
1,000
703,000
Various
do
Waterworks loan of 1869
1869
5
232,000
J. & J.
do
Seven per cent funding loan of 1869
1869
7
M. & S.
628,100
do
Seven per cent
1870
funding loan of 1870
7
J. & D.
436,000
do
Jefferson City (debt assumed)
8
*57, *67,*70
Various
98,000
do
Wliarf impr. bonds (assumed
1870
by lessees).
7-3
J. & D.
270,000
do
Street improvement bonds
1871
7-3
F. & A.
1,000
30,000
do
Consol, gold bonds (gen’l and
1872
7 g.
drainage series)
1,000
—J.
216,000
New York or London.
Ten per cent bonds, deficit and old claim.
1871
Various.
10
A. & 0.
325,350
New Orleans.
New premium bonds (in
oxchange)
5
11,226,120
N. O. Waterw’ks Co. new
bds.(for $2,000,000)
Newton, Mass.—City bonds and notes
1864 to *75 l,000&c
397,000 5, 6& 6*2 Various
City Treasury.
Water loan ($600,000
6s, balance 5s)
1875
5 & 6
J. & J. Boston, Comm’nwealth B1
1,000
812,750
New York—Water stock.
1841 to *63 100 &o.
5 & 6
2,414,000
Q.—F.
Water stock
100 &c.
1872
6 & 7
M. & N.
500,000
Croton water stock
1846 to *69 100 &c.
5 & 6
2,900,000
Q.—F.
■3
New Croton Aqueduct stock
1865-6
100 &o.
6
a
250,000
Q.—F.
Additional new Croton Aqueduct
1870 to *77 500 &c.
3,618,600 5, 6 & 7 Q.—F.
Croton water main stock
1871 to *77 500 &c.
4,910,000 5, 6 <fe 7 M. & N.
Croton Reservoir bonds
1865 to *74 100 &c.
6
970,637
O
Q.-F.
Croton Aqueduct bonds
fcJO
1866 to *70 100 &c.
6
490,000
Q.—F.
Croton water pipe bonds
100 &c.
1869
<D
7
M. & N.
450,000
Cent. Park fund stock ($275,000
6
only due ’98) 1857 to *59 100 &e.
3,341,071
Q.—F.
Improvement bonds
1874
500
M. & N.
500,000
>7
a
Third Avenue improvement bonds (23d
1877
500
5
ward)
M. & N.
24,000
Central Park fund stock
1856
100 &e.
5
399,300
Q.—F.
Central Park improvement fund stock....
1858 to *71 100 &c.
6
3,849,800
Q.—F.
Dock bonds
1870-*78 500 &c.
6,560,000 6g.,5,6,7 M. & N.
Market stock
1865 & *68 100 &c.
6 & 7
M. & N.
296,000
City Cemetery stock
100 &c.
1869
7
M. & N.
75,000
City improvem’t st’k (part red’mable after ’96)
1876
500 &c.
73 GO
2,215,900 5 & 6 g. M. & N.
do
do
1870-*73
500 &c.
7
M. & N.
7,269,400
Lunatic Asylum stock
1869-*70
100 &o.
6 & 7
M. & N.
700,000
Fire Department stock
1869-*70
100 &c.
6
M. & N.
521,953
Fire telegraph bonds
1870-*73
100 &o.
6
M. & N.
597,586
Tax relief bonds, coupon
1870
500 &c.
7
M. & N.
3,000,000
N. Y.Bridge bds ($2,000,000 red.af ter
5 & 6
July,’96) 1869-*77 500 &c.
M. & N.
3,600,000
Accumulated debt bonds
1869-*70
100 <fcc.
7
M. & N.
6,500,000
Street improvement bonds
§£
1874-’77
100 <fec.
2,738,239 5, 6 & 7 M. & N.
o SB
Street opening and improvement bonds
1871
100 &c.
7
M. & N.
1,000,000
Ninth District Court-house bonds
MS
1871
500 &c.
7
M. & N.
300,000
Department of Parks improvement bonds.... 1874-*77 500 &c.
2,168,000 5, 6 & 7 M. & N.
Assessment bonds
1874-*78
500 &c.
8,110,600 5, 6 & 7 M. & N.
o a
City parks improvement fund stock
1871-*78
Q ®
500 &e
5,660,000 5,6,7&6g M. & N.
Normal school fund stock
1
1871
500 &o.
6
M. & N.
200,000
Public school building fund stock
1871
500 &c.
6
M. & N.
636,000
§*
Additional Croton water stock
500 &c.
1871-*78
1,259,000 5, 6 & 7 M. & N.
Sewer repair stock
1872
500 <fcc.
6
M. & N.
265,000
Consolidated stock
1874
500 &c.
6 & 7
Various
8,779.700
do
6-2
20-50 (redeemable July ’9Gj
1876
500 &c.
5 & 6
M. & N.
2,058,350
Museum of Art and Natural
c3
1873-*76
500 &c.
5 & 6
History stock
949,000
M. & N.
Third District Court-house bonds
(Ora
1874
500
5 & 6
M. & N.
398,000
Armories and drill-rooms
1877
500 <fco.
5
M. & N.
375,880
Central Park commission improvement
£3 a
bonds
1876
500 &c.
6
M. & N
900,000
O 03
County Court-house stock
1862 to *68 100 &c.
U
6
M. & N.
1,880,000
do
do
No. 3
1871
7
100 &c.
M. & N.
600,000
do
do
No. 4 & 5
1872
5 & 6
M. & N.
564,100
Soldiers* bounty fund bonds
1864
100 &c.
6
M. & N.
4,000,000
Soldiers* subs, and relief red. bonds
w
«3
1864
100 &c.
6
M. & N.
946,700
Soldiers* bounty fund bonds, No. 3
1865
100 &c.
7
M. & N.
745,800
Soldiers’ bounty fund red. bonds, No. 2
1865
100 &c.
7
M. & N.
376,600
Rfot damages red. bonds
1864
100 &c.
6
M. & N.
500,000
do
•2 m
indemnity bonds
1864 to *72 100 &c.
6
M. & N.
855,204
Assessment fund stock
1868 to *72 100 &c.
6
<v
M. & N.
1,719,400
do
do
1873
100 &c.
6 & 7
M. & N.
493,200
a
do
do
1875
100 &c.
6
M.& N.
900,450
h
Repairs to buildings stock
1870
100 &c.
6
33
M. & N.
100,000
Consolidated stock, gold, coupon..
p<
1871 to *72 500 &c. 14,702,000
Various
Accumulated debt bonds
CO
I860 to *70 100 &c.
M. & N.
6,000,000
N. Y. and Westchester Co. improvement bonds
1870
100 &c.
6
M. & N.
30,000
43
Consolidated stock
GO
1874
100 &e.
7
J. <fc D.
1,680,200
Q)
For State sinking fund
deficiency
1874
100 &o
f-t
M. & N.
7
3,119,600
Debt of Westchester towns annexed
$
1,100,000
Consolidated stock, gold
1878
500 <fec.
5 g. M. & N.
6,900,000
Norfolk, Yd.—Registered stock
100
6
J. & J. Norfolk, Treasurer’s Office.
942,771
Coupon bonds ($20,000 due *94 are 6s J. & J.) 1870-*74
6 & 8
100
M. & S.
do
329,000
do
Trust & paving, coup, (pav’g, $189,300,
J.&J.) 1872-*73
100
8
A. & O. Norfolk, Cit. & Peop. Banks
415,800
Coupon bds, water (a mort. on water works.).
1871
100
8
M. & N. New York, Park N. Bank.
500,000
Norwich, Conn— City bonds
1863
7
A. & O. rhamesN.Bk; Bost.,Bk.Rep
1,000
125,000
City bonds
1877
5
A. & O.
1,000
160,000
Norwich.
Water loan ($50,000 1890,
$250,000,1898)... 1868 & *70
6 & 7
J. & J.
1,000
200,000
do
Court House
1875
7
J. & J.
1,000
164,000
do
Sinning fund bonds
1878
5
A. & O.
150,000
1,000
do
....

....

due.

July

1, 1892

1874-5 & 1894
Jan. 1, 1899
March 1, 1894
June 1, 1895
1887 to 1897

Dec., 1880
Aug. 1, 1911
July 1, 1922
April 1, 1881

....

-

3-9

-

1879 to 1895

July 1,1905
1879 <fe 1880
Nov. 1,1902
1883 & 1>90

Aug. 1, 1884
Aug. 1,1900

Nov. 1.1900&1906
1907 to 1917
1907 to 1911
1880
1887 & 1898

1879
1880

July 1,1898
1887 & 1895
Nov. 1,1901 to
1894 & 1897
1888

,

'

IS

8?

m

fg

.

Is
61

|j2

Is-

•

•

•

•rH

•

*9

*89,*92,*96 & 1926
1889 & 1892
1889
1899
1884
1890
1905 & 1926
1884 to *88

§,3

-

,

Principal—When

Where payable and by
whom.

1879, *82, & *88
1879 to ’82
1890
Nov. 1,1879 to *83
Nov. 1,1879 to *83
1901-1904
Nov. 1,1891
Nov. 1,1891
Nov. 1, 1891
Nov. 1,1882 & '85
1894 to *96

May,*97,1916-*26
1903
Nov. 1, 1890
1880 & 1881
Nov. 1,1879 to *80
1879 to *92
1884 to *88
1894 to *98
1883 to *90
1880 to *81
1895 to *97
1891
1879
1882
1887
1903
1910
1884 to *88
1896 to 1901
1884 to *88
1891
1896
1879 to *86

....

1908-1928
1879 to *85
1890-’94-*99

pi., *92; July,*9
May, 1901
Oct. 1, 1893
April 1, 1907
1, ’98 & 190
1, 1905
April 1, 1908

m.

Jan.

1

New Orleans.—A decision of La.
Supreme Court,
holds invalid the special tax proxigions
for consolidated bonds. The
floating debt, Jan. 1,
78, was $1,841,928. The assessed valuation of prop¬
erty for 1878 is $111,123,6 <5, real and personal. State
tax, 14# mills; city tax, 15 mills; total tax, 29#. A
scheme for settling the debt by a bond
premium
drawing plan is in practice, and drawings take place

Dec., 1678,

Jan. 31, April 15, July 31, and October 15.
Popu¬
lation in J870, 191,418; m 1860,
138,610.
(V. 27, p.
148, 228,129; Y. 28, p. 18, 352.)

Newton, Mass. Total debt, $1,262,034. Tax valu¬
ation, 1678, $25,012,9 0; rate, $13-89 per $1,00).
■

Population, 1875, 16,105.

Neio York City.—The. total debt of New
York,
1, 1879, was $145,562,190; the amount of

Braking funds $32,143,787.

The following statement
shows the details of funded
debt, a,nd the amount
city linking fund at the dates named:

in the

Description.

Jan. J, *77.

Year

debt

31,080,007

91,452,211

90,360,126
21,329,500
6,051,424

32,143,787

estate.

estate.
$

1862., 399,556,404 172,416,031
1863.. 402,187,382 191,987,161
1864.. 410,774,435 223,920,505
1865.. 427,360,884 181,423.471
1866.. 478,994,934 257,994,974
1867., 555,447,062 276,389,451
868.. 623,236,555 285,199,972
P69.. 684,183,918 281,142,696
1870.. 742,m3,075 305,285,374
1871.. ,769,302,250 306,947,233
1872.. 797.148.665 306,949,422
1373.. .836,693,380 29 i,5*7,643
’874., ,881,547.995 272,431,181
1875.. 883,643.515 217,300,154
1376.. ,892,428,165 218 626,173
1877.. 895,963,933 206,028,160
i>7a. 800,855,700 197,532,075
1379. .918,134,380; *175,934,955

Jan. 1,*78. Jan. 1, *79.

28,179,102

.

Personal

$1,000.-^
State. City.

$
1861., 406.955.665 174,624,306

Net

debt.
$

16
13
16
17
24

13
72
70
43
5 20
41
6 95
29
28
26
25
6
2
2
4

36 *’0,087,301
45 *21,695,506
03 *26,185,190
29 *33,769,601
94 *35,973,597
19 06 *33,654,683
22 03 *32,914,421
20 17 *35,983,647
.9 98 *47,791,840
19 80 *73,373,552
17 27 *88,369,386
23 81
*95,582,153
19 59 *106,363,471
21 05 *114.979,970
40—' *116,773,721
00
*119,811,310
50
*117,700,742
59
*113.413.403

Less sinking funds.

Ponded debt.... $119,631,313 $121,440,133 $126,128,815

Sinking funds..

^-Rate tax p

Real

By an act of 1874 the towns of West Farms,
Morrisania and
Kingsbridge, embracing about
12,000 acres, were annexed to New York.
Last

93,985,028 report of Comptroller in Vol.
29, p. 253. Mayor
13,481,500 Ely, in his me-sage, January, 1873. gave the
Revenue bonds..
5,952,07 5 following historical review: From an indebted¬
ness of about
$18,000,000 ou December 31, 1857, at
The population of New York
by the U. S. census the expiration of ten years, namely, December 31,
f 1870 was 922.531, against 805,658 in 1860. Since 1867, the amou- t had increasel to $32,914,421 £6.
)*
the valuation, rate of taxation, and This covered the period of the war, during two
•w

Temporary debt.

funded debt




22,371,400
6,104,844

at end of year,

have been

as

fol-

of which, 1863 aud 1864, more than $-2,000,030
added to the debt. From 1867-8 may be dated

years
was

the accession of the corrupt administration known
as “the Ring”
tinued in power

to full control. This dynasty con¬
for nearly five years, un'ill872,
dnring which period the aggregate debt of the city
increased as follows : 1863, $35,983,647 ; 1869, $47,791 84) ; 1870, $73,373,552 ; 1871, $88,369,3 6 ; 1872,
$95,582,153. Then followed an almost entire change
of administration, and many sincere efforts to econ¬
omize expenditures and diminish the increase of
the public debt. But such efforts were only to a
limited degree successful, ns the following table
of its increase from 1873 to 1876 will show:

1S73
1874

$106,363,471
114,9:9,969

1875
1876

$116,773,724
119,811,310

The outstanding assessment bonds (payable
of local assessments on property benefltted)

out
are

represented by advances to contractors, advances
on Boulevard work, and uncollected local assess¬
ments. The new consolidated 5 per cent gold bonds,
for <6,900,009, were taken Oct., 1818, at 105-28 ; but
on the part of some of the strongest advocates of
the city’s good credit there was great objection
made to the issue of
permanent bond? 'o pay off
assessment bonus originally charged against local
assessments on the
property benefltted and intenied to be paid out of those assessments
(V.
25, p. 17. 198, 358, 458: V. 26. p. 41; V. 27, p. 223, 252,
303; Y. 23, p. 121, 454; \. 22, p. 41, 253.)

Norfolk.—The “Trust” bonds due April, 1892,
secured by deed of trust on city property.
Coupons of 1st series are payable at Citizen*’ Bank;
coupons of 2d series at People’s National Bank.
Tax rate, $1 60; water tax, 40 cts., (special); total
are

rate, 2 per cent.

CITY

£11

Subscribers will confer

a

Date of
Bonds.

For explanations see notes on first page of tables.
Paterson. N. J.—School bonds
Funded debt bonds

1809-’71
1869-’77

& S.)

1863-’65
1877

Funding bonds, “A”

Renewal bonds, “B”

1877-’78

Philadelphia—Bonds prior to consolidation

•

Bonds for railroad stock subsidy subscript’ns
do
for water works
do
for bridges
do
for park and Centennial
Bonds for war and bounty purposes
do
municipal, school, sewer, Ac
Guaranteed debt, gas loans

or

par

Value.

1862-’71

Improvement bonds

3264781

Size

1858-’73

•

•

$500
500
500
500
500
100 Ac.
500

m

m

m

...

....

...

Water loan
do

....

Bounty loan ($21,000 payable each year)

Peoria A Rock Island Railroad

reg.)... 1868 to’74
Funded debt and other municipal bonds
1845 to ’72
or

1863
impr. Penn, av., &c. (local assessment). 1871 to’73
Bonds for overdue interest (temporary loan).
1879

Portland, Me.—Loan to Atl. A St. Lawrence RR. ’68,’69,’70
Loan to Portland & Rochester Railroad
do
do
do
do
Portland A Ogdensburg

1867 to ’69
1872
1872
1852-75
Municipal—proper, ($63,000 are 5s due ’83)..
1867
Building loan bonds
.'
1855
Providence, R.I.—Bonds for public improvem’ts
1863
Recruiting and bounty bonds
Water loan bonds, gold, coupon and reg
1872
do
do
do
1874
do
do
do
1876
1875
City Hall A sewer loan b’ds, sterling, cp. or reg
do
loan of 1879
1879
Prov. A Springfield RR. bonds, guaranteed...
1872
Brook Street District notes
1S77

Richmond, Ta.—Bonds, reg.,($112,000 are coup.)
Bonds, reg. and coup. ($232,000 arc coup.)...
Rochester, N. T—To Genesee Valley Railroad

..

To Roch. A State L. and R. N. & P. Railroads.
For various city improvements
Water works loan, coupon and registered

Funding loan
Rockland, Me.—City bonds
Railroad loan ($20,000 payable yearly)

....

1875
....

1869
1871
do
1872
St. Joseph, Mo.—Bonds to St. Jo. & Den City RR. 1860 to’69
Bonds to Missouri Valley Railroad
1869
Bonds for various purposes
1858 to’69
1871
Bridge bonds
1846 to’71
St. Louis—Renewal and floating debt bonds
Real estate, buildings and general purposes.. 1840 to ’68
Street improvement bonds
1855 to ’57
Water work bonds (old)
1856 to ’58
Tower Grove Park bonds (gold)
1868
Sewer bonds
1855 to ’69
Harbor and wharf bonds
1852 to’68
New water work bonds (gold)
1867 to ’70
do
do
do
1872
Renewal and sewer bonds (gold)
1871 to’73
Renewal purposes, gold or sterling
1873
1875
Renewal, Ac., bonds, gold, $ and &
1874-’79
Renewal, Ac., bonds,gold, and &, coupon
1872
Bridge approach bonds (gold)
«

do

St. Louis County bonds assumed—
Renewal bonds, coupon
Bonds to railroads, coupon
Insane Asylum

1867 to ’71
1853 to ’55
1867
1868

County Jail..

General purposes, gold
Renewal, gold
Park bonds, coupon, gold
County bonds

St. Paul, Minn.—Revenue bonds
Preferred bonds
8 per cent bonds
Lake Superior A Mississippi Railroad
St. Paul A Chicago Railroad
Public Park (Como.)

1872

..

Philadelphia.—The to:al funded debt, January 1,
1879, was $55,093,241; guaranteed debt, $5,999,400;

4,853,500
8,701,600
11,650,000
15,709,750
5,999,400
7
74,500
10
50,000
7
195,000
205,000 7,6g.A7g
10

7
7

6 A 7
4 A 5

7

5,127,700
1,405,000
1,000

500 &c.
...

500 Ac.

1,000
lOOOAe.
lOOOAc.
1000Ac.
lOOOAc.
lOOOAc.

£100

1,000
1,000
....

...

....

100,000
90,000

2,179,469
•

....

....

433,500

1,000
lOOOAc.
Various
lOOOAc.

100'

Ac.
100 Ac,
100 Ac.
100 Ac.
500

500
100 Ac.
500
Various
Various
Various
Various

1,000
1,000
Various

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

1,000
500

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

1873 to ’76
1875
1875
Various. Various
Various. Various
Various
1868
500 Ac,
1870
1,000
1873
1,000
....

787^000

700,000
450,000
1,350,000
1,704,600
325,000
600,000
300,000
2,000,000
2,000,000
1,500,000
1,397.250
600,000
500,000
700,000

3,145,000
1,214,700
168,000
750,000
961,686
3,182,000
410,000
160,650
400,000
150,000
205,000
431,500
150,000
299,400
500,000
1,922,000
1,148,000
70,000
336,000

346,000
885,000
870,000
3,950,000
1,250,000
681,000

1,074,000
707,000

2,747,000
461,000
300,000
325,000
100,000
500,000
600,000
550,000
2,300,000
500,000
504,815
47,710
263,125
200,000
100,000
100,000

J. A D.
J. A D.
J. A D.
J. A D.
J. A D.
,T. A D.
Various
J. A J.
J. A J.
J. A J.
J. A J.
J. A J.
J. A J.

city property, $431,533,599;
property, $31,992,035; farm property,
$18,084,240.
Population, 1870, 674,022, against
665,529 in 1860. (V. 27, p. 629.)
Peoria, III —Total debt, $686,500; tax valuation,
1876, $14,574,105.

Pittsburgh.—Assessed valuation iu 1879: Real
property, $92/ 54.390; per.-onal, only $2,612,268.
Sinking funds, $473,277. Tax rate, 1879, 17'6 mills

per$l. Population about 140,000. Interest defaulted
April, 1877. (V. 24. p. 519, 591; V- 26, p. 159, 181,
308,471; V. 27, p. 68, 643; V. 28, p. 43, 302.)
Portland, Me.—The sinking fund and available
aeaets March 31. 1879, were $3*0,815. The city is
'ortland by mortgages and Portland
Protected & Rochester, on Atlan. A St.&Lawrence,
Ogdens-




do

Dec., 1879-1904
Dec., 1879-1900
Dee., 1879-1886

do
do
do
do
do
do

do
do

do
do
do

1882-1902

Dec., 1879-1900
Juno, 1887
1901-1904
1879 to ’85

Pliila., Far. A Mech. N. B’k
do
do
do

do
do
do

do
do
do
do

S

do
do
do
do

)

>

S 1879 to 1903

> 1879 to 1905

^

.

•

-to.

.

-

■

J. A J. N. Y., Nat. Bk. Commerce.
do
do
J. A J.
do
do
7
J. A J.
do
do
M. A S.
7
do
do
6 g. J. A D.
do
do
6 g. J. A J.
do
*
do
6 g. A. A O.
do
do
6 g. M. A N.
12 A 7 M. A N. N. Y., Kountze Brothers.
do
do
M. A N.
7
do
do
8
Various
6
do
do
J. A D.
do
do
6
J. A D.
do
do
7
7

6 g.

1879 to 1881
1879 to 1880

July 1,1887
Sept. 1,1888
June, 1892
1893 to 1896

April 1,1905
May 1,1895
1879 to'90
1883 to’86

1889, '90, '96

....

was

assessed,

City Hall1, by Treasurer.

M. A N. Boston, Blackstone N. B’k. Nov., 1886,’87,’88
do
J. A J.
do
July, 1887
J. A J.
do
do
July 1, 1897
do
M. A S.
do
Sept. 1,1907
5 AG
Boston and Portland.
1879 to ’95
m’ntlity
do
6
J. A D.
June 1,1887
6
M. A S.
Providence.
Sept., 1885
do
5
J. A J.
Jan., 1893
5 A 6 g. J. A J. Boston, Prov. and London.
Jan., 1900
5 g. J. A J. N. Y., N. City Bank, A Prov.
Jan., 1900
do
5 g. J. A J.
do
July 1,1906
5 g. J. A J. London, Morton, Rose A Co
July 1,1895
J. A D.
Providence.
June 1,1899
4*2
do
7
J. A J.
1892
M. A S.
5
Sept. 1,1880-’84
Treasury.
6
J. A J., 1880-1912
J. A J.
1886 A 1904-1909
8
J. A J.
7
1879 to 1903
J. A J. N. Y., Metropolitan N. Bk.
F. A A. New York and Roohester.
1893
7
do
do
Various
1879 to 1902
6 A 7
N. Y., Union Trust Co.
J. A J.
Jan. 1,1903
7
do do
1905
1880 to 1897
5 A 6
Semi-an
City Treasury.
6
J. A J. Boston, First National Bk.
1880 to 1899
do
do
6
F A A.
1891
do
do
6
M. A S.
1892
1880 to ’89
6 A 7
Various N. Y., Nat. B’k Commerce.
7
M. A N.
do
do
Nov., 1889
10 A 6 Various St. Joseph and New York.
1878 to ’89
10'
J. A J. N. Y., Nat. B’k Commerce.
1891
6
1879 to'91
Various N. Y., Nat. Bank Republic
do
1880 to 1906
6
do
Various
do
do
1882 A '87
6
Various
do
do
1880 to’83
6
Various
do
do
6 g• F. A A.
Aug., 1898
do
6
do
1880 to ’89
Various
do
do
6
1879 to ’88
Various
6 g. J. A D. New York and St. Louis. June, 1887, to '90
6 g. A. A O. N. Y., Nat. B’k Commerce.
April 1,1892
do
do
1891 th '94
6 g. Various
Nov. 1,1893
New York or London.
6 g. M. A N.
do
do
6 g. M. A N.
May 1, 1895
do
do
1894 A 1899
6 g. J. A J.
Dec. 10,1892
6g. J. A D. N. Y., Nat. B’k Commerce.

lease of said road to Erie Railway Company after
paying the interest ont of said receipts. Real prop¬

$48,000,000; personal, $2,000,000.
Rate of tax, 1877, $2 per $100.
Richmond, : Vd.—Real estate assessed, 1878,
$28,076,513; personal. $11,510,584. Tax rate, $1 40.
Rockland, Me.—Valuation of real estite, 1878,
$2,484,915; personal, $1,082,236. Tax rate, $31 per
$1,000.
St. Joseph, Mo.—Population in 1870 was 19,566,
against 8,932 in 1860. Assessed valuation of property,
$11,000,000; rate of tax, *23 mills. (V. 23, p. 135, 175;
V. 25, p 408 : V. 28, p. 477.)
St. Louis.—Population by the U. S. census in 1870
was 310,664, against 160,773 in 1860.
The city and
county were merged by law in 1877 and city as¬
erty

Prin cipal—When
Due.

6
6
6
6

Assessed va’ue of real estate in
$19,212,800 ; personal, $11,458,3*4.
Tax
floating debt, $10,742,458. Sinking funds, $13,499,810. rate, $25 50 per $1,000. Population in 1879, 35,010,
Total assets, including sinking fund, railroad again st 31,413 in 1870, and 26,341 in 1860. (V. 24,
stocks held, $4,344,3)5 of taxes “due and collecti¬ p. 542.)
ble,” and #1.390,6fil cash, were $22,203,445, leaving
Providence, R. L—The principal debt of Providence
balance of liabilities $49,631,656. The following has been created since 1872 for water
works, sewer¬
table exhibits the assessed valuation and tax rate in
age and new City Hall. The floating debt at close of
the city since 1871:
fiscal year Sept. 30, 1878, was $2,793,300, including
Real
Personal
Rate Tax above Brook Street notes and
$90,000 Qigh School
Estate.
Tear.
Estate.
per $1,000 notes. The assessed valuations of all property in 1878
$502,415,863
$20 80
$8,608,819
were: real estate, $86,341,100; personal, $20,699,400.
21 50
518,234,568
8,930,700
Rate of tax, $14 50 per $1,000. The sinking fund
539,003,602
9,239,933
22 00
for bonds due in 1885, $516,737; sinking funds of
565,849,095
9,434,873
21 50
1893. $191,060; ’95, $120,803; 1900-6, $103,224. Popula¬
585,408,705
10,004,673
21 50
tion by U. S. census, ’70,68,901; by State census, ’75,
1877....... 593,313,532
9,755,000
22 50
100,800. The laws of Rhode Island now limit the
586,988,097
21 50
debts of towns to 3 per cent of their assessed valua¬
526 539,972
8,069,8:12
20 50
tion.
(V. 28, p. 578.)
There is no large amount of city debt maturing in the
Rochester.—The bonds of Genesee Val. RR. loan,
next four years. Assessed valuations of real estate
$168,000, are provided for by net receipts from a
for 1879 are: Full

suburban

by

J. A J.
J. A J.
1883 to 1905
Various N. Y., Arner. Exch.Nat.Bk.
1879 to 1890
M. A N.
do
do
May 15,1881
J. A D.
do
do
June 1,1888
Various
do
1889-1891
do
M. A S.
Mch 1,1882 A ’83
Ci tv Treasury.
J. A J.
New York.
July 1, 1888
A. A O.
1893 to ’98
Philadelphia.
Various Pittsburg, Phila. A N. Y.
1879 to 1912
1913
J. A J. New York, B’k of America.
Various
1883 to '85
Philadelphia.

burg railroads.
1879

Where Payable and
Whom.

Pay’ble

7
7
7
7
7
6
6
5 A 6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6

42,000

....

Compromise railroad bonds (coup, and reg.)..
Bonus

140,000
38,000
353,000

When

Rate.

100,000
4,482,425
1,641,000

....

....

$130,000

1,725,000

mmm

•

outstanding.

6,500,000

L868 to’70
1862 to *65
1860 to ’70

INTEREST.

Amount

5,753,391

•

1855
1855 to’71
1859 to '70

Peoria, Ills.—Schoolman
Water loan ($50,000 each year)

Pittsburgh—Water exten. loan (coup,

[Vol. XXIX.

great favor by giving Im mediate notice of any error discovered lu these Tables*

DESCRIPTION.

Sewer bonds ($125,000 are M.
War bounty bonds

SECURITIES,

sumed the county bonds.

1888 A '98
1900
1903

In the last fiscal year.

the resources were:
Balance April 11, 1877
Interest revenue

Municipal revenue collections
Special collections
Proceeds of anticipation notes.

$691,272
1,731,670
2,611,609

322,416
725,000

....

Proceeds of renewal bonds

351,000

$6,544,427
expenditures were
$5,900,941
Unpaid warrants on hand April 11,1878..
40,944
The

$5,659,996
Balance in treasury April 10,1878
$684,431
The Comptroller gives the following in his re¬
port to April, 1878: The liabilities appear as follows:
The bonded debt at the close of fiscal year (April 9,

1878), was $15,996,000; the bonded debt of the late
county, assumed by the City. $6J59.000. Other
liabilities—claim of St. Louis Gaslight Co.

furnished, with interest, $685,000.

for gas
The sinking

follows: Assets of this fund at com¬
the present fiscal year. $590,095.
The resources available this fiscal year will be about
Assessed valuation of real property in
$110,900.
fund is

as

mencement of

Tax rate
city purposes in old limits, $1 75; in new lim¬
its, $J 50.
(V. 25, p. 20i; V. 26, p. 290, 350, 436; V.
27, p. 229.)
1879, $135,7oS,000; personal, $30,224,860.

for

St. Paul, Minn. —Population in 1870 was 20,030;
in 1878 (claimed), 45,000.
Assessed valuation of
taxable property, 1878, $23,061,000, or about onehalf of the estimated, actual value. Tax rate 18

mills per $1.

September 27,

1879.J

Subscriber* will confer

a

Dato of

Value.

1873
1879

Salem, Mass.—City debt
Citydebt

School bonds
School bonds
Park improvement bonds

1877
1858
18G3 to '64
1864
1865
1866 to '67
1867
1870 to '72
1874
1872 to '75
1871 to'73
1874
1875 to '76
1876
1879

.

Hospital bonds
House of Correction bonds
City Hall construction

Widening Dupont St. (Act March 4, 1876)
Savannah, Qa— New compromise bonds
Somerville, Mass.—City debt
City debt
do
do
do
do
Park & wat'r ($170,000 A. &0.;
Water loan

Large.
Various.

....

Large.
Various.

.

.

.

$155,000 J. &J.)

....

....

....

....

Water loan ($200,000 are 6 per
ce^its)
Railroad loan
Railroad notes
Toledo, O.—General fund city bonds, coup
Toledo & Woodville Railroad, coupon

....

....

....

'70/71/76
1870
1873 & '74

special assessm’ts

Worcester, Mass.—City debt, coup, and regist’d.
City debt, registered (5 pieces,$100,000 each)
do
($250,000 reg., $550,000 coupon).
do reg. ($200,000 J.&J., $300,000 A.&O.)
Sewer loan
Water loan

($92,000 are J.& D., balance J.&J.)
($305,400 reg.^ $80,000 coup.)
—

Salem, Mass.—The sinking fund amounts

about $-200,000, and the bonds

....

100 &c.

....

Springfield, Mass.—City notes
City bonds

on

500 &c.
500 &c.
500 &c.
500 &c.
500 &e.
500 &c.
500 &c.
500 &c.
500 &c.
500 &c.
500 &c.
500 &c.

....

....

are

to

valued at par;

$1 ,146,000 of debt coupon; balance registered; total,

$1,452,678. Population, 1875,25,958. Tax valuation,

1879, $22,978,677.

1875-'78
....

....

....

....

....

....

110,000
300,000
500,000
398,500
542,000

1,000
1,000

....

.

115,000

100 &c.
100 &c.

....

Judgment bonds, coupon (gold)
Central Pacific Railroad, coupon (gold).
Western Pacific Railroad,
do
do
School bonds,
do
do
Judgment bonds,
do
do

$100,000

1,000

....

Water loan
do

outstanding.

$1,000

....

INTEREST.

Amount

or

par

first page of tables.

SI. Paul, Minn. (Continued.)Local improvement
Bonds

Waterworks
Short bonds, chargeable

Size

Bonds.
on

xiii

great favor by giving Immediate notice of
any error dincovered In these Tables.

DESCRIPTION.
For explanations see notes

CITY SECURITIES.

.

Large.

1000&C.

Large.
Large.

Large.
1,000
1,000
1,000

Large.
....

....

•

....

Large,
....

500 &c.
500 &c.
Various.
500 &c.

435,500
377,000
250,000
197,000
.

246,000
385,000
200,000
475,000
210,000
150,000
750,000
915,000

3,000,000
10,000

461,000
165,000
115,000
140,854
200,000
325,000
320,000
137,000

211,000
1,200,000
300,000
45,000
1,310,000
447,000
1,000,000
640,300
45,000
500,000
800,000
500,000
311,900

385,400

When

Rate.

Pay’ble

7
6
5 &
6
6
5
6
7
7
7
7
7
7
6
6
6
7
6
7
5
7

«

Savannah, Ga.—Default was made on interest
Nov. 1, 1876, in consequence of
yellow fever and
non-collection of taxes.
The compromise now vir¬
tually carried out is given in V. 26, p. 625, by which
new
5 per cent bonds are
exchanged for the
face of old bonds; and for interest
up to Feb. 1,
1879, 58 per cent of the face value in similar bonds.

000 of mortgages are now omitted from assessment.

S'ymei'ville, Mass.—Total debt, $1,771,854; sinking
fund, $45,131; tax valuation, 1876, $26,573,400. Ex¬
cept $140,000 5s in $1,000 pieces, all bonds are in

Sinking funds raised annually amount to $263,500.
$100, for city and

Tax rate in 1S77-8 is $1 69 per
county purposes. (V. 28, p. 165.)




*

Assessed

$2,000 to $50,000 pieces.

Due.

& J. N. Y., Kountze Brothers.
1898
& 0.
do
do
April 1, 1904
6
& J.
City Treasury.
1879 to 1889
& J. Boston, Merchants’ Bank.
Jan. 1, 1891
& O.
do
do
Apl. 1,1883-1898
& J.
do
do
July 1,1904
& J.
g.
San Francisco.
Jan. 1, 1888
& O.
g.
do
Oct. 1, 1883
& J.
g.
do
July 1, 1894
& N.
g.
do
May 1, 1895
& O.
g.
do
April 1,1881
& O.
g.
do
Oct. 1, 1887
& D.
g.
do
June 1,1882 to '90
& J.
g.
do
July 1, 1894
& J.
g.
do
1897 & 1904
& N.
g.
do
Nov. 1, 1891
& J.
g.
do
July 1,1894
g*
do
1899
g. J. & J.
do
1896
New York and Savannah.
Q—F.
Felu 1, 1909
A. & O. Boston, Nat.
Security Bank
April 1, 1879
A. & O.
6*2
do
do
April, 1879 to ’84
J. & J.
6*2
do
do
July 1,1880 to’84
6
Various
do
do
Oot.’81-’4,July/85
5*2
Various
do
do
July, >84, Apl.,'95
5
Various
do
do
Apl.,'95, July, '96
6*2
Various
do
do
1881 to 1884
5^2,6,612 Various
do
do
1880 to 1906
Various
5^2,6
City Treasury.
1879 to 1884
6
Various Boston, First National B’k.
1879-1890
6 & 7
A. & O.
do
do
Apl. 1,'94, to 1905
7
A. & O.
do
do
Apl. 1,1879-1893
6
Various
City Treasury.
1879 to 1881
6, 7 & 8 Various N. Y., Imp. & Trad. N. Bk.
1879 to '94
73
M. & N.
do
do
May, 1900
8
Various
do
do
Juno/93& Sep.,'94
7 & 8
Various
do
do
1879 to '81
5 & 6
J. & D.
City Treasury.
1879-1884
6
J. & J.
do
Jan. 1,1881
6
A. & 0. C.Treas.&Bost. Mchts.’ Bk.
April 1, 1892
5
Various
do
do
1887-89 & 1905
5 & 6
Various
do
do
1880 to 1899
5 & 6
Various
do
do
1880 to 1906

value of >real estate,
$14,000,000; per¬
sonalty, $4,200,000; tax rate, 1% per cent. Popu¬
lation in 1870, 28,235, against 22,292 in 1860.
(V.
26, p. 18, 626; V. 27, p. 122. 173, 568; Y. 28, p. 17.)

About $54,000,*

Whom.

Principal—When

J.
A.
J.
J.
A.
J.
J.
A.
J.
M.
A.
A.
J.
J
J.
M.
J.

San Francisco.—Population by the U. S. census
Of 1870 was 149,482, against 56,802 in 1860; in 1876
claimed 272,000.
Real estate for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1878. is assessed at $190,221,003;

personal property at $70,041,340.

Where Payable, and by

SpringUeld, Mass.—Total debt, $1,946,611; cash
assets, $303,989. The railroad debt falls due $20,000
each year. No
registered d>onds. Tax valuation,
1870, $25,514,060; 1876, $35,109,456; 1877, $30,697,776.
Rate, 132. Population in 1875, 31,053.
Toledo—'Total debt, Jan., 1879, was $3,531,296. Of
this the debt payable by
special assessments was
$640,300, and the certificates of indebtedness.
$103,147.
Taxable valuation of real estate, 1878,
$134,030,070; personal, $5,567,000. Tax iate, $3 28
per $100.
Worcester, Mass.—Total debt, $2,542,100. Cash
assets, $210,658, including $94,126 sinking fund.
Population, 49,317 in 1875; Tax valuation, 1870,
$34,018,450 ; 1878, $39,572,158; tax rate, 1*56.

RAILROAD STOCKS

XIV

Subscribers will confer

a

see notes

Miles Date
of
of
Road. Bonds

Alabama Central— (Selma & Merid.)—1st mort—
Ala.dt Qt.Soulh’n. —Receiver’s certitic.of Ala.&Cliatt
1st mortgage, new, (for $1,750,000)

81

Alleghany Valley—Stock

General mortgage (Riv. Div.)
Bonds to State Pa. (endorsed) 2d mort.. East ext.
1st mortv East’n Exten.,

guar, by Pa. RR

income bonds, with traffic guarantee.

Atchison <6 Nebraska—1st mortgage

Atchison, Topeka <£ Santa Fe—Stock
1st mortgage, gold

•

•

•

....

.

....

...

1878

65
....

148
....

44
31
....

265*3
265*3
87
....

460
460
460
w

.

.

.

....

....

1872
1875
1878
....

1877
1877
1878

1877
....

1,000
100 &c.
100 &c.
100
500 &c.
500 &c.
....

....

500 &c.
....

1,000
1,000
....

1,000

286
....

58
58

428
428
428
81
81
81
133
133
133
214
214

—

•

•

•

•

....

150
150
150
150
53
51
51

595

100
....

500 &c.
500 &c.
500 &c.

1,000
1,000
500
500
100
100
500 &c.

....

....

1868
1869

....

....

....

i871

....

....

500 &c.
500 &c.

1868
1,000
1866
1,000
1866
200 &c.
1866
200 &c,
1854
1,000
1865
1,000
Var’us Various
1869
100 &c.
....

1868
1864
1871
....

1861
1864

£100

1,000
£100
£100
100
100 &c.

1,000
100
100
100

....

„

Debentures, sterling
Sterling mortgage, sinking fund
Sterling mortgage, sinking fund
Purchase of Connellsv. RR’ (payable$40,000 y’ly)
Alabama Central.—In default since January, 1872.

Negotiations pending for

connection with

(V. 27,

p.

40

a new

adjustment, and a
Nov., 1878.

Meridian completed

Alabama & Gat Southern.—A\a. &

30
.

.

.

.

....

....

....

411
421
....

.

....

1871
1857
1857

i850
1853
1870

1855
1874-5
1872
1874
1875

7*30
5
7 or 6 g.
7
7

10,615,000

7 g.
7 g.
7 g.
7
8
7

854,000

....

.

.

.

.

....

J.

3,568,000
.

7
7
7
7

5,470,000
4,000,000
306,000
157,000
458,000

684,000
621,000

452,500
990,000
969,000
84,190
226,900
5,454,680
787,000

1,500,000
713,000
1,022,900
336,900
100,000

14,785,100
4,599,578
1,650,000
579,500
1,710,000
3,017,697
2,420,000
8,683,686
9,232,341
830,000

Oct.

do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do

Jan.

1, 1900
1903
1882

1,1883-’88

Nov. 1,

1879
1, 1902

July

Aug. 25,1879

July 1, 1905
1905
1907

July 1, 1907

&
«V.
&
&

Savannah.
& J.

•

N.
M. <fc N.
M. & N.

July, 1897

Y., Perkins, L.& Post
do
do

1879

do
do

Nov.

1, 1888
May 1, 1889

.

7 g.
8
7
8
8
6
6
6
8
8
8
3 g.
6
6 g.
6 g.

3*2
6
7
4
3
5
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6

Aug. 25, 1879
July, 1899

1908
0.
New York, Office.
April 1,1897
J.
do
Jan. 1,1907
J. Atlanta, Ga., atTreas’y.
Aug. 1, 1879
0. New York and London. Oct. 1, 1876
& J.
do
do
Jan., 1902
& S’.
do
do
Sept., 1902
& N.
do
do
Nov., 1902
& J.
do
do
Jan., 1902
& J.
London, Co.’s Office.
Jan., 1903
& J.
do
do
July 1, 1876
do
do
M. & S.
do
do
Sept, 1, 1895
A.
J.
J.
A.
J.
M.
M.
J.
J.
J.

J.

s.

g.
g.
g.
g.

rising

to 34 per cent m lc80 and thereafter. Denver
Rio Grande leaded (see V. 27, p. 434).
(V. 27, p.

15, 40, 227, 2^0, 303, 3-2, 407, 434, 513; V. 23, p. 120,
222, 301, 374. 400, 427, 4 7 5 , 502, .53, 623, 641; V. 29,

Chattanooga P 40, 66, 95,119, 224, 293.)
reorganized. Ordinary stock issued, $7,8k),0(4; pref.
Atlanta
Ch,ar'otta.—This is the Atlanta & Rich¬
stock authorized, *781,000. Gross
earnings i87S,
S419,l' 9; net, $112.705. About $450,000 of the receiv¬ mond Air-Line sold in foreclosure December, 1876,
and re-organized.
Gross earnings 1678, $629,278;
er’s certificates are disputed.
(V. 25, p. 40, 185;
net, $20?,034. (V. 28, p. 217, 427.)
V. 26, p. 17, 39, 84, 264; V. 27, p. 07, 85, 121.)
Atlanta & West Point.—Gross earnings in 1873-9,
Albany & Susquehanna.—This road is leased for
150 years from 1870 to Delaware & Hudson Canal $339,262; in 1377-8,
$321,140; in 1876-7, $311,158; net
Co., at 7 per cent per annum, on stock and bonds. earnings in 1878-9, $123,370; in 1877-8, $14^,435; in
Consol, mort. is for $10,030,(00, of which $3,450,000 1876-7. $106,949. There are
$83,000 bonds outstand¬
is to retire old bonds, and balance for a part of old ing. (V. 27, p. 1 21; V.
29, p. 301.)
stock and to lessee for improvements.
Net earn¬
Atlantic & Great Western.—The common stock
ings in 1878, $45'»,580.
(V. 25, p. 615; V. $7,
outstanding is $24,795,203, and preferred $9,676,250.
p. 602.)
Trustees’ certificates were offered in London,
Aug.,
Alleghany Valley —This road was embarracsed in 1879; see Chronicle, V.
29,
1874, and compromised with creditors. Gross earn¬ default was made on its p 213. In July, 1874,
bonds.
Foreclosure is
ings 1878, $1,910,228; net $915,726, asainst $1,144,971 pending and
proceedings looking to re-organization
in 1877. Deficieiv y for mortgage interest in
1878, are in
$240,260; deficiency on all interest. $698,396. Of Gross progress, and a new lease to Erie is proposed.
earnings in 1879, $3,745,206; net deficit,
income bonds, $2,648,400 are held by
individuals, $19,900. (V. 27, p. 651; V. 2*, p 222, 276,
and pay interest in cash when
399, 452,
earned; <3,9.9,003 476, 525, 553, 577; V. 29, p. 40, 193,
213.)
held by railroads draw interest in bonds.
(V. 26, p.
493; V. 27, p. 356; V. 28, p. 399.)
Atlantic & Gulf— The Company also has $334,000
of old sectional mort. b’ds
outstanding; $500,000 10
Atchison tfc Nebraska.—Unrier
re-organization,
$1,125,000 bonds and $3,337,000 st~ci were given for
onds, and $52,500 Bainbridge Extension bonds.
old bonds and overdue coupons. Dividend (f 1
Orderelto be sold iu fo eclosnre November, 1879.
per cent paid December, 1878. Gross receipts h 79,
In New York,
$1,000,000 2d
$452,057; net receipts, $98,405. (V. 25, p. 510; V. bond?,, held as July, 1877,were sold at mortgage
collateral,
auction at
28, p. 399.)
(V. 25, p. 57, 407; V. 27, p. 538; V. 29, p.
Atchison, Topeka <fc Santa Fe.—$2,000,000 stock 40, 250.)
was issued for equipment, &c., June, 3879.
Land
Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio.—Gross earnings
grant estimated to be 2,932.781 acres, of which
865,161 acres were sold to January 1, 1879. Net year ending June 30, 1878. $1,781,7:0; expenses,
$1,351,575; net earnings, $430,13). The divisional
earnings,
1878,
$1,909,395,
against in
1877, bonds matured and maturing up to July, 1880,
$1,229,656; sec annual report, V. 28, p. 475. The have been extended for ten
years by order of the
extension of leas d lines and new roads
building in Court, and new sheets of coupons are issued to the
1878 are referred to in V. 27 p. 15.
The K C. T. holders.
Interest on the divisional bonds is
in W. is leased at 30 per cent of
gross earnings, paid two or three months after it falls dne.




J.
0.
0.
J.
J.
N.
J.

3*2

1,666,000
300,000
464,000
200,000

6,921,900

Oct. 1, 1894
Mar. 1, 1908

‘

6

.

July 1,1870
July, 1888
Nov., 1895
Oct., 1885
May, 1881
April 1, 1906

Boston.
do
do
do
do

A. & 0.
A. & 0.

1,748,500
2,500,000
3,693,200
782,976

...

1882
Jan. 1, 1908

Pittsburgh.

J. & J.

g.
g.
g.
g.
g.

June, 1901

Boston, at Office.

& ' J.

7
7
7
7
7
4
7
7
7
7
7
7
8
7

15,165,200
11,989,680
28,783,000
5,355,000

2,938,091
£200
£100
£200

& 0.
M. & 8.

7 g.

1,232,200

Stocks—Last
Dividend.

Whom.

& J. N. Y., Winslow, L. &Co. March
1,1896
Jan’ary Harrisburg, Treasury. $100,000 y’rly.
A. <fc O. Philadelphia or London
April 1, 1910
A.

7 g.

2,416,300

Payable, and by

J.

&
&
&
&
&
&
&

g.
g.
g-

Bonds—Princi

Ser cent coupon notes; $45,000 Junction Branch RR.

A. & 0. N.
J. & J.
J. <fc J.
J. & J.
J. & J.
J. & J.
J. & J.
J. & J.
J. & J.
J. & J.
J. & J.
M. & S.
M. & N.
A. & O.
M. & N.
J. & D.
J. & J.
J. & J.
M. <fc N.
J. & J.
A. & O.
J. & J.
A. & O.
M. & S.
J. & J.
J. & J.
M. & S.
M. & N.
J. & J.
A

final

Y.,

First’Nat.

N. Y., Perkins,
do
do
do
do
do
do
do

Bank.

Oct.

1, 1901

L. & P. Jan. 1, 1887
Jan. 1, 1887
July 1, 1893

do
do
do
do
do
do
do

July 1, 1884
Mch. 1, 1900

Lynchburg Office.

Jan.

1, 1875
July 1, 1880
Sept. 15, 1879
Portland.
May 2, 1886
London, Gr. Trunk Rw. Oct. 1, 1884
do
do
Oct. 1, 1891
Savannah.
Jime, 1879
Pliila., Farm. & M. Bank July 1, 1881
do
do
July 1, 1884
Baltimore Office.
May 15,1879
Balt,,., Merchants’ Bank. July 1, 1879
Baltimore Office.
April 16, 1879
Balt., Merchants’ Bank.
1880
N. Y.,

Perkins, L. & P.
London, Gr. Trunk Rw.

Baltimore Office.
London.
Baltimore Office.

1885
1895
1890

London, Naylor & Co.
London.
London, Speyer Bros.

Tan. 1,’80&81
Mch. 1, 1902
1910

Baltimore.

1879-1900

decree

of

sale

under

the

consolidated

mortgage was made in May, 1879. A scheme of re¬
organization approved by the consolidated mortgage
bondholders (mostlv in’London) will probably be
carried out. (V. 27. p. 40, 67, 251, 279,
434, 461; V.
28, p. 97, 199, 222, 476, 624.)
Atlantic & St. Lawrence.—Leased for 999 years,
from July, 1853, to
Grand Trunk

Canada.

Annual

stock.

rent, 6 per cent

Railway

on

of
bonds and

(V. 27, p. 147.)
Augusta & Savannah.—Leased to Central

gia for $73,000
about $50,000.
Bald Eagle

per

of Geor¬
annum; has surplus fund of

Valley.—Leased to Pennsylvania Rail¬

road at 40 per cent of gross receipts.
In 1877 gross
earnings were $136,962. The Pennsylvania Railroad
holds all the 2d mortgage bonds. Holders of 1st
mortgage were t sked to exchange them for new 30
year bonds. In Aug., 1879, 2y2 per cent was paid on
stock.
(V. 27, p. 486.)
Baltimore & Ohio.—The amount of stock as above
includes the iast stock dividend. Annual
report
for 1877-8 in V. 27, p. 535.
The floating debt Sept.
30, 1678, was $2,563,302 of “bills payable,” and

$2,554,959 of “loans and sterling obligaiions,” and

to

April, 1879, $761,640 of earnings was applied to
this. The gross earnings of the “ Main
Stem,” &c.,
for five years were as. follows :
Gross
1877-8
1876-7

Net

Earnings.
$8 563,956
8,262,045

Earnings,
$4,039,611
3,656,893

Stock and
Debt.

$55,947,662

4,215,554
47,311,656
4,332,206
47,173,000
5,018,060
45,876,000
The gross earnings of the main and all leased lines
tn
1877-78 were $13,765,279, and net earnings,
$5,995,978, including earnings of Pittsburgh Division.
B. & O. direct bonds of 1879 on Parkersburg Blanch
are secured by deposit of mort rage on that road.
(V. 26. p. 289, 367. 598; V.27, p 67, 535, 651; V. 28,
p. 223, 276, 578; V. 29, p. 145, 225, 250.)
1875-6

9,632,361

1874-5..;... 10,514,178
1S73-4
11,693,955

-

pal, When Due.

J.
S.
J. N.Y.,Farmers’ L. & T. Co
J. N. Y., B’k of Commerce.
J. N.Y.,Del. &Hud.Can.Co
N.
do
do
O.
do
do
N.
do
do
0.
do
do

J.
A.
A.
J.
J.
M.
J.

le-

200,000

2,060,000

&
&
&
&
&
&
&
&
&

3

7,041,000
3,265,000
3,389,000
78,000
480,000
413,000
412,000

4,250,000

1873

i867

7
6
7
7
7

253,000

1,000

.

500

....

1871
1871
1871
1872
1873

3*2

1,960,000
2,166,500
4,000,000
3,100,000
10,000,000
6,870,000
1,125,000

1,000
1,000
1,000

.

J.
M.
.T.
J.
J.
M.
A.
M.
A.

C g.

1,719,000
1,067,000
120,000
310,000
!?)
500,000

.

....

350

4th

Bald Eagle Valley—1st mort., s. f.($5,000per year).
2d mortgagees,000 per year)
Baltimore <£ Ohio—Stock
Preferred stock
Washington branch.
Loan, 1850
Loan, 1853
do
1870,sterling, £S00,00<), sink, fund
Baltimore loan, 1855-’90, sink, fund

....

1S78

1879

Virginia & Tennessee—Enlarged mortgage

do

1,000

.

....

—

do

50

100

mort. consolidated, gold (for $15,000,000)
2d mort. to the State (no interest till 1830)
Norfolk & Petersburg—let mortgage,
extended.,
do
do
1st
do
do
do
do
2d
do
South Side—1st pref. consol, mort
do
2d
do
guar. Petersb’rg
do
3d
do

Augusta A Savannah—Stock

1,000

....

27*2

Consolidated 1st mortgage
Sav. Albany & Gulf RK. mortgage bonds
Southern Georgia & Florida, 1st mortgage
do
do
2d mortgage
Atlantic, Miss. <£ Ohio—Stock, (com’n, pref. & guar.).
1st

do

500 &c.

.

-

3d

1,000
1,000
1,000

....

....

do
($29,000,000)
Leased lines rental gold bonds (Cl. & M.)
do
do
(P. P., P. V. and S. & A.)
Western Extension certificates (Cl., Col., Cin. & I.)
do
do
do
bonds
Trustees’ certificates for prior liens ($8,000,000).
Atlantic <6 Gulf— Common stock
Guaranteed stock

mortgage
Registered certificates
*
Interest funding bonds....
Atlantic
St. Lawrence—Stock, sterling
Portland city bonds, 1st mort., sinking fund
2d mortgage, sterling, 5-20 years

100

....

1869
1870

•

mortgage ($18,000,000)
do
($12,000,000)

do
do
do

3

....

....

—

do
do
do

3

700,000
752,000
3,500,000
1,000,000
933,000
2,000,000

1,000

Wichita <fc Southwest. (leased) 1st M., gold, guar..
Kane. City Top. & West., (leased,) stock
do
do
1st mort., gold

1st general
2d
do
3d
do

$1,600,000

1878

867

Land grant
mortgage, gold
Consol, bonds, gold
Construction notes
Land income bonds, 5 to 10
years
Pottawatt’mie Vds on 73,158 ac. land(contingent)

Atlanta <t West Point—StocK
Atlantic & Great Western— Old 1st mort., Ohio Div..

$....
....

1866
1870
1871
1874
1878

Rate per When When
Cent.
Payable

Outstanding

....

1863
1865
1865
1869
1876

INTEREST OR DIVIDENDS.

Amount

Value.

1871

....

Mortgage bonds

or
Tar

296
201
142
142
142
142
142
262
132
110
110
262
149

Consol, mort. (guar. D. &H.) coup., may be reg...

do
do
income bonds
Pueblo <fe Ark. Valley, (leased,) 1st M., gold
do
do
let mortgage
Pleasant Hill & De Soto (leased), 1st M., gold
Florence Eldorado & W. (leased), 1st mort., gold.
New Mexico & So. Pacific, 1st mortgage, gold
Atlanta <& Charlotte—New pref. mort

Size,

....

Albany <& Susquehanna—Stock
1st mortgage
Albany City loan (sinking fund, 1 per et. yearly).
2d mortgage
3d mortgage, sinking fund

Funding

[Vol. XXIX.

great favor by giving immediate notice of any error discovered In these
Tables*

DESCRIPTION.
For explanation of column headings,
on first page of tallies.

AND BONDS.

September 27,

RAILROAD STOCKS AND BONDS.

1879.]

Su Ofucrlbera will

confer

a

great

favor by

giving immediate

XT

notice of any error

DESCRIPTION.
Miles Date
For explanation of column
headings, &c., see notes
of
of
on first
page of tables.
Road. Bonds

Baltimore

d

263
104

...

INTEREST OR DIVIDENDS.
Bonds—Princi¬
pal, When Due.
Rate per When Where
Payable and by Stocks—Last
Cent.
Pay’ble
Whom.
Dividend.

Amount

Value.

Outstanding

£200

1877
1879
1855
1878
1871
1871
1875
1866
1877

....

....

....

98
98
56
64

67

$7,703,034

84
21
321

Sinking fund

Loivell—Stock

100
100

38*2

.

151
29

.

1,000
100 &c.
....

i854

43

1,000

’69-’70

1,000
1,000

1876
’61-’74 500 &c.
100

.

.

1858
1873

.

.

160
82

100
100 &c,
100 &c.

500

204

100

66

$800,000

....

.

ac.

I’d)

26
142
140
121
121

New mortgage
Buffalo, N. j. d Philadelphia—1st mort., gold
2d mortgage (for

$1,000,000)

C. Rapids d Northern—Stock, guar

1st mortgage

M.on r’d&400.000 ac’sI’d) Cp.
br’cli, C. B. & Q. stk. (5th ser.) ) or
Convertible bonds, C. B. & Q. st’k (6tli ser.))
reg.
Burlington & Missouri in Nebraska—Stock.
Bonds, convertible till Jail., 1882
on

Consol.mort.for $14,000,000, s. f. $30,000
Omaha & S. W., 1st
mortgage, guar
Republican Valley Railroad, stock,
guar
Burl & Southwest.—1st
mort., cp., maybe reg
Cairo & St. Louis—1st
mortgage
T.
Cairo &

1876
1871
1878

367
281

1876
1863
1869
1870

40
....

.

1873
1878
1872

....

Vincennes—1st mortgage, gold
gold
mortgage, endorsed by Central Pacific
3d mort., guar,
by C. P. ($1,000,000 are 3 p. c.)
Camden & Atlantic—Stock
($838,150 of it pref.)
1st mortgage (extended 20
years in 1873)
Camden d Burlington- Co.—1st
mortgage
Canada Southern—Stock
New mort., interest
guar., (for
Carolina Central—1st mortgage, $14,000,000)
gold, coupon
Income bonds, coupon

Oalp’ornia Pacific—1st mortgage,
2d

Catawissa—Common

stock
New preferred stock
Old preferred stock

.

....

181
144
156
139
139
139
67
60

1870
1871
1871

31

100
291
242
242
92

1869
1871
1875
.

.

m

w

New mortgage."
Cedar Falls d Minn.—Bonds on
1st div., sink. fund.
Bonds on 2d division,
sinking fund
Cedar Rapids d Missouri—Common
stock..
Preferred stock, 7 per cent
1st mortgage
do

100
14
61

.

1,000
100

1,000
500 &c.
....

100
100 &c.
50 &c.
500 &c.
500 &c.
100
500

600 &c.
....

1,000

1,000,000
499,500
745,000

1,200,000
600,000

20,129,282

....

1,000
1,000
1,000

...

6
7
7
6
6 & 7
3

800,000
202,000
1,721,000

6
6 & 7

3,250,000

1
6
7

.

1,000
1,000

i;ooo

-

230,500
209,850
1,300,000
198,000
1,334,000

6,850,400
769,600
700,000
582,000
2,332.000

M.
J.
F.
M.
J.

'
.

&
&
&
&
&
&
&
&
&
&
&
&

J.
J.
J.
J.
J.

<fc
&
&
&
&

5
7 •
8

J.

do

8

Q.-F.

J. & J.
J. & J.
J. <fc D.

Boston, at Office.
do
do
do
do

g.
g.
g6
g.

3
6 g.

7 ■

312
7
7
7
7
1

312
7
7
7

Boston & Lowell— Net incomp.
1877-78, $269,064.
There are $407,000 notes outstanding.

do
do
do
do

Boston, at Office.
do
do
New York.

Boston, at Office.
do

do

Boston, Office.

Q.-F.

8

M.
A.
A.
J.
J.
.T.

&
&
&
&
&
&

N.

1889
1893

do

J. &D.
New Yorif.
A. A 0. Boston and New
York.
J. ■& J.
do"
do
J. & J.
do
do

2
8
6
8
2

•

A.
N.

Boston Office.

J. New York, Erie Office.
D.
N. Y., Erie
Railway.
D.
do
do
J. N. Y., Farm. L. & T. Co.
J.
do
do

1^

7
7
7
6
3 &
2
7
6

J.
0.
J.
O.
O.
S.
J.
N.
J.

....

7
3io
7
6 g.
7

4,638,250
279,000
370,500
8,583,750

15,000,000
10,862,686
3,000,000
3,000,000
1,159,500
1,000,000
2,200,000

50

.

580,000
950,000
2,380,000
2,582,000
800,000
6,500,000
6,500,000

350,000

50

500 <fcc.
500 &c.
100
100
500 &c.
500 &c.
500 &c.

4,000,000
500,000
500,000

490,000

J.

7
7
3
7

500,000

1,215,550

J.
A.
J.
A.
A.
M.

7
6
3

6,921,274
3,500,000

3,000,000

1,000

May 5, 1879

1,000,000

2,250,000
1,600,000

500
50

J. & D. Lon.. J. S.
Morgan & Co. June 1, 1927
A. & O. Balt.&N.Y.,
D.,M.& Co. April 1,1919
J. & J. Balt., Mech’s Nat. Bank
1885
J. & J.
Baltimore.
July 1, 1888
J. & J. Baltimore or London.
July 1, 1911
A. & O.
do
do
April 1, 1911
J. & J.
Baltimore.
Jan. 1, 1915
A. & O.
N. Y\, Russell
Oct. 1, 1896
Sage.
J. & D.
1902
Philadelphia.
M. & 8.
do
1885
F. & A.
do
1887
J. & J. Treasurer,
Trenton, N. J. Jan. 1, 1916
Q.—J. Boston, Kidder, P. & Co July 1.1879
M. & N.
Boston Ottice.
May 15, 1879
F. <fc A.
do
Feb. 1, 1892
J. & J.
do
July 1, 1895
A. & 0.
Worcester, City Nat. Bk. April 1, 1893
M. & N.
Boston Office.
J. & J. Boston, Boston N. Bank
July 1, 1884
J. & J.
do
do
1889 & ’90
J. & D.
do
do
June 1, 1896
A. & O.
do
do
’81, ’82, ’83.’85
J. & J. Boston, Suffolk N. Bank
July, 1881& 94
M. & N.
Boston Office.

4
7
6
7

5,000,000
2,000,000
400,000
3,017,700
400,000
799,600
528,000
870,000
571,500

1,800,000
2,500,000
3,500,000

1,000
1,000
1,000

1861
1863
1866

*

7,605,000
1,034,000
853,000

1,000

1878
1873
1874

1872
1864
1866

1,500,000
3,000,000
1,133,000
1,100,000

600,000

500 &c.

274
70
58
146

.

1853
1867

100
65

1st mortgage bonds

Baltimore & Potomac—This is the line of the
Penn. Railroad from Baltimore to
Washing-.on. The
bonds are guaranteed by Penn. RR. and
Northern

....

....

191
49

—

do

..

....

Burl.dMo.ttiv.—1st

Chattel mortgage bonds

....

140,000
366,370

750,000

1873-4 500 &c.
1875
1,000
100
1873

52

5
6
6
6
6 g.
6 g.
6
8
6
6
6
7

3,000,000

200,000
999,500
500,000

1872
1875
1876

Bonds, coupon and registered—
Boston & New York Air-Line—1st
mortgage
Boston & Providence—Stock
Bonds to purchase branches,
coupon or registered
Ten
Einc—Stock

1,000

1871-2
1875

....

....

Bonds

Bonds
New bonds
Boston & Maine—Stock

&

500
500

....

....

Mystic wharf purchase bonds

Buffalo. New Yot'k

1,000

1,000

Consolidated mortgage bonds (for $2,000,000)....
Boston d

Buff.,Brad.d Pitts.—Gen. M.,(incl. 10,000

1,000
1,000
1,000

....

i.66

bonds

year notes for

1,000

1876

Equipment

notes
N. Bedford Railroad
bonds ($400,000 are 7s)
Boston, Concord d Montreal—Preferred stock
Com. stock (for old dividends & new
stock)

$1,000

1854
1857

....

Berkshire—Stock

Boston d Albany—Stock
Dollar loan
Loan of 1875, coupon or
registered
Boston, Barre d Gardner— 1st mortgage
Bost.,Clin.d Fitchb.d N.B.—Stock ($1,750,000pref.)
1st mortgage, Agricultural Branch
Mortgage bonds 1869-70
Bonds

1st mort.

or

par

Ohio—(Continued)—

Doan., ster., (s. f. £7,500) lien on Chic, line bonds
Bonds on Parkersburg Branch
Northwestern Virginia, 3d mortgage, 1855-85
Bonds to State of Maryland
Baltimore d Potomac—1st M (tunnel)
gold, s. f. 1 p. c.
1st mort., gold, tax
free, coup., s. f. 1 per cent—
2d mortgage, income, main line and
tunnel, rcg..
Bellevilled South. III.—IstM.,
sink’gfund, guar
BelvidereDel—1st mort. due 1877, extended, guar.
2d mortgage bonds of 1854
(guar, by C. & A.)
3d mortgage bonds of 1857
(
do
do
)
Consol, mortgage of 1870

Burlington,

Size

discovered In tbese Tables.

do
do
do
do

-

July

1, 1879
1, 1879
April 1, 1892
March 1,1895
July 1, 1896
May 15, 1879
Jan., 1893 & 94
Aug. 1,1895
May 1,1879
July 1, 1893
Oct.

1887
Jan. 1, 1896
June 1, 1879
June 1, 1916

July 1, 1896
Sept. 1, 1906
Oct. 1, 1893
July 1, 1894
July 1, 1889
Aug. 1, 1879
Jan.

Boston, Co’s Office.

O.
O. New York and London.
J. N. Y., Nat’l Park Bank.
J.
do
do
J.
New York.
Q.-J.
Camden, Co.’s Office.
J. & J. Phila., Farm. & M. B’k.
F. & A.
Phila. and Mt. Holly.
J. & J. N. Y., Union Trust Co.
J. & J. N. Y. Office, 4 Broad st.
A. & O.
do
do

1. 1883

July 1, 1918
Juno 1, 1896
Aug. 1, 1879
May 1, 1895
Oct. 2, 1901
Oct., 1909
Jan. 1, 1889
1891

July, 1905
Jan. 15, 1877
Jan., 1893
1897
Jan.

1, 1908

July 1, 1923
April 1, 1914

M. & N.
Philadelphia.
May 15,1879
M. & N.
do
May 15,1879
F. & A.
do
Feb. 1, 1882
F. & A.
Philadelphia.
1888 to ’89
F. & A.
i
do
Feb. 1, 1900
A. & O. N.Y.,J. S.
Kennedy & Co April 30, 1884
J. & J.
do
do
Jan.

Q.-F.

F.
F.
F.
M.

& A.
& A. N.
& A.
& N.

Boston, Treasurer.
do

s

do
Bank.
do
do

Y., Nat’l Park
do
do

2, 1907

Aug. 1, 1879
Aug. 1, 1879
Aug. 1, 1891
Aug. 1, 1894
May, 1916

for $2,620,510.
Consol. 6 per cent bonds are
issued for 8s maturing in 1694. Om^ha & S. W. is
leased. Republican Vaiiey ro id is
leased, and its
bonds were changed for B. & M.
consolidated
bonds July 1, 1879. (V. 26, p. 192,494,
t48,

(V. 25, p.
Net earnings, 1878, $92,890. (V. 26, p.598; 16; V. 26, p. 39; V. 27, p. 121, 303, 537; V. 23, p.
624.)
Y. 28, p. 598.)
Boston & Mctine.—met income,
Belleville & Southern Illinois.—Leased and
1877-8, $737,891,
598; V.
by St. L. Alt. & T. H. Co. on a percentage operated against $660,964 in 1876-7. (V. 25, p. 531; V. 27, 27, p. 15. 67,171; V. 28, p. 120, 276, 624.)
of gross p. 537, 665.)
earnings. (V. 24, p. 297; V. 26, p.
Burlington & Southwestern.—Defaulted Nov., 1873.
417.)
Boston & N. Y. Air
Line.—Formerly N. Haven Foreclosure in progress. (V. 21, p. 159, 441; V.
Belvide'-e Delaware.—Stock is
29,
$995,150. Leased to Middletown & Wil. Has $3,000,000 preferred stock p. 300.)
United Co.’s of N. J., and lease
and $1,000,000 common.
assigned to Penn. RI$.
Operated with N. Y. N. II.
Cairo & St. Louis.—Defaulted in 1878
Net earnings go to lessor. In 187 i
& H., receiving6 percent of
net earnings of B.
by failure
gro.^s earnings of both
to receive town and
D. were $123,566.
county bonds.
Receiver ap¬
lines. (V. 26, p. 598; V. 28, p. 173,
Floating debt, $171,702.
352, 428, 5 7 7.)
pointed December, 1877. Deficit in earnings 1877-8,
Berkshire.—Leased to HoHsatonic, at 7
Boston & Providence.—The bonds and notes
$12,989. (V. 25, p. 511, 569; V. 28, p
per cent
have
451; V. 29,
per year or stock, but 1& per cent is
usually applied been issued for purchase of branch roads. (V. 25, p. 17, 40.)
for taxes, &c.
p. 531; V. 27, p. 565.)
Cairo & Vincennes.—Defaulted in 1874. In
Boston
hands
Albany.—As this is the principal West¬
of receiver.
Deficit in earnings 18 76—7,
Buffalo, Bradford tfe
ern truck line from New
$11,747.
England, its yearly reports lease to Eiie at $40,600Pittsburgh— Under perpetual (V. 29, p. 40.)
show the course of business on that class
per year.
of rail¬
California Pacific. - Gross earn’gs, '76-7, $1,326,632;
roads.
In past five years the
Buffalo, New York & Erie— Leased to Erie in net,
following has been 1863, for 490
$443,026. Extension bonds of $3,500,000 and in¬
its exhibit:
years, at 7 per cent on stock and interest
comes of $1,000,000 were in
and sinking ‘fund on bonds. (V.
Gross
Net
24, p. 346; V. 25, bonds of 1875, guaranteed default, and the new
Total Stock
by Cent. Pacific, were
p. 16.)
Earnings.
and Debt
Earnings.
issued in place thereof. (V. 24,
1877 8
p. 274, 468,605.)
Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia.—This is the
$6,633,533
$2,219,536
Camden & Atlantic.—Gross
$
1876-7
earnings, 1878, $899,6,179,610
2,166,844
23,870,509 connecting line of the Phila. & Erie with Buffalo.
060; net, $121,213. Interest, &c., $93,950.
Net earnings 1877-8, $450,419.
1875-6
tV. 28, p.
7,074,758
New bonds are
2,391,764
27.129.282 offered to r
300; V. 29, p. 251.)
1874-5
place the 10 per cents. (V. 26, p 574;
7,634,139
2,262,147
Camden & Burlington Go.—Leased to
26.478.282 V. 27,
1873-4
United
p. 538; V. 28, p. 252.)
8,963,128
2,411,916
25,422,100
Companies, at 6 per cent on $332,000 stock.
(V. 25, p. 430; V. 26, p. 166; V. 27, p. 460.)
Burlington Cedar Rapids & Northern .—The stock
Canada Southern.—The bouds
carry interest at 3
is for $10,000,000, r.f which
Boston Barre & Gardner.—Income
per cent tiil 1881 and 5 per cent for the other 27
in 1876-77
$6,500,000 has been
showed a deficit of $44,420 under
issued. This company guarantees
years. N. Y. Central Co. guarantees interest for 20
interest charge.
$150,000 Minne¬
Company embarrassed and interest reduced to 5 apolis & St. L. RR. bonds. Net earnings 1877-8.
years, but makes no guarantee or
per cent. (V. 29, p. 40.)
$560,311; extraordinary expenses, $617,745. Leased 26, p. f’67, 391, 574; V. 27, p. 94, 538.) principal. (V.
in perpetuity tu the
Bost. Clinton Fitchb &N.Bedfd.—This
Carolina Central.—Receiver
Chicago & Rock Island
was a con¬
appointed
for interest on bonds and 3
solidation in May, 18.'6, of the B. C.& F.
1876. Passed interest January, 1876. (V. December,
and the N.
per cent on stock for
23, p.
5 years and 5 per
Bedf. roads.
In Dec., 1878, leased to Old
cent afterward
Catawissa.—Leased to Phila. & Read, for 622.)
(V. 24. p. 518;
Colony. V. 25, p. 260,510, V 27.
999
The net earnings in 1877-78 were
p. 301; V. 29, p. 224, 250.)
years from Nov. 1, 1872. Lessee pays inn on bonds
$286,631, against
$242,241 in 1876-77. (V. 27, p. 537; V. 23,
and 30 per cent of gross receipts.
Burlington & Missouri River— An agreement of
p. 40,
120.)
Cedar Falls & Minnesota.—Leased to Dub. &
consolidation and a perpetual lease to
Sioux
Chicago, Bur.
Boston, Concord tfe Montreal.—Gross
earnings for 6 Quincy, was made in Oct., 1872. In August, 1875, City,a and sublet to Ill. C. at $1,500 per mile yearly,
the year ending with March,
1879, were $590,550; stock of Chic. Burl. & Q. was issued iu place of and per cent of all earnings over $3,500 per mile.
net earnings, $201,618. There are
Cedar Rapids & Missouri. —Leased to
also $76,000 old stock of this Co. and for convertible bonds.
Chicago &
bonds due in 1865, and $350,000 dne in
Northwestern at $700 of first $1,500
1875- (V. 21,
gross earnings
Burlington-it Missouri in Nebraska.—R&b a valu¬
p. 516; V. 26, p. 546; V. 28, p. 577.)
per mile; one-third of the next $3,000 per
able laud
mile, and
graut.
Sales in 1878 514,098 acres one-fifth of all above
that. (V. 2,, p. 162.) :

C§nt.

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xvi
Subscribers will confer

great favor by giving immediate notice of any error discovered in tliese Tables*

a

DESCRIPTION.

Miles

Date

or
par

Central R. R. £ Bank, Ga.—Stock
Genera] mort. “tripartite” bds ($5,000,000) coup.
Macon & Western bonds
Central Iowa—1st mortgage gold, coupon
2d mortgage, gold, $4,006 per mile

Bonds (convertible Nov., 1875 to 1877)
Consolidated mortgage (for $25,000,000)
Income bonds, reg., (not cumulative)
Newark <fc New York, 1st mortgage

7
....

.

Imp.Co. bonds, guar. Cent.of N. J....
Adjustment mortgage

100

m

1,000
1,000
1,000

100

1865-8

1,000
1,000

1864
1862
1870

1,000

1869

1,000

25,885,000
1,970,000
1868

1872
1870
1870

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

195
195
23
21

1869

1,000
1,000

1869

500 &c.

1878

434
434

1,000
1,000
-

Cayuga A Susquehanna.—Leased in perpetuity to
at $54,600 per year.
Bank,

roads, and guarantees bonds.

Ga.—Leases several

In April, 1875,

pur¬
chased one-half interest in Western Railroad of
The “ tripartite”
Alabama at foreclosure sale.

bonds are issued jointly by this Company, the Macon
& West., and Southsvestern. Gross earnings year

ending August 31, 1678. £2,721.624; net, $1,123,309.
(V. 23, p. 353, 4t>8; V. 25, p. 430; Y. 27, p.
381.)
Central Iewa.—Sold in foreclosure, July 18, 1S77.
first mortgage.
Appeal carried to U. S.

under

Re-organization made in P79.
Supreme Court.
Gross earnings, 1878. $755,658: net, $180,081. (V.
26, p. 215; Y. 28. p. 17, 145, 2 9 9, 378 , 453, 477, 553,
577.)

Central of New

Jersey.—A full abstract of the re¬
organization scheme was published in the Chron¬
icle, V. '26, p. 215.
Gross earnings 1878, $5,589,5*5;
net, $2,3C2,?69. Net earnings, 1877, after payment of
Leh.& Susq. rental, were $1,838,335. The American
Dock & Imp.Co. executed a mortgage for $4,000,000,
in 1877, to secure its bonds.
The following table
shows the receipts, expenses and net earnings, in¬

cluding Lehigh & Susquehanna Division:
Receipts.
Expenses. Net earn’gs.
1874
$8,589,631
$4,140,601
$4,449,010
1675
7,411,637
4,128,727
3,281.910
1876....
6,946,0 >0
3,684,000
3,262,000
5,753,413
3,269,567
2,484,816
1878. 5,589,525
3,283,755
2,302,769
—(V. £6, p. 40, 60. 95, 141. 218, 315, 39!. 495, 574.
592, 624; V. 27, p. 651; V. ‘-8, p. 120, 223, 476, 578;
V. 29, p.197.)
Central Ohio.—Leased to Baltimore & Ohio RR.
in 1866 for 2 > years; rent 35 per cent of gross re¬
ceipts for five years, and 40 after.
Pays 6 per cent
dividends.

Central Pacific.—The Southern Pacific is leased.

1868.
1868
1870
1877

500 &c.
100

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

1,000
*

*

1875

1878

1,000

1877

1,000

....

1682
466
825
100
96

1858
1873

[

46

10,000,000
100,000
918,000
300,000
160,500
2,153,300
836,400
500,000
10,065,300
2,425,400
4,379,850
2,363,000
1,096,000
1,500,000
306,000
2,365,000
564,000
188,000
360,000
1,854,000
300,000

1,000

1,000

13,068,000

c

1872
1875
1869
1870
1870
1870
1876
1876

500,000
500,000
300,000
201,000
(0
15,000,000

1,000,000
3,000,000
1,750,000
700,000
30,409,407
2,711,000

100

40
70
44
40
270

1

7,400,000

7
7 g.
7 g.

2*2
7
7
7
7
7
6 g7
7
7

7

13i
3
6
1
6
7
7
6
6
6
6
6
6
8
6

g.
g.
g.
g.
g.

,

M. & N.

M. & N.
do
do
J. & J.
do
do
M. & N.
do
do
J. & J. Balt., at B. & O. office.
J. & J.
do
do
M. & S. Balt., West. Natl. Bank.
A. & O. N. Y. & San Francisco.
N. Y., Fisk & Hatch.
J. & J.
J. & J. Sacram’o 8tate Treas.
J. & J.
N. Y., E. Kelly & Co.
A. & 0.
N. Y., Fisk & Hatch.
J. & J.
U. S. Treasury.

J.
J.
J.
A.

& J.

N. Y„ Fisk & Hatch.
U. S. Treasury.
N. Y., Fisk & Hatoh.
New York & London.

....

& J.

& J.
& J.
& 0.
.

....

N.

Y., Fisk & Hatch.
do

do

8
7
7
7
7
7
7

”7*

M.'&'s. N.Y.,M.K.Jesup,P.&Co.

6
8
8
1
6
7
3

3*2
6 g.
7
7

1%

1, 1899
1, 1900

May 1, 1888

'
,

May 1, 1903
July 29,1879
July 29,1879
Sept., 1890
Oct., 1878 (1)
1895 to ’98

July 1, 1884
Jan. 1, 1883
Oct. 1, 1900
1895 to ’98

July 1, 1899
1899
Jan. 1, 1888
Jan. 1, 1892

July 1, 1890
Oct. 1, 1890

*a.

J.

& J. N.Y.,M.K. Jesup,P.& Co.
A & O.
do
do
A. & 0. Philadelphia, Penn R.R.
J. &D. N. Y., Metropolitan Bk.
J. & J.
Richmond.
A. & O.
M. <fc N.
New York.
J. & J.
do
J. & J. N. Y., Am. Exch. Bk.
J. & J.
do
do
J. & J.
do
do
J. & J.
do
do
J. & J.
Boston.
J. & J.
do
M. & N.
Philadelphia.
M. & S. N.Y.,M.K. Jesup,P.& Co.
do
M. & S.
do
J. <fe J. Lond’n,J.S.Morgan&Co.
J. & J. N.Y.,M.K.Jesup,P.& Co.
A. & O.
do
do
N. Y. U. S. Trust Co.
Q.-J.
J. & J. N.Y.,M.K. Jesup,P.& Co.
A. & O.
do
do
A. & 0.
do
do
J. & J.
do
do
J. & J.
do
do
F. & A.
do
do
M. & N.
do
do

7
7
7
7
6
0 g0 g.
6
6

Feb.
June

London.

Q.—M. N.Y.—Cent. RR. of N.J.

g.
g.

„

1,000
1,000
500 &c.

1,000
500 &c.

1,000
1,000
1,000

741,000
653,000

1,462,475
415,000
546,500
1,079,000
890,500
720,000
2,360,000
840,000

do

do

6 g.

M. & N.

6
4

A. & O. N.Y.,M.K.Jesup,P.&Co.
M. & S. N. Y., Bk. of Commerce.
J. & J.
do
do

Jan. 1,

1895

Jan. 1, 1910
Oct. 1, 1901
Dec. 15, 1899

July 1, 1898
July 1, 1908

July 1, 1908
July 1, 1918
1880
1884
1876
1877

Jan. 6, 1879

.

July 1/80 & ’96
May, 1872
Sept. 1,1879
Sept. 1,1879
July 1, 1903
Jan., 1893
Jan., 1883
July. 1879
July, 1882
April. 1894

April 1,1894
July, 1898
July, 1898
Aug., 1900
Nov.

1, 1900

1,1905
1, 1903

March

May

....

8
7
4 g.
7
7
5

8
8
8
8
5
5

$17,530,859;

net earnings,
expenses, $8,786 116;
rental of leased lines, $2,485,058; in¬
terest, $3,954,779.
The dividend of l per cent
declared October, 1878. was enjoined.
Trustees
of land mortgage held in May, 1879. $108,512
in cash, and $1,727,078 in notes, and in August
they called for sale to them of $100,000 land
bonds. (V. 26, p. 369; V. 27, p 40. 95, 122, 147, 253,
274 407, 4 5 9; V. 28, p. 60, 121,477, 62 3; V. 29,
p. 95.)

J.
J.
A.
J.
J.
J.
J.
A.
J.

&
&
&
&
&
&
&
&
&
A. &
F. &

J.
J.
O.
J.
D.
J.
J.
0.
J.
O.
A.

N.Y.N.Bk.of Cora.&Bost
Frankfort.

N.Y., N. Bk. of Com’rce.
Boston, Co.’s office.
Boston, Co.’s Office.

N.Y.,N. Bk. of Com’rce.
New York and Boston.
Boston.
New York and Boston.
Boston.

Oct. 1, 1912
Sept. 15,1879
Jan. 1, 1883

July 1, 1903
July 1, 1890
Oct. 1, 1890
1896
1, 1895

Jan. 1,
me

July, 1889
July, 1900
Oct., 1890
July, 1890
M.

1.

1901

Boston, C. B. & Q. RR.

per cent bonds for $586,003 authorized, to redeem
bonds of 1880. (V. 23, p. 5 48; V. 26, p. 495; V. 27,
p. 537.)

;

,

This is the re¬
Champaign. Havana A West.
organization of the Ind. Bloom. & Western Exten¬
sion. (V. 29, p. 301.)
Charlotte, Columbia A Augusta—Stock is $2,578,000, and $189,500 of old Col. & Aug, bonds are yet
out, due 1890. Gross earnings 1877-78. $441,357;
net, $168,578. Interest and taxes, $2.3,011. “Bills
payable.” $132,775. Control of road sold to Rich¬
mond & Danville. (V. 24, p. 62; V. 26, p. 95; V.
27, p. 280; V. 28, p 96.)
Chartiers.—Leased to Pitts. Cin. & St. Louis, and
operated by Penn. Co. Net earnings go to lessor-

in

-

J.

The annual returns for 1878, in brief, were given in
the Chronicle, V. 28, p. 623. Gross earnings, 1878,

$8,744,739

J. & J. New York, 44 South st. July 1, 1879
J. & D.
June 20, 1879
Savannah, Ga.
J. & J. New York & Savannah. Jan. 1, 1893
A. & 0.
Oct., 1880
Macon, Ga.
J. & J.
New York, Office.
July 15,1899
A. & O.
do
do
April 15, 1901
New York, at office.
Q.-J.
April 10, 187G
F. & A.
1890
do
do
M. & N.
do
do
Nov., 1902
do
do
July 1. 1899
Q.-J.
M. & N.
do
do
May 1, 1908
J. & J.
1887
do
do

g.

g.

Stocks—Lust
Dividend.

*

....

B’ds for St. L. R. I. & C. (sink, nmd $50,000) coup.
Quincy Alton & St. Louis, 1st mortgage, coupon..

Del. Lack. & West,

1857
1864
1864

1,000
1,000

”28

1

f

100

1873
1863
1862

162

1st mortgage, sinking fund, (trust)
Consolidated mortgage coupon, (for $30,000,000)
Northern Cross R. R. 2d. mortgage, gold'.
Trust mortgage (Burlington to Peoria)
Plain bonds (coupon or registered)
Bonds of 1875, (sinking fund $13,860 per year)..
Dixon Peoria
Haunibal, 1st m... 1
f

(

ioo

•

Chicago, Burlington £ Quincy —Stock

..

100
500 &c.

21*2

Preferred stock do
guar. C. & A
C. & A. bonds on Miss. Riv. Bridge, 1st mort., gold

Quincy & Warsaw, 1st mortgage

.

677
649
322
220
220
38
38
150
37
37
150
101
101

Chicago <fc Ill. Riv., 1st mort. ($174,000 guar.)..
Bonds for K.C.St.L.& C. line, s.f. $60,000 after’79

Illinois Grand Trunk, 1st mort

.

....

Income bonds
Joliet & Chicago, 7 per cent, stock
do
do
1st mortgage, sinking fund...
St. Louis Jack. & Ch., 1st mortgage
1st mort. guar, by C. & A...
do
do
do
do
2d mort. guar, by C. & A...
do
do
2d mortgage
Louisiana & Missouri, 1st mortgage
do
do
2d mort.(iut. guar. C. & A.)
do
do
guar. pref. stock

m

.

88

...

Ottawa, Oswego <fe Fox Riv., 1st

1,000
100 <fec.

....

.

500.000

1,810,500

1872
1871

....

(Ya. Cent. R. R.,) guaranteed by Va.
do.
do.
coupon
Income mortgage, (Virginia Central R. R.,) coup.
Funded interest, coupon bonds
Cheshire—Stock, preferred
Bonds, not mortgage
Chester valley—1st mortgage
Chicago £ Alton—Common stock
Preferred 6t’ck (7 p. c. y’rly not cumulative)
General mortgage^ sterling, for £900,000
1st mortgage

.

6,000,000
2,000,000
350,000
1,100,000

....

2d mortgage
let mortgage,
3d mortgage,

2,616,000

•

....

mortgage
Cherry Valley Shar. £ AL— 1st mort., convert
Chesapeake £ Ohio—Purcli. money bds ($2,300,000)
1st mortgage ($2,000,000), “A”
1st mortgage, gold, “B”

5,550,000
2,437,950
411,550
2,500,000
54,275,500
25,883,000
1,500,000
1,483,000
6,080,000

50
50

1,000

50
146
742
158
123
152
152
20

2d Mortgage
Chartiers— 1st

1,200,000
3,000,000

1,000
100 &c.

....

50

Charlotte Columbia £ A ugusta—1st mort. consol...

600,000

1,680,000
11,500,000

100 <fcc.

2180
742

1st mortgage

2,450,000

1,000

1878

Champaign, Havana £ West.—1st mort., pref

15.000,000

100 &c.
500 &c.
£200

....

137
137
137

1st mort., gold, (2 sinking funds, $50,000 each)..
California State aid, gold (s. fund, $50,000)
Bonds, formerly conv. into U. 8. bds (s.f.,$35,000)
lstm.S. Joaq’n Val.Br.,gld (s.f.$50,000,begins’80)
U. S. Loan, (2d lien on certain terms)
Western Pacific, 1st mort., gold, (s. f. $25,000)...
do
Government lien
Cal. & Oregon, 1st M., gold, guar., (8. f. $100,000)
C. P., mortg. on C. & O. Br. (6. f. $100,000)
San Fran. O. & A., 1st M. (s. f. $100,000 begins ’80)
Land grant mortgage bonds




.

....

Central Ohio— Common stock
Preferred stock
1st mortgage bonds
Central Pacific—Stock

781

M

3,700,000
925,000
17,540,000
5,000,000
4,400,000

1,000

....

Am. Dock &

Central Railroad A

.

m

....

pal, When Due.

Wnom.

2i7

500 &c.

.

97

do
do Inc’me bds, rg.(not cum’lat’e)

Where payable, and by

Payable

4*2

1,000

1869
1872
1874
1878
1867
1874
1875

....

guar...
Consol mort., coup,

When

Cent.

$589,110

1870
1869
1871

....

Leliigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Co., let mort.,

Rate per

7,500,000
3,500,000
117,000

1872

202
202
359
74

Mortgage bonds

Amount

Outstanding

100

.

....

Central of New Jersey—Stock

Value.

$100

35
708
620

Cayuga £ Susquehanna—Stock

Bonds—Pnnol

INTEREST OR DIVIDENDS.

Size,

of
of
For explanation of column headings, &c., see notes
on first page of tables.
Road. Bonds

do
do

[Vol. XXIX

1876, $42,583.

(V. 28, p. 377.)

Valley.—In hands of trustees and leased
Coupons due 1860, paid
May, 1876.
Chester

to

Philadelphia & Reading.

Chicaao & Alton.—The report for 1878 is given at
in V.29, p. 274, 298, and shows gross earn¬
ings of $4,671,519, and net earnings of $2,156,384,
against $2,107,337 in 1877, and $2,269,467 in 1876.
Joliet & Chicago Railroad is leased for interest on
stock and bonds. St. Louis Jacksonville <fc Chic.
Railroad leased at $240,000 per year. Louisiana &
Missouri Railroad operated under contract.
Ex¬
tension to Kansas City built in 1678, and a mort¬

length

that line (K. C. St. L. & Chic. RR.) ifl
deposited in trust as security for C. & A. gold 6s of
1878. The preferred stock on K. C St. L. & C.
was issued for equipment.
(V. 26, p. 95, 192, 213,
289. 436. 547; V. 27, p. 41, 94, 382; V. 29, p. 274,
29 8 400, 428, 624.)
gage on

,

Chicago Burlington A Quincy.—Purchased in
October, 1876, St. Louis Rock Island & Chicago
road, for $1,570,000 in gold. Gross earnings for
1878 were, $14,119,665: expenses, $7,871,915; net

The Chic. Burl & Quincy
giving them a traffic
guarantee (usually 40 or 50 per cent) for purchasing
their bonds.
Leases in perpetuity the Quincy
Alton & St. Louis at $42,000 per aunum.
Enough
of the Chicago Burlington & Quincy consolidated
moitgnge is reserved to take up prior debts.
In
Jan.v1879, new stock equal to 10 per cent of the
old was issued to stockholders at par
The bonds
of 1876, for St. Louis Rock Island & Chicago
Railroad, are plain bonds of Chicago Burlington
& Quincy, offset by mortgage of like amount,
on St. Louis Rock Island & Chicago road, deposit¬
ed with trustees. (V. 25, p. 138; V. 26, p. 190,
548; V. 27, p. 356, 435, 651; V. 23, p. 223, 274; V29, p. 67, 119.)
earnings* $6,247,750.

leases

Cherry Valley, Shar. A Al.—Transferred to Dela¬
& Hudson Canal Co., April, 1875. Interest
unpaid in December, 1875. (V. 20, p. 404.)
ware

Chesapeake A Ohio.—Sold in foreclosure April 2,
1876, for $2,750,000 and reorganized, with bonds
as above, when all are issued.
5 he payments on
old Virginia Central bonds and coupons, and notes
issued tnerefor. were made as per circular, Chron¬
icle, Y. 2«, p. 94. Net earnings 1877-8, $341,621.,
(V. 26, p. 17, 342, 522, 625; V. 27, p. 15, 94; V. 28,
p. 41, 172, 502, 525; V. 29, p. 17, 66.)
Cheshire.— Net

income, 1877-78, $78,019.

New 6

numerous

branch roads,

September

RAILROAD STOCKS AND BONDS,

27, 1879.]

Subscribers will confer

by giving immediate notice of

great favor

a

DESCRIPTION.
For explanation of column headings, &c., see
on first page of tables.

notes

Miles Date
of
of
Road. Bonds

67*2

Chicago d Canada Southern—1st mort., gold..
Chicago, Cincinnati d Louisville—1st mort...
Chicago Clinton Dubuque d Minn.—Stock

1872
1867

73

.

1st mortgage
Chic. dEast.Ill.—1st M.,coup.(s.f.$20,000 after’85)
2d

mortgage income
Chicago <6 Iowa—1st mort., coup., may be reg
Chicago, Iowa & Nebraska^-Stock
2d mortgage (now 1st)

3d
do
(now 2d)
Chic. d L. Huron—Peninsular, 1st M., gold, s. f
Port Huron A L Mich., 1st mortgage
Chic. <£ Mich. Ti. Shnrp.—fiine.lr. new

223
223

137
137
80
82
82
82
166
66

(7

p. c.

1st mortgage (Lacrosse Div.j
2d mortgage
1st mortgage (Iowa & Minnesota)
1st mortgage (Minnesota Central)
1st mortgage (Iowa & Dakota)
1st mort., Ia. A Dak. Exten. ($15,000 p. m.)
1st mortgage (Prairie dti Chien)
2d mortgage (Prairie du Chien)
....
Milwaukee & Western
^
St. P. & Chic. 1st M. (Riv. Div.) $ & £(conv.)
1st mortgage, Hastings A Dakota
1st mortgage, Chicago <fe Mil. line

»

]

«aC±=
0D

£
©

©

■°s

•

•

a a
*■>

^

e

©

3

S

O

2

Eh

Bonds fnr DA.vp.nnnrT, At. ‘NTortliwAst.
"Rnnrtft AYPhnncrAn fnr WpafArn TTmnn 1 fit. M

370
370
220
49

300
235
235

130
75
85
160
197

Bonds, pref. (sink’g fund), 1st mort., Chic, to Osh.
Interest bonds, funded coup., 2d m., Chic, to Osh.
1st mort., general, 3d mort., Chic, to Oshkosh—
Appleton exten., 1st mort. on 23 miles and land..
Green Bay exten., 1st mort. on 26 miles and land
1st mort., Galena A Chicago Un. RR. extended...

Mississippi River Bridge b^as, lien on net earnings
1st mort. (Peninsular RR.) on roads and lands...
1st mortgage (Beloit & Madison Railroad)...
Consol, sink’g f’d M., (all above convert, into this)
Madison extension, 1st mort., sinking fund, gold.

Chicago & Milwaukee, 1st mortgage, 2d lien.

193
193
193
23
26
248
74
46
779
126
85
25
120

....

.

-s.

.

.

& G. N.)

1st mortgage, (Miss. Central)
2d mortgage,
do
($500,000 disputed)
Chic. St. Louis & N. O. 1st mort. (for $13,000,000)
do
do
2d mort. (for $8,000,000)..

Chicago St.Paul dMinneapolis—1st mort., g.,coup.*
Land grant mort., income, coup. (2d on road)

Cincinnati, Hamilton d Dayton—Stock
1st mortgage of 1853

do
2d
1865
Consol, mort. (for $3,000,000), sink, fund 1 p. c..
Gin. Ham. & I. (Junction) RR., 1st mort., guar...
Cincinnati, Lafayette d Chicago—1st mort., goid—

Consolidated mortgage

Chicago

& Canada

Canada Southern.

—

Southern.—Connection of

Interest in default.

by Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.
8B1; V. 29, p.170.)

Controlled

(V. 25, p.

Chicago, Cincinnati <fc Louisville.—Ho informa¬

tion furnished.

Chicago Clinton Dubuque & Minn.—'This is the
final reorganization of the Chic. Clin. & Dubuque
and Chicago Dubuque & Minn, roads. Gross earn¬
ings 1878, $485,00U. In Jan , lte79, the $400,000
bonds were offered to stockholders at par. (V. 27,
p. 331; V. 23,,p. 63, 301.)
Chicaao dk East. Illinois.—Chic. Danv.& Vine, sold
in

foreclosure, and re-organized.

.

m

1,000

.

100
100
100 Ac.
100 Ac.
100 Ac.
500 Ac.
500 Ac.

On income bonds

interest is to be Daid as earned, not over 7 per year.
(V. 26. p. 264. 315, 419; V. 27, p. 435, 4 8 6, 513; Y.
28, p. 113, 327; Y. 29, p. 146.)

7

4,000,000

7 g.
7
7
5

7
7
8
7*3
7

172,000
2,500,000

3^500^000

1876
1871
1872
1870-1
1871-1
1871
1870
1872
1878
1878
1878
1879
1873
1871
1871

6
2

14,988,807
21,525,602

1%

'972/200

7

7 •
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7 g.
7

1,700,000

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

400.000

500 Ac.
500 &c.

1,000
1,000
100 &c.

1,000
500 Ac.
....

....

....

1,000
1,000

i:ooo
1,000
100

1,000Ac

1869

100 &c.

206
224

1856
1860

1,000
1,000

185
185
567
567
180
180
60
60
60
60
98

1854
1865
1877
1877
1878
1878

500 Ac.
100 &c.

56

190,000
591,000
4,500,000
3,674,000
1,315,000
234,000

676,400
3,440.400
116,000
180,000
1,638,000
158,000
272,000
247,000
5,19*.000
3,150,000

1877

56

3,810,000

500 Ac.

.

1862
1853

1,000
1,000
500 &c.

500 &c.
100

1853
1865
1875
1873
1871
1874

7
7
7
7

6,600,000
600,000

1,000

_

8

2^2
312

3,000,000

1,000

.

Chic. St. Louisd V. O.—1st M. (N. O. J. A G. N.)....
2d mortgage, (N. O. J.
Funded coupon bonds

.

1,000

1863
1863
1865
1871

Sinking fund bonds of 1879 (for $15,000,000)....
156
Chicago d Paducah—1 «t, mortgage
70
Chicago, Pekin d Southwestern—1st mortgage.
2d mortgage
64
Chicago, ffoefe Island d Pacific—Stock
1,043
636
1st mortgage (for $12,500,000) coup, or reg.
Chic.A Soutliw., 1st M.g. (g’d in cur. by C.R.I.&P.)
271
..

.

1859
1862
1859

Menominee River, 1st mort., guar.~.'.
Menominee extension, 1st mortgage, gold...
Gen. cons mort., gold, coup, or reg. ($4=8,000,000) 1,058
Winona & St. Peter, 1st mort., guar by Chic. AN W.
137
do
2d mort.,
137
do
do
175
do
1st M. exten, gld, land gr., 8. f.
Iowa Midland, 1st mort., guar, by Chic. & N. w..
75
62
Northwestern Union, 1st mortgage, gold....
24
Minnesota Valley, 1st mortgage
Rochester & No. Minnesota, 1st mortgager..
24
Plain View Railroad, 1st mortgage
15

Iowa South. A Missouri North. RR. stock

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

1,000

2,700,000
12,343,000
2,750,000
1,650,000
4,313,000
1,350,000
3,500,000
150,000
200,000
100,000
2,400,000
2,961,000

700^000
300,000

20,980,000
9,965,000
5,000,000
5,000,000

2,941,000
1,500,000
500,000

3731500

1,997,000
3,057,000

7,253,000
2,800,000
2,018,000
3,500,000

1,245,000
494,000
996,000
1,846,000
1,120,000
471,000

7
7 g.

7 g.
7
7
7 g.
•

8
7 g.
7
7

7
6
7
8
8
2
6
7
2

8
8
7
8
7
6

Gg.
6 g.
4
7
7
7
7
7 g.
7 g.

Wisconsin railroad law. Annual report for 187-. V.
28, p. 393. The following is a comparison for three
years of operations, and financial condition at the
close of year:
1878.
1877.
1876.

Miles owned..
Stock
Funded debt.

Earnings

...

Op. expenses.
Net earnings.

1,512

1,412

1,399

$27,683,744 $27,683,744
3‘2,0r8,500 29,954,500
8,451,767
8,114,891
4,792,3'3
4,510,433
3,574.460
3,659,454

$27,673,744
30.010,500
8,054,171
4,953,3'1
3,100,847

Of consol, bonds of 1875 enough are r- served to
take up old debt. Dividends have been p id since
1869—on pref. stock in 1879 7 cash, in 187810 w, cash,
in 1877 3y2 cash, in 1876 14 p. c in bonds and Sl/2 p. c.
in cash, in 1374 7 in bonds, 1873 7 cash, 1S72 7,1.-571 7,
13707 and 3 scrip; on common stock in 18'9 2y%

cash, in 1871 7 scrip, 18703 cash and 7 scrip. West.
Union RR. bonds were taken up with above issue,

Chicago dk Iowa.—?old Mar. 9,1878, in foreclosure and Davenport & Northwest, road was purchased
of 2d mortgaee of $1,150,000, and a re-sale ordered.
(V. 27, p. 172, 25t. 322, :-82, 461; V. 28. p. 97. 120. 148,
Compromise effected, and conpon of July, 1878. Daid 301, 378, 39 8, 428, 453, 502, 503, 543, 580, 624; V. 29,
July, 1379. Net earnings 1877-*, *27*2,351. (V. 25, p. p. 95, 170,197, 251.)
138, 307; V. 26, p. 166, 264; V. 27, p. 49, 251,513.)
Chicago dk Northwest.—'The mileage of r^ad
Chicago, Iowa & Nebi'aska.—leased in perpetnity above (2.154) includes “proprietary” lines. Far
to Chic.’ & Northwest., at 37# per cent of gross
year ending May 31, 1679, gross earnings wen*
receipts.
$14,530,921: operating expenses, $7,707,619; m*t
Chic, dk Lake Huron.—This was a consolidation earnings, $6,873,272; rentals, interest, Ac.. $4.5"6.
of the Peninsular Railroad and Port Huron & Lake 644; balance net profits, $2,287,627. The convspondThe net
Mich.
Port Huron Division sold June 22, 1879. ing net surplus for 1877-8 was $2,464, 8*
deficit on proprietary roads was $1,-27,312. Lands
Western Division, Lansing to Valparaiso, was sold
of the company were
2.063,829 acres unsold.
Ang. 25. (V. 26, p. 116; V. 27, p. 408, 4S7, 652; V.
Operations of the whole road for two years, compare
28, p. 17, 120, 223, 302, 641; V. 29, p. 146, 225.)
as follows:
Net
Gross
Expenses
Chic, eft Mich. Lake Shore.—Foreclosure sale made
and taxes.
earnings.
earnings.
Nov. 16, 1878, and road purchased for bondhold¬
$7,707,649
$6,-73.2 2
ers.
Stock i -sued for old bonds, except the above 1873-79
$14,*80,921
1877-78...
14,751,062
7,130,'.17
7,620,"45
issue. (V. 26, p. <95, 599; V. 27, p. 227, 538.)
Chicago Milwaukee <fe St. Paul.—Net earnings in In February, 1879, the quarterly dividends on p*e“
1878, $3,659, 51; 1877, $3,574,460; 1876. $3,100,847; ferred stock were begun. The finkirg fnnd bonds
1875, $3,085,389. The earnings were reduced in 1874 or 1S79 are secured by deposit of mortgage bonds
and 1875 by the lower freight rates imposed by the ■ on new roads acquired, at rate of $15,000 par mile.




.

Where

Payable, and by
Whom.

Stocks—Last
Dividend.

A. & O. N. Y., Union Trust Co.
April 1, 1902
J. & J. N. Y., Farm. L. A T. Co.
Jan., 1887
Boston. Office.
April 15,1879
F. & A.
Feb. 1, 1884
do
J. & D. New York, 4th Nat. Bk.
June, 1907
Dec.
do
do
Deo., 1907
8
J. & J. New York and Boston. July 1, 1901
5
J. & J. Boston, by Treasurer.
July 1, 1879
7
|J. & J. Boston, Merchants’ B’k. July 1, 1888
7
F. & A. New York, Park Bank. Aug. 15,1892
7 g. M. & N.
New York.
May, 1889
7 g. M. & N.
do
May 1, 1900

7,304,000

1,000
1,000
1,000

Bonds—Prinei

pal, When Due.

7 g.

15,404,261
12,279,483

1,000
1,000

When

Payable

7
2
7
6
7

3,600,000
1,000,000
6,500,000
477,000

100
100

2,154

e.

1,000

Cent.

1,000,000
6,156,000
400,000
3,000,000
750,000
1,750,000
3,916,200
568,200
211,500

1,000

2,154

Chicago d Northwestern— Common stock
Preferred st’iclr C7
v’rlv. not. mimnln.tivet.

1,000
100 &c.

....

....

.

....

....

1875
1863
1864
1867
1864
1869
1878
1868
1868
1861
1872
1872
1873
1879
1879

•

Rate per
j

$2,571,350

500 Ac.

1,000

1869

y’rly, not cumulative).

$1,000

•

any error discovered In these Tables.
INTEREST OR DIVIDENDS.

Amount

Outstanding

100
100 Ac.
500 &c.

1860
1863
1869
1870

j

Value.

....

....

1,729
1,729

Consolidated mortgage (for $35,000,000)....

or
Par

....

1879
1877
1877
1871

1st mortfirafffl. Naw Ttnflf tn Rt-,. .Tn

Chicago, Milwaukee d SI. Paul—Com. stock...
Preferred st’ek

Size,

xvii

....

M. &
A.
J.
J.
A.
J.
J.
J.
J.
F.
F.
J.
J.
J.

A
&
A
&
&
&
&
&
A
A
A
&
&
J. &

S.

Rnat,.. TreaHiT.’er’s nfflee.

O.

New York, Office.
do
do

J.
J.
O.
J.
J.
J.
J.
A.
A.
J.

J.
J.
J.

do
do
do
do
do
do

do
do
do
4 do
do
do
do
do
New York, Office.
do
do
do
do
London and New York.
New York, Office.
do
do

Sept. 1889

Oct. 15,1879
Oct. 15,1879

July 1, 1905
1893
1884
1897
1894
1899

,

July 1, 1908
1898
1898
1891

Jan., 1902
1902
1903

Mil. A. Rt.Pfliil PR.

J. AD. New

6.—M.

F. & A.
M. & N.
F. A A.
F. & A.
F. & A.
F. & A.

J. & J.
M. & S.
J. A J.

Q.—F.

A.
J.
J.
J.
J.
J.
M.
J.
A.
M.
A.
M.
M.
A.
J.
F.
A.

&
&
&
&
&
&
&
A
&
&
&
A
A
&
&
A
A

O.
J.
J.
D.
D.
J.
N.
D.
O.
S.
O.
S.
S.

=

York, Co
do
do
dodo
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do

’s Office.
do
do

do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do

do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do

June

28,1879

Sept. 27,1879
Aug. 1, 1885
Nov. 1, 1883
Aug. 1, 1885
Aug. 1, 1885
Aug. 1, 1885
Feb. 1, 1882
Jan. 1, 1884
Sept. 1, 1898
Jan., 1888
Feb. 1, 1915
April 1,1911

July 1, 1898

July 1, 1906
June 1, 1911
Dec. 1, 1902
Jan. 1, 1887
Nov. 1,
Dec. 1,

Oct. 1,
June 1,
Oct. 1,

do
do

Sept 1,
Sept. 1,
Oct. 1,

do
do

1907
1916
1900
1917
1908
1908
1908
1929

0.
J.
July 1, 1903
A. N. Y., Farm. L. A T. Co. Aug. 1, 1901
1891
O.
Q.-F. New York, Co.’s Office. Nov. 1, 1879
do
J. & J.
do
July 1, 1917
M. & N.
do
do
Nov., 1890
Nov. 1, 1879
do
do
Q.—F.
J. A J. New York, Co.’s Office.
July 1, 1886
A. A O.
Oct. 1,1890
do
do
F. A A.
do
do
Aug. 1, 1885
do
M. A N.
do
Nov., 1880A’84
Nov. 1, 1886
F. A A.
do
do
Nov. 1, 1897
M. A N.
do
do
do
Dec. 1, 1907
J. A D.
do
M. A N.
New York, at Office.
May 1, 1918*
M. A N.
do
do
May, 1898
A. A O. N. Y., Winslow, L. A Co.
April, 1873
M. A N.
do
do
May 1, 1889
do
J. A J.
do
July 20,1885
A. A O.
do
do
Oct.., 1905
do
J. A J.
do
Jan., 1903
M. A S. N.Y., J.S.Kennedy
do
J. A J.
do

A Co.

Mch., 1901
1, 1914

Nov.

(V. 25, p. 160, 441. 532; V. 26, p. 469. 574: V. 27, p,
140. 170, 372, 426, 603, 623; V. 29, p. 119, 168, lt»7r
225, 277.)

Chicago dk Paducah.—Gross earnings 1876-7. $271,370; net, $68,294. (V. 23, p. 427; V. 28, p. 617.)
Chic.Pek. dkSouthw'n.—Receiver appointed Juner
Gros-s earnings 1877-8, $243,4<3; net, $93,400.

1877.

(V. 28,

p 41 63, 199.) »
Chicago tiock Island dk Pacific.—In 1878-9 gross receiptswerj $9,401,883; net receipts, $4,329.9(0; net
income over interest, &c., $3,196,380
Owns stock
of la. So. & Mo. North., and pays 2 per cent quar¬
terly to Rock Island stockholders, making their
quarterly dividend actually 2& per cent. Controls
Peorix & Rock Island road. Keokuk A Des Moines
RR. was leased Oct., 1878. (V. 26, p 574, f 99, 623,
653; V. 27, p. 514. 677; V. 28, p. 502; V. 29, p. 15.)
Chic. St. L. <ft N. O —The stock of this company
is controlled by the Ill. Central. The present or¬
ganization was formed by a consolidation after
foreclosure of the Jackson and Miss. Central roads
in 18;7. Gross earnings 1378, $2,819,0:9: nrt earn¬
ings, $8 8,733.
Of 1st mort. $1,199,000 are a prior
lien in Tenn. (V. 28, p. 277, 502.)

Chicago St. Paul <fe Mi neapolis.—This is the
Wisconsin RR. reorganized.
Pref. stock

West

$1 0 0.000, common $4 000.600. The 1st mortgage
2d on >he lands; the land mort. a :’d on road,

is a

but no foreclosure can be had
1st mortgage. Gross earnings

except on default

on

1877-3, $36s,l 5; net,

$130,114.
The lands mortgaged are about ; 00,000
and the total lands owned consideiably more*

acre*,

(V. 26, p. 436; V. 27, p. 332; V. 28, p. 502.)
Cine. Ilajn.dk Dayton— Net income of C. HAD. in
1878-9. $141,193 afterpayment of interest. Defaulted
C. H & I. guaranteem 1877. Rep< rt of bondhold¬
ers’ conference, V. 2-, p. 68. (V. 26. p. 117.599,
on

fit'; V. 27. p. 356; V. 28, p. 68, 302, 5,5, 624; V.
29, p. 15,197.)

Cincinnati, Lafayette dk Chicago.—Gross earning#
in 1877-78, $408,188; net,

$127,599.

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Subscribers will

coiif'er a

BONDS,

[Vol. XXIX,

great tftiror by g ivlus iiu
tiediate notice of any error

DESCRIPTION.
For explanation of
column headings, Ac., see notes
on first
page of tables.

Mile©

Date

of

of

148
36

3 88

138

Mortgage bonds, Sandusky, Dayton A Cincinnati
do
Sandusky city & Ind
2d
mortg. Cine., Sandusky & Cleve
Cincinnati dk Springfield—1st
mortgage, guar
2d

»

,

mortgage (C., C.

Ind.—Stock..

•

dk

..

..

Mahoning

Valley—Stock
1st mortgage, extended
New bonds
Niles & New Lisbon, 1st
mortgage
Cleveland, Ml. Vernon <£• Del.—1st
mortgage, gold....
1st mortgage, Columbus
Extension
Income mortgage

Cleveland

dk

mort. for

Construction and equipment bonds

Valley—Stock

Columbus, Chicago

dk Indiana Central— Stock
1st M (consol.)
Columbus, Chic. A Ind. Central..
do
Chic. A G’t East. (Chic, to
Logansport).
do
Col. A Ind’polis Cent.
(Col. to Ind’s A br.).
do
Union A Logansp’t (U’n
City to Logausp’t)
do
Tol Logansp’t &
do
Col. A Ind. 1st & Burl.(Logansp. to Ill line)
2dpref.(Col. to U’n City)
do
Cinn. & Chic. Air Line(Riclim’d
to Logans.)
2d M. Col. A Ind’polis Cent.
(Col. to Union
do
City).,
Indiana Central
(Indianapolis to Ohio line)
do
Chic. A G’t East, construe.
(Chic, to Ricli’d)
do 'Columbus,
Chicago A Iud. Central
Income conv. do
do
do

Xenia—Stock
mortgage

s.

Connecticut

Portsmouth—Stock,
dt

New mortgage (for
coupon

Massawippi st’k,
do

f

$1,500,000)

110

guar, same div. as Conn. A Pass.

38
38

bonds, guar, by Conn. & Pass
Connecticut Central— 1st
Connecticut Piper—Stock mortgage for $400,000...
Connecticut Valley—1st

....

i*/

iutt/Hvtjtifv

v/tjiii• otucii

Preferred stock, (8 percent,

1st mortgage,
sinking
2d mortgage
3d mortgage
Toledo depot (cost

fund

$353,940)

ings, 1878, $22,310—loss

to

519, 614.)

AD.)

per year

20,

p.

624; V. 29,

p

1,000

....

1,350,000
950,000
669,000

11,244,036
1,104,844
2,651.000
1,293,000
2,180,000
600,000
1,272,000
2,030,150
1,500,000
300,000
700,000

13,938,972

10,428.000

451,000
2,632,000

1864
1865

775,000
531,000
309,500

217,750
1857

500 Ac.
-

....

1871
1875

1,000
1,000
50

....

1,000

....

1873
1871

50
100
100
100 Ac.
100 Ac.
100

1869
1875

1,000

ioo

_

1,000

41

(V. 22, p.

15.)

100

1868

1866

142
142

1st and 2d mortgage

Cincinnati, Richmond & diicago.--Leased to
Cin.,
Ham. & Dayton, which owns most of
the stock.
Net
profit to lessee, above interest,
1877-78, $22,944. (V.

1,000
1,000

1868

142
142
142

guar. L. M. & C. & X

lessee, $32,689.

50
500 Ac.

1,000

33
33

Cincinnati &
Muskingum Valley.-Is leased for 9b
years from 1873 to Pittsb., Cin. & St. Louis
for net
earn’gs, butbonned interest is guaranteed. Net earn¬

1,000

1871

gi*2

'.

Dayton dk Western—1st M.,

100 Ac.

1867
1870
1872

....

52

*.

guar. C. H.

1868
1870

52

pUtu.

fund, $30,000

1,000

38
38
110

Pennsylvania—1st mortgage
mortgage, sinking fund, (guaranteed)
Cumberland. Valley—Stock
($484,900 preferred)
1st mortgage
2d mortgage,
sinking fund guaranteed

(i/U'/yto/t

1,000
1,000

44
7

2d

s.

1867

1873

56

mortgage

Connecting (Phila.)—1st mortgage
Cumberland dk

mortgage, coup.,
Danbury <£ Norwalk—Stock.
1st, 2a and 3d mortgages

50

141
41
146

guaranteed

Common bonds
Dakota Southern—1st

1,000

500,000

1,000
1,000

1874

1,000
50
500 Ac.
500 Ac.
100 Ac.

1,000
50

.

’60-’72

100 Ac.
50
50

1871
1856
1,000
1867
1,000
1869
1,000
61&64 500 Ac.
1865
1.000

821,000

666,500
341,400
3,692,000
3,847,000
74,024

1,000,000
2,416,000
1,786,200
302,000
1,500,000
350,000
2,175,500
1,272,000
123,000
400,000
400,000
262,500
2,100,000
1,000,000
996,000
803,500
594,000
1,777,850
161,000
109,500
81,800
558,000
600,000
500,000
2,395,350
1,286,100

1,870,000

7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
10
7
7
7
7
7
7
2
7
5

1*2
7

1\
2

105,500
614,000

6 A 7

Railroad at 7 per cent on stock,
besides expenses
interest, and transferred to Pennsylvania Co.
Net earnings 1873,
$1,168,580, deficit to lessee,
148,112; in 1877 a deficit of $207,111.
(V. 26, p. 67,
287 ; V. 28, p. 41, 300.)
Cleveland, Tuscarawas Valley dk
*

re-organized.

a

Wheeling.—This

2d

mortgage, Jan. 27,1875, and
Gross earnings, 1877,
$491,463; net,

Cincinnati, Richmond <£ Fort Wayne.— Leased to 8181,528. (V. 26, p. 289.)
Grand Rapids for y9 years. Interest
Colebrookdale.—Leased to Philadelphia & Read¬
guaranteed by ing. No dividends
Gr. Ran., Cin. Ham. &
paid on stock.
Dayton, and by Penn. Co.
Colorado Central.—Bui it
(V. 27, p. 172; V 29, p. 299.)
mainly by Union Pacific,
Cincinnati, Sandusky dc Cleveland.—In the year which holds the bonds, $5,270,593 in all. (V. 26, p.
626; V. 2c>, p. 269.)
ending June 30, ls78, gross earnings were
$714,323;
Colimbus dc
expenses, $5:34,917; net
earnings, $179,906. Six 1878. $871,f53; Hocking Valley.—Gross earnings,
net, $391,1-i7. against $386,834in 1876.
coupons on 2d mort. bonds funded, from
June, tV. 24. p.
1877. Thepref. >tcck has a lien
by deposit of old p. 399.) 395; V. 25, p. 90; V. 26, p. 390; V. 23,
bonds in tiust. (V. 27, p.
303, 382, 4bl; V. 28, p. 145;
V. 29, p. 197.)
Coumbus, Chicago & Indiana Central.—On Jan.
22, 1869, it was leased (amended Feb. 1.
Cincinnati db Springheld.—Leased m
18H\)by
perpetuity the Pittsburgh Cin. & St. Louis,
to Clev. Col. C. & I., with
guarantee of intereet:
guaranteed by
Penn. Railroad.
on half of 1st
The amended lease
mortgage bonds interest is guaranteed interest
guaranteed
on
toy Lake Sh. & M. S. (V. 23, p. 232 )
$15,821,000 of first and second bonds.
Aug.. ’74. default was made on the $5,000,000
Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan.— Some bonds
held by L. Sh. A Mich. So’n. but no
April 1, 1875, defaulted on 1st mort. The seconds.
guarantee
indorsement by of interest was
-that company. Went into
absolute, but the
trustees’ hands Jan
1878
road claims that the C. C. A I. C.Pennsylvania Rail¬
(V. 26, p. 40, 166. 192, *67.)
Co. did not fulfil
all its part.
Bondholders claim
Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati &
Indianap.— after bonds had been sold with that no such failure
Annual report in V. 28, p. ouT. Net
the
earnings 1878, prejudice their rights. The case guaranty could
$707.8tO, again-t $438,778 in 18:7, and
between lessor
and lessee (not as to
$702,917 in
?876. (V. 2b, p. 287; V. 28.
bondholders) was decided
p. 301.)
.May, 18 9.
See Chronicle,
Cleveland dk Mahoning
May 3, p. 453, 503,
Val'ey.—Is leased to At¬ and V.
lantic * Great Western. (V.
29, p. 14H, 169. In 1878 net
20, p. 85, 139; V. 23,
earnings were
$:l\514, against $455,340 in 1877. • (V. 26,
p. 232, 403.)
p. 166,
389, 5 ’2, 574; V. 27, p. 112.
Cleveland, Mount Veirum dk
199; V. 28, p. 43, 145,
Delaware.—Defaulted 172, 377, 453, 593; V.
July, 1874, and coupons due then and one-half
24, p. 146, 169, 252.)
of
Colum>)us dk '/oleio.— Gross
coupons from Jan. 1, 1875, to and
earnings, in
including
S877, were postponed to Jan. 1,1885. and the July 1, *517.871; net, $222,258. (V. 26, p. 39u; V. 1878,
28, p.
remain¬ 399.)
ing half to be paid, but this failed
July, 1877, and
Columbus dk Xenia.—This road is
revocations are penning.
leased to the LitGross earnings
1878,
#382,698; expenses, $317,727; net, $b4,9?l. Interest tl Miami Co., and both roads for 99 years to Pitts¬
burg Cinn. & St. Louis Co.; the lease is
change. S-L6.995.. (V. 28, p. 400.)
guaranteed
by Pennsylvania Railroad, and the terms are 8
Cleveland dk Pittsburgh- -Leased to




,

Pennsylvania

cent

ou

stock and interest

on

J. & J. New
York, Moran Bros.
J. A J. N. Y.,
Winslow, L. A Co.
J. A J.
do
do
J. A D. N.Y.,
Winslow, L. A Co.

bonds.

per

Jan., 1901
July, 18ffiv

Jan. 1, 1889
June. 1921

Boston, Office.

A
A
A
A

J.
O.
A.
J.

1872

May 1, 1879

Aug. 1, 1900
Sept. 1, 1897
Dec. 1, 1890
April 1, 1901
1902

July

M.
J.
J.
F.
F.
F.
M.
F.

A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A

N.
J.
J.
A.
A.
A.
S.
A.

b

Feb.

1, 1876
June, ’75 to ’84
Until 1899

May, 1899

June

1,1914
(?)
Aug. 1, 1893
Sept., 1906
Jan., 1890
Jan. 1, 1900
Jan. 1, 1901
Jan. 1, 1905
Sept. 1, 1879
Jan., 1892
Nov. 1, 1900
Jan.

1, 1913

June 1,
June 1,
Feb. 10,
Oct. 1,

1898
1890
1879
1897
July 1, 1880
Jan. 1, 1892

April, 1908
1893 A’95

Nov., 1904
Dec., 1905

N. Y., A. Iselin A Co.
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do

Various

1*2

8
8
6
7 g.

Stocks—Bust
Dividend,

Various

6 g7
4
7
6
6
6

and

road was sold under

Where Payable and by
Whom.

Pay’ble

J.
A.
F.
J.

3^
1*2

2*2

Bonds—Princi¬
pal, When Due.

A. A O.

7
7

7
7
7
7

426,000
356,000

When

M. A N.
do
do
F. A A.
do
do
M. A S.
do
do
J. A D. N. Y., Union
Trust Co.
A. A O.
N. Y., U. S. Trust Co.
J. A J.
do
do
J. A J.
Wabash, Indiana.'
F. A A.
N. Y., U. S. Trust Co.
J. A D.
do
do
J. A J.
do
do
M. A N.
do
do
J. A D. New York or
London.
3*2
M. A N.
Ckiveland, Office.
7 g. F. A A.
N. Y., Ward, C. A Co.
7
M. A 8.
7
J. A J. N. Y., Union Trust
Co.
7 g. J. A J. N.
Y., Winslow, L. A Co.
7 g.
do
do
7
M. A S.
do
do
Q.—M. N. Y., Farm. L. A T. Co.
£
•T. A .T.
do
do
7
M. A N.
do
do
7
J. A J.
do
do
7
Cleveland, Ohio.
6
J. AD.
Phila., Co.'a Office.
8 g. J. A D.
Boston, Treas.’s Office.
4
F. A A.
Columbus, Office.
7
A. A O. N. Y., St. Nich.Nat.
B’k
7
J. A J.
do
do
7
J. A J.
do
do

2,759,200
630,000

500 Ac.

1862

m

7
7
7
65,000
7 g.
1,800,000
10s.
4,005,750
3
429,037
6
750,000
7
350,000
1,100,300
7
7
2,000,000
651,000
7
7 g.
1,824,000
3
14,991,800
7
150,000
7
420,000
3,000,000
7
2,539,000 7 or 6 g.

560,000

500 Ac.
500 Ac.
500 &c

,

45
118
55
55

Passumpsic—Stock

Notes,

1,000

1876
1870
1870
1871
1875

224
587

Concord—Stock
Concord dk

1,000
1,000

1873

93
61
102
107
102
72

Income (Toledo, Logansport A
Burlington)
Columbus, Springfield dk Cincinnati—1st mort

100
500

50

588
588
117
208

..

1,000

1,000

1874

101
18
78
89
76
13
89

m...

1st mortgage,
sinking fund bonds
1st mortgage,
Logan & Straitsville Branch
2d mortgage bonds

Toledo—1st mortgage,
coupon,

m

1,000

1860
1864
1869

■

m

....

....

1871

225
199
199
^

.....

1872

.

Colorado Central—1st
mortgage, convertible
Columbus dk Hocking

1st

•

•

67
35
145

$5,000,000..

Cleveland, Tuscarawas Valley dk
Wheeling—1st
Colebrookdale—1st mortgage

dk
dk

•

Rate per
Cent.

$1,500,000

....

67-

stock

Outstanding

1866
1852
1867
1871

•

,

Pittsburgh—Guaranteed

4th mortgage (now
1st)
Consolidated sinking fund

Columbus
Columbus

•

80
48
114
471
138
202
390
390
80

A C. RR.) $25,000 a
year
do
(Bel. & Ind.) excli. for new mort...
do
C., C., C. & I. sinking fund
Consol. M. for $7,500,000 (sink,
fund 1 per ct.)

Cleveland

•

....

mortgage
Cin., Wab. dk Mich—1st mortgage

dk

Value.

50
50

in tlicse Tables.

INTEREST OR DIVIDENDS.

Amount

$1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

1870
1866
1869
1871

36
90

or

par

Road. Bonds

Cincinnati dk Muskingum
Talley—1st mortgage
Cin., Richmond dk Chic.—1st mol
t., guar. C. H. AD.
2d mortgage, guar, and
owned by C. II. & D
Cin. Richmond dk Ft.
IT.—1st mort., gold,
Cincinnati, Sandusky dk Cleveland—Stock guar
Preferred stock

Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati
1st

Size

discovered

Feb., 1884
Dec., 1883
1886 to ’90

Nov., 1904
Jan., 1882

Feb., 1890

N. Y., A. Iselin A Co.
N. Y., Union Trust Co.
New York.

_f

*

Sept. 1, 1901
Aug. 1, 1905
Q.-M.
Columbus Treasury.
Sept. 10,1879
M. A S. N. Y., Am. Exch. N.
B’k Sept. 1,1890
M. A N. Boston,
Tower, G. A Co. May 1, 1879
J. A J.
Boston.
July 1, 1879
F. A A.
Boston Office.
Aug. 1, 1879
A. A O.
do
April 1, 1893
Various
do
Jan. 1,1881
F. A A.
do
Aug. 1, 1879
J. & J.
do
July 1, 1889
A. A O.
Oct., 1895
J. A J. Boston, Bost.A
Alb.RR. July 1, 1879
J. A J. N. Y., Am. Exch. N.
Bk. Jan. 1, 1901
M. A S.

Philadelphia.

M. A 8. New
York, Co.’s Office.
M. A N.
do
do
Q.-J. Phila. and Carlisle, Pa.
A. A O. Phila., T. A. Biddle
A Co
A. A O.
do
do
A. A O.
do
do
F. A A.
New York.
<
.

1900-’l-’2-’3-’4

March 1,1891

May
April
April
April

1, 1888
1, 1879
1, 1904
1, 1908
Jan. 1, 1884
Feb. 1,1894
(?)
1880, ’90, ’92
April, 1879
July, 1879
July, 1881
Sept., 1887
Oct., 1888

Q.-M. New York and Danbury
J. A J. New York,
A. A O. Cincinnati. 84Broadw’y
C. H. A D.Co.
Q.-J- N. Y., Winslow, L. A Co.
J. A J.
do
do
M. A S.
do
do
A. A O.
do
do
M. A S.
do
do
Mar..’81 A ’94
J. A J. N. Y., Am. Exch. N. B’k
Jan. 1, 1905
Concord.—Net receipts in 1877-8,
$340,453. (V
p. 521; V. 28, p. 525.)
Concord dk Portsmouth.—Leased
to Concord RR,
at

26,

$25,000

per year.

Connecticut dk Passumpsic.— Annnal

report to
June, 1879. showed net earnings for
year $200,497,
against $222,59 J in 1877-8. The new mortgage of
$1,500 000 will retire previous issues. (V.
26, p. 367;
V-29, p. 299. 301.)
Connecticut Central. Net
earnings, 1877-8. $14,190.
Connecticut

River.— Net income 1377-8.
$205,680,
(V. 23, p. 500; V. 26, p.
94; V. 27, p. 537.)
Connecticut \ alley. - In default and
lately in pos¬
session of State Treasurer as
trustee for bondhold¬
ers.
Net

against $201,931 in 1876-7.

earnings, 1877-8, $22,598.

V. 26, p.18,40; V. 28, p. 41.)

Connecting.—Leased

and operated

to

(V. 25, p. 61C;

Philadelphia

by Pennsylvania; terms, 6

A

Trenton,

per
$1 ,278,300 stock, and interest on the bonds. cent on
Cumberland dk Pennsylvania.—Owned and
oper¬
ated by Consolidation Coal
Co., which guarantee©
2d mortgage. Stock
$1,500,000. (V. 22. p.
Cumberland Valley.—The stock is owned415.)
in large
part by Pennsylvania Railroad Co. Net
1878, $214,514. Large advances have been earnings,
made to
branch roads. (V. 24, d.
135; V. 26, p. 493; Y.
28, p.427.)

Dakota Southern.— The
earnings of the road are
reDorred at $219,294 in
1878, and net earnings $106,357. Second mortg. bonds for

$600,000

celled and pref. stock issued. S fund is were can¬
4 p. c. ia
1879 and 5 per cent afterwards.
(V. 25, p. 609; V. 26,
p. 334; Y. 23. p. 120; V. 29, p. 87.*.)
Danbury & Norwalk.- -Gross
$159,565; net earnings, $48,121. earnings, 1877-78,
(V. 26,p. 141.)
Dayton dk Michigan.—Leased in
perpetuity to Cin.
Ham. & Dayton, which
pays interest on bonds, and
guarantees

$1,398,100

dividends

on

of the common.

'stock, holding itself

(V. 29, p. 15)
Dayton dk Western. Leased to Little
Miami, and
with that to Pittsb. Cin. A St. L.
About $90,000 of
eld ext. mortg. bonds of
1881, are yet out, which
will be retired shortly.

September 27,

BAILROAD STOCKS AND BON! S.

1879.]

Subscribers will confer

a

great favor by giving Immediate

n

Mine

xur

discovered In these Tables.

any error

<>»

%

-

DESCRIPTION.

■

Miles
For explanation of column headings, &c., see notes
of
at the head of first page of tables.
Road
■

-

Delaware Railroad—Stock
Extension mortgage

P. W. & B
Delaware & Bound Brook—Stock, guaranteed
let mortgage
Delaware, Lackawanna <£• Western—Stock
2d mortgage (Delaware, Lackawanna & Western)
Consol, mort., on roads &equiprn’t, ($10,000,000).

85

....

1856
1877
1872
1859
1858
1870
1869
1870
1879
1870
1874

125

288
....

60
25
22
106
291
....

43
88

Preferred stock
1st mortgage
Ionia & Lansing, 1st mort., coup., may be reg—
do
2d mortgage
do
do
....
Det. Gr. Haven <£Mil.—1st M., guar.,(for $2,000,000)

....

1877
1869
1870

182
59
59
191

2d mortgage, guar.,

1878
1878

189

(for $3,500,000.)
Sterling (Oak. & Otta. RR.) Oct. 1,1853, gold
Dollar (Oak. & Otta. RR.) bonds, Oct, 1,1853
1st mort. (Detroit & Pontiac RR.), April 1,1851.
3d mortgage (Detroit & Pontiac RR.), Feb. 1854.
2d mortgage, (Detroit & Pontiac RR.), Jan. 1853.
Dubuque <£ Dakota—1st mort., gold, guar
Dubuque <6 Sioux City—Stock
1st mortgage, 1st division
1st mortgage, 2d division (for $1,400,000)
Dubuque Soidhwcstern—1 st mort., pref., sink, fd
1st mortgage, Oct. 1,1863
Dunkirk, Allegh.Valley <£ Pittsburg—1st mort., gold
2d mortgage
3d mortgage
Fast Broad Top.—1st mortgage, registered
Fast Pennsylvania—Stock
1st mortgage
Fast Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia—Stock
1st mortgage sinking fund bonds
East Tenn. & Georgia ($92,000 are endorsed)
East Tennessee and Virginia (endorsed)
2d mortgage to U. S. Government.

....

.

.

.

m

.•
.

40
143
100
43
55
55

90
90
90
30
36
36

270
242
112
130

Eastern (Mass.)—Stock
Essex RR.lst mort. (extended for 20 years)

1853
1853
1851
1854
1853

1879
....

1863
1864
1863
1863
1870
1870
1870

1873
....

1858
....

1870
50-’56
1856

....

Eel River—Stock
Elizabethtown Lex.dbBig Sandy—1st mortgage, gold
Elmira Jeff, tfi Canandaigua.—Stock.
Elmira <£ Williamsport—Stock, common
Preferred stock

1856
1876
....

122

47
75
75
75

1st mortgage bonds
Income bonds, 999 years to run
Erie c6 Pittsburg—Stock
1st mortgage, convertible into consolid. mort
2d mortgage, convertible
Consolidated mortgage free of State tax

1872
.....

....

....

1860
1863

100

81^
81*2
81*2

Equipment bonds
Euroffn <& N.Am.—IstM., Bang’r to Winn.,Bang,rl’n
Land grant 1st mort. (2d mort. Bangor to Wmn.).
Bangor & Piscataquis, Bangor loan, 1st mortg...
Evansv.
Terre Haute.—Stock ($100,000 is pref.)
..

1st mortgage, Efansv. & Ill., sink, fund
1st mort., sinking fund (Evansville to Terre H.)..
Rockville extension
Evanville, Terre Haute cC Chic.—1st mort., gold
2d mortgage, gold
Fitch burg—Stock

($4,000,000 authorized)

56
58
49
131
51
109
23
55
55
„

m

.

283
283

Consolidated mortgage, sinking fund

1st mort., land grant, 3d series
Flint & Holly RR. (sink’g fund$25,000 per year).
Bay City, E. Saginaw, let mort., guar by lessees.

1862
1865
1868
.

.

....

1,000
....

....

50
500 &c
....

1869
1869
1869

Delaware.—Leased by Phiia. Wilmington & Balti¬
till 1897 for 6 per cent on stock and bonds, but
if 30 per cent of gross earnings does not pay that,
the balance is chargt d annually to Del. RR. In ls78,
gross earnings were $395,580, and deficiency charged
more

was

$22,01:3; the total deficiency

was

$259,155.

(V.

26, p. I 4 I; V. 2S, p. €9.1
Delaware & Bound Brook.—Leased to Phiia. &
Reading for 990 years, lessee paying int. and 6 per
cent on stock in 1879-81, 7 per tent m 1881 83, and
8 per cent

afterward. Gross earnings 1878. $270,570;

(V. 26, p. 342; V. 28, p. 451, 503.)
Delaware Lackawanna & Western. —Operations
consist largely of coal mining and transportation.
For 1878 the Income account is given thus:
Net receipts
$3,651,434
Interest on bonds
$411,965
net, $119,022.

Rentals

3,198,752—3,610,725

Net profit in 1878
Loss for year 1877

$40,709
908,021
The mortgage authorized for $10,000,000 is to
take up prior bonds with $2,82),0.W), and the

balance for cash resources. Tbe Morris & Essex
Railroad is leased and some of its bonds guar¬
anteed* (V. 29, p. 144; V. 29, p. 1;9, 225.)
Denver & Boulder Valley.— This road is leased to
the Denver Pacific.
Denver Pacific.—Land grant, 1,100,000 acres. In
1877-8 gross earnings were $228,639; net earnings.
$87,546. Receiver appointed April, 18T8. c ontrol

purchased by Jay Gould, August. 1879. (V. 26,
342,408, 414,549; V. 27, p. 253, 274; V. 24, r. 67, 197.)

p.

Denver&Rio Grande.—Narrow-gauge road. Leased
from Dec. 1,’78, for 30 years to Aten. Top. & Santa Fe,
at 43 per cent of gross earning first year and theece
decreasing. (V. 27, p. 67.227, a31,382.134,514,539,60S;
V. 28s P. 120, 178, 427, 50.'. ©41; V. 29, p. 40, 66, 301.)
Des Moines
Foil Dodge.—Tnis is part of the
Des Moines Valley, reorganized after foreclosure.
There are also $1,200,000 income bonds. Coupons
of Jf.n., 1877, were funded.
Detroit Lansing <jfc North.—The old road was
Bcld in foreclosure December 14, 1876, and new




Payabh 3

$1,430,216

3
6
6
7

2ia
7
7
7
7
7
7 g.
7 g.
7 g.

1.633,000

3,067,000

1,000
1,000

550,000

....

1,000

209,000

2,229,000
6,382,500
5,000,000
1,040,000

1,000
100
100
500 &c.

2,504;000

....

....

100 &c.
500 &c.

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
100
500
500 &c.
500

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
50

100 &c.
100

1,000
1,000
1,000

...

100

1,000
100
50

50

1,000
500
50
100 &c.
100 &c

1,000

1,000
500 &c.
100

500 &c.

1874

i;ooon

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
100
100

1872

190
17
13

1868

1,000

1868
1867

500 &c.
500 &e.
500

65

1871

1,000

S

do

M. & 8

do

J.
M.
A.
M.
M.
M.

& D

&
&
&
&
&

do

do

do
do

r

S
O
N
N
N

do
do

do
do

N.Y., Lond. & Frankft

N. Y., Bk. of Commerce
N. Y., U. S. Trust Co.
do
do
M. <fc N.
do
do
J. & J.
New York.

Dividend.

July 2, 1879
Jau. 1, 1880
July 1, 1895
Aug. 1, 1879
August, 1905
July 20,1876
March 1,1881
Sept. 1, 1907
June, 1892
March, 1885
April 15,1880
Nov. 1, 1900

May 1, 1899
Nov. 1, 1900
Nov.
June

1, 1900
1, 1905

1,874,000

1,975,000
770,000
81,000
(?)
(?)

150,866
51,000
150,000
250,000
100,000
400,000

5,000,000
296,000
586,000
81,500
450,000
2,000,000
1,000,000
200,000

500,000
1,309,200
495,900
1,968,274
3,123,000
662,400
147,000
190,000

4,9971600
194,400
13,165,619
2,712,500
1,20^,000
500,000
500,000
500,000
1,000,000
570,000
1,998,400
291,700
92,300
2,193,000
745,000
1,000,000
2,000,000
814,000

1,120,307
281,000
611,000
125,500
775,000
325,000

4,500,000
1,000,000
3,298,200
3,559,000
2,006,000
375,500
100,000
75,000
41,405
1,000.000

3^a

Boston.
Aug. 9, 1879
7
J. & J. Boston, 2d Nat. Bank.
Jan. 1, 1907
8
J. & J.
do
do
July 1, 1889
8
M. & N.
do
do
May 1, 1880
6
1908
5
1908
6 g- M. & N. New York & London.
Nov. 15, 1873
7
M. & N.
Nov. 15, 1873
New York..
7
A. & O.
do
April 1, 187«
8
F. & A.
do
Feb. 15,188$
7
J. & J.
do
Jan. 1, 1878
6 g. J. & J.
New York.
July 1,1919
2
A. & O. N.Y.,M.K.Jesup,P.& Co. Oct. 15, 1879
7
J. & J.
do
do
1883
7
J. & J.
do
do
1894
7
J. & J. N.Y.,M.K. Jesup,P.& Co.
July, 1883
do
A. & O.
7
do
Oct., 1883
7 g. J. & D. N.Y., N.Y. Cent. & Hud.
June, 1890
A. & O.
7
do
do
Oct. 1, 1890
A. & O.
7
do
do
Oct. 1. 1890
7
J. & J. Philadelp’a, Co.’s Office. Julv 1, 1903
3
J. & J. Phiia., by P. & R. RR.
July 15,1879
7
M. & S.
Mar. 1, 1888
Phiia., P. & R. office.
3
A. & O. N. Y., R. T. Wilson & Co. May 1, 1879
7
J. & J. N. Y., Gallatin Nat’l B’k July 1, 1900
J. & J. N. Y., R. T. Wilson & Co.. 1880 to 1886
6
M. & N.
6
do
do
| May 1, 1886
4
3
J. & J.
Boston.
July 15,1873
6
M. & S.
do
Sept. 15,1896
Sept., 1906
3Jag. M. & S. Boston and London.
2
Boston.
Feb., 1879
6
New York.
Mar. 1, 1902
5
Sept. Baltimore, N. Cent. RR.
Sept., 1879
M. & N. Phiia., Penn. R. R. Co.
2ia
May, 1870
J. & J.
do
‘, do
3ia
July, 1870
J. & J. Phiia., Penn. Trust Co. Jan. 1, 1880
7
A. & O. Phiia., Penn. R. R. Co.
5
Oct. 1, 2862
•
1%
Q.—M. N. Y., Union Trust Co. Sept. 10,187*
J. & J.
do
do
7
July 1, 1882
A. & O.
do
do
7
April 1, 1890
do
do
7
J. & J.
July 1, 1898
A. & 0.
do
do
7
Oct. 1, 1890’
6
Boston.
Jan. 1, 1889
J. & J.
6 g. M. & S. New York and Boston. Mar. 1, 1899
A. & 0. Boston, Second N. Bank April 1, 1890
6 & 7
M. & N.
2ia
Nov., 1878
7
J. & J. S.Y.,Fann. L’an& T.Co. Jan. 1, 1887
M. & N.
do
do
Nov. 1, 1*887
7
F. & A.
do
do
7
Aug. 1, 1880
7 g. M. & N. S.Y.,Farm.L’an & T.Co. May 1, 1900
do
do
Jan. 1, 1903
7 g. J. & J.
Boston Office.
3
J. & J.
July 1, 1879
do
/.April l/Ol&’fcfr
A. & O.
6 & 7
.

...

"

‘

8‘
8
10
10
10
8
8

organized by bondholders, who issued
$1,874,600 common stock aud $2,5U4,00u pref. sro< k.
Gross earnings 1878, $970,033; net earnings,$372,’.9^,
against $282,946 in 1877. Dividend of $6 per shire
paid on preferred stock February, 1879. (V. 26, p.
288; V. 28, p. 326.)
company

Detroit Grand Haven <& Milwaukee.—This company
is the reorganization of the Detroit & Milwaukee,
sold in foreclosure September, 1878. Net earnings
Jan. 1 to Nov. 10, 1878, $233,304. The Detroit &
Pontiac and O. & O. interest is to be paid, and the
bondB may' be changed into new first mortgage. All
other bonds changeable for new 2d mortgage.
>V.
26, p. 117, 232, 2 4 2, 367, 391, 419, 574, 599; V. 27, p.
15, 40, 67, 172, 251, 356; V. 28, p. 12*.)
Dubuque & Dakota— The bonds are guaranteed
by Dubuque & Sioux City RR. They m .y be paid
off any time at 105.

Dubuque & Sioux City.—Leased to Illinois Cen¬
tral, in 1867, for 20 years, at 35 per cent of gross earn¬
ings first ten years, and 36 afterwards. In 18'.6 gross
earnings were $978,279; in 1877, $921,412; in 18?<s
$926,170.
Dubuque SoutJnvestern—Farley to Cedar Rapids, la.
Gross earnings, 1677, $105,312; expenses, $97,215.
(V. 26, p. 264, 459.)
Dunkirk Allegh. Valley & Pittsburg.-A consoli¬
dation, Dec. 1, 1872. Road leased and bonds mostly
held by N. Y. Central & Hudson, which pays interest
as rental.
Net deficit on operations 1878, $645.
East Bread Top.—Mainly a coal road.
East Pennsylvania.— Leased to Philadelphia &
Reading. Dividends are 6 per cent per annum.
East Tennessee
Virginia <6 Georgia. — Leases
Memphis & Charleston Railroad for its own account
and risk, paying over net earnings. Gross earn¬
ings year ending June 30,1878, were $1,022,651; ex¬
penses, $612,641, and net earnings, $409,608. (V.
25, p. 406; V. 27, p. 626.)
Eastern
(Mass.) —Company embarrassed 1875.
A general mortgage was made to fund the old issues
of debt, bearing 3% per cent till
Sept., 1879. then 4)4

Eer1877-78till Sei-t., 1682, and 6 for balance of term,
cent net income was $629,792. The Eastern in
a

M. &

Stocks—Last

..

7 g.
6

1,200,000

1,000
1,000

Dover, Co.’s Office.
Phiia.,Girard Nat. Banlt
Phil., Fid’lity I.T.&.S.Ct)
Q.-F.
Pniladelphia.
F. & A
Philadelphia.
New York, Office.
Q.-J.

1*2

1,500,000

26,200,000

Whom.

J. & J
J. & J
J. & J

100,000
650,000
1,500.000

370,900

500 &c.

Bonds—Prmci-

Where Payable, and bj 7

r

600,000

Construction bonds

Holly, Wayne & Monroe. 1st mort., sinking fund.

r
When
Outstanding Rate pe
Cent.

1,000

1852
1854
1860
1870
1873

Bay County, issued in aid, guartby lessees

Amount

100 &c.
100 &c.

.

189
.

Flint <& Pere Marquette—Stock

....

.

..

Par
Value.

100

282

Mortgage funding certificates

coupons,

1875

195

Arkansas Valley, 1st mortgage
Des Moines <£ Fort Dodge— 1st mortgage, coupon
Detroit, Lansing <£• North— Stock,common

Bonds,

....

27

do
2d mortgage
do
Denver <£ Boulder Valley—Mortgage bonds, coup..
Denver Pacific—1st mortgage, gold, land grant.. .
Denver & Rio Grande—1st mort., gold, sink, fd
Extension mortgage

or

$50
1859
1875

....

Bonds (convertible June 1, 1875 to ’77)
Lackawanna & Bloomsb., 1st mort. (extension)..

*

Bonds

13

guar.

Size,

of

85

Mortgage bonds, convertible,

,

Date

-

INTEREST OR DIVIDENDS.

M.
M.
M.
J.
M.
J.
I.

& N. 5LY., Merch’nts’Ex.B’k.
&
&
&
&
&
&

S.
N.
J.
8.

Y., Meehan. Nat. B’k.
do

do

May, 1902
Sept. 1, 1888
May 1, 1888

Newark, N. J., Sav. Ins. July 1, 1882
New York.
Sept. 1, 1887
New York.
Jan. 1, 1876
J.
J. S’. Y., Mech. Nat. Bank.

Jan.

1, 1901

N. H., a separate corporation, is leased. (V. 26,
p. 548; V. 27, p. 15, 251, 356, 382, 537, 626.)
Eel biver.— This is the Det. Eel R. & III. re organ~
ized. Net earnings 1878, $67,842. In August, 1879,
leased to Wabash at 3 per cent for five years and
4>$ thereafter. (V. 28, p. 276; V. 29, p. 226.)
Elizabethtown Lex. & Big Sandy —This road is tobe a western connection of the Chesapeake & Ohio*
33)g miles are completed. See V. 29, p. €6.
Elmir i Jeff. <£ Canandaigua.—Originally leased
to the New York & Erie Railroad Co. and r per? ted
by it until May 1, 1866, when the lease was transf rred to the Northern Central Railway Co., by
which it has since been operated.
Elmira & Williamsport.—Leased in 1863 to North.
Cent, for 999 years.
Rent amounts to $165,(X 0 per
year. Bonds due 1880 to be extended at 6 per cent.
(V. 28, p. 253.)
Erie & Pittsburg.—Leased in perpetuity to the

Pennsylvania Railroad and transferred to Penn. Co.;
and
and

the terms guarantee 7 p. c. per annum on stock
debt. Net earnings, 1878, $157,602; interest
dividecd charge, $372,540. (V. 28, p. 377.)

European & North American.—Defaulted in 1675^
Sterling mort. on N Brunswick Div. foreclosed Aug.,.
1878. (V. 26, p. 18, 142, 418; V. 27, p. 148, 251, 628.)
.

Evansville & Terre Haute.—This wras i he Evans¬
ville & Crawfordsville.
Net earnings 1877-9, $178v748. (V. 25, p. 4 5 6; V, 27, p. 538.)

Evansville, Terre Haute <ft Chicago.—Gross
ings, 1877-8, $213,523; net, $56,596.

earn¬

Fitchburg.—Leases Vt.& Mass. Net income, 18?7-8r

$253,766. (V. 26. p. 94,
117, 391, 548; V. 27, p. 567; V. 28, p. 17, c20; V.29,

above rental and intere?t,

p.

41. 67.)

dk Pere Marquette.—Receiver appointed,
June, 1879.
Gross earnings in 18?8. $1,081,147;
ntteami»'ga, $433,370. The rands are in five trusts;
sales in 18^8, 9,921 acres, tor $135,805; lotal net salesto Jan. 1, 1878, 2?5.7v2 acres, for $2,277,436; lands*
then unsold. 235,779 acres. Coupors on consol.,
bonds passed Nov., 1875, and part were funded. (V.
26, p. 417.548; V. 28, p. 69, 146, 223, 525, 599; V.
29, p. 17, 225.)
Mint

XX

KAILROAD STOCKS AND BONDS.

Subscribers will confer

great favor by giving immediate notice
ol any error discovered in these
Tables.

a

DESCRIPTION.
Miles Date
For explanation of column
headings, Ac., see notes
of
of
at the head of first
page of tables.
Road. Bonds
Florida Central— 1st
mortgage, gold, coupon
59
1877
Flushing North Shore A Cent— 1st mort. (Fl.&N. S.)
58
1869
2d mortgage (FI. & N.
8.)
1870
Central of L. I., 1st
mortgage
1872
do
do
Extension 1st mortgage
1873
Fonda Johnstown A Qloversvillc—1st
10
mortgage
1870
Fort Wayne Jackson A
Saginaiv— 1st mort.,
100

coup...
2d mort. and equipment
bonds, coupon
Fort Wayne Muncie A
Cincinnati—1st mort.,
2d

109
109

Framingham A Lowell—1st mortgage bonds
Fi'ankfort A Kokomo— 1st mortgage, gold

26
26

mort., s. f., gold
Banking Co.—Stock

Georgia Railroad A
Bonds, not mortgage

do
do
Grand Rapids A Indiana—Stock
1st mort., land grant,
gold (guar, by Pa. RR)
1st mort., gold,
($2,195,000 are land grant)

(Canada)—Consolidated

_.

do

1,000

1,000
1,000

on

332
332
332
332

1,000
.

1869
1869
1875

stock

do

500,000
500,000
200,000

4,200,000
1,493,000

100 Ac.
100

.

.

.

1,000
1,000
1,000
.

1873
1875

all rolling stock

do

1,800,000

1.U00
1,000
1,000

£25
£100

....

2d

500,000

600,000

4,200,000

500

....

r

500 Ac.
500 Ac.
100 Ac.

.

—

483,000

1,000,000
2,800,000
4,000,000
3,205,000
795,000
£3,486,787
7,500,000
2,560,000
3,111,500
500,000

Postal bonds, &c., secured
by gov’t business
1st pref. bonds, conv. into 1st
pref. stock
2d
do

do

3d
do
Great Western

2d

...,.

500,000
1,200,000
3,218,149

do

(Canada)—Common

stock
Preferred 5 per cent, convertible into
common...

Debentures
New bonds,

49534
350
350
145

coupon

Short bonds
exchanged for bonds due 76, ’77, '78.
A Columbia— 1st
mort.,guar.by State
Bonds not guaranteed
New mortgage (for

Greenville

.

mortgage

Preferred stock
1st mortgage
2d mort. bonds of 1869
Equipment bonds of 1873
Houst. Last A West Texas— 1st
mortgage, gold
Houston A Texas Cent.—1st M.,
(main) gold, l.gr.,s.f.
1st mort., 1. gr., West div.
(Hempstead to Austin)
1st M., gold.Waco & N’west (Bremond
to Ross;
Consol, mort., land grant, Main and
Western Div.
do
do
Waco & Northwest.
Income and indemnity bds, 3d M. ou road
A lands.
.

Huntingdon A Broad Top—1st mort., gold
2d
mortgage, gold

3d mortgage consolidated.
Illinois Central—Stock

Redemption, 1st and 2d series
Mortgage bonds, sterling
Sterling bonds, (sinking fund £20,000 yearly)....
Mortgage, sterling
Bonds, coup. ($2,000,000) M. onCh. A Sd. RR
Indiana, Bloomington A West.—1st mort., pref..
1st mortgage
Income bonds

mortgage

Florida Central.—From Jacksonville to
Lake
City. Bonds authorized, $590,000. G*a**
earning®
1877-8, $156,458. (V. 28, p. 599.)
to

L. I. RR. There are, in addition to above.
$125,000
N. Y. & Hushing RR. 7s; $149,000 North Shore
7s;
and $93,000 Whitestone & Westchester
7s.
Com-

Central
Eany 1st mort.
I. embarrassed, since Sept., 1877.

of

foreclosed and road sold
Aug., 1879.
(Y. 27, p. 677; V. 29 p. 17, 196.1
Fonda, Johnstown A GloversviMe.—Net
earnings
1-376-7, $45,066.
Fort Wayn/e, Jackson A Saginaw.—To be
sold in
i.

foreclosure Dec. 3, 1879. In 1878
gross earnings
$428,167: in 1877, $2M,324. Net earnings 1877, were
$109,669. (V 26, p. 264; Y. 27,
p. 331; V.
p. 199, 300;
V. 29, p. 801.»
Fort Wayne, Muncie
A Cincinnati.—Receiver
appointed November, 1874. (V. 23, p. 396.)
Framingham A Lowell. -Leased to Boston, Clin¬
ton & Fitchburg; has also
$250,*000 8 per cent notes
due in 1882-3. (V. 26, p. 166.)
Frankfort A Kokomo.—Small road in Indiana.

Capital stock, $600,000.
Galvestcn, Harrisburg A San Antonio.
Gross
earning** 1877, $1.052,568; expenses,
$360,204; net
earning*?, $692,363. A sinking fund «f 1 per cent
—

land per mile.

The company has 16 sections of

(Y.26,

p. 3 66.)
Galveston, Houston A Henderson.—'Set
earnings
1878, $184,595. (V. 28, p. 146. 172.)
Geneva, Ithaca A Sayre— Sold Sept. 2,
1876, and
re-organized, this mort being the old I. & A. mort.
(See V. 21, p. 256, 304. 4.51; V. 24, p. 110.)
Georgia Railroad A Banking
Company —The anaual report for the last fiscal
year, ending April 1,
1879, was published In V. 28, p. 501. A
comparative
statement for three years was as
follows:

Tot gr. earng’s...

Operal’g expenses.

1876-7.

1877- 8.

$1,143,129 $1,013,712
643,110
500,017

727,700

1878-9.

$997,718

6*9,825
Net earnings
286.012
In Mav. 187H this company, with the Cental 338,392
Gft..Durabated at foreclosure sale the Western RR. of Ala.




.

.

.

....

1,6*00
1,000
1,000
1,000

1870
1873
1872
1875

1,000

1877

58
58
58
707

.

100
100

1878
1866

....

....

.

,

1869
1873

58

151
179

50

185*3

50
345
119
58
464

112
202

1,000

,

.

184
184
90

Preferred stock (issued for funded debt
bonds)...
Indianapolis & Cincinnati of 1858,1st mort..
Indianapolis, Cincinnati & Lafayette
do
do
do
Funded interest bonds, coupon

Central.—Leased

1,000

1867

....

202

Cincinnati & Lafayette—Stock...

begins in 18c0.

15
53
54
54
120
120
74

202

A

100

1878

Rou8atonic—Stock

_

ioo

,

....

1870

City A Cam. RR.)

Flushing, North Shore

Various

1854
1857

1865
1864
1875
1874
1875
1877
1879
1879

1870
....

1875
1858
1867
1869
1873

*

1,000
1,000
500
500

1,000
100
500 Ac.
£200
£200
£200
.

1,000
1,000

1,000

1*66*0
50
50
500 Ac

1,000
1,000

.

150 Ac

.

.

2^
5
6
7

•

•

•

1, 1907

May 1, 1889

.

•

J. & J. N.
A. & O.
M. & S.

Y., Winslow, L. & Co.
do

18.99

do
do

do

1899
1906

....

....

....

....

A.
J.
F.
J.
J.
J.
A.
A.
J.

& O.
& J.
& A.
& J.
& J.
& J.

A O.
& O.
& J.
A D.

J.

„

7

..

....

....

•

London, at Co.’s Office.

April, 1877
Jan., 1920
Perpetual.

do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
London & Montreal.
do
*
do
London Joint Stock B’k.
do
do
do
do

Irredeemable.
Irredeemable.
Irredeemable.

April, 1878
April, 1878
Perpetual.
Dec., 1890
Oct., 1880-82

Columbia, Co.’s

Office.
do

do

•

1881 to 1886

..

7
6
8

....

7
8
10
3^

6

J.
M.
J.
F.
J.
J.
J.

A
A
A
&
A
&
&

J. N. Y., B’k. No. America.
8.
do
do
J. N. Y., Farm. L. A T. Co.
A. N.Y.,B’k. No. America.
J.
do
do
J.
Pliila., Co.’s Office.
J.
do
do •

Aug., 1870
1884-1887

Mar., 1885 *
Jan. 1, 1888
Jan., 1892
Jan., 1886
July 1, 1879
July 1, 1883

....

2
7

'

6
7
7
7
7
7
8
8
7
7
7
7
3
6
6
5
5
6
7

Q.-J.
F. & A.

Bridgeport A Boston. July 15, 1879
Bridgeport and Boston.
1885
do

....

do

,

1889
1883
1898

....

g.
g.
g.
g.

g.
g.

g.
g.
g-

M. &
J. A
J. &
J. &
A. &
M. &
M. &
A. &
F. &
A. &
M. &
A. &
A. A
A. Ac
J. &
J. &
A. &

3 &o.

8

N.
New York.
J. N. Y., Nat’l.
City Bank.
J.
do
do
J.
do
do
O. N. Y., J. J. Cisco A Son.
N.
do
do
N.
do
do
O.
Philadelphia, Office.
A.
do
do
O.
do
do
S.
N. Y., Co.’s Office.
O.
N. Y., Co.’s Office. *

O.
O.
D.
J.

O

July 1, 1891
July 1, 1891
July 1, 1903
Oct. 1, 1912
May 1, 1915
May, 1887

Oct.
Feb.

1, 1890
1, 1895
April 1, 1895
Sept. 1, 1879
April 1, 1890
London.
April 1, 1895
London,Morton R.<fe Co. April 1, 1903
do
do
Dec. 1, 1905
N. Y., Co.’s Office.
Jan. 1, 1898
New York.

....

....

.

.

.

.

J. & J

New York.

Oct., 1890

....

7
7
7
7

239, 443, 549, 6*5; V. 29, p.
Grand Trunk (Canada).—The above 146, 299.)
figures repre¬

sent

pounds sterling.
Net earnings in half
ending Dec. 31,1878, £224,750. Interest, rentals, year
&c.,

£209.757. (V. 26, p. 265, 443; V. 27.
p. 95, 148, 382,
408, 460; Y. 28, p. 453; 474, 553; V.
29, p. 40, 146.
252, Sol.)

given in pounds sterling. For the half figures are
year ending
Jan. 31, 1879, th« gross
receipts were £387,295;
working expenses, £255,794; net earnings, £131,501.
(V. 26, p -65, 443, 574; V. 27,
p. 94, 38), 513 S V.
28, p 474; V 29, p. 146, 252.1
Greenville A Columbia.—This
company defaulted
but compromised with its
bondholders. Net earn¬
ing- 1877, $190,614. (V. 26, p. 547; V. 27,
p. 227;
V. 26, p. 553.)
Hannibal A St. Joseph.—Gross
in 1878,
$2,045,450; net, $780,355; interest earnings$660,000.
charge,
The company has about
$2,500,000 in land notes, and
about10,0*0 acres yet unsold. The bonds secured
on land notes have
a sinking fund of
$25,000 per
quarter. (V. 26, p. 242. 390. 625; V.
27, p. 279,
487, 603; V. 23, p. 199, 220, 641; V. 29,
p. 95.)
Harrisourg Portsm. Mt. Joy A Lancaster.—Loused
to Penn. RR which owns a
majority of the stock.
Housatonic.—Leases Berkshire Railroad,
bridge & Pittsfield, and West Stockbridge. StockGross
earnings in 18T7-8 were $570,413; net,
$219,941.
Houston East A West Texas.— In
progress, Hous¬
ton to Shreveoort, 225 miles.
Narrow gauge; bonds
$7.no*
m*lc.
Houston dt Texas
Central.-*Capital stock is $7,722,,

gg.
g.

6 g
6 g.
Various.
5 g
5 g
4 g5-16

p. 95, 192,

above

g.

...

632,237

(Canada).—The

do
do
do

Jan.

-

.

For Montgomery & West Point 8
per cents this
company offers sixes.
(V. 25, p. 90; V. 26, p. 468;
V. 28, p. 501.)
Grand Rapids A Indiana.—Gross
earnings 1878,
$1,200,629; net, $242,456. Unguaranteed bonds are
secured by the same
mortgage as the guaranteed
on the land
grant. Since Dec., 1875, 1st
mortgage
bonds redeemed by sinking fund are
replaced by
income bonds issued to Continental
Improvement
Co. The Penn, railroad
virtually buys the
paid by it, and holds $1,652,110 of them. coupons
(V. 26,

Great Western

Dividend.

do
M. & S.
do
Mar. 1, 1902
M. & N.
do
May 1, 1903
J. & J. N. Y., St. Nich. Nat.
B’k. July 1, 1900
J. & J. N. Y., Farm’s. L. A T.
Co. July 1, 1889
A. & O.
do
do
Oct., 1891
A. & O.
Boston, Office.
Oct., 1889
A. & O.
do
April, 1896
A. & O.
Boston.
April 1, 1891
J. & J.
New York.
Jan. 1, 1908
F. & A.
Bost. & London.
1910
J. & J. N. Y., F. P. James A Co.
July 1, 1902
J. & J. N. Y.,
Metrop. Nat. B’k. July 1, 1890
J. & J.
Augusta,Ga., RR. Bank. Dec. 15, 1878
J. A J.
do
do
yearly to 1890
J. & J.
do
do
July 1, 1897

....

$1,413,071

1,600,000
2,800,000
1,767,000
446.300

Stocks—Last

Whom.

*

5,587,150
1,419,400
.

i-

Payable, and by

N.Y., Farm. L. & Tr. Co.
N.Y., Chatham Nat. Bk.

M.&'N.

....

1,000,000

9,168,700
5,083,024
3,000,000
4,000,000
531,000
500,000
1,200,000
1,182,550
700,000
820,000
1,180,000
100,000
300,000
150,000
125,000
6,896,000
2,375,000
940,000
3,292,000
580,000
2,500,000
416,000
367,500
1,500,000
29,000,000
2,500,000
2,500,000
4,393,000
1,000,000
1,600,000
500,000
3,500,000
1,500,000
1,500,000

g.

7 g.
7 g.
7

500,000

$....

1853-7

Harrisb., Portsm’th, Mt. Joy A Lane.—Stock
1st

Indianapolis,

iioo

I. & J.
M. & N.

....

.

1876

296

'

.

■

....

143

s

.

,

....

Hannibal A St. .Joseph—Common stock
Preferred stock (7 p. c.
yearly, not cumulative)...
Missouri State loan
Bonds 1870, convertible
Bonds, secured by $2,500,000 I’d notes
1st mortgage
(Quincy & Palmyra RR)
1st mortgage (Kansas

’58-’78
1871-2
1877

143

..

$2,500,000)

2d

2,327,808
7,166,910
£2012 £6,037,991
£100
505,753
2,165,830

....

conv

7
7
7
7
7
7
8
8
7
8
7
7
6
7
7
3
7
6

800,000
400,000
1,000,000
200,000
300,000
1,500,000

1,000

1877

....

1,390
New stock for £10,000,000
debenture stock for £8,000,000 (act of
1874)....
Canadian debentures

Equipment mort., 1st

$309,000

500 Ac.

1879

Rate per When Wliere
Cent.
Payable

Outstanding

$1,000

1873
1872
1870

INTEREST OR DIVIDENDS.

Amount

Value.

....

$10,000,000

or

Par

1871

215
50
35
232

Galveston Harrisb.A S. Antonio—1st
mort, gold, 1. gr.
Galveston Houston A Hend.
of 1871—1st mort
Geneva Ithaca A Sayre—1st

Size,

1869
1871
1869
1871

100

gold...

mortgage

Income mortgage bonds, for
Grand Trunk

[Vol. XXIX.

A. & O N.

|F. & A

|J.

•m.

Y., Amer. Ex. Bank.
do
do
do

& D
&

900.
were

S

do
do
do

April, 1888
Feb., 1897
June, 1899
8ept.’78.’80.’83

Gross earnings for year

ending April 80,1879,
$3,031,631; net, $1,326,906, against $930,042
Company owns a*bout 5,240,000 acres

net in 1878.
land against

first and consol, mortgages. (V.
26, p.
40, 290, 334; V. 29, p. 41, 118, 119.)
Huntingdon A Broad Top. - Capital stock is
052,800. Gross earnings in 1878 were $238,889; $2,net,
$132,693. Interest passed on 3d
mortgage bonds.
(Y. 24, p. 369.)
Illinois Central.—The general
mortg. of 1S74 pro¬
vides for all bonds
outstanding. It is limited to
$15 ,000,000. The Company controls the Chic. St.
Louis & N. (X road,
owning 62,792 shares of its
stock, $1,087,000 of flrstmort. bonds, and
$4,953,000
of the 2d mort. income bonds. In
July, 1877, took
the Chicago & Spring, under
lease, and issued the
bonds secured on that road. In
1878, net income
from all sources was
$3,147,387, leaving a surplus of
$665,532 over annual charges and dividends. Fol¬

lowing is

a comparison for four years:

Gross

Year.
1878
1877

Net

Earnings.

Earnings.

$7,111,184

-

$3,015,229

Interest,
&c.

$661,182

6,639,845
2,546.561
582,990
7,040.969
2,144,776
616,792
7,802,556
2,670,081
661,098
(V. 26, p. 164, 548, 574; V. 28, p. 95,
198,199; V.
29, p. 301.)
Indiana, Bloomington A West.—Sold in foreclosure
October 30, 1878. Of preferred bonds
$600,000 have
been issued to pay expenses of
foreclosure and
prior liens, and $500,000 more may be issued if
needed. The 1st
mortgage bonds pay 3 per cent,
1879-81. 4 in 1881-83, 5 in 1883-85, and 6
afterward.
Stock is $2,500,100. Net
earnings of main line in
1877-8, $802,808. (V. 27, p. 41, 148, 172.
199, 228, 357,
383, 435. 461, 486, 677; V. 28, p. 18. 146, 221,
224,276,
302, 352, 401, 526; V. 29, p. 277, 302.)
Indianapolis, Cincinnati A Lafayette.—The com¬
pany defaulted July, 1876, and Mr. Ingalls.
President,
wan
appointed receiver.
Gross earnings
1877-8,
1876

1875

$1,309,087; expenses, $814,697; net earnings,
$494,(V. 25, p. 182, 380; V. 26, p. 265, 62$; Y.
27,

383.

September

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27, 1879.

Subscribers will confer a great

favor by giving immediate notice of any error discovered in tliese Tables*

DESCRIPTION.
For explanation of column headings, &c., see
at the head of first page of tables.

notef3

Indianapolis Cincinnati A Laf.—( Continued j—
Equipment bonds, registered
Cin. & Ind.. 1st mortgage
do 2d M., guar. ($1,000,000 due ’77 ext. to ’92
Indianapolis Dec. A Spf.—1st M., gid (for $1,800,000
2d mort., (income bonds only till July, 1881)
Indianapolis A SI Louis—1st mort., in 3 series—
2d mortgage
Equipment bonds
Indianapolis A Vincennes— 1st mortgage, guar
2d mortgage, guaranteed
nH.m}(d tS. Great- Northem—Consol. stnp.k

International, 1st mortgage, gold
Houston & Great Northern, 1st mortgage, gold...
International 2d mortgage
Houston & Gt. Northern 2d mortgage
Fmidftrt coupon

bonds

Miles
of
Road

m

m

of
Bond.

1873
1862
1867
1876
1876
1869
1870
1871

m

20
20
152

1st mortgage (Susquehanna to Carbondale)

Jeffersonville, Madison A Indianapolis—Stock
Indianapolis & Madison, 1st mortgage
Jeff., Mad. & Ind., 1st M. (s. f. $lo,000 per year).
do
do
2d mortgage
Jersey City A Albany—1st mort. (for $5,000,000)...
Joliet A Northern Indiana—1st mort., guar by M. C.

Junction, Philadelphia—1st mortgage

par

Value.

Outstanding

$500&c
1,000

117
117
519
204
255
204

i;ooo

38
226
86

1862
1866
1870
1878
1877

159
159
44

4,084,000
2,052,000
2,907,000

.

750
140
253
394
245
34
427

100
500 &c.

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

■

7
7

1\
7
7
7
7
6
0

1,000

100 Ac.
100
50

1,600

7
’

Indianapolis, Decatur A Springfield—This

em¬

mortgage is issued to holders of old I. & I. C. firsts,
rill

July, 1S81, Interest is payable out of net
earnings only if sufficient.
Stock is $500,000.

•Gross earnings,
p. 251; V. 28, p.

1878, #110,347; net, $28,965.
277, 624.)

(Y. 27,

Indianapolis A St. Louts—Of the 1st mortgage
senes “A” are J. & J.; series “B,” M. * S.;
series “ C,” M. & N. The stock, $600,000, is owned
by Pennsylvania Co. and Cl. Col. Cin. & Ind. Be¬
longs to Penn, system, and leases the St. Louis A.
A T. H. In 1877-8, net earnings were $313,903;
payments, $698,690. (V. 28, p. 95, 614. 654; V. 27,
p. 41, 409, 454, 603; V. 29, p. 377; V. 29, p. 95.)
bonds

Indianapolis A Vincennes.—Is leased to Penn.
Od., through stock ownership, and interest is guar¬
anteed by Penn. Railroad. Met earnings 1878, $5,348.
(Y. 28, P- 18, 377.)
International A Great Northern (Texas).—K con¬
solidation of the International and the Houston &
Great Northern.
Receiver appointed April, 1878,
and

plan of re-organization made, as per Chron¬
icle, Y. 27. p. 95, 331. and sale was made July 31,
1879. pursuant thereto. Net earnings, 1878, $571,9S2.
Land grant about 5,100,000 acres.
(V. 26, p. 342,
647; V. 27, p. 95, 331; Y. 28, p. 351, 426; V. 29,
p. 41,120.)

7
6

6,380,000
600,000
4,275,350
1,578,000
1,500,000

1,500,000
600,000
844,000
237,000
2,750,000
2,395,000

g.

£fg.

g.
g.

O. N. Y.. National
do
J.
A.
do
A.
do

City B’k
do
do
do

Sept. 1, 1883
Dec., 1892

Jan.’82,’87,’92
Jan.

1, 1906
July 1, 1906
July 1, 1919
Oct, 1, 1900

July 1, 1881
1908
1900

April 1, 1911
1, 1900

Jan.

Feb., 1904
1, 1904

Feb.

7
5
6

2;5oo;ooo

6 g.

1,000,000
1,815.000
1,485,000
49,46.6,500

7
6 g.
7

2*2
5

533,500
\

Q 1 t^Q AAA

$

9,350,000
3,150,000
638,000
5,255,000
894,000
920,000
1,356,000
1,595,000
849,000
200,000
300,000
2,834,000
924,000
400,000
100,000
100,000
840,000
610,000
410,000
500,000

Boston.

Sept. 1, 1879

O. N. Y., Nat. Park Bank. April 1, 1899
J.
New Yovk.
1900
1887 & 1889
J. Honesdale Nat. Bank.
J. N. Y„ by Erie Railroad. Jan. 1, 1889
Q.—F. N. Y., Farm. L. & T. Co.
Aug., 1879
M. & N.
do
do
May 1, 1881
A. & 0.
do
do
Oct. 1, 1906
J. & J.
do
do
July 1, 1910
New York.
1908
J. & J. N. Y., Farm. L. & T. Co. July 10,1907
J. & J.
Philadelphia Office.
July 1, 1882
do
A. A O.
do
April 1, 1900
& J.
Boston, Co.’s office.
&
&
&
&

Boston, at Office.
do
do

Jan.
Jan.
Jan.

do
do

M. & N. N.
F. & A.
J. & D.

Y., Bk of Commerce.
by transportation.

M. & N. N.
M. & N. N.
M. & S.
J. & J. N.
M. <fc S.

A. & 0.
g-

7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
8
8
8
3
7

7

Jeffersonville, Madison A Indianapolis.—Leased

Jan. 1,1873, to Pennsylvania Company for interest
and sinking fund of bonds, and 7 per cent a year
on stock.
Lease guaranteed by Penna. Railroad.
In 1878, gross earnings were $1,150,014; net eamngs, $422,988. (V. 26, p. 192; V. 28, p. 378.)

Jersey City A Albany.—This was sold in fore¬
(Y. 23, p. 624.)

A. & 0.
M. & 8.
J. & D.
A. & 0.

do

do

do

do

1, 1830
1, 1907

1, 1907

May 1, 1916
Aug. 1, 1895

June 1, 1896
1895 to’97

Y., Loud. & Frankf t. May 1, 1899
Y., Bk of Commerce. Jan 1, 1896
do
do
July 1, 1916
Y.f Lond. & Frankf’ t. July 1, 1880
New York.
Sept., 1886
do
Oct., 1879
New York.
April 1, 1903
N. Y., Bank of America.
March, 1883
do
do
June, 1885
N. Y.,Farm. L. & T. Co. Oct. 1, 1923
1880-1902
Bath, First Nat. Bank.

Various
M. & N. N.
....

F. & A.

August.
F. & A.
F. & A.
J. & J.

y.—J.

J. & D.
A. & 0.
A. & 0.
M. & N,
I. & J.
A. & O.
A. & O.
J. & J.
A. & O.
J. & J.
M. & S.
A. & 0.
F. & A.
r. & j.
r. & j.
r. & j.
r. & j.
A. & O.
r. & j.
r. & d.

Y., Metropolitan Bk. May 1, 1919
do
do
May 1, 1899
N. x.*t Metropolitan Bk. Aug. 15, 1919
do
do
Aug., 1899
N.\.,Grand Cent.Office. Aug. 1, 1879
do
do
Aug. 1, 1879
July 1, 1900
July 1, 1900
Dec. 1, 1903
Oct. 1, 1882
©Jz 5
Oct. 1, 1879
n
May 1, 1885
Jan. 1, 1880
Oct. 1, 1892
April 1, 1899
July 1, 1885
fO a3.2^
April 1, 1886
July 1, 1882
13 g’Ebg
Sept. 1, 1886
April 1, 1898
C}
Aug. 1, 1906
g p <3.2
S
Jan. 1, 1890
P (4 ® 3
kJT «
July 1, 1887
July 1, 1887
Q C3i^,0
July 1, 1888
Oct
1, 1879
Var. to July, ’97
June 1, 1894
9

igJt
fagl

-

Kentucky Central.—This was formerly Covington
& Lexington.
The company purchased the Mayaville & Lexington road.
In May, K79, it paid &
dividend of 3 per cent on preferred stock of $500,000
and 1 per cent on common stock of $4,500,000.
Gross earnings 1878-9, $553,889; net, $208,750. (Y.
24, p. 495; V. 26, p. 673.)
Keokuk A Des Moines.—The stock is $1,524,600
8 p. c. Dref. and $2,600,400 common—a msiority held

closure and re-organized, 1878.

by lessee. Leased to Chic. Rk. I. & Pacific for 45
years from Oct. 1. 1878, on basis of 25 per cent of

Joliet dk Northern Indiana.—This 7 percent bond,
guaranteed by Michigan Central, issued in place of
old 8 per cents. (V. 25, p. 592; V. 26, p. 40.)

$532,541.

Junction (Phil.)—Owned by connecting companies.
Cost of road $1,061,730;
Net earnings 1878, $87,963.

paid-up stock, $250,000.
Dividends 14 per cent.

gross earnings with a guarantee of in'erest 1877-8,
onds.
Gross earnings, 1876-7, $564,604; on the
(V. 26,

p.

470, 623, 546; Y. 27, p. 85T,

628.)
Knox A Lincoln.—In 1877 net earnings were $48,943. Interest is paid on bonds by cities and towna.
Annual report for 1876, Y. 22, p. 304.

Kansas City, Fort Scott A Gulf.—The Mo. River
was sold in foreclosure Feb. 4.
1879; the 1st mortgage bondholders took new 7

Lafayette Bloomington A Muncie.—This road em¬
braces the former Laf. M. & B. and Laf. B. & Miss.,

per cents for 80 per cent of their
other claims stock was issued.

with Lake Erie & Western.

Fort Scott & Gulf

bonds, and for all
Gross receipts in

and

now

operates! about 200 miles, connecting
(Y. 29, p. 302)

1877, from mad and lands, $1,004,545; net, $263,894.
(V. 25, p. 308; V. 26, p. 342, 391; V. 28, p. 42, 146,
624.)

Lake Erie A Western.—This is a
and extends from Fremont, O., to

Kansas City, St. Joseph A Council Bluffs—'The
above statement is made of the securities as issued
sincere-organization. In 1878 gross earnings were
* 1,533,650, and net earnings $448,059.
(VT 26, p.

Lake Shore A Michigan Southern.—The report for
1878 (V. 28, p. 473), snowed surplus income over

390; V. 28,

p.

350, 599.)

Kansas Pac.—Scrip for coupons

funded is about

In 1878 gross earnings were $3,610,224,

and net earnings $1,193,662, against $1,367,777 in
1877. The land grant is m two trusts, 2,000,000 acres

in the first, from the 1st to the. 380th mile, and
Jacksonville, Pensacola A' Mobile.—Tins road is 3,000,000 acres in the second, from 880th mile westmortgaged for a like amount of Florida State bonds, Waid. (V. 27, p. 16, 41, 95, 96, 121, 136. 200, 228, 251,
and is held by the State. Noticed for sale SeDt. 15, 953, 274,275,280.357. 383, 435, 589, 677; V. 28. p. 18,
1879. (V. 23, p. 63, 256, 576; V. 24, p. 40, 204; V. 69, 121, 199, 277, 453, 477, 503, 573, 599, 624; V. 29, p.
'23, p. 212; V. 28, p. 578, 59J.)
67, 95, 196.)




&
&
&
&

Payable

6g.
6
6
6
7
7
7
7
7
10
7
7

Jefferson.—Leased to the Erie Railway Company,

$2,503,000.
Iowa Falls A Sioux City.—Leased to Illinois Cen¬
tral at 35 per cent on earnings.

A.
J.
F.
F.

J. & J.
J. & J.
A. & O.

7

which pays interest on the bonds.

braces the former Indiana & Illinois Central; 50
miles more are now under construction. The 2d
and

.

&
&
&
&

Stock8—L2kBt
Dividend.

....

....

300.000

4,000,000
2,789,413
500,000
4*495,522
2,488,174
9,689,950
(?)
2,240,000
4,063,000
6,303,000

1,000

1,660

95, 277, 302.)

S N. Y., Amer. Ex. Bank
D
do
do
do
J
do
O New York, Co.’s Office
& J
do
do
Various N. Y., Union Trust Co.
A. & O
do
do
J. & J
do
do
F. & A N. Y., Farm. L. & T. Co
M. & N.
do
do

A.
J.
J.
J.

.

p. 178, 803, 354, 333; Y. 88, p. 802, 401, 526; V. 29,

M.
J.
J.
A.
J.

Where Payable and bjr
Whom.

Q.—M.

1

*7
8

2,960,000
4,000,000
300,000
2,000,COO
2,000,000
397,000
2,395,000
2,000,000
(!)
800,000
455,000

1,0(K)
1,000

1879
1,000
1865
1,000
1866
1,000
1865-7
1869
1866
1,000
50 &o.
1866
250 &c.
1870
1871
1,000
Consol, funding mortgage
1876
June. C. & Fort K., 1st mort., gold, land gr., guar
3332 1873
1,000
1853
99
Kentucky Central—2d mortgage
1,000
3d mortgage
99
1855
1,000
Keokuk A Des Moines—1st M., int. guar. C. R. I. & P.
162
100&C.
1878
Knox A Lincoln—Vet mortgage
49 ’69-”72
1,000
Lafayette Bloomington A Muncie—1st mort., gold... 200 1879
Income mortgage
200
1879
1,000
Lake Erie A Western—1st mortgage, gold
165
1879
1,000
Income bonds (not cumulative)
1879
a
1,000
100
Lake Shore A Michigan Southern—Stock
1181
Guaranteed 10 per cent stock
100
864
1870
Consol. 1st mort., (sink, fund, 1 per cent) coupon.
1,000
do
do
do
864
1870
registered
1,000
2d mortgage, do. (for $25,000,000) coup, and rog.
864
1873
1.000
Income bonds, coupon or registered
1872
1,000
864
1860
Mortgage bonds of Oct., 1869, sinking fund
1,000
1st mortgage, sinking fund, M. S. & N. I
451
1855
1,000
2d mortgage (C., P. & A. RR.) registered bonds..
95
1859
1,000
3d mortgage
95
1867
do
1,000
Lake shore dividend bonds, April, 1869
500 &c.
258
1869
1st mortgage (C. & Tol. RR.) sinking fund
162
1855
1,000
2d mortgfure
162
1866
do
1,000
Buffalo & Erie, mortgage bonds
88
1862
1,000
do
do
88
1866
1,000
do
do
88
1868 500 &o.
Det. Monroe & Tol., 1st mort., coup., guar
62
1876
1,000
Kalamazoo & White Pigeon, 1st mortgage
37
1869
Schoolcraft & Three River, 1st mortgage
12
1867
Kalamazoo & Schoolcraft, 1st mortgage
13
1867
58
1868
Kalamazoo, Allegan & Gr. Rapids, 1st mortgage.
do
do
stock, 6 per ct. guar.
Jamestown & Franklin, 1st mortgage
1863
51
do
do
2d mortgage
51
1869
1,000
1st mort., gold, coup., on 140 miles west Mo. Riv.
1st mort., gold, 140fch to 393d mile
2d mort (to U. S. Gov.) on 394m. west Mo. River.
1st M., 394th to 639tli mile, l’dgr., 3,000,000 ac’s
1st mort., coup., (Leavenworth Branch)
Income bonds, coupon, 3d mortgage on 427 miles.
1st land b’ds, cp, or reg., gold, on 2,000,000 acres
2d land mort.,
do
do
do

8

When

Pay’biti

2,787,620

100
1866
1877
1877

7 g.
7 g.
8

4i625;C00

100
500 &c

1879

274
52
274

7
7
7
8
7
6

5^500,000

i;ooo

iei

7g-

500;Q00

i;ooo

2d

.

3,264,000

i;ooo

1869
1870
1867
1869

250
9

10
7
7

1,700,000
1,450,000

1,000
1,000

Rate pe r
Cent.

1,500,000
2,667,000
2,000,000
1,000,000

1,000

'

1,4971000

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

1871
1872
1874
1874
1876-S

255

_

$353,000
499,000

4*2

mortgage
*
~. T.
Kansas City, Fort Scott A Gulf—1st m. 1. gr. 8. f
fTnnapft C1%)y} S!f J'oscpb- A COUurf-l PlutfS—Stock1st mortgage, Council Bluffs & St Josei>h
Kansas City, St. Jo. & C. Bl., mortgage
do
do
income bonds, reg...
XTn.77.snjt Pacific—Stock
Consol, mort., gold, (for $30,000,000),coup.orreg

Amount

1,000

71

71

Bond8—Prinoi-

INTEREST OR DIVIDENDS.
or

500 &c

...

184

Jaclcsonv., Pens. A Mob«—Florida State bonds, gold...
Jefferson (Pa.)—1st & 2d morts. (Hawley Branch)..

Size

Date

2

Iowa Falls A Sioux City—Stock
1st mortgage, April 1, ’69

p. 18,

zd

re-organization
Muncie, Ind.r
connecting with the Lafayette Bloom. & Muncie.

interest, rentals, <fec., $2,774,373. For first half of
1879 net profits above int. and rentals were $1,370,561. The following shows a summary for the years
named:
1876.

1877.

>

1878.

1,178
earnings.. $13,949,176 $13,505,158 $13,979,76®
Operat’g exp?es.
0,574,835
8,963,965
8,486,000
Net earnings....
4,541,198
4,374,341
5,493,165
Stock
50,000,000
50,000.000
50,000,000
Total debt
37,524,000
37,274,000
37,084,000
IV. 26, p. 442. 645; V. 27, p. 602, 645; V. 88, p.
Miles
Gross

1,176

473, 618; V. 29, p. 170.)

1,176

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Subscribers will confer

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a

giving Immediate

DESCRIPTION.
Miles Date Size, or
For explanation of column
of
of
Par
at the head of first headings, <fec., see notes
page of tables.
Road. Bonds. Value.

Lawrence—Stock

22
17
21
145
32
10
15
301
101
101
232

1st

mortgage
Leavenworth Atch.A

N. IT.—1st
mort., guar
A Qalv.—1st mort.,
l.gr. ,s.f., conv
Kansas C. & Santa Fe, 1st
mort., guar

Leaven., Law.

Southern Kansas, 1st mort., guar
Lehigh A Lackawanna—1st mortgage
Lehigh Valley—Stock, common and pref
let mortgage, coupon
and registered

2d mortgage, registered
Consol, mort., gold, $ & £
(s. fd. 1 p.c. v’ly) cp.& reg.
Easton & Amboy, 1st
mortgage (for $10,000,000)
Delano Land Company
bonds, endorsed
Lewisburg Centre A Spruce Creek— 1st mortgage...
Little Mia mi—Stock, common
1st mortgage
Street connection bds
(jointly with Cin.& Ind.RR.)
Little Rock A Fort Smith—New stock
1st M., ldgr’t (750,000 acs) s.fund
(for $3,000,000)
Little Schuylkill—Stock
1st mortgage,
sinking fund, extended 1877
Logansp'l, Crawfordsv. <£ S. W.of Ind.—1st mort.,
g.

60
.

•

•

19
196
81
...*

123
123
31
31
92

Long Island—Stock
1st mortgage, extension
1st mortgage, Glencoye Br
1st mortgage, main
2d mort. for

•

•

•

•

•

4

10
19
65
175
175
966
•

•

•

•

-

-

#

.

•

•

•

46
392
392
130
83
20
77
77

Macon <6

Augusta—1st mortgage
2d mort., endorsed
by Georgia Railroad
Madison A Portage—1st mort., erold

39
43
26

coupon

Maine Central—8tock
1st mortgage, consolidated
Bonds ($1,100,000 loan) A. &. K. RR..
Extension bonds, 1870, gold
Maine Central loan for
$1,100,000
Leeds <fe Farmington Railroad loan

355
355

,

....

19
38
m

m

m

•

72

do
consolidated mortgage.,
Belfast & Moosehead, 1st
mortgage
Manhattan Beach— 1st
mortgage
2d mortgage
Manhattan Elevated—Stock

....

33

22

Marietta A Cincinnati—1st
mortgage, dollar
1st

188
L88

mortgage, sterling
2d mortgage
3d mortgage
4tL mortgage

.

....

.

do

.

do
1st mort., guar,
Cincinnati & Baltimore RR., stockby M. & C.
do
do
1st mortgage...

5*2

.

.

)

Lawrence— Leased to

Pittsb., F. Wayne & Chic.
earnings. Lease transferred
Pennsylv’a Company. Net earnings, 1875, $84,177.
Sinking fund has $14,000 bonds. (Y. 20. p. 425.)
At 40 per cent on gross

to

Atch.&N. IF—Operated by Missouri

'

,

.

....

1877
1870
1860
1864
1868
1879
1873
1871
1871
1851
1867
1877
■m

m

0*

to

....

1863
1863

1877
1868
1873
1871
1872
....

1867
1869
1870
1872
—

.

337,000

7
7
10
10
8
7
1
6
7
6 g.
6
7
7
2
6
6

50

500
...

500
....

*

500
500

500

1,000
1,000
100 Ac.
.100
....

1,000
1,000
1,000

7
7

250,000
600,000
100,000
3,000,000

7
6
7
7

275,300

9,003,218
850,000

2*3
6
6
7
6
7
7
7 g.
7
6 g-

400,000
370,000

2,304,720
600,000

1,000
1,000

2*3

"•Coal (tons) moved... 3,951,513
Gross income

Operating

expenses..

Net income.....
Capital stock
Funded debt

1877-8.

3,446,616

$7,049,646 $7,100,218 $6,186,021
0,812,750 3,162,622

2,45*1,926

.$3,206,896 $3,937,396 $3,729,094

27,228,920 27.228,855 27,228.855
24,186.000 24,301,000 24,’08,COO
Floating debt
460.208
635,813
686,833
_* Anthracite.
(V. 24, p.
V. 36, p. 67, 340; V. 28, p. 95.)IlO; V. 21, p. 283;
Little Miami.—This
company leases the Columbus
M Xenia, and both are leased to
Pittsburg, Cincin¬
nati <fc 8t. Louis, guaranteed
by Penn. RR., lessees

assuming interest payment on bonds and 8 per cent
stock.
Net earnings,
1878, (L. M. & U. & X )
(V. 24. p. 420; V. 21, p. 378.)

on

$875,177.

Little RockA Fort Smith— Foreclosed
Dec 10,1874.
Re-organized and stock issued for old bonds. Cou¬




Cincinnati.
M. & N. N Y., Bank of
America.
Various
Cincinnati.
Boston.

Philadelphia Office.
do

Q.-F. N. Y., Jones & Schuyler.
F. & A.

M. & N.
M. & N.

Oct. 15. 1879

June, 1898
Sept., 1910
1898 & 1923

Company’s Office.

Jan., 1892
May 1, 1902
Sept. 10,1879
May, 1883
1894

Jnly 1, 1895
July, 1879
Oct., 1882

Aug., 1900

do
do

1873
1890
1884

do
do

July, 1898

M. & N. N.Y., St. Nicholas N.Bk;
May, 1903
A. <& O.
do
do
April, 1901
M. & S. Drexel, Morgan
Co.
&
Sept., 1901
J. & J. N. Y., Bank of America.
Jan., 1881
J. & J.
do
do
Jan., 1897
A. & O.
1907
F. & A. L &N.Y., Far. L.&
Tr.
July. 1879
A. & O. N. Y., Bank of
America. 1880 & 1887
Various
do
do
i
1886
M. & N.
Louisville.
Nov., 1880-*85
A. & O. L. & N. Y.,
D., M. & Co. Oct. 15, 1893
M. & 8.
New York.
Mar. 1,1907
A. & O. L. & N. Y., D., M. & Co.
April, 1898
M. & N.
New York.
Nov. 1, 1883
J. & D.
London, Baring Bros.
Dec., 1901
F. & A.
do
do
Aug., 1902

Q.-F.

O.
A.
O.
J.
J.
J.
O.
O.
N.

J.
F.
F.
M.
J.
A.
M.

&
&
&
&
&
&
&
J. &
J. &
M. &
J. &
J. &
M.&

7
7
7 g.

M. & *N.
J. & J.
J. & J.

Philadelphia.

<t>

J.
A.
A.

4
7
4
7
8
6

633,000
425,000
217,300
1,166,700
150,000
500,000
300,000

1892

Feb., 1897

N.Y., St. Nicholas N.Bk.

....

&
&
&
&
&
&
&
&
&

J.
J.

J.

N.Y.,M.K. Jesup,P.&Co.
do
do
New York.
N.York, Union Trust Co.
Manchester and Boston.

1887
1879

Oct., 1890
Jan., 1902
May 1, 1879

Bost.,Nat. B’k Com’rce. April l’1012
Bost., N. Bk. Commerce 1890 to 1891
do
do
Oct., 1900
do
do
July, 1898
Portland.
July, 1901
Bost., Nat. B’k Com’roe
July, 1891
Portland, Me.
April 1, 1883
Bost., Nat. B’k Com’rce. Oct. 1, 1895
Belfast and Boston.
May 15, 1890

(?)

300,000
2,450,000
1,050,000
2,500,000
3,000,000

4,000,000
300,000

Too

1,125,000

1,000

750,000
1,243,400

....

750.000

1,000
1,000

1,760,000
2,482,000
5,312,725
1,264,000

25

1,000,000

i,6oo

1,951,000

pons due July, 1879, and Jan.,
7 per cent notes.
Land grant
Land notes
outstanding,

1880, are funded into
about 1.000,009 acres.
$385,201.
Net receipts,
1877, $114,126. (Y. 25, p. 63; V. 26,
p. 549; V. 28, p
401; V. 2', p. 17.)

Louisville & Nashville.-in 1877-8
gross earnings
$5,607,598, and net $2,344,242;-surplus above
interest, $684,391. Nashv. & Dec. is leased, and
liabilities for the S. & N. Ala. are
assumed.
Pur¬
chased Evansv. Hend. & Nashv.
May, 1879. (V. 27,
p. 68, 3 5 4, 462, 536; V. 26,
p. 428, 477, 579, 600;
V. 29, p. 41, 110.)
were

Lukens Valley.—Leased to Summit Branch
Rail¬
road at $62,500 per annum.

(V. 25, p. 113.)

■ -

Macon A Augusta.—Leased and
operated
Georgia Railroad, which guarantees all the by the
bond*
except $100,000 of first mortgage. Gross
earnings,
1877-8, $99,787;
expenses, $104,f>C7. To be fore¬
closed. (V. 26, p.
46S; V. 21, p. 252; V. 28, p. 579.1
Madison eft Portage.—Controller! bv Chic.
Mil. &
St. Paul. Gross
earnings, 1876,

$31,896.

(V- 26, p.

Mahoning Coal.—T\ns coal road runs from
dover, O to Youngstown, O., and is leased to
,

Philadelphia Office.

Q.-M.

A.
F.
A.
J.
J.
J.
A.
A.
M.

3,620,120
3,903,300
1,100,000
496,500
756,800

May, 1890

....

J. & J.
M. & N.

7
7
7 g.
7
8
8
7

1,000,000

Aug., 1895
1, 1889
July, 1899

Oct.

13,000,000

1854
1867

159.)

Philadelphia, Office.

J. & D. Reg. atoffice,
cp.B’kN.A
M. & S.
Philadelphia, Office.
J. & D.
do
do

J.
O.
J.
N.

Schuylkill.— Leased and operated by Phila¬
Leavenworth, Lawrence A Galveston.—in delphia & Reading. Dividends, 7
per cent.
foreclosure Aug. 9, 1878, for
i*ed as Kans. C. Lawrence & $760,000, and re-or^anSouthwestern. Kan¬ in Logansport, Crawfordsville & S. TF. of Ind— Sold
sas City & Santa Fe sold
foreclosure, September, 1879. (V. 28, p. 120; V.
Feb. 1879. Net earnings
in 1878 $115,0*5; in 1877.
29, p. 146, 252, 277.)
$103,564. (V. 26, p. 2*i5
420, 660; V. 27, p. 200; V. 28, p. 42, 351, 401, 623
Long Island.—Gross earnings, year ending Sept.
)
Lehigh A Lackawanna.—Operated by Central of 30, 1879, $1,497,914; net earnings, $497,895. This
company leased the Flushing North Shore &
New Jersey as a coal road.
Central, and the Southern of Long Island, and af¬
Val. —This company’s earnings are
Lehigh
chiefly terward went into Receiver’s hands October, 1877.
from anthracite coal. The
(Y. 28, p. 1 7, 224, 453; V. 29, p. 197.)
gross income from all
sources, in 1877-8, was $6,186,021: net
$3,729,C9».
The Co.’s report gives no
Louisville, Cincinnati & Lexington. — Sold in
general balance sheet,
nor the cost or value of its
miscellaneous invest¬ foreclosure Oct. 1, ’77,for $731,009, to 2d mort. bond¬
ments. Of the E. &
Amboy mort., $5,000,000 have holders, subject to above liens. New co. organized
been issued to L. V.
with $2,100,000 stock.
(V. 25, p. 16, 335,
Company. A
Itatementfor three years is as follows: comparative 533; V.27, p. 302 ; V. 23, p. 41, 599; V. 35«, 433,
59, p. 117.)
1876-7.
4.362,124

Q.-J.

&
&
A. &
J. &
M. &

Little

1875-6.

....

7
6
6 g.
7
6
6
6
6
6 g.

1,480,000

100

July, 1879

A. N. Y.f Winslow, L. & Co.
O. N. Y., B’k of Commerce.
J. New York and Boston.
N.
Boston Office.
do
F. & A.

7
7
7 g.
7
5

600,000

1,000

7
6
7

Dividend.

Pittsburg Office.

F. &
A. &
J. &
M. &

...

3,500,000

1869
1861
1861
1866
1870
1873
1866

1877

-

(1)
106,500

1,000

Whom.

....

2,000,000

i’oo

1878

8 g.

150,000
1,121,500

£200
£200
100

....

1872

1,500,000
3,300,000
175,000

Bonds—Prim i-

pal, When Due.
Where Payable, and by Stocks—Last

Q.-J.

& J.
& J.
A. & O.

7-

333,000

1,000
1,000

Payable

T.
J.

313

492,000

1,000,000
7,070,000

100
1872
100 &c.
1860-1
1870
1868
1871
1861
1863
ioo
1865
100
1870 500 &c

1869

7

225,000
88,000

....

When

2*3

.

500 &e.
100 &c.

...

292

.

$450,000

....

1875

50
109
292
181
272

.

Outstanding

....

.

Now mortgage

Rate per
Cent.

....

1853
1864

f

30

INTEREST OR DIVIDENDS.

Amount

....

....

[Vol» XXIX/

notice of any error
discovered in these Tables.

500,000
5,500,000
720,000
160,000
300,000
50
27,228,855
1,000
5,000,000
1,000
6,000,000
1,000
13,508,000
Held by L.V.
1,000
1.697,000
1,545,000
50
4,636,000
1,000
1,491,000
1,000
525,000
5,000,000
1,000
2,650,000
50
2,646,100

1863
1870
1873
1877
1872

44

Bonds, convertible into stock
Mansfield A Framingham—1st mortgage

Div., convertible.

1,000
1,000
1,000

....

Androscoggin Railroad, Bath City loan
Portland & Kennebec, 1st
mort., extended
do

Memphis A Charles ton—stock

1,000

....

1856
«

Lukens Valley—Stock

Lawrence—Stock

•

•

95
158

floating debt

Mahoning Coal.—1st mortgage,
Manchester A

.

•

Consolidated 1st mortgage for
$8,000,000
2d mortgage bonds,
gold, coup
Memphis & Ohio, 1st mort., sterling, guar

Leavenworth
Pacific.

1865
1870
1869
1870
1872
1867

158

Newtown & Flushing, guar
New York & Rockaway,
guar
Smithtown & Port Jefierson
Louisv.Cin. A Lex.—Louisv.
l’n(to Louisv.& Frankf.)
Louieville Cincinnati &
Lexington, 1st mort..
New mortgage, coupon, for
$1,000,000
Louisville A Nashville— Stock
Louisville loan, main stem (no
Lebanon branch, Louisville loanmortgage)....?
Lebanon branch, 1st mortgage
do
extension, Louisville loan
Cecilian Branch, 1st
mortgage

1st mortgage, Ala. & Miss.
2d mortgage

$50

BONDS,

An¬
the

Boston, Bost. Nat.Bank. July 1. 18-9
Balt., R. Garret & Sons. Aug. 1, 1891
London.
N. Balt., R. Garret & Sons. Aug. 1, 1891
May 1, 1896
J.
do
do
July 1, 1890
O.
do
do
April, 1908
N.
do
do
May 1, 1896
J.
do
do
Jan., 1879
D. Balt., Merch. Nat. Bank
Dec. 1, 1904
N.
do
do
May 1, 1879
J.
do

do
D. N. Y.,
Company’s office.
S
New York,
--

City Bank.

N.Y.,R. T. Wilson &
do
do

do
do

Co.

Jan. 1, 1900
June 1,1892
Mar. 1. 1908

May

1,*1880

Jan. 1,1885
Jan. 1,1916

Like Shore & M. S. for 25
years from May, 1873, at
40 per cent of gross
earnings.
Manchester &
Lawrence.—Formerly operated with
the Concord RR. as one line. Net

1878-9,
$100,411. against $100,458 in 1877-8.earnings p. 39;
(V. 25,
V. 27, p. 66; V. 28, p.,598.)
Manhattan Beach— (V. <9, p. 18)
Manhattan

Elevated—This company leases the
two elevated roads and guarantees Id
per cent divi¬
dends on the r stocks. (V. 28,
p. £53, 579, 649; V.
29, p. 214.)
Maine Central.—The total

earnings for the year 1878
$1,440,661; operating expenses. $84°,704; net
earnings, $599,956, against $650,198 in 1677. (V.
26,
p. 341; V. 28, p. 325.)
Mansfield A Framingham.—Leased to
Boston,
Clinton & Fitchburg, at 25 per cent
of gross earn¬
ings. Consolidation made June, 1875. (V. 20,
p.
615.)
were

Marietta A Cincinnati.—Capital stock is
$14,000,
Gross earnings for 1877-8 (latest

000.

published)

$1,545,783; net earnings, $266,980. Default'
made in 1877 and a receiver was
appointed in
suit to foreclose the 4th
mortgage, which is nearly
all held by B;ilt. & O. R.R. Co.
For coupons over¬
due on each mortgage see V.
28, p. 4 1. (V- 25, p.
308, 335, of 9; Y. 26, p. 216, 3i2, 496; V. 28,
p.401, 452;
Y. 29, p. 170.)
were

was

Marquette, Houghton & Ontonagon—Interest

waa

in default and new bonds were
issued, as above, in
place of old. The stock is $2,106,600 common, and

$2,259,026 preferred. Gross earnings, 1878,
$566,452;
$iU9.18l.
Lands amount to 425,000
chiefly timber and mineral. (V. 28, p. 222 ) acres,
Memphis & Charleston— This road was leased in
June, 1877, to theE Tenn. Va. & Ga. RR Co. for net
earnings. See full account in V. 26, p. 115. Of the
new consol,
mortgage $1,400 000 is secured by old
Tenn. State hen for
$1,738,906, assigned to a trus¬
tee, and enough is reserved to take up 1st and 2d
mortgmes.
Net earnings year ending June 80,
net,

1878, $307,000.
29, p. 18.)

(V. 26, p. 115; V. 28, p. 221; V.

September 27,

RAILROAD

1879.]

Subscribers will confer

a

DESCRIPTION.

Miles
of
Road

of tables.

Memphis <& Little Rk

— 1st M. (paid $50,000 yearly)
General rnort., land grant, (s. f. $10,000 after ’82)
Metropolitan Elevated (N. Y. City)—Stock
1st mortgage, $ or £

Michigan Central—stock

Date Size, or
of
Par
Bonds Value.

133
133

Michigan Air Line mortgage
Michigan Air Line 1st mort.,assumed by M. C

103
10

.•

Consolidated mortgage (for $10,000,000)

Equipment bonds

do

stock, guar

mort.

do

(N. of Win.),

conv. > may

Minneapolis <£ St'. L.—1st M., Min. to Sioux C.
1 st

mortgage, Sioux City Juno, to Iowa line...
mortg., Minneapolis to White B. Lake, guar..
Mississippi & Tennessee—1st mortgage, series “A
1st mortgage, series “B,” (a second lien)
Missouri, Kansas & Texas—stock
1st in., gold, sink, fund, onroad and land (U.P.S.Br)
1st mortgage, gold (Tebo. & Neosho)
Consolidated mortgage, gold, on road and land
2d mortgage, income, (for $10,000,000)
Booneville Bridge bonds, gold, guar
1st

Hannibal A Central Missouri, 1st mortgage
Missouri Pacific—Stock
1st mortgage, gold
2d mortgage (sinking fund $50,000 per annum)..
Real estate (depot) bonds
Debt to St. Louis County (no bonds)

mortgage

500 Ac.

1,000
100

1868
1,000
1870
1,000
1871-3
1,000
500 Ac.
1876
1873
1,000
1870
1,000

BONDS.

1,000
1,000
1,000
100
100

....

40

1871
1879
1879
1879
1879
1879
1875

23

1870

137
84
84

1864
1866

....

....

...

.

.

.

.

vari’us
1871
1871
1875

34

137

•

m

m

1,000
1,000

1,668.000
7,000,000
5,500,000
2,000,000
600,000
900,000
700,000
1,800,000
500,000

....

....

.

100 Ac.
100 Ac.

1,000
50
250
500 Ac.

15,000,000
5,000,000
3,000,000
284,000
573,000
4,991,000
5,050,000
1,025,000
6,575,295
1,000,000
940,000
4,860,000

1,000
1,000
1,000
""

25

1871

....

1873
1877
1877

1,000
1,000

57
133

320,000
300,000

1,000
1,000

'

.....

....

1870
1867

90,000
1,512,000
1,837,000
206,000
800,000
200,000

....

1,000
500
100

1873 i

....

....

100

1877

16*3

....

44

Valley—Stock

5.320.600

1,000

m

1869

15

....

6 g.

2,000,000
1,836,000
1,300,000
800,000
605,000

1,000
50
500 Ac.
50

8
8
7
8

8

8
8
8
8

2hs
8
8
8
8
8
8
7

3*2
7 g.

J.

Is'
? I:

Various
A. & O.

8

7
7

Is-

4

interest

charge

now

dt

Girard.—The

Railroad

?s-

J.

7
7
7

7.
7
7 g.

3^2
7
rr
t

7
7
7
7

4
6
7
6

1904-1906

April 19,1911

May 1, 1906
May, 1890

do

Aug., 1888
July, 1891
May 1, 1892
Feb., 1885
Oct.

1, 1893

Jan., 1889

Y., Drexel, M. A Co

Aug. 12,1879

A J. New York and London
& D. Mobile and New York.

1901
Dec.

Yearly.
Yearly.

F. & A. New York, Co.’s Office
M. & S.
do
do
Q-J. N. Y., Union Trust Co
J. & J. N. Y., Del., Lack & W.
M A N.
do
do
F. & A.
do
do
J. A J.
do
do
F. A A.
do
do
A. A O.
do
do
J. A D.
do
do

1890

July 1,1879
May 1, 1914
Aug. 1, 1891
Jan. 1, 1900
Aug. 1, 1889
Oct., 1901
June 1,1915

A. & O. New York A Nashville.
N.

J.
A J. N.
& J.
J. A J.

6
3
7

Is6 g5
7

312
7 g

(D

of

549; V. 24, p. 542; V. 27, p 434.)
Montnomery.—Sold in foreclosure, No¬
vember, 1874, and stock issued to old bondholders.
Old mortgage debt vet out. $275,000. Gross
earn’gs,
1876, $680,183; net, $253,390. (V. 26, p. 418; V. 26,
Mobile A

327.)

Mobile A Ohio— Securities

a* above issued under
adjustment (see V. 29, p. 120). Capital stock $10,000,Mine HiU A St hvylkiU Haven.—Leased to Phila¬ 000, of which
$5,320,600 is issued. Gross earnings
delphia & Reading, May 1S64, for 999 years; 7 per year ending Aug. 1,1879, $1,830,620; net, over all ex¬
cent dividends on stock.
penses, $379,468.
(V 26, p. 166. 256, 344, 496, b53;
Minneapolis A St. Louis.—This road was com¬ V. 27, p. 33”, 487; V. 29, p. 41. 120, 250.)
pleted in 1877. The bonds of the $1,100,000 mort¬
Montclair A Greenwood Lake— Re-organization of
gage numbered from 1,101 to 1,4)0. f»r *50) each,
old Montclair road sold in foreclosure. Road sold
($150,000 in all) are guaranteed by the Burl. C. R. & again Oct. 12 187.3.
(V. 23, p. 67. 600, 625, 653; V.
Northern Railroad. The bonds on the 15 miles 27, p. 16, 68, 95,
172, 192, 228, 252, 303, 357, 383, 43 <,'
were issaed by the Minneapolis & Duluth RR.
462 5*9, 6

Mississippi A Tennessee.—Gross earnings 1877-8,
Monticello A Port Jervis.—Defaulted in 1873. Sold
$378,780 ; net, $173,934, against $212,768 in 1876-7. July 7, 1875. (V. 20. p. 358, 383; V. 21, p. 39, 592.)
The debt is consolidated as above. Floating debt
Morris A Essex.—Leased in perpetuity to the

Apl.

Y., V. K. Stevenson.
Y., Metrop. Nat. Bk.

"ik

J.
J.

6

1, 1927

Yearly.
Yearly.

J.

p.

--S, 652.)

do
do
do
do

7

lig

Georgia endorses these bonds, and holds the 4 per
cent mortgage bonds for advances made. (V.
23,

p.

N.

7‘g.

(under adjustment)-is

Central

do
do
do
do
do

V. & A. N. Y., Company’s Office
J. & J.
do
do
M. & N.
do
do
St. Louis.
mont’ly
M. & N. N. Y., Company’s Office.
A. A O.
New York.
J. & J. N. Y., Nat. City Bank.

J.

The M. K. & T. bonds and U. P. S.
Br. bonds draw 5 per cent in 1879-81, but coupons
on the consol, mort. are
unpa d since Feb., 1878.
Land grant is about 4.565,142 acres. Lease to Chic.
Burl. & Quincy is talked of. (V. 27, p. 426, 514,
603, 653; V. 23, p. 146, 173, 298 ; V. 29, p. 119, 170,
278, 302.)
Missouri Pacific.—Gross earnings in 1877, $3,984,442; operating Expenses, $2,321,355; net $1,660,086.
Reorganized after the sale of the road under 3d
mortgage, Sept. 6,1676, for $3,000,000. Default was
made on Carondelet Branch bonds, October 1,
1877, and compromise bonds at 50 per cent were
offered January, 1878. (V. 26, p. 41; V. 27, p. 68;
V. 28, p. 18; V. 29, p. 293.)
Mobile

Jan., i.899
June, 1903

Y., Union Trust Co.

M. & N.
M. & N.

2*2

an increase of $31,532. (V.
154, 617; V. 26, p. 39; V. 23. p. 95.)
Missouri, Kansas A Texas.—Latest report, V. 23.
p.298. Gross earnings 1878. $2,931,631; n°t, $471,958, against $1,043,664 in 1877 and $1,371,883 in 1876.

$776,398, gold.

A J. N.
A D.

’

p.

Annual

J. N.Y., Central Trust Co.
July, 1908
& J
Grand Central, Office.
Aug. 1, 1879
A O. N. Y., Union Trust Co.
Oct. 1,1882
& O.
do
do
Oct. 1,1882
A N.
do
do
May 1,1902
& J.
do
Jan. 1,1890
do
A N.
do
do
1890
& O.
do
do
April 1,1883
A N
do
do
Nov. 1,1890
& N.
do
Nov. 1.1890
do
& J.
do
do
July 1,1886
A J.
do
do
July, 1879
& N
do
do
May 1,1902-3
& N.
do
do
1902
A J.
do
do
July 1,1885
& N.
do
do
May 1,1890
& S.
do
do
Sept. 1,1891
& D. N.Y., Merch. Exc. N.Bk.
Dec., 1901
& D N. Y., B. S. Sands A Co.
June 1,1895
& J. Philadelphia, P.& R.Co. July 17,1879
A J. N.Y., Continental N.Bk. Jan. 1, 1907
& D.
do
do
Feb. 1, 1927
M. & N.
do
do
Jan. 1, 1907
A. A O. N. Y., Imp. A Trad. Bk. April 1, 1902
J. & J.
do
do
July 1,1902

gs-

Sept. 30. 1878, $106,730.

25,

J.Q&

J.
A.
A.
M.
J.
M.
A.
M.
M.
J.
J.
M.
M.
J.
M.
M.
J.

1*2

"Is-

Yearly—’79-*83
July, 1907

Janu’ry

2*2

l ®-

Stocks—Lae*
Dividend.

M. A N. N.Y., H.Talmadge &Co.
do
do

10
4

$250,000
2,600,000
6,500.000
8,500,000
18,738,204
1,501,000
556,000
8,000,000
1,900,000
200,000
556,000
640,000
70,000
1,000,000
491,200
424,000
1,906,000
1,094,000
613,000
1,943,000
2,134,000
750,000
3.969.600
455,000
1,100,000
280,000
1,000,000
1,100,000
21,405,000
2,433,000
349,000
14,752,000
6,068,600
1,000,000
800,000
800,000

500 Ac.

Bon d s—Princi¬

pal, When due.

Rate per When Where Payable, and by
Cent.
Payable
Whom.

7,000,000
2,600,000
800,000
700,000
4,500,000
250,000
300,000
800,000
2.794,800

....

....

Outstanding

100

1876
1873
1869
1877

....

Newark, Somerset & Straitsv., O.—1st mortgage




xxiii

INTEREST OR DIVIDENDS.
Amount

1,000
1,000

...

1868
1871
1872

186
505

Nesquehoning Valley—Stock

,

50

1,000
1,000
1,000

54

Nebraska—Consol, mort., guar

after 1882.
Metropolitan (N. Y. City).—This is the elevated
road form ;rly known 68 the “Gilbert.11 Is leased to
Manhattan Railway Co. with guarantee of 10
per
cent dividends. (V. 27, p. t43, 62 7 ; V. 28,
p. 42,
112. 25 J, 327, 526, 55'*, f>79; V. 29, p. 42.)
Michigan Centred.—The fiscal year ends with
December 31.
For the year 1838 gross earnings
were $6,872,094 on main line and
branches; n‘et
income over inteiest, &c
$2,504,855. The Jackson, LansiDg A Sag. debt is assumed by Mich.Cent.,
which also pays $70,000 per year on the stock, onethird of which it owns; the proceeds of J. L. & S.
lands go to pay bonds. (V. 26, p. 519.) Inlerest was
passed on the Detroit & Bay City bonds, not guar¬
anteed, Nov., 1875. D. & B C. net earnings in 1878
were $94,995.
(V. 26, p. 417, 574,653; V. 27, p.
645; V. 28 p. 473, 59u
Milwaukee & Noi'thern.—Tvfo coupons were paid
in stock, but cash payment was resumed in
July,
1876. It is leased to Wisconsin Central.
(V. 28,
p. 453.)
Milwaukee, Lake Shore A Western.—Sold in fore¬
closure for $2,509,768, Dec. 10, 1875, and purchased
by bondholders, who made this new first mortgage
for $750,000. Gross earnings 18<7-8, *245.025;
net,
$49,745. (V. 25, p. 308; V. 27, p. 252, 357; V. 29, p.

1,000

1877

122

per cent

50 Ac

1877

340
75
30
7*2
122
122

Naugatuck—Stock

8

1877
1877
1877

....

Nashua <£ Lowell—Stock
Bonds for freight depot (gold)

Memphis A Little Rock.—Sold April 28, 1877, and
Gross earnings, 1877, $492,107; ex¬
penses, reconstruction, &c., $197,637.
The land
grant is about 1,<100,000 acres. The general mortgage

1,000
1,000

345

Bonds to U. S. government, 2d mort
Bonds endorsed by Tenn
New 1st mort. (for $6,800,000) coup
Bonds of N. C.& St. L., 1st mort. on two branches
do
do
1st mort. on Tenn. &Pao
do
do
for Jasper Branch..
Nashville <£• Decatur—Stock, guar’d 6 p. c. by L. <fc N.
1st mort. guar. s. f

reorganized.

.

1,000

....

299
15 ^
85

Nashville, Chattanooga <£ St. Louis—stock

pays

.

.

....

Mobile <6 Girard—2d mort., end. by Cent. Ga. RR..
3d mortg. bonds issued to Central R. R. Ga
Mobile^ Monty.—Stock, (Authorized $3,022,517.).
Mobile <£ Ohio—Stock
Tennessee substitution, 1st mortgage, sterling.
New mortgage, gold
1st pref. ino. and s. f. debentures, not cumulative
2d
do
do
do
3d
do
do
do
4th
do
do
do
Montclair <& G. Lake.—1st mort. ($700,000)
2d mort. (issued for old firsts),
Monticello & Port Jei'vis— 1st mortgage
Morns <& Essex—stock
1st mortgage, sinking fund
2d mortgage
Convertible bonds
Construction bonds.
Gen. in. & 1st on BoontonBr. Ac. (guar. D.L.AW.)
Consol, mort. (for $25,000,000) guar. D. L. & W..
Special real estate mortgage

Newcastle <6 Beaver

.

283
283

mortgage
Carondelet Branch, 1st mortgage

100

....

70
299

3d

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

1870
1870
1866

236
126
127
140
27
93
15
100
100
786
182
100
786
786

June

1,000

....

1874

1872
1872
1865
1870
1871
1870
1875

.

Cons. m. on whole line (300m.) J be r’g
Milwaukee <£ Northern— 1st mortgage
Milwaukee, Lalce Shore & Western—1st m., gold. .
Mine Hill & Schuylkill Haven—stock

2d

1872
1869

....

Jackson, Lansing A Saginaw 1st mort.... ] coup
do
1st

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

....

118
118
116

Detroit & Bay City 1st mortgage, endorsed
do
do
mortgage (not guar M.C.)...

100

....

39
39
84

,

i,’doo

250 Ac.

....

....

Kalamazoo A South Haven, 1st mort., guar
do
do
2d mort., guar
Grand River Valley, 1st mort., guar. 5

$1,000

1878

1st mortgage, convertible, sinking fund
1st mortgage, convertible

1877
1877

800
284
284
284

do

AND

great favor by giving Immediate notice of aujr error discovered in these Tables*

For explanation of column headings, &c., see notes
at the head of first page

STOCKS

J.
J.
A.
M.
F.
J.

do
do

do
do

July 1,1913

Jan. 1, 1917
Jan. 1. 1917

a" "d.

June, 1879

&
&
A
&
&
A. A

J. N. Y., Drexel, M. & Co.
O. Nashville, Co.’s Office.
N.
Boston & Nashua.
A.
Boston.
J.
Bridgeport, Conn.
O.
Boston.
M. A S. Philadelphia, Co.’s office
M. & N. N. Y., Union Trust Co.

Q.-J.

Newcastle, Penn.

July 1,1900
Oot., 1887
May 1, 1879
Aug. 1, 1893

July 15,1879

Oct. 1, 1896
Sept. 1, 1879
Nov. 1, 1889
Oct., 1879

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western.
assume

Net

i',*i879

1881 and '91

all liabilities and pay

The

leasees

7 per cent on stock.

earnings of the road in 1877-76, $782,328. (V.
191; V. 28, p. 451.)
Nash.» Chatt. A St. L.—Gross earnings of
$1,736,723; expenses, $1,021,588; net earnings, $$15-.
135. The following payments were made in addi¬
tion to the
operating expenses :
Interest on bonded debt
$464,630
Interest on floating debt
13,384
26,

p.

Interest on cost of Tenn. & Pacific RR
Difference in cost of steel rail
Extra ties used with steel rail
Two dividends paid
Taxes in Tennessee

...

Total

10,896
26,827
6,088
164,161

22,079

$708,016

The debt to United States and bonds endorsed
by Tennessee are secured by denosit of 1st mort.
bonds. (V. 2*. p. 523; V. 27^ p. X46, 275; V. 28, p.

554; V. 29,

p.

224.)

Nashville & Decatur.-Leased May 4,
Louisville & Nashville Co. for

guaranteeing interest
yearly on stock.

on

1371, to

thirty years, lease

bonds, and 6 per cent

Nashua A Lowell.—Net receints in 1877-3, $98,75$.
are $225,000.
(V. 24, p. 564; V. 26, p.

Notes out

624.)
Naugatuck.— Net earnings 1877-8, $197,170. (v.
25, p. 616; V. 27, p. 566.)
Nebraska— FormerlyMid'and Pacific.
The old
bonds were to be exchanged for these guar, by the
Bur. & Mo. in Neb., to which the Nebraska road 10
leased. See V. 25, p. 335, 641.
Nesquehoning Valley—Leased to the Lehigh Goal
& Navigation Co. at a yearly rental now of 7 per
cent dividend on the capital stock.
(V. 29 p. 18J
_

Newark S mierset A Straitsv.—Leased to Sandusky
Mansfield & Newark. Guaranteed by Balt. & Ohio.
New Castle A Beaver Volley.—Leased to Pitts¬

burgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago, and lease transfirred
to Penn. Company.
In 1873 paid 24 per cent divi¬

dends.

1

‘

XXIV

RAILROAD

Subscribers will confer

a

^DESCRIPTION.

STOCKS

AND

....

$525,000
2,460,000
1,296,000
885,000

....

916,000

2,120,000
1,500,000
300,000

387,500
4,000,000
1,800,000

4,000,000
89,428,300
6,632,900

....

74,500

....

592,000
162,000

....

....

2,391,000

....

River)

....

coupon or regie
j £2,000,000 5
tered.
N. Y. City Elevated— Stock
1st mortgage, $ or £
New York d Harlem—Common stock
Preferred stock
Consol, mort., coup, or
reg., (for

....

840

840

1876

132

1872

1,000

....

1861

500 Ac.

....

....

•

....

....

Long Dock Co. mortgage

1st consolidated mortgage,
gold
do
do
funded coupon bonds
N. Y. L. E. & W., new
mort., gold, 1st lien
do
do
do 2d consol
do
do
do
do fund, coup
do
income bonds (non-cumulative)

....

.

....

334
62
12
50
223
223
223
102
102

.

102
58
56
56

guar

•

•

•

1873
1869
....

1860
1869

.

.

.

138
138
138

.

.

.

1869
1869
....

....

....

.

.

.

New Haven Jc Derby—Gross
earnings 1877-8,
$102,113; n&t, $41,640. New Haven city guarantees
the $225,000 2d mort. bonds.
New Haven & Northampton .—Gross
earnings,

$322,879.

(V.

26, p. 17; Y. 28, p. 40, 401.)
New Jersey Midland.—To be s:>ld under fir.-t
mortgage. Net earnings 1878, $122,400. (V. 26, p.
142, *90; Y. 27, p. 652; V. 28, p. 326, 554; V. 29,
p. 252.)
New Jersey & New York.—Consolidation of the

Hackensack & N. Y. and Hackensack Extension.
The old bonds are about $300,000.
Hackensack
branch sold May, 1878. (V. 24, p. 136, 158, 249, 299,

321; V. 25, p. 255.)
New Jersey Soul-hern.—Sold in foreclosure Mar.
3t,
for $752,(00, to bondtiolders.
Leased to Central of
N. J. (V. 28, p. 146, 173, 352; V. 29,
p. 121.)
New London Northern.—Operated under lease till
1891 by Vermont Central for $150,000 a year. Net
p.

537.)

New Orleans, Mobile & Texas.—The Western DiBion was sold Nov. 18, 1874, and the East. Div. is
operated by the mort. trustees. Int. in default since
1872. Gross earnings, 1877, $730,010; net.
$390,655;
and less extraordinary expenses,
$158,480. (V. 25.

•

21
21

100
....

100 Ac.
100

100
100
500

602.)

New York Central <& Hudson River —The mort¬
gage loan for $40,600,000 was to retire prior debt,
ana the balance for third and fourth
track, Ac.
The Harlem RR. was teasedApril, 1873. The follow¬
ing is a comparison of earnings, &c., for five years:
Gross
Net
Funded Cost of r’d
Receipts. Receij ts.
Debt.
& eqnip’t.
1877-8. $28,910,555 $12,774,578 $40,433,283
$99,894,0%
18TO-7. 26,579,085 11,63?,924
40,835,445 99,142,408
!87b-6

.

28,046,588

1*74-5.

50 007.918

11,922,417 40,401,263

H 765)11

40.003

tr,J», P. 315,575; V. 27, p. 357,652, 0T7.)




97,822,811
96,355,774

8
8

1*2

1,500,000

500 Ac.
500 Ac.

1,000
1,000
1,000

1,000
1,000

.

1878

2,569,500
5,842,000
1,500,000
1,490,000
1,126,000
2,599,000
205,000
4,473,000
3,000,000
1,000,000
3,068,400
1,000,000

7
7
4
6 A 7
7 g.
2
6
7
3
3
8
4

4,527,150
1.930,500

100

J

6
7
7
3
6
6
6
6 g.
6 g.
6 g.
5
6

2*2

400,000

....

6
6
6

iV. Y. City Elevated— Lcaeed to Manhattan
El.
RR., with guaranty of 10 per cent yearly on stock.

Bonds are payable after 1897 at 105. ‘
General state¬
ment V. 2?, p. 280.
(V. 26, p. 653; V. 27, p. 280,

400.

452; V. 28, p. 302. 526, 653, 579.)
New York & Harlem.—Leased to
N. Y. Central
at 8 p. ct. per annum
(payable J. A J.) on stock, and
interest on

bonds. The’Fourth Ave. horse railroad
real estate was retained, and extra
dividends
made from profits of this line.
(V. 28, p. 18.)
N. Y. Lake Erie cfe
West.(Erie).—Foreclosure of the
Erie Railway took
place April 24, 1878, under the
second consolidated
mortgage.
The stocks and
bonds above are given .ss under
the re-organization when perfected.
Tee old* second mort¬
gage, due September, 1879, was extended at 5
per
cent..
The funded coupon bonds are
secured
by lien of consol, mortg. On the 2d con*ol., first
coupon is payable June, 1889.
The 2d funded
coupon are 5 per cents till June, 1833, and after that
6. On the 2d and 2d funded
coupon no foreclosure
can take place till six
coupons are in default. In
fiscal year ending Sept. 3 ',
1878, net income appli¬
cable to interest; was
The interest
$3,907,345.
charges each fiscal year will be:
and
are

Gross

Earnings.

1S77-8
1876-7

....$15.644,9.30

1875-6
1874-5

1879-80, $3,087,878;

this sum afterward.
for the fiscal years
Net

Income.
$5,718 927
4,636,717

15,852,461
16,876,858

14,708,889

Interest.

Rentals, Ac.
$5,093,496
5,937.801

4.308,563
5,538.194
4,698,615
6,351,781
(V.27,p. 40, 173,200, 28 »,S03,358 383, 409, 514,539, 623,
649.678: Y.
630; Y. 29,

p.

N. Y. & N.

.

A. A
A. A
F. A
F. A
M. A
M. A

Q.-J. N.Y., Treasurer’s Office.

A J.
J. A J.
J. A J.
M. A N.

New York.

1898 to 1900

Oct., 1873
Jan., 1899

Oct. 10,1879
Jan. 1, 1906

N.Y., Gr. Central Depot. July 1, 1879
do
do
July 1, 1879
do
do
May, 1900
J. A J.
do
do
Jan. 1, 1881
....

M.
M.
M.
A.
J.
J.
J.
M.
M.
M.
J.
J.
J.

A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A

N.

M. A S.
A J.
J. A J.
J.

m

J.

m

1

M. A N.
J. A J.
M. A S.
M. A S.

Dec.
Dec.
Dec.
June

1903

In default.

July 1, 1894
N. Y., M. Morgan’s Sons.
Aug. 11,1879
do'
do
May 1, 1880
do
do
July 1, 1899

Company Shops, N. C.
do

do

do

do

do

J.
N.
J.
N.

do
do
do

J.
O
J.
O.
J.
J.
J.
D.

do
do
do

Annapolis.

1903

April 1, 1876
Irredeemable.

Bk.

do
do
do
London A Baltimore.
Baltimore, 1st Nat. Bk.
do
do

Boston, Office.
City, Hudson Co.

1. 1885

May 1, 1896

Baltimore, 1st Nat.

A J- J.

Sept. 1, 1899
Sept. 1, 1899
Aug. 27,1879
Jan.

Baltimore A Philadel.

Q.—J.

Mar. 15, 1879
Mar. 15, 1879

Nov., 1888

Philadelphia Office.

A
A
A
A

1, 1908
1, 1969
1, 1969
1, 1977

1884

Q.-F.

J.

Sept. 1, 1920
Sept. 1, 1920

Jan., 1905
N.Y., Grand Cen. Depot. July 1, 1879

Charleston.

A
A
A
A
A
A
A
J. A

Oct. 1, 1880
June 1, 1888
July 1. 1891
Jan. , 1893

do

M. A N.
M. A S.
M. A S.

J.
A.
J.
A.
J.
J.
J.

Sept. 1, 1919
Mar. 1, 1883

Boston.

M. A N.

J.
M.
J.
M.

May 1, 1897

a

A J.

<y

N. Y., Co.’s office.

S.
do
do
S.
do
do
0.
do
do
D.
do
do
J.
do
do
D.
do
do
S. New York and
London.
S.
do
do
N.
do
do
D.
do
do
D.
do
do
D.
do
do

B’k.

July,
April,
July,
July,
July 1,

1885
1900
1900
1900
1904

Jan. 1, 1926
Jan. 1, 1926
June 2, 1879
In 1878

July, 1888

....

New Yot'k & Oswego Midland.—Foreclosure sale
postponed again to Sept 26, 1879. Receivers’ cer¬
tificates have been issued to amount of
$1.352 555.
Tne plan of settlement was
reported in V. 28,

p. 42.
(V. 27, p. 383, 436, 462, 487, 539,
601, 652; V. 28. p.
18, 42, 277, 302, 580. 625; V. 29, p. 147, 30?.)
New York, Providence cfe Boston.— Annual
report
for fiscal year ending
Sept. 1, 1878, showed net earn¬
ings $398,115, against $358,9C7 in 1876-7. (V. 25, p.
591; V. 27, p. 383,626.)
North Carolina.—Leased
September, 1871, to Rich¬
mond A Danville Railroad at
$260,000 per annum.
Dividends of 6 p. c. are paid on stock, of which the
State of No. Car. holds
$3,000,001 (V. 27, p. 406,
650; V. 29, p. 96.)
Northeastern, S. C.—Gross earnings in 1877-8,
$363,344: net, $162,500. (V.<5.p.61 7; V. 27,p.650.>
North Pennsylvania— Leased to Phi la. & Re
.ding
for 990 years.
(See terms, V. 28, p. 625.) Lessees
pay int. and 6p. c. on stock, 1879-81; 7 p. c.
18^1-3;
and 8 p. c. afterwards. Net
receipts 1877-8, $573,061.
(V. 28, p. 503. 625.)
Northern Central.—The annual
report for 1878
shows gross earn’gs,
$3,723,456; expenses. $2,« 04,497;
net, $1,118,9.'9. The total net income in 1878 was
$1,510,483, of whiclr$ 1,485,585 was paid for interest
and rentals, leaving
a balance of $24,8^7. Und< r ihe
general mortgage of 1876, $1,000,000 more
issued, as senes “C.” (V.26,p. 314; V. 28, may be
p 220.\

Northern, N. Hampshire.—Net income fiscal year
1878-9 was $107,372. (V. 26, p.
546; V. 23. p 552*)
Northern of N. Jersey.—
Operated by Erie at 35
per c nt of gross * arnings
Gross earnings in 1877
were $233,488; in 1878
$234,719. Bonds clue in 1878
were paid or extended at b
per cent interest. (V.

28, p. 17. 67, 302, <52, 401, 477,
579,

26, p. 600.)

England.—Formerly

and

18. 147,171, 197. 302.)

Northern

Bost. Hartf. A E.
Conveyed to the new company in July. 1875. Net
earnings. 1877-8. $155,704. (V. 27, p. 304, .358, 409,
649; V. 28, p. £53, 428; V.29, p. 17,42,117,
253,278.)
New York New Haven A
Hartford.—Net income
over int. and all
charges, lQ77-8. *1.554.489. (V. 25,p.

640; Y. 26,

.

2*2

43,800,000
2,000,000
2,000,000

Too

172.)

p.

,

234,000

1880-81, $4,229,678, and about
341,392, 575.)
The following
comparison is
N. Y. City <fe Northern.— A re-organization of
ending Sept. 30:
N. Y. & Boston. (V. 27. p.

015; V. 27,

6 g.

820,000

50

p.

New Yot-k & Canada.—The bonds are
guaranteed
bv the- Delaware A Hudson Canal Co.
(V. 25, p.

7
7
7
7
7 g.
7 g.
6 g.
6 g.
5 g-

1,000,000
210,000
899,350
88,000

....

1879
1879

7

1,000,000
3,000,000

.

50
50
500
500
50
500 Ac.
500 Ac.

560
205
209

5

50,000

1,000

....

1855
1865
1868
1868
’74-’75
1876
1876

7

3,000,000

1,000

•

7

3,000,000

.

.

....

16,533,714
3,718,100
(?)
25,000,000
8,597,000
508,000
5,941,000
928,000
4,383,000
15,500,000
2,000,000
8,000,000

...

....

-

.

Whom.

6 g. J.

4
7

182,600

1,000

....

82^

.

.

or

4

709,500

....

Where Payable,

Various N. Haven, E.S. Scranton
New Haven.
J. A J.
do

2^

7

2,174,000
4,852,000
2,937,000

500 Ac.
500 Ac.
.

9,733,333
6,500,000
8,500,000
7,500,000
1,550,000
10,500,000
107,704
78,000,000

8,536,900
2,483,000

1,000

’IF-’63

•

138
138
138
138

.

....

'

•

-

100
100

....

.

Consolidated mortgage, gold, coupon
do
do
do
registered
Consol, mortgage, gold, s. fund,
coup., $ or £—
2d general mort., “A,” coupon
do
"
“B,” coupon,convertible..
Northern, N. H— Stock
Northern of New Jersey—Stock
1st mortgage, extended
Northern Pacific—preferred stock
Mortgage and land grant bonds, Missouri Div...
Mortgage bonds, Pend d’Oreille div

earnings of road in 1S77-8, $170,431. (V. 27,

1864
1876

317

.

1st mortgage, State (Maryland) loan
2d mortgage,
sinking fund, coupon
3d mortgage, sinking fund,
coupon

50

....

1214

n

50

•

1878
1878
1878
1879

.

....

common

expenses,

.

139
86
139
141

Northern Central—Stock

1877-8, $548,199; operating

.

....

Preferred stock

1st mortgage
2d mortgage
General mortgage bonds

•

....

N. Y. d Oswego Midland—1st
mortgage, gold..
If Y., Prov. d Boston— (Stonington)—Stock—
Extension mortgage
First mortgage
North Carolina—Stock, common

Pennsylvania—Stock,

•

459

1st mortgages, old...
let mortgage, new...
New York, New Haven, d Hartford—Stock.

North

•

•

....

exchangeable for 2d

•

1847
1,000
1879
1,000
1853"
1,000
1857
1,000
1858
500 Ac.
1861
100 Ac.
1863
1,000
1870
1,000
1878, 500 Ac.

....

3d mortgage
4th mortgage, convertible
5th mortgage, convertible
Buffalo Branch BondsX

Pref. stock (8 per cent)
1st mortgage, new
2d mortgage, new

•

1,000

....

.

Mortgage bonds
Northeastern (S. C.)—Stock,

100

15
132

Sinking fund
N. Y. Lake EHe d West—Stock, common
Preferred stock
1st mortgage (extended in 1867 to
1897)
2d mortgage, convertible (extended in
1879)....

„

1,000
1,000

....

$12,000,666)...

1,794,000
18,465,000

....

1873
1873

When

Payable

Bonds—Prinol »al. When Due.
and by Stocks—Last
Dividend.

O.
do
1
0.
do
1
A.
N. Y., Co.’s Office.
1895
A.
do
do
1881
S. New York and London.
ch 1,1893
N.
In default.
Nov. 1. 1889
1*4
New London, Office.
Q.-J.
July 1, 1879
6
A. A O. N. Y., B’k of N.
America
Sept., 1885
7
J. A D.
do
do
July, 1892
8 or 7 g. J. A J. New York, Co.’s
Office. Jan. 1, 1915
7
M. A N.
New York.
May. 1908
6 g- M. A N.
London, Baring Bros.
May 1,1904
2
Q.-J. N.Y., Gr. Central Depot. Oct. 15. 1879
6
M. A N.
do
do
May 1,1883
6
M. A N.
do
do
May 1,1883
6
M. A N.
do
do
May 1,1883
6
M. A N.
do
do
May 1,1883
6
J. A D.
do
do
Dec. 15, 1887
7
J. A D.
do
do
June, 1885
7
J. A J.
do
do
Jan. 1, 1903
6 g. J A J.
London.
Jan. 1. 1903

260,000

....

....

7
3
7
6
6 A 7
7 g.
7
7 g.
7

3,000,000
1,500,000

....

....

Rate per
Cent.

Outstanding

....

....

INTEREST OR DIVIDENDS.

Amount

....

5 $30,000,000 )

[VOL. XXIX.

great favor by giving immediate notice
of any error discovered in
these Tables.

Miles Date Size, or
For explanation of column
headings, Ac., see notes
of
of
Par
at the head of first
page of tables.
Road. Bonds. Value.
New Haven d Derby— 1st & 2d
mortgages
13 68A70 $500Ac.
Hew Haven d Northamp. (canal
RR.)—Stock
100
100
Mortgage bonds, coupon
92
1869
1,000
Bonds convertible, tax free,
coupon
1,000
Holyoke & W.,leased, 1st M. ($60,000 Gs, ’98 guar.)
10
1870
1,000
H. J. Midland—1st mort.,
g’ld, guar, by N.Y.& O
80
1870
100 Ac.
2d mortgage, currency
80
1871
100 &c.
New
Jersey d New York— 1st mort. (for $1,500,000)
37
1873
1,000
N. J. Soutnem— 1st mort
gage
78
1869
1,000
New London Northern—Stock
100
100
1st mortgage bonds
100
1865
100 Ac.
2d mortgage
100
1872
500 Ac.
N. O. d Mobile—1st
mortgage
140
1871
1,000
N. Y. City d Northern—1st
mortgage
1878
500 Ac.
N. Y. d Canada—1st M.,
sterling, guar. D.AH. Can. 112 1874 £100Ac
New York Central d Hudson River—Stock
1,000
100
Premium bonds
(N. Y. Central)
1853
500 &c.
Bonds, B. A N. F. stockholders
do
1854
500 Ac.
Bonds railroad stock
do
1853
1,000
Bonds real estate
do
1,000
Renewal bonds
1854
1,000
2d mortgage, sinking fund (Hftdson
New mortgage
New mortgage

BONDS.

p.

290; V. 27, p. 537; V. 28,

p.

40.)

Pacific.—Sold in foreclosure Aug.l2,V78,

pref. stock issued to bondholders till June 30*
1879, at the rate of $1,400 for each $1,000 bond.

This stock is
exchangeable for land at its par value.
Common stock issued is
$29,5 52,660. Bonds issued
in 1879, see V. 29, p. 121. (V.
26, p. 18, 415, 519;
V. 27. p 173. 200. *«!. 35
5,

87, 146, 20J, 554; V. 29,

p.

514, 678. 653; V. 28, P67, 121, 293.)

September 27,

RAILROAD

1879.J

Subscribers will confer

STOCKS

AND

a

great favor by giving immediate notice of any error discovered in these
Tables.
Miles Date Size, or
of
of
Par
Road. Bonds. Value.

of tables.

Norwich <t Worcester—Stock
New bonds, coupon

Preferred stock

Sinking fund bonds

393
393
148
393
393
393

mortgage, income

....

....

m

....

....

40
200

28*2
.

.

.

.

35
35
....

1st mortgage

Panama—Stock

1862
1868
1868
1871
1873
1874

....

$640,000)

186
186

:

47
47

sterling, (£1,000,000)

103

Paris it

Decatur, (Ills.)—1st mort., g’d, sink, Fd
75
Pekin, Lincoln it Decatui—1st mortgage
67
Pennsylvania—Stock
1669
1st mortgage
355
Gen. M., Ph. to Pitts., coup., J. & J.; reg., A. & O.
State lien (pay ’ble in annual instTm’ts of $460,000)
Consol. M., coup. J. & D., & reg. Q.—M. (8. f. 1 p. C.)
Navy Yard bonds, reg
Car Trust bonds (sinking fund 10 per cent).......
Pennsylvania Co.-Common stock
....

.

.

•

•

•

••

1871
1860
1874
1875
1876
1877
1871
1870
1865
1866
....

58&64
1876
1877
1877
....

1867
1873
1872
1871

....

1870

....

....

i.877
....

39

105
105

Peoria it Bureau Valley—Stock
Peoria, Pekin it Jacksonville— 1st mortgage
2d mortgage
Perkiomefl—1st mortgage
i
Consol, mort., gold, guar. P. & R., (sink, fund)

46

83
83
38
38
82
82
82

Petersburg—Stock

1st mort. bonds (payable

2d

$25,000 yearly)

mortgage
'.
Philadelphia it Balt. Central—1st mort. (Pa)
2d mortgage (Pa.)
1st

36

36

mortgage (Md.)

Philadelphia <t Erie—Stock,

10
common

Preferred stock
1st mort., Suubury& E. (extended 20 years in
’77).
1st mortgage ($3,000,000 are sterling)

2d
2d

mortgage
mort., gold (for $20,000,000), guar by Pa. R...
Philadelphia tt Reading—Stock, common

287
....

40

287
287
287

1,000
1,000
£200

1,000
1,000
1,000
100
500 &c.
....

1,000
.

.

1877
1873
1866
1866
....

1864
1870
1867
1873

.

.

....

1,000
J

m

m

m

1,000
1,000
50
500 <fcc.

1,000
1,000
1,000
100
£200

1,000
500

-,000
50

1,000
1,000
•

1873
1875
1877

Preferred stock

Judgment bonds (held by Pennsylvania RR.)
Reg. bonds, secured by P. Ft.W.& C. special stock
Pennsylvania it Delaware—1st mortgage
Pennsylvania <t New York—1st mort., guar
1st mortgage, guaranteed.!
;

100
100

....

....

.

....

....

....

....

.

1,000

...

228
269

Orcqon <t California—1st mortgage
Os jcego it Rome—1st mortgage guaranteed
Income mortgage bonds
Oswego <t Syracuse—Stock, 9 per cent guar
Mortgage bonds
Consol, mortgage (guar. D. L. & W.)
—

1870

.

100
100

....

1877

m

1,000

....

....

Cid Colony—Stock
Bonds
Bonds
Bonds
Bonds.....
Bonds
Bonds
Omaha <t Northw.—Land gr. gold bds (for

General mortgage,

1877

118

Mortgage bonds for $600,000 (sinking fund)..

Ohio <t Mississippi—Stock, common
Preferred stock (7 p. e. yearly, cumulative)...
Income and funded debt bonds
1st consolidated mort. ($3,478,000 are s. f.)...
Consolidated mortgage, sterling
2d consolidated sinking fund mortgage
Debenture sinking func bonds (for $1,000,000)...

2d

$100

66
122
122

Ogdensbnra <& Lake Champlain—Stock

Paducah <t Elizabethtown

•

•

s

1,000
....

....

50
50

1,000
1,000
....

1,000
1,000
100
500 <fcc.

1,000
100

1,000
100

.

m

m

1859
1869
1866
m

m

m

m

m

-m

m

m

1857
1861
1868
1869

100 <fcc.
100 &c.
100 &c.
50
50

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
50
50

....

....

....

779
779

Mortgage loans inconvertible
Loan mortgage, convertible
do
do
sterling
do

1843-9

779
779
779

£100
£500
1.000
100 &c,

779
779
779

1836
1843
1867
1868
1868
1871
1871

sterling.

(Extended in 1877.)...

Consolidated mort., dollar loan,coupon or reg....
do
do
gold, $ or £, coup
do

do

dollar

loan, gold, coup,

or reg

779

1871

1,000

1857

|
Amount

Outstanding

INTEREST OR DIVIDENDS.
Rate per
Cent.

$2,604,400
400,000
3,077,000
2,000,000
392,000
538,000
20,000,000
4,030,000
174,000
6,545,850
112,000
3,864,000
140,000
1,915,000
6,733,800
390,000
150,000
1 692 000

500,000
1,100,000

1,700,000
(?)

10,950,000
350,000
200,000
1.320,400
124,000
338,000
216,000

1,200,000
7,000,000
3,877,808
2,500,000
1,200,000
1,076,000
68,870,200
4,970,000
19,999,760
4,337,823
29,145,000
1,000,000
3,000,000
3,000,000
8,000,000
7,000,000
3,200,000
1,083,000
1,500,000
1,500,000
1,200,000
1,000,000
1,000,000
799,600
1,125,000

5
6

m

1,000
1,000

1,000
1,000
1,000

mm

3
6
6
7

7
7
4
7
7

6
6 g.

300,000

8
7
7
6

800.000

p. 249, and shows surplus net income of $2,943,659 after
paying all charges and 2 per cent dividend.
The total cost of stocks and bonds of other com

panies owned by Penn. Railroad was $66,670,510.
A scheme to buy up the company’s
guaranteed
securities with $100,000 per month from earnings,
and issue a 4 per cent scrip to stockholders for the
cash so used, was adopted by stockholders on March
26, 1878, but not carried out till November, 1878,
when it was started at $50,000 per month. The
following is a statement for three years on all lines

Pittsburgh:
Net

18.)
Earnings.
Earnings.
Oregon db California—After default in 1673 com¬ 1878
$31,636,734
$11,483,550
promise m ide with bondholders. Gross earnings 1877
31,117,146
10,184,417
1878, $648,116; net, $2)7,665. (V. 26, p. 336; V. 27, 1876
36,891,060
12,834,385
p. 358, 437.)
(V. 27, p. 42, 97, 200, 304, 332, 384, 437, 487, 514,
Oswego & Rome—Operated by the Rome, Water- 567, 678; V. 28, p. 97, 224, 249, 323, 423, 526, 649; V.
town & Ogdensburg at 8 per cent on
$300,000 stock, 29, p. 96, 146, 162, 197, 226, 253.)
and interest on first mortgage bonds.
Pennsylvania Company.—The Pennsylvania
Oswego db Syracuse.—Leased to Del. Lack. & West, pany is a corporation distinct from the Penn. Com¬
Rail¬
for interest on bonds and 9 per cent on stock.
road, and operates all the leased lines west of Pitts¬
Paducah & Elizabethtown.—This road
organized burg. The stock is owned by the Penn. Railroad.
after sale of Louisville Paducah <fe 8. W.; has bonds In 1878 the net
income over rentals, interest, &c.,
as above.
outstanding
Net earnings 1878-9, $45,807. was $1,251,516, and advances to railroads
charged off
(V. 26, p. 5 7 3; V. 23, p. 402. 62 3.)
$473,044,
Panama.—Gross earnings, 1873, $2,114,859; net, bonds are leaving $778,471 profit. The registered
secured by deposit of $4,000,000 or Pitta.




•

....

Pittsburgh, Co.’s Office.
Philadelphia.

Oct., 1873

do

July 5,1907
July 1,1903
June 1, 1896

Q.—J.
& A.

F.
J.
J.
F.
J.
A.
A.
J.
J.
J.

& D.

&
&
&
&
&
&
&
&
m

J.
J.
J,

m

m

Philadelphia, Office.
Pliila., B’k N. America.

D.
do
do
A. N. Y., Chic., R. I. & Pac.
J. N. Y., Imp. & Trad. B’k.
O.
do
do
O.
Pliila., 227 S. 4th st.
D.
do
do
J.

J.
A.
A.
J.
J.

Demand.

June, 1906

Feb., 1879
July 1, 1894
Oct. 1,

June 1, 1913

Jon., 1872
1879-’98

J. N.Y., Lancaster, B.JcCo. Jan
do

m

& J.
& J.
& J.

do

Philadelphia, Office.
do
do

do
do

1900

Apr. 1, 1887
,

1902

Jan., 1879
Jan., 1900
Oct., 1891

i

&
&
&
&

_

$217,369; net, $77,766. (V. 23, p. 100; V. 26, p. 290.)
Pennsylvania.—The report for 1818 is given in V. 23,

..

•

A. & O.

-

Pekin Lincoln db Decatur.—Leased to Toledo,
Wabash & Western. Sold in foreclosure June 10,
1876, and reorganized. In 1877-8 gross earnings were

p.

• •

•

J. Philadelphia, Pa. RR.
O.
do
do
Oct. l; 1897
6 & 6 g.
O. Pliila., Pa. Life & T. Co. March 31,1881
7
do
J.
do
July 1, 1888
6 g.
& J. Philadelphia & London.
July, 1920
2^
Jan. 25,1876
Q.-J.
Philadelnhia, Office.
do
3^2
do
Q.-J.
July 25,1876
6
J. & J,
do
do
July, 1880
6
J. & J.
do
do
July, 1886
5 g. J. & J.
London.
July, 1880
6
J. & J.
do
July, 1880
7
T. & J.
do
July 1, 1882
6
J. & J.
Philadelphia, Office.
July 1, 1893
7 ’
A. & O.
do
do
Oct. 1, 1893
7
do
J. & D.
do
June, 1911
6 g. J. & D. Philadelphia & London.
June, 1911
6 g. J. & D.
Philadelphia, Office.
June, 1911

26, p. 592; V. 27, p. 358, 437, 629, 653; V. 28, p. 97,
121,625; V. 29, p. 119.)
Paris & Decatur.—Consolidation. Now Illinois
Midland. (V. 19, p. 351: V. 21, p. 613.)

Gross

m

.

4
7

$1,079,626. Sinking fund. $731,945. (V. 26, p. 217*
341, 625, 663; V. 28, p. 376, 402, 580.)
Paris db Danville.—Of these bonds, $450,000 were
per annum. Gross earnings in 1877-8, $666,883; net
given for coal mines at Danville, which are covered
income, $276,567. (Y. 27, p. 537; Y. 28, p. 200.)
(1,230 acres) by the mortgage. Sold in foreclosure
Ogdensburg db Lake Champlain.—Leased in March, June 19, 1879. Not earnfngs, 1817-8, #21,987. (V.
1870, to Vermont

east of

•

•

Norwich db Worcester.— Leased February, 1S69, to
100 years at 10 per cent
per annum on cost. Dividends paid of 10 per cent

Omaha & Northwest.—Road was sold in fore¬
closure Oct. 24, 1873. (V. 27, p. 42, 462,
514; V. 28,

m

•

Boston, Hartford & Erie for

Central, but lease failed and prop¬
erty reverted to owners April, 1877. Net earnings
1378-0, $123,604, against $241,9:38 in 1877-78. (V. 27,
p. J 4, 200, 333; V. 28, p. 277, 526; V. i9, p. 16.)
Ohio db Mississippi.— There are also $97,000 of old
1st mortgage 7s, W. Div., yet out. The
company
purchased the Springfield Road, March, 1875, for
$2,000,000 in bonds secured on that road. Nov. 17,
1876, receivers were appointed. Report in V. 28, p.
275, showing net earnings of $891,467 in 1878
Interest on 1st mortgage is paid two months after
it oomes due. (V. 27, p. 42, 143, 173, 281,
361, 381,
437, 462, 487, 514, 539, 628; V. 28, p. 120, 146, 200, 253,
27 5, 323, 402, 423, 526, 554, 580, 649; V. 29, p. 67,
226, 244, 278.)
Old Colony.—Net income over
operating ex¬
penses and interest, $406,428 in 1877-8, against
-$407,435 in 1876-7. Leased the Boston Clinton &
Fitchb. Dec., 1878. (V. 25, p. 482; V. 27,
p. 537.)

m

■

3

134,400

.

M. & S.
New York, Office
Mar. 1, 1875
A. & O.
7
do
do
April. 1, 1882
7
J. & J.
do
do
Jan. 1, 1898
6 g. J. & J.
London.
Jan. 1, 1898
7
A. & O.
New York, Office.
April, 1911
7
M. & N.
do
do
May 1, 1883
6
M. & N.
do
do
Nov. 1, 1905
3
J. & J.
Boston, Office.
July 1, 1878
7
Various
do
1881
6
A. & O.
do
Oct. 1,1880
7
M. & S.
do
March 1, 1894
6
J. & D.
do
June 1,1895
6
M. & S.
do
Sept. 1, 1896
6
F. & A.
do
Aug. 1, 1897
7*30 g. J. & J.
N. Y., Kountze Bros.
Jan., 1901
7 g. A. Je O.
Frankfort 0. M.
April 1, 1890
M. & N. N.Y.,Farmers’ L.&T.Co.
7
May, 1915
F. & A.
7
do
do
Feb., 1891
F. & A. N. Y., Del., L. & W. RR.
4*2
Aug., 1879
7
M. & N.
do
do
1880 & 1885
7
M. & S.
do
do
1907
8
F. & A. N.Y., Treasurer’s Office.
Feb. 1,1897
7
do
ApriL
do
Feb. 1,1897
3
New York, Office.
Q.-J.
Aug. 1, 1879
7 g. A. & O.
London.
1884, ’89 <fc 97
7
J. <fc J.
New York, Office.
Jan. 1, 1903
7 g. J. & J. New York and London.
July 1, 1892/
F. & A. N. Y., T. W. & W. RR.
7
Feb., 1900
2
- M. <fc N.
Philadelphia, Office.
May 29, 1879
6
J. & J.
do
do
Jan., 1880
6
Q.-J. Philadelphia & London.
1910
5
A. & O.
Philadelphia.
Annually.
6
Q.-M. Philadelphia & London. June 15,1905
6
J. & J.
Philadelphia, Office.
1881
6 g-

8

1,135,300
2,700,000
10,649,000
6,999,000
968,000

Stocks—Last
Dividend.

3*2

1,324,200

400,000
300,000
6,053,700
2,400,000
976,000
5,000,000
3,000,000
8,680,000
32,726.375
1,551,800
1,510,500
79,000
182,400
967,200

Where Payable, and by
Whom.

& J. New England Trust Co.
July 9, 1879
& S. Boston, N. E. Trust Co. March 1, 1897
& J.
Boston, Office.
July 10,1870
& O.
do
Apr. 1, 1878
M. & 8.
do
Mar., 1890
J. & J.
do
1897

8
6
m

When

Payable

Bonds—Princi¬

pal, When Due.

J.
M.
J.
A.

2
4

500,000

.

....

Preferred stock

do
do
Loan mortgage,
Loan debenture
Loan mortgage

XXV

&

DESCRIPTION.
at the head of first page

BONDS.

Fort

Wayne & Chic, special stock.

V. 28, p. 530; V. 29, p. 118.)

(V. 25,

p.

261;

Pennsylvania & Delaware.—Sold in foreclosure
Aug. 12, 1879. (V. 29, p. 162.)

Pennsylvania & New York.—Operated in

close

connection with the Lehigh Valley. Net
earnings
1875 6, $608,109. Dividend of 10 per cent paid on
preferred stock of $3,500,000; common stock is
$1,061,700. (V.24, p. 110.)
Peoria db Bureau Valley.— Leased perpetually

to

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific at $125,000 per year.
Peoria Pekin db Jacksonville.—In May, 1879, con¬

trol of bonds reported to be
purchased in Wabash
To be sold in foreclosure Nov. 14. Gross

interest.

earnines, 1877-8, $227,501; net, $29,194. (V. 28, p.
554; V. 29, p. 63, 226, 302.)
Perkiomen.—Leased to Philadelphia & Reading.
Int. on consol, mortg., paid one-half in
scrip of F.
& R.

Company.
Petersburg.—Receiver appointed, May, 1877. (V.
26, p. 41, 523, 653.)
Philadelphia db Baltimore Central.—Operated for
some time past in Pennsylvania by trustees of first
mortgage bondholders. Net earnings 1878, $36,849.
Phil., Wil. & Balt, largely interested. (V. 23, p.
s

526.)

Philadelphia db Erie.—Leased February, 1862, for

999 years to Penn. Railroad, but without any guar¬
antee of bonds. Gross earnings, 1878, $2,921,060;
net earnings, $876,111.
Net deficit after paying
interest, &c., $453,056. (V. 26, p. 166, 341; Y. 2S
p. 252.)

Philadelphia db Reading.—The report for 1877-8, is
given at length in V. 28. p. 66. The trustees fit
the general mortgage hold the mortgage of the

Coal & Iron Company.
In March, 1877, propo¬
sitions were
made
and accepted, by which
holders of general mortgage bonds and Perkio¬
men
guaranteed bonds receive one-half their
coupons, for three years, in five-year 6 per cent
scrip; and holders of convertible and debenture
bonds take 6 per cent scrip in payment of their

coipons for five years.

Tho scrip is oonvertibi*

LiAILKOAD

xxvi
Subscriber* will confer

Miles

Date

Of

-

>1 ftpfttioti of column hcrciiii2>Sj
fi
at the head of first page of tables.

of

B

1873
1873
750
1874
1876
1877
1877
1872-4

$10,000,000)

34
112
95
....

•• •

•

....

149
Turtle Creek division.

10
149

Pitts., G. d St. L— 1st m., cons, (for $10,000,000)

200
200
117
33

-

Col. A Newark Division bonds

468
468
468
468
468
468
468
468
468
468
468
468
468

Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne d Chicago—Stock, guar.
Special improvement stock, guaranteed....
(scries A)

1st mortgage
do
1st
do
1st
do
1st
do
1st
do
1st
do
2d
do
2d
do
2d
do
2d
2d
do
do
2d
do
Sd

,

do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do

B

C
D
E
F
G
H
I
K
L
M

Bonds

all

eou-

Son, but paya¬
may
e made
ble to order.

468

468

Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chic, construction bonds.
Equipment bonds (renewed)
Pittsburg d Lake Erie—1st mortg. (for $2,000,000).
Pittsb. Titusville d Buff—1st mort. (W. A F.RR.)..,.
1st mortgage (Oil Creek RR.)
1st mortgage (Un. A Titusville RR.)
New mortgage (Pitts. T. A B.)
i
Funding income bonds (P. T. & B.)
Piltsb., Va. d Charleston— 1st mortgage, gold
Portland d Ogdensb— 1st mort., E. D., gold
New mortgage (for $3,800,000)
1st mortgage, Vermont Div., gold
Portl. d Rochester—1st mort., s. f. (Portl. loan) “A”.
1st mortgage, equal lien
2d
do
(Portland loan) sinking fund, “B”.
Portland. Saco d Poi'tsmouth—Stock
1st mortgage, gold
Port Royal (S. C.)—1st

....

....

50

38
25
120
30

90
....

80

....

100
50
50
500

....

....

....

1858
1867
1,000
1872-4
1,000
1875
1,000
1868
1,000
1859
100 Ac.
1876
£200
1868
1,000
1873
1,000
1864
1,000
1864
1,000
100
1871
100
1862
500 Ac.
1862
500 Ac.
1862
500 Ac.
1862
500 &c.
1862
500 Ac.
1862
500 &c.
1862
500 &e.
1862
500 Ac.
1862
500 Ac.
1862
500 Ac.
1863
500 Ac.
1862
500 Ac.
1862
500 Ac.
1857
1,000
1874
1,000
....

• m m

•

1,000

1872

26

....

....

--: - -

- - -

Providence d Worcester—Stock
First mortgage bonds
New bonds

Rensselaer d Saratoga*—Stock
1st mortgage, consolidated (for $2,000,000)
Richmond d Danville—Stock
State sinking fund loan
Bonds, guaranteed by State
3d mortgage, consolidated, coupon or registered.
New general mort., gold (for $6,000,000)
Piedmont branch, 1st mortgage
Northwestern, N. C., 1st mort., guar.

1,000

....

1870
1871
1871

....

.

.

.

.

_

.

29

Dollar loan

•

....

....

....

100

....

1871

1,000
100

.

....

....

....

....

1867
1874

1,000

•

-

Op. expenses

.

1875-0.

1876-7.

1S77-78.

$12,227,511 $12,149,910 $11,539,593
8,510,350 7,751,093 7,319,866

$3,717,161 $4,391,217 $4,220,2*7
122, 228, 832, 437, 510, 669; V. 29, p. 66,

(V. 87, p.
113, 328, 428, 527, 580, 625; V. 29, p. 18,121, 226.)

Philadelphia cfc Trenton— Leased to Pennsylvania

Railroad with'United New Jersey companies at 10
per cent on stock.

Philadelphia, Germantown <fc Norristown.— Leased
for 999 years to Philadelphia & Reading at 12 per
on

stock.

Philadelphia, Wilmington <& Baltimore.—Net earnending Oct. 31, 187®, $1,095,103, leaving a
surplus income of $88,112 above payment of all
charges and 8 per cent dividends. (V. 26, p. 191;
V. 28, p. 67.)
ngs, year

Pittsburgh Connellsville — On Jan. 1, 1876, a trans¬
fer was made by City of Baltimore to Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad for $1,000,000, and the consolidated
mortgage made for £2,200,000, and guaranteed by
B. & O
Gross earnings 1876-7, $1,388,434; net
$406,418. (V. 24, p. 135.)
.

Pittsburg, Cincinnati <£ St. Louis.—This company

leases several roads and is itself controlled by the
Pennsylvania Co., which holds a majority of the

capital stock. Common stock, $2,508,000; 1st pref.,
$2,929,200; 2d pref., $3,000,000. Gross earnings in
1878 of road proper $3,176,370; net, $1,186,763; sur¬
plus over interest, &c,. $371,383. Loss on leased
Bites, Ac.. $511,141; net deficit, $139,757. (V. 26, p.
aoo, 445, 496, 523; V. 27, p. 97, 200, 304, 409, 567, 6*9,
$53; Y. 28, p. 376.)
PVHb'trg, Fort




Wayne <£

•

....

Net earnings

cent

•

25

into income mortgage bonds. (See V. 24, p. 259.
Bonds clue 1S80 will be extended 30 years, on pay¬
ment of in per cent premium. A comparitcn of sta¬
tistics for three years is as follows:

Gross earnings..

•

Chicago.—This

road

was

vania

7

7
7
7

7

*

2,000,000
100,000

1,000,000
(f)

500,000

2,500,000
770,000
486,000

....

1873

....

....

....

....

mm mm

m

m

m

1870
1875

leased

100

m

1,000
....

!

1,008,600
175,000
31,000

July, 1869, for 999

Railroad, at

years,

to

g.
g.
g.
g-

Oct.

1, 1893
1, 1897

July 1, 1908

Dec.

1, 1896

July, 1882
July, 1882

Philadelphia.

do

A J.

F. A A.
A. A O.

do

1892 to ’94

London, J.S.MorganACo Jan. 1,1926
Phila., Pa. RRroifice. Aug. 1, 1900
do

do

M’nthly N. Y. Agent, 57 B’way.
J. A J. Phila., Pa. RR. Office.
Q.-J. N. Y., Winslow, L. A Co.

Q.—J.

J.
F.
M.
A.
M.
J.
J.
F.
M.
A.
M.
J.
A.
J.
M.

A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A

A

do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do

J.
A.
S.
O.
N.
D.
J.
A.
S.

O.
N.
D.

O.
J.
S.

do
do
do
do
do
do
do

do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do

April 1, 1913

May, 1884
Jan.,
July 8,
July 1,
July 1,
July 1,
July 1,
July 1,

1890

1879
1879
1912
1912
1912
1912
July 1, 1912
July 1, 1912

July 1, 1912
July 1, 1912
July 1, 1912

July 1, 1912
July 1, 1912
July 1, 1912
July 1, 1912

Jan. 1,
Mch. 1,

Philadelphia, Office.
do
do
do
do

do

Various
A J.

g.

g.

4
7

do
do

do

F. A A.
do
F. A A.
do
A. A O.
Philadelphia.
J. A J. Boston, First Nat. Bank
M. A N.
do
do
M. A N. New York and Boston.
J. A J. Boston, Columbian B’k.
A. A O.
do
do

J.

Boston, Office.

do
do
M. A N. New York and London.
J. A J. Boat., Eastern RR. Co.
J. A D.
do
do
J.
J.

A J.
A J.

Providence, Office.

1887
1884

do
do

•

6
6
6
6 g.
8
6-70
6 g.
6 A 7
8
2
8
7
-

Feb. 1,* 1896
Apr. 1, 1882
July 1, IS 90

Feb.
Feb.

1, 1896

Nov.

I,"l889

1, 1896
April 1,1902
Jan., 1900
Nov., 1901
May, 1891
July 1, 1887
Oct. 1, 1887
Sept. 1, 1891
Julpl, 1879

July 15, 1873
Dec. 1.

1937

July 1, 1879
July 1, 1880

do
do

1897

Jan., 1898

M. A S. N. Y., Union Nat. Bank.
J. A D. Columbia, First Nat.B’k

Mch. 1,

1882
1884
1902
1879
1921

June,
Nov.,
J. A J. N. Y., Nat, B’k Com’rce.
July 1,
MAN. N.Y., Del.A H.Canal Co.
Nov.,
J
J.

A J.
A J.

MAN.

1*880

Richmond, Office.
do

N. Y.,

Jan. 1,1875
1878 to ’90

City Nat. Bank.

do

do

1*888

A. A 0. New York or Richmond
J. A J.
London.

Various
J. A J.
J. A J.
A. A O.
M. A N.

1*8*75

Richmond, Office,

1875

do

1881-’90
Jan. 6, 1879
1880 to ’86

Richmond, Office.
do
do

do
do

May 1. 1915

Pennsyl¬ 1871, to Eastern Mass. Railroad

rental equivalent to interest,
per cent on $19,714,286
stock, which was increased at that time from
$11 .500,000. The lease wras transferred subsequently
to the Pennsylvania Company. The lessees to
keep
a

Jan.

Philadelphia, Office.
1892
Q.-J.
Philadelphia, Office.
Oct. 10. 1879
Q.-M. Pliila., Treasurer of Co. Sept. 3, 1879
J. A J. Philadelphia A Boston.
July 1, 1879
J. A J.
do
do
July, 1884
A. A O.
do
do
April, 1887
A. A O. Phirdelphia, Co.’s Office Oct.
1, 1892
A. A O.
do
do
April 1, 1900
J. A J. Balt,, Balt. A Ohio RR.
July, 1898
F. A A. Pittsb., First Nat. Bank
Aug. 1, 1882
J.

F. A A.
A. A 0.
J. A J.

6
6
7
7
7

658,000

Dividend.

-

4*2
2*2

2,000,000
500,000
650,000

1,728,000
500,000
500,000
67,778
299,917
450,000

'

8

1,500,000

650,000
350,000
1,500,000
7,000,000
1,925,000
4,000,000
508,486
111,700

7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7

7
7
7
7
7
7
6
6
6
6
7
6
3
6
7
3

Stocks— Last

M. A

....

1,155,000
315,933
1,583,000
800,000
1,577,960
2,300,000
700,000
350,000
450,000

1,767,500

....

....

Coupon bonds of 1881
Richmond d Petersburg—Stock
let mortgage, coupon
New mortgage

1%
1%

860,000
860,000
860,000
860,000

.

....

49
• • •

6
6 g.
7
7
6
7

2,500,000
3,000,000
775,000
19,714,285

6,329,300
875,000
875,000
875,000
875,000
875,000
875,000
860,000
860,000

Various
S.

pal, When Due.

‘

7

6,500,000
6,222,000

500 Ac.
100 Ac.
100 Ac,

10

Rich'd, Fredericksburg d Potomac—Bonds, ster

3
4
6
6
6
6

326,600

1870
1876
1876

....

142

2*2

WI' ere Payable, and by
Whom.

J. A J.
Philadelphia, Office.
A. A O. Philadelphia or London
J. A J. London A
Philadelphia.
J. A D.
Philadelphia, Office.
J. A J.
do
do
J. A J. London A

.

2,231,900
11,561,250
265,000
1,000,000
700,000
800,000
4,000,000

....

....

6
6 g.
7
6
6
7
7

580,000
500,000

• •

181
79
199

7

1,259,100

/

41

Payable

1,500,000

....

Raleigh & Gaston—1st mortgage
Reading d Columbia—1st mortgage, coupon
2d mortgage, coupon
Reading d Lehigh—1st mortgage (Berks Co. RR.)..

Cent.

13,036,500
1,731,000

1,0Q0

.

•

When

2,046,000
3,475,897
1,805,000

1,000

100 Ac.
52^ 1867-9 500 Ac.
52^ 1870 500 Ac.
52*2 1871
500 Ac.
52
100
52
1676
111% 1869
1,000
71
100
71
1*87*7 500 Ac.
67
100
44
1870
1,000
1877
1873
97
39
1862
100 Ac.
39
1864
1,000
•

Rate per

9,364,000
19,686,000

1865
1862

....

mortgage, convertible, gold.
Portrmouth, Gt. Falls d Conway—Stock
Bonds (not mort.) guaranteed by Eastern RR

Outstanding

10 Ac.
90 Ac.

...

.

....

do
do

2d mortgage—

1,000
1,000

....

Philadelphia, Germantown <& Norristown,— Stock...
Philadelphia, Wilmington d Baltimore—Stock
1st mortgage, convertible
Plain bondB, loan

do

1,000

....

Coal A Iron Co., guar. mort. (for $30,000,000).
do
debentures, guaranteed
Philadelphia d Trenton—Stock

Amount

$1,000 $10,499,900

•••

•

>

1st

Value.

745

>

'

Par

Ronds—Princi¬

INTEREST OR DIVIDENDS.

Size, or

Road. Bonds

Philadelphia d Reading— (Continued i—
Debenture loan (convertible 1876-92), coup
Improvem’t mort., $ or £, sink’g fund, coup.
Gen. mort., $ and £ (sink, fund 1 p. c. yearly

do
do

[VOL. XXIX,

great favor by giving immediate notice of any error discovered
In these Tables.

a

DESCRIPTION.

Income mortgage (for

AND' BOND*

STOCKS

sinking food of debt, and 7

the road in repair, and also pay
taxes, expenses,"
etc. Pittsburg, Fort Wayne A
Chicago leases the
Newcastle & Beaver Valley and the Lawrence roads:
which in turn are leased again by
Pennsylvania Com¬

pany.
Special Impr. stock issued to Penn.
Railroad for improvements, Ac., is under article 16
of lease. Net earnings, 1878,
$3,689,196; profit to

lessee, $728,593. Sinking fund for bonds amounts to
$2,565,588. (V. 26. p. 523; V. 28, p. 377, 598.)

for 99 years at 10
per cent per annum; modified Dec., 1875. to 6
per
cent for two years. (V. 24, p. 445,
5*2; V. 28, p. 580,)
Port Royal.—The Georgia Railroad
guarantees

$590,000 of these bonds; sale in foreclosure

was

made June 6, 1878, to Union Trust Co. for
$500,000.
(V. *5, p. 9J; V. 26, p. 95, 496, 654; V- 28, p. 555.)

Portsmouth, Great Falls <& Conway.—Opened in
18?2, and leased to Eastern Railroad, Massachu¬
setts.
New 4# per cent bonds for $1,000,000
authorized, and new contract of lease. (V. 27, p.
15, v*7, 115, 228.)
'
Providence & Worcester.—Net earnings year end¬

ing September

30, 1878. $279,835;

noies

payable,

Pittsburg & Lake Erie.—The capital is $2,000,- $668,241. Mortgage bonds for $2,000,000 authorized.
(V. 25, p. 476; V. 26, p. 94; V. 27, p. 537.)
000. The Lake Shore &
Michigan Southern Co.
subscribed for $200,000 of it. (V. 28, p. 113,
Raleigh & Gaston.—Net earnings 1877-8, $107,185.
147.)
against $85,749 in 1876-7.
Pittsburg Titusville & Buffalo.—This was the Oil per cent. (V. 27, p. 94.) Dividend, Oct. 1879,
Creek & Allegheny River road. Sold in foreclosure
Reading & Columbia.—This road" is operated and
and re-organized Dec. 29, 1875. Defaulted
August, controlled by the Philadelphia &
Reading Railroad.
1878, on consol, bonds. Net earnings 1878, $184,562.
Floating debt, $1,093,494.
(V. 27, p. 137; V. 28, p. 18, 277; V. 29, p. *53.)
Reading & Lehigh.—This was the Berks County
Pittsburg Virginia & Charleston.— Road leased in road; sold out, and leased to Philadelphia
&
1879 to Peuna. R.R. Of these bonds the
Pennsyl¬ Reading, March, 1875, for 99 years.
To be sold
vania Railroad owns $500,000.
Net earnings, 1877
again Sept. 23, 1879. (V. 26, p. 266; V. 23, p.
$34,640: 1878, $50,298.

(V. 28, p. 113.)

Portland h
consolidated

Oqdensburg.—'The two divisions were
March, 1875, as one company.
In
March, 1876, Company passed the interest on
its boDds, and funding proposals were offered. Re¬
ceiver appointed October, 1877, and foreclosure suit
is pending. (V. 26, p. 41, 81, 94,
575; V. 27, p.
540; V. 28, p. 144, 2C0; V. 29, p. 253.)
Portland & Rochester—Interest in default, and
receiver appointed in January, 1877.
The report
for 18 mos. to Sept. 30, 1878, shows gross
earnings,

$148,15); expenses, $118,816.
28, p. 41,625; V. 29, p. 42.)

Portland, Saco

(V. 25, p. 333; V.

Portmouth—Leased March 18,

600.)

Rensselaer & Saratoga.—Leased May 1,
1871, to
Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, which
pays in¬
terest on bonds and 8 per cent on stock.
(Y. 25, d.

615; V. *7,

p.

602.)

Richmond & Danville.—Gross

earnings

1877-8,

leases the
North c arolina Railroad and the Piedmont
Railroad,
and controls the Char. Col. & Aug. (V. 26, p. 115:
$942,385; net, $m10,947.

This company

V. 27.p. 409, 650.)

Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac. — Grose
earnings 1877-78, $314,272; net earnings, $154,098.
(V- *7,"p. 68, 85, 566.)
Richmond

&

Petersburg.—Gross earnings

ending Sept. 30, 1877. $137,116; net, $47,271.
p. 15;

Y. 24,

p.

62.)

year

<V. 21,

September 27,

RAILROAD STOCKS AND BONDS.

1879.]

Subscribers will confer

a

great favor by giving Immediate notice ot any error discovered in
these Tables.

DESCRIPTION.
For explanation of column headings, &c., see notes
at the head of first page

of tables.

•

common

Preferred stock

General mortgage (8 per cent, now 6)
New mortgage in exchange for equipment bonds
St. Joseph d Western— 1st M. St.
Joseph & Pacific..
Kansas & Nebraska, 1 st mortgage
*.
St. Louis, Alton d Terre Haute—Stock
Preferred stock (7 per cent
yearly, cumulative)..
1st mortgage (series A) sinking fund.. 1 •£
Kt3 '
1st mortgage (series B) sinking fund.
<u
2d mortgage, preferred (series C)
2d mortgage,
cue*
2d

mortgage,

Miles

Date

of

of

109
409
97
190
190
360
120
120
120
120
115
115
207

•

income

Louis, Iron Mountain

1861
1872
1874

d

Southern—Stock

100
100

s.

fund

Common stock

Sioux City & St. Paul, 1st mort.,
gold, land grant.
do
do
Istmort., currency
Saginaw Valley d St. Louis.— 1st mortg., coup

Sandusky Mansfield d Newark—Re-organized stock
1st
new

Savannah d Charleston—C. & S.„ guar,
by 8. C
Funded int. bonds, S. & C. RR., guar,
by S. Car...
1st mortgage, Savannah & Charleston RR
Savannah d Memphis—1st mortgage
Schenectady d Duanesburg—1st M., guar. D. & H
.

Schuylkill Valley—Stock
Scioto Valley—1st mort. (s. fund
$13,000 per year).
2d mortgage (sinking fund,
$5,000 per year)
Seaboard d Roanoke—Stock
1st
mortgage
Selma d Qulf— 1st mort., guar,
by Alabama
Selma Rome d Dalton— 1st
mortgage
2d mort., Alabama & Tenn. River RR
General mortgage for $5,000,000

Shamokin Valley d Pottsville—Stock

on road and lands..

d Fond du Lac— 1st mortgage

1st mortgage extension
Shenango d Alleghany—1st mortgage...
Shore Line (Conn.)—Stock
1st mortgage, construction bonds
Sioux City d Pacific—1st
mortgage
2d mortgage (government
subsidy)

Rochester A State Line.— Bonds sold in N.
Y.,
July, 1818. Road runs from Rochester, N. Y., to
Salamanca, and Rochester City furnished $600,000
towards its construction. (V. 2», p.
139.)
Rome, Watertown A Ogdensburg —The last report
shows gross earnings im 18T7-8 of
$1,213,786; net,
$350,717, against $343, 36 in 1877. Default was
made on coupons consol, bonds
April, 1878. (Y. 26,
p. 334; V. 28. p. 276; V. 29, p. 68.)
Rutland.—Five per cent bonds were
given in ex¬
change for equipment bonds and 6 per cents for

INTEREST OR DIVIDENDS.

Bonds—Princi¬
pal, When Due.
Rate per WLen Where Payable, and
by Stocks—Last
Outstanding Cent.
Payable
Whom.
Dividend.
Amount

$2,180,000
3,147,600
424,200

1,000
500 Ate.

100

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

1879
1879

1,000

4,089,000
24,000,000

100

1865
1874
1878
1879
1868
1876
1876
1876
1874

146
293

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
500
100
500
500

&c.

Ate.
&c.
&c.

....

210

69-71

1,000

420

1872
1867
1867
1868

500 Ate.

1862

1,000
1,000

98
158
158
156

156
10
76

1862
1879

667
465
465
465
122
124
34
116
116
101
101

60

14*2

100
100

28
28

7812
7812
32
50
50

105
....

100 &c.

4,000;000

7
7 g.
7 g.
7 g.
7 g.
7
6

o;ooo',ooo

7

3,000,000
1,388,500

7
7 g.
7 g.
6 g.
6

2,350,000
7,194.500

293,200
2,476,000
2,295,000

3 Ate.
3 Ate.

350,000

3,250,000
5,145,000

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

1871
1872
....

1869
1853
1868
1869
1870
1874
....

1876
1879
•

•

1851
1870
_

•

•

.

•

500 &c.
100
100 &c.
500 Ate.
500 &c.

....

1865

1868
....

p.

(?)
(?)




•

Feb. 1,1.878

12 Wall st.

N.
N.

8.

do

1894

do
do
do
do

do

A.

1894
1894
1894
1894
1880

Aug. 1, 1892
May 1. 1897
June 1, 1897
June 1, 1897
Jan. 1, 1891
Various.

At J. N.Y.,Nat Bkof Com’rce
& S.

do

& O.
& O.

July 1, 1895
Sept. 1, 1904

do
do
do

do
do
N. Y., Trask At Stone.
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do

& J.
& N.
& N.
& N.

A.
M.
M.
M.

'869450

1,994,000
750,000
850,000

874,500
1,000,000
200,000

1,629,000
1,628,020

.

,

212
7
7

312
7
8
7
8
7
3
7 g.
7
8
7
4
7
6
6

253,

of 1st preferred; $IOO!X),'00 of
pref.; $18,500,030
of common.
The land grant amounts to some
1.000,000 acres, and on about 3)0.000 &cre8 bonds “B”
are receivable in
payment for lands. The interest
on bonds “B” and “C” is 3
per eent for 1879-’c0-Ml,
4 for 18S2, 5 for 1S83, and 6 aftenvard. In 1878
gross
earnings wea*e $1,201,651; net, $603,517, against
$739,136 in 1877. (V. 26, p. 211; V. 23, p. 253, 454,
495, 527, 555; V. 29, p. 145.)
St. Louis A Southeastern.—In hands of receiver.

,

Otiice

do
do
do
do

Oct. 1, 1908

April 1, 1919
July.*1888
Nov. 1, 1906
Nov. 1, 1906
Nov. 1, 1906
Jan. 1. 1884

M. As S. N.Y.,J.S. Kennedy At Co.
J. & J.
do
do
J. & J. New York and London.

p. 19, 42, 121, 147, 278.)
St. Louis A San Francisco.—This is the
re-organi¬
zation of the Atlantic & Pacific, sold in foreclosure
Sept. 8, 1876. The stock authorized is- $4,500,00 >

.

&
At
&
At
&
At

F. & A. N.Y.,Office 20Nassau st
M. As N. New York or London.
J. & D. New York, Co.’s Office.
J. As D.
do
do
J. & J.
do
do
March.
do
do
March.
do
do
J.
M.
A.
A.
J.
M.
M.
M.

•

•

M.
F.
J.
J.
M.

tgage b nds. (Y. 27, p. 121, 253,384.567; Y. 28,
200; V. 29.p.l 15.)
St. Joseph & Western.—The St. Jo. and Denver
City was sold in foreclosure Nov., 1875, and re¬
organized. The land grant of 300.000 acres is in
hands of trustees, for tne benefit of ihe holders
of
the land scrip of $2,250,000.
In 1878 gross earn¬ Tennessee Div. sold
April 9, 1879, and purchased by
ings were $641,391; operating expenses and renew¬ Louisv. & Nashv. RR.
Kentucky Div. was sold
als, $580,209. (V. 24, p. 322, 469; V. 26, p. 289; V. Jn y 19. Gross
earning* of whole lire 1877-8, $1,162,28, p. 351, 625.)
St. Louis, Alton A Terre Haute.—The main line— 196; net. $272,558. (V. 27. p. 229, 488; V. 23, p. 18,
353. 878; V. 29. p. 42. 96, 303 )
Terre Haute to E. St. Louis and Alton Branch—
St. Louis, Vandalia A Terre Ha’ute—The com.
leased June, 1867, for 99 years, to lndianap. & St.
L. •tock is $2,383,315; pref.,
road is
$1,451,700.
at 30 per cent of
earnings (but $450,000 a minimum). leased to Terre Haute & Indianapolis atThisper cent
30
This was guaranteed by tinea other
companies; see of gross earrings.
V. 26, p. 614,654. In 1878, gross
In year ending Nov. 1, 1878, the
earnings were $928,301, against $953,570 in 1877. The Belleville Br. and earnings were $1,054,627, on whioh 30 per cent was
♦316,3^8. The charges, including interest, were
Extension earned net in 1878,
$141,268.
due August, 13.8, on 2d mort. bonds were Coupons $352,113, leaving a deficit of $35,565 advanced by
paid in the lessee. Deficit. 1877, was
$35,935. Bonds guar¬
January, 18:9. fV. 26. p. 417, 614,625, 651: V. 27, anteed
by Terre Haute & Ind., by Col., Chic. &
p. 17, 140, 437, 454, 483. b03. 678; V. *8, p. 476.)
Ind. Cent., and Pitts. Cin. & St. Louis. (V.
St. Louis, lion Mountain A
24, p.
Southern.—Gross HO; V. 26, p. 165;V. 23, p. 119.)
earnings, 1878, $4,514,321; net, $1,915,955.
In
St. Paul A Duluth.—This is the Lake
Superior &
1875, the company funded three coupons, but failed
Mississippi reorganized. Preferred stock is receiv¬
to carry out its agreement with bondholders
in 1876. able for lands. Lands
unsold, about l,89D.OOO acres.
The ret earnings were
applied to floating debt Gross earnings, 187p 9, $439,291; net,
$8f,0l8. (Y.
ins;ead of bonded interest.
(V. 26, p. 287, 342, 27, p. 147; V. 29,
p. 68, 118.)
368, 6*5; V. 27, p 858, 384, 409; V. 28, p.
St. Paul Minneapolis A Manitoba.—St. Paul &
43, 173,
302, 325; V. 29, p. 18.)
Pacific, First Div
sold in foreclosure in June.
St. Louis, Kansas
City A Northern.—To be con¬ 1879, and reorganized. (V. 27,
p. 42. 68, 149, 515, 653;
solidated with Wabash. (V. 29,
p. 121.) Gross earn¬ V. 28, p. 200, 454, 493,
555, 580. 616; V 29, p. 147,226.)
ings in 1873, $3,321,4*5; net, $1,347,500. First mort¬
St. Paul A Sioux City.—This
company has about
gage on St. Charles Bridge is for $1,000,000, and is
559,000 acres of land unsold. In Aug, 1879, pur¬
mo:

•

19—
19—

.

Q-J.

7 per cent for 8 years and 8 per cent for 27
years.
Omaha Div. is under con-tiuction. (V. 26,
p. 68,
288. 471: V. 27, p. 332, 488, 515; V. 28. p.
200,

275,' 299; V. 29,

Y.,

Feb. 2, 1875
Nov. 1, 1902

do
do
do
do
New York.

6 g.
7 g.
8
8 *
2
7
6
7
7
8 g.
6

8,000,000

3,000,000
1,000

.

July 1,1904

Boston, Treasurer.

J. N.
O.

•

.

Sept. 1,1880
Doe. 1,1891
Jan.1,1892

....

8
7
7

120,000
366,000

500,000
1,240,000
446,000
50
1,050,356
1,000
2,301,000
500
505,000
100 Ate.
111,800
500
500,000
1,000
2,4‘23,000
100 Ate.
500,000
50
576,050
500 &c.
1,300,000
1,000
290,000
100
1,299,600
1,000
210,000
1,000
16,000 p.m.
838,500
241,000

50
500 Ate.

J.
A.
F.
M.
M.
M.

-

July 1,1902
July 15,1875

&
&
&
At
At

N. N.
A.
J.
J. N.
N.

Y., G. Opdyke & Co.

N.ov., 1894

do

do
do
do
Y., Third Nat. Bank.
do
do

Aug., 1902
July 1, 1897
Jail. 1,

1897

May 1, 1898

4^056^407

,

1.871
1864
1871
1869

•

....

A.
N.
A.
J.
J.

7 g.
7 g.
7
7
7

1,000,000
1,899,000
2,600,000
5,137,038

.

.

At
&
At
At
At
,

10

(?)
1879
1871

11

98
98
80
80
40

1,000
1,000
1,000

....

F.
M.
F.
J.
J.

•

10

5,927,000
2,500,000
1,450,000
8,000,000
4,163,297

525

•

2
7
7
7
7
7

1,400,000
1,700,000
300,000
21,202,661

1872
1870
1872
1870

354

•

1,400,000

1867

354

•

& J.
New York.
& J. N. Y., Farm. I.. At T. Co.
& e.
do
do
& D.
do
do
At J.
do
do
& O.
do
do

m

G
5
7
7

1,100,000
1,100,000

1,000

m

3128

2,468,400

1,000

1,000

686
210
210
100
72
300

+ m

1,105,200
1,900,000
1,900,000
2,300,000

500 &c.

J.
J.
m.
J.
J.
A.

7
7
7

1,000,000
4,250,000
2,480,600
4,000,000
1,337,100

1864
1864
1864
186 i

....

7
3
7

1,021,500

1864

....

St.P. Minn'polisd Manitoba—1st M., St.P. to St. A...
2d M., and 1st, St. Paul to Watab
Land grant sinking fund
mortgage
St. Paul dSioux C.—Pref. stock
(for $4,600,000)...
Common stock rfor $4,600,000)
New mortgage, gold (for $7,000,000)

Sheboygan

100 Ate.

....

C, gold

Consolidated mortgage, gold, sinking fund

mortgage, gold,

100
100
100 Ate.
100 &c.
100 Ate.

1872
1878
1876
1876

8sf!
E®

Evansville Henderson & Nashville, 1st mort
St. Louis Vandalia d Tei're Haute—1st M. s. f.
guar
2d mort., sink, fund ($1^600,000
guar.)
St. Paul d Duluth— Preferred 7
per cent stock

1st

1,000
1,000

•

Q

Land debentures
New mortgage (for $1,000,000)
Bl. Louis d Southeastern—1st M.,
gold. cony.

mortgage,

100
100 Ate.
500 &c.

1855

‘

do

$1,000

-

•

Value.

^

1st mortgage, coupon
2d mortgage, gold, coupon, may be
registered....
Arkansas Branch, 1st mortgage, gold, land
grant
Cairo Ark. & Texas, 1st mort.,
gold, coup or reg.
Cairo & Fulton, 1st n ort., gold, on road and land
1st pref. income bonds, reg., (cumulative)
2d pref. income bonds, reg., (cumulative)
St. L. Kansas City d N.—Stock
($12,000,000 is prf.)
1st mortgage (North Missouri)
Real estate and railway 2d mort
1st & 2d mort. on St. Charles
Bridge, coup, or reg.
1st mort., Omaha Div., gold, sink,
f., coup, or reg.
St. L.d. S.Francisco.—1st M. (So. Pac.),
g., (I’d grant)
2d mortgage bonds, A
do
do
B, gold
do

•

•

or

Par

1878

preferred (series D)

Equipment mortgage
St.

Size,

Road. Bonds

Rochester d Slate Line.—1st mortgage
Rome, Watertown d Ogdcnsburg—Stock
1st sinking fund mort., Wat. At R.
General mortgage, sinking fund
2d mortgage
Consol, mort., convert, till July, ’79,
coup

Rutland—Stock,

xxyii

.

&
&
&
&

0. N.

1881
1892
1909

Y., Metropol. N. Bk.

N.
do
N.
do
N. New York,

do
do
9th Nat. Bk.

April 1, 1919
Nov., 1901
May 1, 1902

IstN. Bk.,Sandusky, O.
Oct. 1, 1875
J. N. Y., Union Trust Co.
July, 1902
S. Charleston, 1st Nat. Bk. March
1, 1877
S.
New York.
Sept. 1, 1899
J.
do
Jan. 1, 1889
N. N.Y.,Lancaster, B.At Co.
May 1, 1890
S. Del. At Hud. Canal Co.
Sept. 1, 1924
J.
Philadelphia, Office.
Jan., 1879
J. N.Y., Winslow, L. At Co.
Jan. 1, 1896
O.
do
do
April 1, 1894
N. Pliil.,Townsend,W.AtCo.
May 1, 1879
A.
do
do
Aug., 1880
O.
New York.
Jan. 1, 1890
J.
New York, Office.
Jan. 1, 1872
J.
do
do
Jan. 1, 1864
0.
do
do
April 1, 1887
A. Philadelphia,Treasurer.
Aug., 1879
J.
do
do
July, 1901
D.
N. Y., (In default.)
June, 1884
O.
do
do
October, 1896
O. N. Y., N.Bk. of Com’rce.
April 1, 1889
J. N. H., Nat. N. II. Bank.
July 5, 1879
S.
do
do
Sept. 1, 1880
,T. N. Y., Nat. Park BaRk. Jau.
1, 1898
J. U.S. Treas., at
maturity Jan. 1, 1898

....

J.

At
M. As
M. &
J. At
M. &
M. &
J. &
J. &
A. At
M. &
F. &
A. &
J. &
J. At
A. &
F. &
J. &
J. &
A. &
A. &
J. &
M. At
J. At
J. At

chased Sioux City & St. Paul and issued new mort¬
(V. 26. p. 548; V. 27,

gage.
See V. 29, p 226, 303.
p. 171 ; \.28, p. 171; v.

29, p. 22s.)
Saginaw Valley A St Louis.—Has a traffic guar¬
antee by Michigan Central. Net
earnings, 1877,
$57,518.

(Y. 27, p. 304; V. 29, p. 96.)

Sandusky, Mansfield A Newark.—This

road

is

stock

is

leased to the Central Ohio, and the lease
guaranteed
by Baltimore & Ohio. (\. *«6, p. 290.)
Savannah A Charleston.—Rond in hands of
receiv¬
er and decree of sale made.
Sav mnah A Memphis — Defaulted after the
crisis
of 1873.

Net

earnings, 1875-6, $16,118.

SGhenec'ady

owned

A

Duanesburg.—Capital

by the D.& H. Canal

Co. .which runs the road,

Schuylkill Valley.—Leased to Philadelphia & Read¬
ing, with 5 per cent dividends.
Scioto Valley.—This new road, from Col umbos
to
Portsmouth, reports gross earniugs of $282,153 in
1878, and net earnings of $125,877. (V. 27, p. 653 :

V. 28, p.525.)
Seaboard A Roanoke.—Net
earnings year ending
March 1, 1879, $188,355. Of the
stock, $200,000 is
.

guaranteed.

Selma A Gulf. -To be sold In foreclosure
Sept. *2.
(V. 25. p. 335, 593; V. 27, p. 304; V. 29, p. 162.)
Selma, Rome A Dalton.—This was formerly the

Alabama & Tennessee River. Interest in
and road to be sold.
(V* 24, p. 566.)
Shamokin Valley A Pottsville.—Leased

1661, to Northern Central,at 7 per cent
6 per cent on stock.

default,

February,

on

bonds and

Sheboygan A Fond du Luc.—Defaulted 1873. Gross
earnings, 1877, $100,011; net, $12,204. (V. 24, p.
19e, 345; V. 26, p. 521; V. 28, p. 467.)
Shenango A Alleghany.—Leased to Atlantic 3s
Great Western, and ** rental trust bonds ” issued.
earnings 1875, $201,039; net, $114,699.
Shore Line.- Leased to New York A New Haven

Gross
at

$100,000 per

net

$49,869;

year.

gross

Gross earnings, 1876-7, $342,374,

earnings, 1877-8, $317,978;

net

profit to lessee, *1,539. (V. 24, p. 63; V. 28, p. 40*)
Swux City A Pacific.—Dir. of '6% on
pref. stock,
paid April 1, 1879. (V. 27, p. 96, 258, 274.)

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Subscribers will confer

a

Miles

Date

of

Road

of tables.

Somerset—let mortgage, gold
South Carolina—Stock
let mortgage, sterling loan
do
dollar bonds (L)
2d mortgage (for $3,000,000)
Domestic bonds (I)
Domestic bonds (K)
So. <& No. Alabama—1st M., endorsed by Alabama.
Sterling mort., s. fund, guar, by L. & N
Southern of Long Island—1st mortgage (S. Side)...
Southern Central (N. Y.)—1st mortgage
2d mort. gold ($400,000 end. by Lehigh V. RR.).
Southern Iowa & Cedar Rapids—1st mort., gold
Southern Minnesota—1st mortgage, construction...
Southern Pacific (Cal.)—1st mort., gold, land gr
Southern Pennsylvania—1st mortgage, gold
Southwestern (Ga.)—Stock, guarant’d7 per annum

„

23

2d mort., consol., gold, coup. ($17,000 p. m.)
Income and land mort., reg. (7,600,000 acres)

mortgage (for $6,200,000)
(Burlington Div.)

Troy <£• Boston—Stock
1st mortgage, consolidated
Convertible bonds

....

24

30
7 *2
30
81
81
81
20
20
113
73

116*2
11034
116*2

1876
1865
1875
1875
1867
1876
.

.

.

.

.

.

do
dollar

do

So

do

loan, mortgage

Joint Co.’s mortgage, sterl’g, s. fd. (£138,500).
do
plain bonds

do
do
do
consol, mort. (sink’gfund after 1880)
N. J. RR. A T. Co., 3d loan due State of N. J
Utah Central—Stock
1st mortgage, gold
Utah Northern.—1st mortgage
Utah Southern— 1st mortgage, coupon
Utica <& Black River— Stock
1st mortgage bonds of July, 1868
-

Mortgage bonds, 2d issue
Utica Chenango <& Susquehanna Valley—Stock
Vermont & Canada—Stock

Bonds, guaranteed by Vermont Central

Missisquoi Railroad bonds
Vermont Central— 1st mortgage,
2d mortgage, consolidated..'

consolidated

Equipment loans
Stanstead, S. A Cliambly bonds
Income and extension bonds (to pay

float’g debt).

Somerset.—This road is leased to Maine Central.
South Carolina.—Receiver appointed Sept.. 1877.
Gross earnings Oct. 1 to April 1, 1878 9,
operating expenses, $310,000; net earnings, $339,358.
A proposal is made for concessions by ad mortgage
bondholders. (Sr. 26, p. 217, 342, 393, 418, 420, 471;
V. 27, p. 42, 253, 301; V. 28, p. 555, 5;0.)
South & Nd'th Alabama.—Operated by Louisv. &
Nashv., which holds a majority of the stock, and

guarantees tbe bonds and holds $1,000,000 of 2d
mortg. bonds. Pref. stock, $2,000,000.
Southern of Long Island.-*old in foreclosure of
2d mort., and subject to 1st mort., June 3, 1879. Re¬

organization iu progress. (V. 27, p. 85; V. 28, p. 5S0;
Y. 29. p. 19, 16.)
Southern Central.—Forms an extension into New
York Stite for Lehigh Valley, which company endorses $400,000 of second mortgage bonds.
Net

earnings 1878, $142,906.
South Iowa & Cedar Rapids— In progress. Ot¬
tumwa to Cedar Rapids, la.
Southern Minnesota—Sold under 2d mortgage and
re-organized March, 1877. There are yet out $220,000
old 1st mort. 7s (pink), due 1884. Land grant is about
1.790,000 acres.
Net earnings in 1878, $311,152,
against $296,666 ip 1877. (V. 27, p. 67, 358, 515; V.
28, p. 451.)
Southern Pacific (Cal.)—This road is leased to
Central Pacific. The bonds are m senes A, B, C and

A” includes $15,050,060. Proceeds of
land sales go to pay bonds. The land grant is 12,830
acres per mile.
The stock paid in is $36,763,9(0. In
1878 the gross earnings were $4,327,086 and net earn¬
ings, $2,155,704. (V. 26, p. 209,316; V. 27, p. 321, 409.)
Southern Pennsylvania.—Re-organized in 1872
D, of which

after foreclosure under 2d mortgage.
leased by Cumberland Valley.

The road is

Southwestern Georgia.—Leased to Central Georgia.
Dividends 8 a yeat to every 10 per cent on C* ntral

fjeorgia stock, but 7 per year gu-trarueed.
partite” bonds issued; see Central Georgia,




‘‘Tri¬

500
100

1,000
500 Ac

....

....

750,000

1,000

1,500,000
600,000
1,500,000

100 Ac

1,000

3,3$2,000

500 Ac

29,300,000
625,000
3,892,300

.

.

.

.

100
.

.

.

1,000
500 Ac.
100

2,004,000
270,000
1,750,000

1,000
1,000
50

•

4,125,000
1,000,000
1,988,150
800,000
800,000

....

50

1,000
1,000

i,oso!ooo

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

3,552,000
7,548,000

-6,994,000
l,oG0,000
1,600,000

100

1,384,000
650,000

500 Ac.

1878

2*6

680,000

100

1,000
1,000

....

.

.

.

100

27,231,000
27,236,512
13,639,000
6,884,000
2,121,000
1,600,000
1,600,000
20,190,400

....

....

....

5,669,000

....

1,000
£200

1,000
1,000

....

1,000

....

....

....

....

....

....

1871
1871
1834-7
•

....

....

-

«

•

•

210
75
168
75
87
98
73
....

....

....

....

....

....

•

•

1862
1868

....

36*2

•

....

....

....

....

....

....

....

....

....

...

1870
1878'

1,000

1871

1,000

....

1868
1871
...

v

....

100
....

....

1871
1871
1866
1866
1866-9
1867
1872

.

500
500
100
100
500
100

Ac.
Ac.
Ac.
Ac.
Ac.
Ac.

1,000

g.

g.
g.

b

g.
g-

1*3

Q.-J.
....

....

1,800,000
154,000
119,548
1,700,000
866,000
5,000,000
100,000
676,005
1,000,000
2,520,000
1,500,000
1,771,720
200,000

....

....

0 g.
/

7

2
7
7

912,000

4,000,000

O

444,100

4
8
7
7
7
8
7

1,503,600

8

1,500,000
500,000
3,000,000
1,500,000
1,500,000

London.

1891
1871

1878 to ’88
1878 to ’88
Oct. 1, 1902

New York.
do
.

Charleston.

April, 1891

do

1880 and 1892
Y., Drexel, M. A Co. Jan. 1, 1890

N.

London, Baring Bros.

N. Y., Gallatin Nat. B’k
N. Y., Vermilye A Co.
do
do
N
N.

Y., Company’s Office.
Y., C. P. Huntington.

Savannah,CentRR. Ga.

Mar. 1, 1887
Aug. 1, 1899
Mar. 1, 1882
May 1, 1900

1888

April 1, 1905
Mar. 1, 1900
June 20,1879

7
Various
Macon.
1886
7 g. J. A J. Chariest on A New York.
Jan. 1,1897
J. A J.
7
New York.
1885
5
J. A J. N Y., Central Pacific.
January, 1905
2
J. A D. N.Y., D. L. A W. RR. Co. August, 1879
J. AD.
7
do
do
June, 1887
A. A O.
7
do
do
Oct. 1, 1906
3
F. A A. Philadelphia A Boston. Aug. 16, 1876
J. A J. Boston, N. Y. A Phila.
7
Jan. 1,1904
4
J. A J. N.Y.,Farmers L. A T.Co. Aug. 3, 1879
A. A O.
7
do
do
July, 1879
7
1893
F. A A. New York, Co.’s Office. Aug. 1,
7
1905
6 g- M. A S. Phila., N. York ALondon March 1, 1905
6 g- J. A D.
do
do
June 1, 1905
7
July. New YorkA Philad’phia Jan. 1, 1915
F. A A. New York, Co.’s office.
7
Feb. 1, 1896
J. A D.
7
do
do
Dec. 1, 1894
7
A. A 0.
do
do
April 1, 1886
M. A N.
7
do
do
May 2, 1910
J. A D.
7
do
do
June 1, 1901
F. A A. Troy* Company’s Office.
2
Aug. 1, 1879
7
,J. A J. N. Y., Nat. B’k of Com.
1894
M. A S.
7
do
do
1882

3,000,000

100

g.

Stocks—Last
Dividend.

July,
May,

Charleston,S.W.RR Bk

J. A J
J. A J
A. A O
A.4& 0
J. & J
J. A J
M. A N
M. A S
F. & A.
M. A S.
M. A N.
J. A J.
A. A O.
M. A S.
J. AD.

6 g. J. A J.
6
M. A S.
8
A. A 0.
7
8 g- A. A O..
6 g- M. A N.
6
2 *2
Q.—J.
6 g. M. A S.
6
A. A O.
6 g- M. A S.
6 g. M. A S.
F. A A.
6
6 g. F. A A.
F. A A.
6
J. A D.
6
M. A N.
6
A. A 0.
7

2,000,000
1,846,000

....

& J

Q.-F.

g.

Whom.

6

36,762!300

....

J.

Where Payable, and bjr

O

J

J.
J.
J.
M.
J.
J.
M.
J.
J.
J.
M.
J.
M.

A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A

J.
J.
J.
S.
J.

New York and Boston.
Oct. 1, 1879
do
do
1896 to 1899
U.S. Treas., at maturity.
New York and Boston. Mch. 1,
New York and Boston.
1887
London, L. A S. Fr. Bk.
April, 1896
N. Y., Company’s Office. May 1, 1895
U.S. Treas., at maturity. 1896,’97, ’98
Phila. and N. Y. Offices. Oct. 10, 1879
Mch. 1, 1901
Philadelphia, Office.
do
do
Oct. 1, 1894
London.
Mch. 1, 1894
do
Mch. 1, 1894
Feb. 1, 1888
Philadelphia.
London.
1880
Feb. 1, 1883
Philadelphia Office.
Jan. 1, 1889
Princeton, N. J.
Nov. 1, 1889
Philadelphia Office.
N. Y., B’k of Commerce.
Overdue.
12 p. c., 1878-9
Salt Lake City.
Jan. 1, 1890
New York.
July 1, 1908
N. Y., Koimtze Bros.
July 1, 1891
Utica.
Sept. 28, 1878
Utica and New York.
July, 1878
do
do
July, 1891
N. Y., D. L. A W. RR.
May 1, 1879
Boston, E. Blake A Co. June 1, 1872
'

^

i894

J.
N.
D.
J. Boston,Nat.Bk.of Redm
J. Boston, Globe Nat. Bk.
N. Boston,Nat.Bk of Redm
D.
do
do
N.
do
do
J. A: J.
do
do
M. A N.
do
do

July 1, 1891
Jaii. 1, 1891
Nov. 1, 1886
1891
1876 to 1889
Jan.

1, 1887
1902

C

Sterling Mountain.—Cost of road and equipment,
$502,468. Net earnings 1872-3, $15,673.
Stockton & Copperopoiis.—Defaulted July, 1574,
and old bonds of $1,000,000 exchanged for present.
(V. 21, p. 159, 160, 316.).
Syracuse, Binghamton & New Yw'k — Operated by
Del. L. & WM and bonds guar, by that Co. (V.
26, p. 316; V. 27, p. 563.)
Summit Branch.—Ibis is a coal road, and leases
Lykens Valley.
Nci earnings in 1876, $151,665. (V.
25. p. 113.)
Terre Haute & Indianap.—'Set earnings in 1S75-6,
S'155,955; in 1876-7, $344,403; in 1877-8, $366,666.
Leases 3t. L. Van. & T. H. at 30p.c. gross earnings.
Texas & Neiu Orleans of 1874.—The company has
a I'd gr.of 875,000 acres timber and agricultural lands.
Texas & Pacific.—Gross earnings, 1878-9, $2,136,143; net, $738,630. against $882,871 in 1871-8. Of
old land bonds $713,000 are yet out, and $131,915
(V. 26, p. 316; V. '27, p. 42. 149, 226,
coupons.
384, 515, 568, G53; V. 29, p. 171, 299.)
Texas Western.—'This narrow-gauge road is in
progress.
(See V. 23, p. 49, 152, 526.)
Toledo, Peoina A Warsaw—Passed into receiver's
Foreclosure pending. In 1876-7
$56,415. (V. 26, p. 68, 316, 575; V.
68, 469, 515. 603; V. 28, p. 69, 429; V. 29, p. 68.)
Troy & Boston.—With leased roads forms a line
from Troy, N.Y*., to North Adams, Mass. In 1877-78,
gross earnings were $560,343; net, $274;747. There
are $119,000 of old 1st and 2d mortgage bonds yet
outstanding. (V. 28, p. 119.)
T oy Union.—A short road in Troy city. Bonds
issued by city and guaranteed by several roads.
Union Pacific.—Gross earnings in 1878 (including
hands Feb., 1874.
net earnings were

,

Omaha
Bridge) weie $13,121,272, against
1877, and $12,886,858 in 1S76; net

$12,4<3,203

Congress;

m»

in

earnings,
$7,741,686, against $7,1)9,782 in 1877, and $7.618.6 i7
in 187^. In 1878 the funding bill was passed in
ar-

lmporta* t contract

Kansas Pac:fic; the

wa-

e

with

July dividend was • ussed. Land
Bales during 1878,318,903 acres, for $1,557,082. Land

contracts outstanding and cash, January 1, I&79
$4,184,214. (V. 27, p. 42, 96,97, 122, 149, 193, 229!
253. 274, 381, 480, 629; V. 28, d. 44, 70, 121, 147, SCO
252, 328, 429, 477, 495, J 55.)
’
Union, Pacific Central Branch.— Formerly the
Atchison & Pike’s Peak.
Interest in default, since
November, 1873. Gross earnings 1875-74, $114,414;
expenses, $131,500. (V. 27, p. 96, 253, 274, 529; V.
28, p. 454, 477, 553; V. 2 h p. 95.)
United New Jersey Railroad & Canal Companies.—

Leased

to Pennsylvania
at 10 per cent on stock

bilities.

Railroad, October'20, 1871,

and assumption of all lia¬

In 1877 the gross earnings were
$8,960,696;
net income, $2,951,521, leaving a deficit for lessees
of $l,433.h8 after paying interest and dividends.

(V.£4, p. 516; V. 25, p.349, 433, 458, 476; V. 26, p.
215,301.)
Utah Central.—Salt Lake to Ogden.
In year end¬
ing April 30, 1379, net earnings were $223,725, and
dividends amounting to 11 per cent were paid.
Utah Northern.—Built by the Union Pacific
interest.
Utah Southern.—Gross earnings 1878, $247,725,
net, $117,534. Stock is $1,500,000.
Utica & Black River.—Gross receipts 1877-8,
$453,114; net earnings, $2:8,000. (V. 26, p. 141;
V. 27, p. 124; V. 28, p. 96 )
Utica

Chenango & Susquehanna Valley.—Road is

leased to Del Lack. & West. Railroad at 6 per cent
per annum on

-

pal, When Due-

-

1,300,000
1,500,000
250,000
1,609,000

1,000

g.

3*2

399,000
400,000
350,000
500,000

.

100 Ac.

....

1874

5,211,810

....

....

1866-9
mortgage, gold, on road and equipment
do
(government subsidy)
do
on road (2fl on land), sinking fund. 1,038
1874
Land grant bonds on 10,764,947 acres
1867-9
Omaha bridge bds, st’g, (s.f. about $50,000 yrly).
1871
Union Pacific, Central Branch—1st mort., gold
100
1866
2d mertgage (government subsidy)
100 ’66-7-8
United N. J. UR. <t Canal Companies—Stock
379
'.
General mortgage, gold, coupon
1871
United Co.’s mortgage, sinking fund, registered..
1871
do
1871
sterling loan mortgage, sinking fund
do

....

t

1869
1873
1875
1875
1875
1875
1866
1864
1866
1870
1871

7
1
5
6
7
7
6
8
6
7
7
7
7
7
6
7

5,819,275
1,482,606
1,051,500
1,206,500
1,067,500
63,500
391,000

500

....

10G
444
444
444

When
OutstandingrlRate pei?\ Pavabh3
5| Cent.

Various

Bonds—Princi

INTEREST OR DIVIDENDS

$450,000

....

....

1,042
1,038

1st
2d
3d

do

[Vol. XXIX.

Amount

100

....

257

New mortgage bonds (for $1,000,000)
Troy Union—1st mortgage, guaranteed, Troy City.

Union Pacific—Stock

1868
1868
1872
1866
1868
1870
1873
1867
1869
1872
1870
1868
1875

183
183
57
114
114
87
170
712

227
10
53
35

Par
Value.

....

....

27,p.

Toledo, Peoria <£ Warsaw— 1st mortgage (W. Div.).
1st mortgage (E. Div.)
2d mortgage (W. Div.) convertible
Consolidated
1st mortgage

BONDS.

f

or

1871

242
242
242

Bonds of 1873 (for $1,600,000)
Texas <£• N. Orleans of ’74—1st mortg. land gr., coup
Texas <£• Pacific—1st mort., gold, coup.($8,000 p.m.)

Size,

of
Bondi i

.

....

Company bonds, convertible into stock at par....
Spartanburg <& Asheville—1st mortgage, gold
Sterling Mountain (N.Y.)—1st mortgage
Stockton <£ Copperopoiis— 1st mort., (guar, by C. P.)
Syracuse Binghamton & N. Y — Stock
2d mortgage (now first)
Consol, mortgage (guar. D. L. A W.)
Summit Branch (Pa.)—Stock
1st mortgage bonds
Terre Haute <£ Indianapolis—Stock—
1st mortgage

'n

AND

great favor by giving immediate notice of any errors discovered in these Tables.

DESCRIPTION.
at head of first page

STOCKS

stock.

Valley (Va.).—'This road was built chiefly by sub¬
scription of Balt. & Ohio RR., Baltimore city, and
Virginia counties. (V. 22, p. 463, 559, 591, 607.)
Vermont & Canada — Under lease to Vermont
Central. (V. 24, p. 421, 566; V. 25, p. 476, 641.)
Vetmont Centra'.—In 1872 the Company went to
default on Interest, and has since been in numerous
complications. A new corporation under the name
of Central Vermont was formed, with
$2,009,000
paid-up capital, and assumed obligations of the old
Vermont Central. Foreclosure pending on 2d mort¬
p. 110, 589; V. 23, p. 40, 370, 623; V.
gage.
(V.
24, p. 413, 566; Y. 25, p. 431.)

September 27,

KAILEOAD STOCKS AND BONDS.

1879.]

'Subscribers will confer

a

great favor by giving Immediate notice ot
any error discovered in these Tables.

DESCRIPTION.
For

explanation of column Leadings, &c.,

at tlie head of first page of tables.

Miles Date
of
of
Road. Bonds.

see notes

Vermont <6 Massachusetts—Stock..:

80
77

1st

mortgage (sinking fund $7,000 per year)
Convertible bonds
Vicksburg <£ Meridian—1st series (red endorsed)
2d series (blue endorsed)
3d
do (black endorsed)
4th do (not endorsed)
1
Special loan, funding mortgage
f

649
75
167
180
33

1st mortgage (Toledo &
Illinois)
1st mortgage (Lake Erie, Wabash & St.
Louis)
1st mortgage (Great Western of 1859)
1st mortgage (Quincy & Toledo)
1st mortgage (Illinois & Southern
Iowa).
2d mortgage (Toledo & Wabash)
2d mortgage (Wabash <& Western)
2d mortgage (Great Western of
1859)
Consol, mort., (on all but Decatur & E. St.
L.)
1st mortgage, (Decatur & East St. Louis)
Funded debt bonds (secured by deposit of
coups.)
New mort., gold($2,000,000),
..

75
167

180
490
109
....

....

18
18
18
310

2d mortgage
1st consol, mortgage

Washington City, Va. Mid.

<£* Gt. Southern—Stock...
1st mortgage, O.& A., and funded interest
2d mortgage, O. & A.,
do
do
3d mortgage, O. & A.,
do
do
4th mortgage, O. & A.,
do
do
1st mortgage, O. A. & M. RR
2d mortgage. O. A. & M. RR
Gen. mort., gold, Wash. C., Va. Mid. & Gt. Soutli’n
Lynchburg & Danville, 1st mort., guar., coup
Westchester <6 Philadelphia—Preferred stock..
1st mortgage, new
West Jersey—Stock
Loan of 1883, guaranteed by Camden &
do

....

....

....

....

38
63
41

Cape May & Millville

Western <£ Atlantic (Ga)—Income bonds
Western (Ala.)—1st mortgage (Mont. & W. P.)
Western RR. bonds, before consolidation
2d mort.. guar.
by Cent. of Ga. and Ga. RR. &B. Co.
Western Maryland— 1st mort., endorsed Balt.

138
116
44
160
90
90
90

—..

City..

Western Pennsylvania—1st mortgage
1st mortgage, Pittsburg Branch
General mortgage
Williamston & Tarboro— 1st mortgage
Wilmington, Columbia & Augusta— 1st
Income bonds
4

90
90
90
90
57
28

..

4

mortgage...

188

do

Sinking fund bonds, gold

Rochester—Stock
1st m., guar, (for

1874, for interest on the debt and 5 percent on stock
till I860, and 6 per cent for tne remainder of the
lease, exclusive of all taxes.

Vicksburg A Meridian.—Net earnings 1878-9,
against f 123,364 in 1877-8.
The only

$7;’,314,

coupons paid s:nce

April, 1876, were those matur¬
ing J*unnary, 1878, and the fpecial loan coupons of
January, 1877. (V. 27, p. 67; V. 29, p. 95.)

Wctbash.—'To be consolidated with St. Louis
Kan. City & Northern. There is a debt of
$560,009
due the Eqnipment Company, payable $56,000
per
year. The “Seney” mort. w-s for $1,C00,0C0, pay¬
able $200,000 per year. Of the funded debt
bonds,
$2,1*25,000 carry 5 per cent in 1879-80 and 6
per cent thereafter; the balance are 7 per cents.

Operations for 1873 showed $4,998,371 gross earn¬
ings, and net earnings of $1,523,423. The
company
gives no balance sheet in its annual report, the
actual financial status being thus unknown. (V.
27,
p. 17. 68, 137, 515, £40, 56S; V. 28. p. 260, 221, 350,
354, 402, 429, 495, 554, 600, 617; V. 29, p. 19, 42, 86,
121,171; V. 29, p. 226.)
Warden (N. J.).—Leased to Delaware, Lackawanna
& Western at 7 per cent on stock and bonds.
Net

earnings in 1375, $211,056.

Washington City, Virginia Midland A Great South¬
earnings year ending Sept. 30, 1878,
$1,218,017; expenses, $803,000; net earnings, $415,117.
The company has been assisted by Balt. & O.
The president, Mr. John S.
Barbour, was appointed




•

48
48

$700,000)

Massachusetts.—Thi9 road is leased to
Fitchburg RR. Co. for 999 years, from Jan. 1,

ern.—Gross

•

....

Vermont A
the

94
....

do

100 &c.
100 &c.

250 &c.
100 &c.

1,000
1,000
1,000
500 &c.

1,000
100
....

Too
....

....

....

....

....

....

500 &c.
t

•

-

1873

1,000

....

1866

....

1868
1870
1858

....

„

....

.

.

....

1867
....

....

1868
1870
1872
1863

1865

b..

1,000
.

.

.

500 &c.
100 &c.

....

....

1870
1870

....

500 &c.
100

....

....

.

B

.

....

....

327

:

<st

1,000
1,000

1861
1866
1869

....

Wisconsin Central— 1st mortgage, gold, land
grant.
Worcester <& Nashua—Stock
*
Bonds ($125,000 are 7 per cents)
Nashua
do

500 <fcc.

100 &c.
50
500 &c.
500 &c.
500 &c.

179
179

Sterling bonds..

Bonds
Bonds

....

1871

....

Wilmington <£ Weldon—Stock
do

1,000

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

1873
1871

65*2

consolidated

1st mortgage, unendorsed
2d
do
endorsed by Baltimore
2d
do
endorsed by Wasnimgton County
2d preferred mortgage, unendorsed
3d mortgage, guaranteed by Baltimore
4tb
do
for Baltimore City stock..

100 &c.

....

336

27
128
60

or

Par
Value.

1855
1858
1860
1867

....
"

Amboy..

lstmortgcige loan

1st

1853
1853
1863
1865
1862
1858
1858
1859
1867
1869
1877
1879
1855
1870
1875
1871

29

s.f.$25,000 after ’82

Size,

$100
1865
1872
1866
1866
1866
1866
1871

140
140
140
140

—

Wabash—Stock.

Warren (N.J.)—Stock

xzir

....

1871

....

100

....

....

•

1873
1875
....

•

•

•

....

....

....

1874

500 &c.

INTEREST OR DIVIDENDS.

Amount

Outstanding

Rate pel* When Where
Cent.
Payable

$2,860,000

3
6
7
7
7
7
7

550,000

150,000
703,500
850,000
145,000
1,180,600
217,400
16,000,000

8

900,000
2,500,000

7
7

2,495,000
500,000
300,000
1,000,000

7

1,500,000
2,500,000
2,610,000
2,700,000

2,893,000
1,000,000

7
7
7
7
7
7
7
4 & 7
7 g.

1,800,000
750,000
600,000
2,692,539
525,070
1,657,652
817,800
1,200,000
1,650,000
133,050
1,000,000
1,310,000
821,300
1,100,000
1,359,750
400,000

1,000,000
1,000,000
500,000
782,000
300,000
600,000
1,200,000
200,000

400,000
300,000
300,000
600,000
875,000
1,000,000
800,000
1,000,000
1,200.000
350,000

3,200,000
600,000*
1,456,200
648,700
221,400
749,000

8,168,000
1,789,800
350,000
250,000
400,000

1,185,000
700,000

3is
7

7

Westchester A

interest and

g.
g.
g.
g.

7

122
6

(V. 22, p. 304; V. 24,

of

(V. 24,

d.

249; V.

Western A Atlantic—This road is owned
by State

Georgia, and leased

at $300,000 per annum
Lessees have issued the income bonds.
(V. 22, p.

136.)

Western Alabama.—Sold in foreclosure,
April 19,
1875, and bought by Central Ga. and Georgia Rail¬
roads, for whose account it is operated. (V. 20, p.
398, 405, 445; V. 25, p. 456.)
Western Maryland— This company was
largely as¬
sisted by the city of Baltimore, which has also
bought its overdue coupons. P oposition to • ondholders, V. 28, p. 121. Annual report for last fiscal
year, to September 30 1878. showed gross receipts,

$347,201; expenses, $217,275; net receipts, $129,926.
(V. 26, p. 84, 471; V. 27, p. 406, 678; V. 2\ p. 9.,
121, 147, VA.)
Western

Pennsylvania.—The Pennsylvania HR.,
$972,650 stock out of the total amount
of $1,022 450, $148,000 of branch
bonds, anu
of
$1,200,000 general mortgage bonds; net earnings
1876, $225,498. (V. 22, p. 206.)
lessee,

owns

Boston, Office.

J.
do
do
J.
do
do
J. Phila , Girard Nat. B’k.
J.
do
do
J.
do
do
O.
do
do
J.
do
do
-

F. & A. N.
F. & A.
F. & A.
M. & N.
F. & A.
M. & N.
M. & N.
M. & N.

Y., Metropolitan B’k.
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do

Q.-F.
F.
F.
A.
A.
A.
M.

&
&
&
<fe
&
&

A.
A.
O.
O.
O.
S.

do

do

Jan.
Jan.

1879
1883
1885

1890
1890

1, 1890
1, 1890
1880

Aug. 1, 1890
Aug. 1, 1890
Nov. 1, 1890

Aug. 1, 1882

Nov. 1, 1878
Nov. 1, 1878

May i; 1893
Feb., 1907
Aug., 1889

do
do
do
do

Feb.

N.Y., Del., L. & W. RR.
do
do

April 7,
July 1,
July 1,
Jan. 1,
Jan. 1,

Aug., 1888

do
do
do
do
do

do
do

1, 1907
April 1, 1909
Oct., ] 879
1900
1905

Deposit Co.

3
6
7
7
7
2
6 &
7
7

Philadelphia.—Gtoss earnings, 1876-

rentals, $6,241.

0.

Nov. 1, i860
Jan. 1, 1875

May 1, 1873
Sept. 1, 1880
July 1, 1880
July 1, 1882
May 1, 1903
April 1, 1896
July, 1879
April 1, 1891
Aug. 15, 1877
Mck., 1883
Jan., 1896
Oct.. 1890

*

West Jersey— Gross earnings, 1878,
$503,283: ex¬
penses, $305,826; net, $197,4jb.
Net profit above

26, p. 263.)

&
&
&
&
&
&
&
&

6
M. & N. Balt., R. Garrett &
Sons
6
J. & J.
do
do
8
M. & N.
do
do
8
M. & S.
do*
do
7
J. & J.
do
do
7
J. & J.
do
do
7 g. M. & N.
do
do
6
A. & O.
do
do
3
J. & J.
Philadelphia, Office.
7
A. & O.
do
do
3
F. & A. Phila.. Pa.RR.Co.
Office
6
M. & 8.
do
do
6
J. & J.
do
do
7
A. & O.
do
do
7
A,
10
Q-J.
Atlanta, Co.’s Office.
8
J. & J. New York & Savannah.
8
A. & O.
do '
do
8
A. & O.
do
do
6
J. & J. Balt., N. Mechanics’ B’k
6
J. & J.
do
do
6
J. & J.
do
do
6
J. & J.
Hagerstown.
6
J. & J. Balt.,N. Mechanics’ B’k
6
J. & J.
do
do
6
J. & J.
do
do
6
A. & O.
Philadelphia, Office.
6
J. & J.
do
do
7
A. & O.
do
do
M. & N. New York, J.M Pickrell
8
7
J. & D. Balt., Safe

receiver in July, 1876. Interest in default, but re¬
ceiver ordered to make certain
payments.
Full
statement of liabilities and condition of litigation
in V. 28, p. 70.
(V. 27, p. :Ul, 437; V. 28, p. 70, 1*7,
555; V. 29, p. 19, 68, 96, 303.)

’77, $332,274; net, $112,964.
p. 62; V. 26, p. 116.)

A.
J.
J.
J.
J.
J.
A.
J.

Bonds—Princi¬
pal, When Due.
Payable, and by Stocks—Last N
Whom.
Dividend.

J. & D.
J. & J.
M.
J.
J.
J.

&
&
&
&

N.
J.
J.
J.

Oct. ’79 to ’91
July. 1881
Oct. 1, 1888
Oct. 1, 1890
Jan. 1, 1890
Jan. 1, 1890

Jan., 1890
Jan., 1890
Jan., 1895
Jan., 1900
Jan., 1902
April 1, 1893

Jan.
Oct.

1, 1896
1, 1901
May 1, 1900
June, 1900

N.Y.,Bost.,Lond.,Frank

Nov. 30, 1878
1881
1886
1896

Worcester, Office.

July 1, 1901
July 1, 1876

London.
do

Boston, Office.

Various
do
do
A. & O. Bost., Globe Nat. Bank.
F. & A.
do
do
A. & O.
Worcester. Office.
A. & O. Bost., Globe Nat.
Bank.

1881 & 1887

April 1, 1893
Feb.

1, 1895

April, 1879
April 1, 1894

Wd'iamston A Tarboro.—Road in
progress.
financial information.

recent

Wilmington
earnings

were

ColumlAa

$116,633

A

net.

of indebtedness for $336,000.
made June, 1379. vV. 22,
p.
V. 27, p. 68, 43b.)

Augusta.—In 1875-0
There are certificates
- Decree of
foreclosure
15; V. 26, p. c68, 393;

Wilmington A Weldon.—Formerly leased

mington, Columbia
1677, default

was

No

to Wil¬

& Augusta road, but in
Dec.
made by lessee and

property
reverted. In 18 7-8 gross
receipts w'eie $487,815;
net, $175,645. (V. 26, p. 68, 420,
144.)

496; V. 28,

p.

44,

Wisconsin Central.—Of the above
bonds, $1,091,*
5n0 are ‘ unfun ed,“
bearing coupons of July, 1875,
and since; $j,594,000 have funded
nine coupons,
including July, J879; $3,481,500 are
“clipped”
bonds, first coupon due Jan., 1881: $15.00» are
par¬
tially “clippea” bonds, issuid by mi-tak
with
coupon of July. 188'*. on.
In year ending Sept.
1876, net earnings, $297,733. Paid rent of Mil. 30,
&
,

Northern

RR., leased, $177,404. Land grant is over
8 K),000 acres.
The Philips & Colby i onstruction
Company ope ati q this road became embaria-ned
»n
Dec. 177. Foreclosure snit
begun September,
1378. Trustees took possession Jan..
1379, and it is
proposed to reorganize without a sale.
(V. 26,
p. 18; V. r.y p. 358, 375, 480; V. 28,
p. 18, 70; V.
29, p. 147, 303 )
Worcester A Nashua.—Guarantees the stock
and
bonds of Nashua <£
Rochester, leased. Interest to
be reduced to 5 p r c nt
For year ending SeptemDer 30, 1878, net income was
$83,060. (V. 25. D.
430; V. 27, p. 567; V. 28, p. 378; V. 29. p. 86.)

F

CANAL STOCKS AND BONDS.

XXX

Subscribers will confer

a

great favor by giving Immediate notice of any error discovered in tliese Tables.

DESCRIPTION.
-

Miles

Date

of

of

3

at the head of first page or

tables.

14
14

in 1878).

.

GO
60
148

1858

148
148

1877

153

....

....

.

Loan
Loan extension, convertible till December, 1877

Consolidated mortgage loan
Greenwood mortgage, reg.
Extended, 1877

83
103
103
103
103

Preferred stock

mortgage (for $1,000,000)
f

scrip dividend
Pennsylvania—Stock

....

327
327
108

General mortg., interest guar’d by Penn. RR

Schuylkill Navigation—Stock,

common

.

do

•

*

-

50
50

....

....

....

.

.

1,000
1,000
....

1870
1863
1864

1,000
1,000
1,000

45
....

....

....

85

(V. 27, p. 66).

1,000

•

bonds of 1872

Chesapeake & Delaware.—Delaware City to Chesa¬

various.
various.
50

.

....

Union,—1st mortgage

50
1839
1859
1841-4
1872
...

....

....

.

_

_

.

....

....

/

Delaware fHv.—Leased to Leh'gh Coal & Naviga¬
tion Co., at interest on bonds, and i per cent a year

stock, payable till Feb., 1880. inclusive, in scrip,
Aug., 1831, half in hcrip (V. 2J, p. 41, 193.)

then till

Del. <t Hudson Canal.—This Co., which is among
he largest miners and carriers of coal, leases the Alb.
& Susq. and Renss. & Sar. Railroads. Also endorses
bonds of N. Y. & Canada RR. Annual report, 1878.
V. 28, p. 501. (V. 27. p. 802, 628; V. 28, p. 453, 50l;
V. 29, p. 119, 1,6, 225.)

27

J.

11,193,550
771,000
5,381,963

Qr J-

250,0*00
3.000,000

J.
J.
J.
J.
F.
J.
F.
F.
A.
A.
F.

PINE

ttie

New York

do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do

&
&
&
&
&
&
&
&
&
&
&

do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do

D.
D.
D.
D.
A.
J.
Pittsburg, Office.
A. Leh. Val. RR. Co., Phila
A.
do
do
O.
do
do
O.
do
do
A.
do
do

1885

Aug. 4, 1879
July 1,1893
Aug. 1, 1876

J. & J.
F. & A.
F. & A.

....

.

.

Sept. 1, 1917
Sept. 2, 1876
1894
1884
1897
1897

’79- 80-’81-’82
1882
June 1,1911
1892

(?)
Aug. 4, 1879
Aug. 4,1879
April 1, 1906
Oct., 1885

Feb., 1889

do
do
do
do
do
do

do
do
do
do
do
do
do

do

.

J. & J.
J. & J.
J. & J.
J. & J.
M. & N

July, i910
Aug. 6, 1879
Aug. 6, 1879
March, 1897

Philadelphia, Office.
Philadelphia, Office.

& J.
& J.
& N.
& N.
& N.

.

1891
1894

.

Q. -M.
J.
J.
M.
M.
M.

Nov. 1, 1891
1884

.

....

Morris.—Leased April, 1871, to Lehigh Valley Rail¬
road for 999 years.
The lessees assume bonds and

of

Philadelphia, Oifice.

Q-J.
Q-F.

,

A.

July, 1886
1870

Q-M.

$1 40

1

Jnne, 1873

do

-

6
70c.

7
6

do

1890

....

6
6
6

Philadelphia, Office.

London.
J. & J. Balt., A. Brown & Sons.
F. & A.
Philadelphia, Oifice.
J. & J.
do
do
F. & A. N. Y., Bk. of Commerce.
M. & N.
do
do
J. & J.
do
do
J. & J.
do
do
A. & O. N. Y., oifice 71
B’way.
M. & 8.
do
do

6
6 g6
6
7
7
4
2
5
7
7
7

6
6
6
6
6
7

Stoclcs—Last
Dividend.

Balt., A. Brown & Sons.

M.& S.

1,004,300
1,025,000
1,175,000
780,000
220,000
103,164
4,480,405
3,000,000
909,236
3,175,900
1,709,380
3,990,392
1,200,000
260,000
756,650
628,100
2,002,746
1,000,000
1,320,000
325,310

pal, When Due.

Q-J.

1*2

2,000,000
4,658,500
508,520
41,550
2,119,259

Where Payable, and by
Whom.

& D.
& J.

J.

6
5
6
2s.
6
4
7
7
7
7
7

4,375,000
1,699,500
1,633,350
800,000
20,000,000
1,482,000
3,500,000
6,482,000
4,856,000
5,000,000

•

rt«*

1882 to 1907
1895

May, 1880
May, 1913
May, 1915

•

Phila. and Baltimore.
do
do
do
do
do

Jan.,

i*885

Jan. 1,1878

Jan., 1894
Jan., 1902
May 1.188 3

do

Philadelphia, Office.

scrip, and pay 10 per cent per annum on preferred
stock, and 4 on consolidated stock. (V. 12, px 714).
Pennsylvania Canal.—Worked in interest of Penn.
RR. which guarantees interest on bonds. An old
mortgage of $90,000 is due in 1887.
Schuylkill Navigation Company.—Leased from
June 1, 18*70, to Philadelphia &
Reading for 999
years, at annual rent of $655,000, including ''ertain
real and personal property conveyed to
Philadelphia
& Reading. The dividend of
August, 1879, was pay¬
able in Phil. & Reading RR. scrip. (V. 22, p. 493:
V. 26, p.4I8.)

Susquehanna <$> Tide Water —Leased and operated
by Philadelphia & Reading Railroad for interest on

bonds and naif of net earnings.
Union Canal
Stock, $2,907,850.
—

MORAN,
Stock

Exchange.)

STREET, NEW YORK.

DEALER

IN

Railroad, State, City and County Bonds.
THE

VARIOUS

ISSUES

i

OF
''

.

UNITED

STATES
BOUGHT




3
6

Lehigh Coal & Navigation.—Gross receipts in 1878,
expenses and int., $1,32\113; excess of
$355,860. The Central R.R. of N. J.
assumes (in purchase of
equipment), $2,310,000 of
the gold loan doe 1897, and leases the
Lehigh &
Susquehanna Railroad.
The Lehigh & WilkesBarre Coal Co. assumes $500,000 of the gold loan
due 1897, and >7 <1,000 (all) of the convertible gold
loan due 1894, aiul has also leased the coal lands
of the company. (V. 22, p. 27 9; V. 24,
p. 2i7,
145; V. 25, p. 4 .2; V. 28, p. 198 224, 578.)
Mnonqahela Navigation
Company.—Receipts,
1875, $196,576; expenses, $80,487; dividends, $90,387.

(Member

COUPONS

Payable

the latter,

DANIEL

First-Class

When

Cent.

$9r9,252;

Chesapeake <f Ohio.—Gross receipts, 187*, $^89,457;
net, $82,525. (V. 23, p. 599.)

on

.

....

Susquehanna—Stock
Maryland loan, 2d mortgage
Susquehanna Canal, common bonds, 3d mort
do
pref., 3d. T. W. priority b’ds..

peake City, Md.

.

..

>.

100

1,000

1870

....

loan
loan

100

Rate per

$2,078,038
1,993,750
8,229,594
2,000,000

717,000

....

.

Outstanding

■

....

1876
1865
1869

Amount

....

50

....

Improvement bonds

1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000

■

....

extended

Mortgage bonds, coup, (payable by P. & R.)
car

1872
1871
1872

....

Preferred stock

car

....

....

Dorans— Stock, consolidated
Boat loan
Preferred stock

....

a.

ilonongahela Navigation Co.—Stock

1,000
1000&C.
50

....

registered

registered, railroad.

1,000
1,000

....

....

Boat and
Boat and

100

1869
1871
1874

....

Lehigh Coal <£• Navigation—Stock.

1st mortgage,
2d mortgage

1,000

....

....

New

50

....

...

do

1st mortgage,
1st mortgage,

Vario’s
25

....

mortgage extended
mortgage, registered
do

Value.

Bon ds—Princi¬

INTEREST OR DIVIDENDS.

or

$50
1856

...

i

1st
1st

Size,

Par

Canal. Bonds.

Chesapeake & Delaware—Stock
1st mortgage (originally $2,800,000).
Chesapeake <£• Oh io—Stock
Maryland loan, sinking fund
Guaranteed sterling loan
Bonds having next preference
1st mortgage (extended 20 years
Delaware <£• Hudson—Stock

[VOL. XXIX.

AND

GOVERNMENT
AND

DIVIDENDS

■

'

BONDS

SOLD.
COLLECTED,

CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.

ETC.

September 27,

MISCELLANEOUS STOCKS

1879.]

Subscribers will confer

a

AND

BONDS#

great favor by giving immediate notice of
any error discovered in these Tables.

DESCRIPTION.
Date of
Bonds.

notes at the head of first page of tables.

Adams Express Company—Stock.
American Express—Stock
American Coal (Marvland)- -Stock
American JJnion Telegraph—Stock
Atlantic d

....

Pacific Telegraph- Stock
Company—Stock

1873
1874

Un. RR., 1st M., end. (s. f., rents on
$220,163)
do 2d M.,g.,end.,(s.f. gr’ndr’nts
on$144,800)
Consolidation Coal of Maryland—Stock

....

1804
1872

•

100
100
100

•

• •

....

1875

1,000
100

....

Mining—Stock

....

.

•

.

100
100

....

*

-

.

.

...

....

....

....

1878
1875

£100
100

....

.

....

1878

1,000

....

....

10

....

Mortgage bonds (fur $2,000,000)
United Slates
Express—Stock
United States Rolling Stick—Stock

1879

....

100

....

....

Wells, Fargo d Company Express—Stock
Western Union Telegraph—Stock
Real estate bonds, gold,
sinking fund
Bonds,coup or reg.,conv.till May,’85, s.f.lp.c.
Sterling bonds, coup. (s. f. lp.c. per annum)..

Adams Express
Company.—A reference
of Dinsmore and others in V. 19, p. 270.

to the

American Coat.—The report for 1876 showed
gross

(V. 22, p. 180; V.

....

100

....

100

1872

Water Power Co.—Annual report in V. 24
p. Id; V. 29, p.

(V. 24, p. 111. 396; V. 27,

Canton Impt'ovemeni Co.—The annual
lepoit for
ear ending May 31,
18*.9, is in V. 29, p. 65. Of the
2,500,000 mortgage $660,000 is reserved to pay ster¬
ling loan. The Company owns the stock of the
Union Railroad Comp my and guarantees its bonds.

65.)

Consolidation Coal.—Annual report for 18? 8 in V.
28, p. 3)1, showing gross receipts, $1,563,808; exenses, $1.2^ 9,283; net, $351,335. Consol, mortgage
onds are held to retire old bonds. Guarantees also
bonds of the Cumberland & Penn., and assumes

(V. 26, p.262;

1,000
1,000

1875
1875

£100&c

$772,605, and dividends 4*4

519.)

p.

34

1

&
&
&
&
&
&
&
&
&

...

....

do
do

1877

Jan., 1885
Jan. 1, 1897
Oct. 15, 1875

New York, Office.
Y., at Ill. Cent. RR.
Boston, Treas.’ Office.

Nov., 1893
Feb. 1, 1879

New York.

Jan. 1, 1886
Jan. 31, 1876

N. Y., Ill
do

Sept., 1868

Broadway.

0)

do

Aug. 1, 1881

....

7
7
6
2

J.
J.

8
8
8
7
7 g.

M. & N.
F. & A.

dl D.
& D.

N. Y., 4th National Bk.

Q.-J.

Q.-F.

i,

June
i892
June 1,189 '2
1877

New

N.

York, Office.
Y., Farm L.&T. Co.

London, J. S. Morgan & Co.

Aug. 15, 1879
May 15, 1881
Feb. 15, 1887
Aug. 15, 1892
Oct. 15, 1888
April 1,1885

N.Y., West. Union Tel.
Y., Company’s Office.

June 10, 1879

do
do
do
do

Q.-F.

A. & O.
A. & O.

do
do
do
do

....

...

A. <fc O.
J. & D.
A. & O.

28j
7
....

.

New York and London.

April 1, 1928

....

London.

2
2
4

....

M. & S.
J. & J.

1*\

Q.-J.

7 g.
rr

M. & N.
M. & N.
M. & 8.

1

6 g-

per cent.

(V. 26,

p.

246;

Pennsylvania Coal.—Liabilities at a minimum and
are paid.
Pennsylvania Anthra ite Coal.—Stock and bonds
admitted to N. Y/Stock Board Feb., 1877. Com¬
pany failed February, 1879. (Yr. 21, p. 112.)
Pullman Palace
Car Company.—The staling

bonds of 1875, of which the whole is«ue
anthurized
is $1,000,000, are convertible into stock from
April
1, 1878, to April 1, 18$. (V. 23, p. 4 »2; V. 25,
p.

302;

April, 1879

N.

....

.

.

dividends

V. 28, p

Quicksilver Mining Company.—Bonds paid off
July, 1879. Validity of preferred stock custained by
p

Jan. 2,

N.

F. & A.

vV. 26, n. 217, 523, 5 4 7, 625, 651; V. 27,
68, 229, 384, 623, t53; V. 2S, p. 42, 97, 402, 5 5
2,

n.

do
do

1, 1904
1, 1904

1*9*66

London.

>

N.Y.,Co.’s Office, 71 B’y.

Q.-F.

7

p. 552.

V. 27,

Jan.
Jan.

London.

St. Louis.

3
3

554. 5S0.)

21?;

or

....

Pacific Mail Steamship Co.—Report for !878-9, V.

p.

New York

....

V. 26, p. 95

308; V. 26,

June, 1884

London, Brown, S. & Co

& J.

183

Maryland Coal—Balance sheet, V. 21,

200.)

Nov. 12, 1872

....

J.

....

Mariposa Land A Mining Co.— As sessments made
the shares from time to time. (V. 23,
p. 112, 329;
V. 24, p. 128; V. 25, p. 358; V. 26, p. 290.)

p.

J.
J.
J.
N.
S.
J.
J.
O.
N.

Q.-F.

on

28,

Sept. 30, 1879

do

....

600,000
7,000,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
41,050,000
1,373,000
3,920,000
981,234

N. Y. Con t of Appeals. (V. 27.

E.

J.
J.
J.
M.
M.
J.
J.
A.
M.

Iowa Railroad Land Co.—This
company manages
the land grants of five distinct
organizations. The
total lam owned was 530,217 acres, March
31,1877.
In 18T6-7, 84,032 acres were sold for
$576,8i6, and
601 town lots for $62,932.
The cash ol.ee ions
were

American Union Teegriph C<?.—V. 29, p. 17.
Atlantic A Pacific Telegraph.—Pools with West¬
ern Union their
gross receipts on the basis of 87)4
to the W.U. and 12)£ per cent to A. & P.
Expenses
were arranged at 13*14.#
per cent to Atl. & Pac.
and 86*8514 to Western Union.
(V. *26. p. 3)4,136,
469, 521; V. 27, p. 281, 627: V. 28, p. 452.)

....

1,250,000
18,920,000

New York.

...

7
6
6
8

948,000
1.500,000
5,000.000

50

....

f.

Sept. 1, 1879
^July 1. 1879
Sept. 10, 1877

Boston, Office.

& D.

.

2*2

5,708,700
4,291,300

100
25

....

J.

6 g-

445,000
820,000
199,000
218,000

....

Company's Office.
Company’s Office.

New York, Office.

8.

6
6 g.

5,000,000
481,500
2,000,000
1,000,000
500,000
^,500.000
5,938,200
*f
328,000

-

N. Y.,
N. Y.,

dend.

....

6 g.

20,600,000

1,000
1,000
.

.

When Due.

Whom.

Q.-M.

10
7

4,400,000
10,000,000

....

....

Preferred stock
Southern d Atlantic Tel— Guaranteed stock
Spr’g Mountain Coal—Stock,guar.7 p.c.by L.V. 1

$135,000 Un. Mining Co. bonds.
V. 28, p 301.)

.

1872
1872

Bonds, 4th series
Bonds, debenture
Bonds, sterling debenture, convertible
Quicksilver Mining Company—Common stock..

receipts, $531,333; net, $25,399.
24, p. 248.)

.

....

1st mortgage (east side) bonds on 1,053
acres
1st rnort. (west side) on 400 acres & 550 leased
Producers’ Consolidated Ud dPetroleum- -Stock
Pullman Palace Car—Stock
Bonds, 2d series
Bonds, 3d series

suit

.

1861

Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal—Stock

St. Lou is Bridge— 1st
mortgage, new, s.
Tunnel RR. of St. Louis, stock
Sulro Tunnel—Stock

100
100
50

....

Pacific Mail Steamship Company—Stock
Pennsylvania Coal—Stock
1st mortgage bonds

No.

100

1,000

....

Mortgage bonds (lor $500,000)

p.

1,000

....

Maryland Coal—Stock

(V. 27, p. 14; V. 2.1.

1,000

•1868

Jowa Rlt. Land Co.—Stock
Mariposa Land d Mining Company—Stock
Preferred stock

119.)

1,000
500 &c.
500 Ac.
100

....

mortgage (convertible)
mortgage, consolidated, convertible
Cumberland Coal A Iron Company—Stock
Dunleith d Dubuque
Bridge—Bonds, sink, fund

Boston

£200

....

1st
1st

p. 396.

1,740,000
1,107,500
575,000
1,073,000
783,000
600,000
10,250,000
387,000
753,000
500,000
400,000
7,620,000
10,000,000
5,000,000
(?)

25

& J.
M. & 8.

....

1,000

....

Sterling bonds (sink.f’d one-fifth of land sales)
Mortgage bonds, gold, sixes (for $2,500,000).

(?)

15,000,000
4,000,000

....

1874

Q.-M.
J.

1,500,000

100
100

Stocks—Last Divi¬

Payable, and by

Pay’ble

2
2

18,000,000

....

....

Mortgage bonds (for $2,800,000)

Ontario Silver

100
25

Bonds—Principal

Where

When

Rate.

$100 $12,000,000
....

....

Boston Watei' Power

Canton Improvement

INTEREST.

Size or
Amount
Par
outstanding.
Value.

228; V. 39,

p.

3 *2.)

Jan. 1, 1891

New York, Office.
New York and London.

Aug. 15, 1879
Mar. 1, 1879
July 15, 1879

New York, Office.
New York, Office.
N. Y., Union Trust Co.
N. Y., Treasurer’s Office.

Oct.

15, 1879

May, 1902
May, 1900

London, Morton, R.&Co.

March 1,1900

Spring Mountain Coal Company.—'This is
7

anteed

per cent per

Valley RR.

year

till

1885 by

guar¬

Lehigh?

St. Lou's Bridge.—Net
income, 1876-77, $219,777;
1877-78, $219,598; 1378-9, $26 <,697 The railroad and
tunnel

sola

were

rnder

the mortgage of
July 1, 1878, for $150,000, Foreclosure under1873,
the
first and second
mortgages'on the Bridge was made
Dec. 20. 18.8.
The above mortgage and
$7,999,000
in stock
are

Of the stock
2d pref.. and

issued

under

the

re-organization.

$2,490,000 is first preferred, $1,0 0.000

500,000 common. Tbe coupons due
Oct., ’78, 79 and ’81 on 1st mort. bonds to be
paid
in same bonds, April,
>881.' fV. 26. p. 42), 524; V.
27. p.17, 227,
435,461,677; V. 28, p. 224; V. 29,

p.

196.)

Sutro

Tunnd.—Tunnel

on

Comstock

facilitating mining operations. (V. 27,

p. 147,

2M, 3 )2.)

p.

Lode

for

529; V. 28,

United States Express—New stock of
$1,000,000
issued. (V. 2.', p. 159; V. 23,
p. 87.)
United States Rolling Stock Co.—See
reports V. 26,

289; V. *28, p. 145.
Will*, Fargo A Co.—An increase in capital to
$B,250,i>00 is proposed. (V. 23, p. 13.)
Western Union Telegraph.—The
company div ded

p.

17 per cent in stock to the stockholders
of record
June 20. 1879, making the total stock as
above. (V.
2r>. p. 135, 266, :.04, 592,
626; V. 27. p 271, 38 1, 454,
568. 629, 668; V 28, p. 277,
592; V.

29, p 276.)

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