| Annual Report of the East Tennessee &
Georgia RR |
| as of July 1, 1861, |
| Superintendent's Report |
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| Office E. Tenn. & Ga. Rail Road Co. |
| September 1st, 1861 |
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Major C. Wallace
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| President |
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| The work of the year ending
30th June, although on the whole profitable to the Company, has been
unusually laborious to your operatives and hard on your road-bed and
equipments. |
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The number of Engines and Cars on hand, of every
description, is about the same as reported to you at the close of last
year. One Engine was purchased and one lost during the year. The class
of work performed during the last two months of the year has been of a
character to materially damage your rolling stock. The amount of this
kind of equipment will have to be largely increased as fast as it can
be done with proper economy.
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Your road-bed and track have been well kept up. Somewhere
near 30,000 defective cross-ties have been removed and others of a
good quality substituted, and it will be necessary to remove many
thousand more before winter sets in.
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The full Tables submitted by other officers, exhibiting
your earnings, expenses, &c., render it unnecessary for me to do
more than refer to them. Your current expenses for the year amounts to
38 3/4 per cent. of the gross earnings included in which is a large
sum unjustly, as we think, recovered from the Company for the alleged
detention of wheat in 1857 -- notwithstanding which the pro rata is a
fraction more than one per cent. less than the year previous.
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Very respectfully, yours
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R. C. Jackson
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Sup't.
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