| Annual Report of the Georgia RR |
| as of April 1, 1861, |
| Superintendent's Report |
| |
| Superintendent's Office, Ga., Rail Road
& Banking Co. |
| Augusta, Ga., April 20th, 1861 |
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| To the Hon. John P. King |
| President Georgia Rail Road
& Banking Company: |
| |
| Sir, |
|
The business of the fiscal year, closed on the 1st inst.,
exhibits the following result:
|
| Earnings from Passengers |
|
$324,384.83 |
|
|
"
" Freight |
|
491,572.41 |
|
|
"
" Mail |
|
44,503.57 |
$860,460.81 |
| Expenses: |
|
|
|
| For transportation |
|
$135,236.79 |
|
| " Motive Power |
|
185,320.90 |
|
| " Maintenance Way |
|
118,366.87 |
|
| " Maintenance Cars |
|
52,923.36 |
$491,847.92 |
| Leaving as Profits |
|
|
$368,612.89 |
| Of which there has been expended for Relaying
Iron, New Depots, &c. |
|
|
$212,903.60 |
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|
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| The Expenses for
working the Road from 1st April 1860, to 1st April, 1861, are
as follows: |
|
Conducting Transportation |
|
|
|
| Wages of cond'ts, train hands, meals & labor
for Fr't |
|
$53,472.37 |
|
|
"
"
"
Passenger and Mail |
|
23,391.54 |
|
|
"
" Ag'ts Clk's, (including line Road) |
|
37,304.64 |
|
| Loss and Damages |
|
6,622.46 |
|
| Stock Killed |
|
4,661.51 |
|
| Stationary and Printing |
|
5,769.56 |
|
| Repairs Depot Buildings |
|
4,014.71 |
$135,236.79 |
|
Motive Power |
|
|
|
| Wages Engineers and Firemen |
|
$56,826.42 |
|
| Expenses Water Stations |
|
10,608.20 |
|
| Wood for Engines |
|
41,358.74 |
|
| Repairs for Engines |
|
63,227.56 |
|
| Oil and Tallow for Engines |
|
13,299.98 |
185,320.90 |
|
Maintenance Way |
|
|
|
| Men's Wages Provisions &c. |
|
$79,297.62 |
|
| Railing and Crossties |
|
18,644.55 |
|
| Tools, Spikes and Castings |
|
14,157.02 |
|
| Repairs Bridges, &c. |
|
6,267.68 |
118,366.87 |
|
Maintenance of Cars |
|
|
|
| Repairs Cars (including new Cars built |
|
|
52,923.36 |
|
|
|
$491,847.92 |
| And for extraordinary Expenses |
|
|
|
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For Motive Power |
|
|
|
| 3 New Locomotives |
$29,045.00 |
|
|
| Engine house at Augusta |
1,249.45 |
$30,294.45 |
|
|
Buildings |
|
|
|
| Depot at Union Point |
$4,812.00 |
|
|
|
" Thompson |
5,460.92 |
|
|
|
"
Lexington |
3,958.88 |
|
|
|
" Belair |
284.75 |
|
|
|
" Antioch |
395.38 |
$14,911.93 |
|
|
Maintenance Way |
|
|
|
| Rock Box Culverts at 39, 85, 88, 89, 91, 92 and
93 mile posts, Arch Culvert at 91 mile post and completing
Richland & earth work for same |
$9,698.59 |
|
|
| Relaying 23 3/4 miles Iron on main line and
ditching same |
115,585.87 |
|
|
| Relaying 8 1/8 miles Iron Athens Branch |
35,179.42 |
|
|
| Fencing Line of Road |
5,500.00 |
$165,963.88 |
|
|
Maintenance Cars |
|
|
|
| Patent for Lightner Box |
$1,333.34 |
|
|
|
" Bishop's Coupling |
400.00 |
$1,733.34 |
212,903.60 |
|
|
|
$704,751.52 |
|
| During the year the sum of
$5,700 has been expended on Bridges at Oconee, Yellow and Little
Rivers, these bridges have been put in thorough repairs. The Engine,
Republic, has been rebuilt at an expense of $4,700, and the sum of
$7,500.00 expended on new Conductors Cars, all of which has been
charged as ordinary expenses. |
| The Road and outfit is in
excellent condition and under ordinary circumstances a great reduction
in expenses had naturally to ensure, and was commenced in December.
The uncertainty of the future, as well as the present stagnation of
traffic, has fully impressed the necessity for earnest effort to the
permanent reduction of expenses and to the claim the Road has upon
every employee for increased diligence and care. |
|
The reduction for expenses for 1862 already provided for, I
make, by estimate, to be:
|
| Reduced ordinary Expenses |
$122,475.06 |
|
" Extraordinary,
&c. |
124,903.60 |
| Reduction provided for |
$247,378.66 |
| |
|
| This would leave the expenses for 1862 |
$457,372.86 |
| In which amount there is in material on hand,
Iron, Ties and Fuel, paid for by Bank |
105,750.00 |
| Making the Cash Payment for 1862 |
$351,622.86 |
| |
|
| The expenses, therefore,
for 1862 would appear in next Annual Statement of account, after
having reduced the material account at Bank by $105,750.00, as
follows: |
| Ordinary Expenses, 1862 |
$369,372.86 |
| Extraordinary, &c. |
88,000.00 |
|
$457,372.86 |
|
|
I contemplate there will be a reduction from these figures,
and, as no estimate can be made as to what the earnings of the Road will
be, I feel that it is imperative that expenses should be reduced to
actual requirements of business the maintaining Stock in efficient
condition and to very moderate expenditures in improvements.
|
|
The extraordinary expenses contemplated in the above
Statement are:
|
| New Iron on Athens Branch -- 10 miles |
$45,000.00 |
| New Iron Washington Branch -- 4 miles |
18,000.00 |
| New Iron Main Line -- 4 miles |
20,000.00 |
| New Depot Washington Junction |
5,000.00 |
|
$88,000.00 |
|
|
This comprises all new work which is essential, there is,
however six miles of light T Rail between Union Point and Greenboro for
which it is desirable, when convenient, to substitute heavy rail and
transfer this lighter rail to the branches.
|
| The following Table
shows Increase and Decrease of Sources of Revenue |
|
Increase |
Decrease |
Total Increase |
Total Decrease |
| Passengers Through |
|
$42,501.40 |
|
|
|
" Local |
|
45,421.67 |
|
$87,923.07 |
| |
|
|
|
|
| Up Freight to W. & A. R. R. |
|
$21,622.22 |
|
|
|
"
" " E. T. & G.
R. R. |
|
4,111.40 |
|
|
|
"
" " Rome Rail Road |
|
7,477.85 |
|
|
|
"
" " A. & W. R.
R. |
|
13,391.09 |
|
|
|
"
" " Atlanta |
|
7,687.25 |
|
|
|
"
" " Way St'ns G.
R. R. |
|
23,200.18 |
|
$77,489.99 |
| |
|
|
|
|
| Down Fr't from W. & A. R. R. |
|
33,409.55 |
|
|
|
"
" " E.
T. & G. R. R. |
|
9,478.29 |
|
|
|
"
" "
Rome Rail Road |
|
14,935.73 |
|
|
|
"
" " A.
& W. " |
|
41,188.35 |
|
|
|
"
" "
Atlanta |
|
9,958.19 |
|
|
|
"
" "
Way St'ns G. R. R. |
|
36,701.40 |
|
145,671.51 |
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|
|
|
|
| Freight from Stations to Stations on Georgia
Railroad & from connecting Roads to stations |
$12,493.45 |
|
$12,493.45 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| Miscellaneous Freight |
|
136.29 |
|
136.29 |
|
|
|
$12,493.45 |
311,220.86 |
|
Total Decrease |
$298,727.41 |
|
|
The Table of Increase and Decrease of Revenue shows a
decrease of $45,166.87 in local passage. This arises by all tickets sold
to Atlanta being stated as local, though much of this travel belonged to
points beyond and to which tickets are now sold, and accounts for this
excess of decrease in local travel.
|
|
There is a decrease in transportation of the following
articles of down freight, viz:
|
| Bales Cotton |
Bbls. Flour |
Bushels Grain |
| 83,109 |
34,022 |
143,744 |
|
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I beg leave to refer to the tables appended in which the
sources of Revenue are fully exposed.
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Table 7 shows the business between Augusta and each
connecting Road up and down, also the through Freight, between
Charleston and connecting Road.
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Table 8 gives number of Passengers from each Station to
each other Station; and table 00 the Through Travel, its departure and
destination.
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These additional Tables will be found interesting in
comparison with business of future years, as showing the increase and
decrease of each source of revenue.
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Respectfully submitted.
|
|
Geo. Yonge
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General Supt.
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