NP, MT 2/18/1865

From the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph
 
February 18, 1865
Charlotte & South Carolina Railroad
   The report of business and profits of the Road for the year ending Dec. 31st, 1864, is as follows: 
   Total receipts $3,040,667.05; expenses, including $58,817.80 paid for building a foundry and an addition to the machine shop, $1,861,927.55; leaving as profits $1,178,740.20. The real operating expenses were 59 1/2 per cent. of the gross income.
   Of the next income, dividends have been paid amounting to $306,983.00; invested in Confederate 5 per cent. bonds, $114,200.00; cotton, $237,?14.67; Columbia & Hamburg Railroad, $682,253.60; cash on hand, $638,703.86.
   The road is well supplied with motive power and rolling stock in good order.

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