STATEMENT O. Distribution of Items, comprising Net Expenses of Transportation and Roadway Departments, for the year ending November 30, 1857, under the heads of Cost of Transporting Coal, Merchandise, and Passengers. Of Total expenses for Year, Coal . . . is charged with 60.43 cents per ton STATEMENT P. Description of all Merchandise transported over the Philadelphia and Reading Rail Road, and amount of same received in the city of Philadelphia for the year ending November 30, 1857. Dry Goods and Carpeting. Flour: (40,516 bbls. at Philadelphia: whole line 100,278 bbls) Furniture, all kinds, and Pianos 846 1,761 369 183 555 1,403 32 1,193 1,037 3,031 581 721 1,631 1,682 1,773 157 1,144 229 935 10 1,628 Comparative Wear and Breakage of Rails from 1850 to 1857, inclusive. "64 & 68 " Phoenix 52" Pottsville 60" Average 7. 3 8.8 19.3 27.6 27.1 1 bar in 696 1 bar in 2361 bar in 218 Statement of Rails removed from Tracks and Cost of renewing Iron per Ton carried over the Road. 20- 33 1 260 1 561 78 18% 15% 137 1 314 Comparative Statement of the Number of Cars broken on the Philadelphia and Reading Rail Road for the years 1848 (from July 1, 1848, to Nov. 30, 1848), 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, and 1857. From July 1 to December 1, 1848, 1 car broken for every 1485 tons of coal carried. In the year 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 4950 10,057 64 NOTE- Of the 9 persons killed in the past year, 5 were strangers; and of the injured, 5 were strangers. TABLE, Showing the Business of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail Road (each item monthly) Miscellaneous Receipts 1,955 83 1,184 83 79,660 46 1,682 36 1,184 84 30,097 15 27.229 51 25,160 66 27,156 44 27,699 40 20.848 02 260,357 51 238,418 01 180,651 97 163,088 58 1,184 84 1,184 83 1,568 45 1,751 56 1,184 84 1,184 83 1,184 83 17,158 S4 287,534 34 329,985 78 2,412,923 37 14,218 00 1,654 05 1,671 13 1,558 65 20,860 07 Coal Tonnage.. $317,469 80 122,964 35 196,744 84 224,303 94 285,164 29 285,123 08 317,876 93 Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. 1,184 83 167,217 52,134 105,7558 112,906 152,4608 163,9797188,305 188,406 175,969 135,903 118,472 148,181 1,709,6918 Ο |