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PENNSYLVANIA 263 NAME. TEBMINI. Miles in operation in the state. Length between termini when different from the preceding. Cost of road and equipment. Capital stock paid in. From To Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Leased: Jamestown and Franklin... Buffalo, N. Y.. Chicago 111 44 51 105 20 9 15 16 6 101 18 85 17 58 9 25 10 6 23 56 10 7 8 47 16 104 24 85 87 7 539 $75,949,742 2,501,697 12,754,895 $50,000,000 605,027 Jamestown Oil City. Phillipsburg, N. J.. Union Junction Nanticoke branch Nescopec " ( Lehigh and Lackawanna Bethlehem. . . . Stroudsburg 36 675,100 1,265,684 203,730 20,489,162 875,100 1,800,000 130,000 21,916,850 Mauch Chunk . . Tamanend i Tresckow. Silver Brook Lehigh Valley Phillipsburg, N. J.. Penn Haven June.. Penn Haven Wilkesbarre Audenried Tomhicken Littlestown Lumber Yard Black Creek June.. Hanover Milnsville Mount Carmel Maryland state line. Tunkhannock Mount Alto Beraice "28 "46 86 115,616 821,100 235,000 150,900 551,969 8,459,576 84,850 248,851 110,000 123,600 302,427 8,596,500 Montrose (narrow gauge) Montrose Cumberland Valley railroad Junction. Hall's Station Newcastle Philadelphia Lansdale Muncy Creek Newcastle and Franklin Jamestown and Franklin railroad. Bethlehem Doylestown North Pennsylvania Branch Operated : Northeast Pennsylvania. . . Peach Bottom . Abington Bonair. "60 228,381 223,588 2,000,000 81,550 188,764 4,000,000 York. . .. Oxford Hawley Port Griffith... Lackawaxen, N. Y. Waverley, N. Y Bernice Branch (leased to Erie) Hawley. . . Pennsylvania and New York Operated : Sullivan and Erie Wilkesbarre .... 6,142,827 1,597,718 4,061,700 1,500,000 Monroeton Pennsylvania Inland . . . ... Hancock West Chester June. Lenni Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Branch, Chester Creek Columbia and Port Deposit K.E.,Md. 46 1,988,850 220,606 Pit-Hole Valley Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Pittsburgh, Washington, and Baltimore Pit-Hole City Pittsburgh Oleopolis 7 6 142 18 9 81 9 17 81 26 9 18 52 20 "ie 149 101,764 454,426 12,644,274 250,000 446,920 1,960,682 Finleyville Cumberland, Md... Pittsburgh t Connellsville Broad Ford Mount Pleasant and Broad Ford Shenango and Allegheny Mount Pleasant Harrisville Shenango 100 "82 64 86 1,178,102 140,000 181,000 1,854,801 1,694,932 205,486 199,000 55.900 1,500,000 580,900 828,950 165,000 500,000 759,627 248,807 Somerset Mineral Point . Susquehanna, Gettysburg, and Potomac Tioga Gettysburg Potomac river, Md. Morris Run N.Y. state line.... West Chester West Chester Wheeling, W. Va.. Wilmington, Del.. Wilmington, Del.. West Chester and Philadelphia Leased West Chester . Philadelphia June. Penn. railro'd. Washington Wheeling, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore. .. 8,329,089 796,516 Wilmington and Western. Oxford The canals lying wholly or partly in Pennsyl- vania are 880 m. in length, of which 781 m. are within the state. The total cost of the canals and fixtures has been $36,539,879, ex- clusive of the Pennsylvania. The receipts in 1873 were $2,342,918, and the total expenses were $1,824,915. The canals are used chief- ly for the transportation of coal. Their situa- tion and cost are shown in the following state- ment: NAME. UK dlNI. si

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From To j IHII 31 Delaware and Hudson . Honesdale Eddyville, N. Y 25 108 $6,889,210 Lehigh Coal and Navigation Easton . . Coal Port 48 8,000,000 Bristol 60 2,483,850 Monongahela Navigation Pittsburgh New Geneva 85 1 ' 15 H ( Muncv Pennsylvania . .

6,846 . . Columbia Junction Wilkesbarre Williamsburg 151 1 ] 113 [358* Unknown. Pennsylvania 4 Northumberland Clark's Ferry Farrandsville Millersburg 71 f 858 12 J '.'.'.'.'.'.'. Schuylkill Mill Creek Philadelphia 'l08 12,903,247 Susquehanna Union Columbia Middletown Havre de Grace, Md . . Beading 80 78 45 4,797,471 5,907,850 The number of national banks in operation on Nov. 1, 1874, was 205 (of which 29 were in Philadelphia and 16 in Pittsburgh), having a paid-in capital of $53,910,240 and an outstand- ing circulation of $42,092,711, being $11 95 per capita, 1-1 per cent, of the wealth of the state, and 78-1 per cent, of the bank capital. There were 115 state and savings banks which reported resources aggregating $35,732,021; capital stock actually paid in, $8,370,169; de-

  • Including 11 m. of slackwater.