596 OHIO ports of entry being Toledo, Sandusky, and Cleveland. Cincinnati is a port of delivery in the district of Louisiana. By act of congress of July, 1870, it is also made a port of entry, where merchandise may be entered without appraisement at the port of first arrival. The value of the merchandise thus transported du- ring the year ending June 30, 1874, was $111,- 576 ; that entered from other districts amount- ed to $75,435. The imports and domestic ex- ports in the three customs districts during the year ending June 30, 1874, were as follows : DISTRICTS. Imports. Domestic export!. Cuyahoga .... $449 118 $1 426 990 Miami 79018 l'836'825 Sandusky 26,240 '264'914 Total $554,376 $8 528,729 The number of vessels and tonnage that en- tered and cleared in the foreign trade, and the whole number registered, enrolled, and licensed in each district, were as follows : DISTRICTS. ENTERED. CLEARED. REGISTERED, AC. No. Tons. No. Tons. No. Tons. Cuyahoga. . . Miami Sandusky .. Total 924 802 136 198,676 69,517 12,089 947 286 155 189,587 71,339 14,332 10 2,320-20 1,362 280,282 1,388 275,258 10 2,320-20 The number of vessels engaged in the coastwise trade and those built in the different districts were as follows : DISTRICTS. COASTWISE TRADE. BUILT. ENTERED. OLEAEED. No. Tons. No. Tons. No. Tons. Cuyahoga Miami Sandusky Total. . . 3,315 1,962 3,140 1,126,839 441>3 479,897 3,418 1,918 8,124 1,170,851 425,951 474,602 20 6 2 11,242-75 1,807-84 614-16 8,417 2,048,329 8,460 2,070,904 28 18,664-75 The mileage of railroads in . Ohio has in- creased from 36 m. in 1841 to* 572 in 1851, 3,024 in 1861, 3,176 in 1865, 3,214 in 1867, 3,224 in 1869, 3,457 in 1871, 3,787 in 1872, and 4,163 in 1873; and 4,374m. of main line and branches were reported by the commissioners of railroads and telegraphs, June 30, 1874, be- sides which there were 1,142 m. of sidings and other tracks, making the total extent of track 5,516 m. The total amount of capital stock paid in was $147,902,160; funded and other debt, $151,029,300; total stock and debt, $298,931,461; number of passengers carried, 14,886,294; freight, 26,199,435 tons; gross earnings on 4,195 m. operated, $37,177,129; net earnings, $10,182,894. The lines in opera- tion in 1874, with their termini and number of miles completed, are represented in the follow- ing table : NAME OF CORPORATION. TERMINI. Miles in operation in the state in 1874. Total length between ter- mini when different from the preceding. From To
- Ash tabula, Youngstown, and Pittsburgh
Ashtabula 63 248 60 80 83 8 '887 81 Atlantic and Great Western Salamanca, N. Y j- Dayton Dayton . . . PYtMisinn J Bv m eans of extra rail on Cincinnati, JiXtenSlOn < Tr aTr ,!H-/Yn an A To +^n rwo/1 Cincinnati ( Cleveland and Mahoning Cleveland Sharon Pa Divisions-^ Niles and New Lisbon ( Liberty and Vienna Niles.... Girard New Lisbon New Vienna Baltimore and Ohio i Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and Chicago. . . Central Ohio. . . . Centreton . Chicago, 111 Bellaire . 95 137 116 44 4 20 60 21 87 141 148 130 15 45 188 119 50 74 145 13 109 43 82 76 13 82 7 269 "88 "98 42 '263 'l24 Columbus . Sandusky, Mansfield, and Newark Newark, Somerset, and Straitsville Canada Southern (branch) Sandusky, . . Newark Newark Toledo Shawmee TrentonCrossing,Mich. Indiana state line (Cincinnati and Indiana Cincinnati Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Dayton 1 Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Indianapolis.. Leased -< Cincinnati, Richmond, and Chicago ( Dayton and Michigan Hamilton Indianapolis, Ind Richmond Ind Cincinnati Dayton ... Toledo "Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley Dresden Junction . . . Springfield Carey Springfield Morrow Sandusky Cincinnati, Sandusky, and Cleveland Branch Leased, Columbus, Springfield, and Cincinnati Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis-] Leased, Cincinnati and Springfield Findlay Cleveland Gallon Indianapolis, Ind Springfield Delaware Springfield .. Cincinnati Cleveland, Mt. Vernon and^Delaware Hudson Leased, Massillon and Cleveland Clinton Massillon
- Cleveland and Pittsburgh
Cleveland Rochester Pa Eiver division . Bellaire Bayard Yellow Creek . . . New Philadelphia.... Athens. Tuscarawas branch Columbus and Hocking Valley Branch Logan New Straitsville Union City, Ind Harrison Dayton and Union . Dodson ^Harrison branch ,. Valley Junction
- Operated by the Pennsylvania railroad company.
t Operated by the Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Lafayette railroad company. $ Operated by the Whitewater Valley railroad company of Indiana.
