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ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS.

During tlio year there lias been charged to Oonstrnction accoimt, for laud
for additional Freight and Cattle aocommodatioiis, principally at Albany
and Bufliilo, $139,183.36.

All the other expenditures during the year have been charged to Trans¬
portation Expenses, and include, besides the ordinary items of general
repairs, the following:

The addition of 2 locomotive engines and 601 ears to tbe equiiiment.
The addition of 6.36 miles to the second track between Syracuse and
Koehestcr, and 3.92 miles to the sidings and turnouts at various points
along tbo line. The cost of erections and improvements at cattle yards at
Buffalo and Suspension Bridge. Enlargements and improvements to depot
buildings at Eome, Buffalo and Niagara Ealls. Tho substitution of an
embankment and culvert for the wooden bridge (iive spans of 109
feet each) at Allen's Creek. The completion of a stone arch and
earth filling over Canal Basin at West Troy. Tho construction of an
iron bridge over the Erie Canal at Eome, and material for and part
construction of iron bridge over the Erie Canal at Schenectady.

The length of Iron Bridging nov,' upon the line, reduced to single track,
amounts to 5,299r2 feet.

The renewal of Iron Eails, during the year, amounted to 13,308 tons, equal
to 133.43 miles of single track; the number of ties renewed during the
same period was 284,394.

The amount of Income used for the Coiistrnction and Investment accounts,
to the close of the year, was $3,990,452.64, as shown by the following
statement:

Construction account,.................................  $32, 879,251 38

Investment,..........................................          712,945 00

"                                               $33, 592,190 38

Capital stock,.......................... 824,386,000 00

Funded Debt, less Debt Certificates and

Bonds to Buffalo and, Niagara Ealls Eail

Eoad Company, for 'iffemjums ajlowed

at consolidation, . ... .;X.............      6, 215, 743 74   30, 001, 743 74

'"                                                    $2, 990, 452 64

The amount of Fuel and Supplies not included Aix the assets of the Com¬
pany, as shown by the inventory and balance shkct herein contained, is
$1,000,000.00.