| Annual Report of the Central (of Georgia) RR |
| as of December 1, 1863 |
| Superintendent's Report |
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| Superintendent's Report |
| Superintendent's Office C. R. R. |
| Savannah, Ga., 1st December, 1863 |
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| R. R. Cuyler, Esq. |
| President |
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|
| Sir, |
| I herewith submit my report
of the operations of the Road for the fiscal year, ending November
30th, 1863. |
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Earnings of the Road for the Year |
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| Up Freight (westward) |
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$431,533.08 |
| Down Freight (eastward) |
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578,427.43 |
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Total from Freight |
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$1,009,960.51 |
| Through Passengers C. R. R. |
$395,850.49 |
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| Way Passengers C. R. R. |
443,047.95 |
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Up and Down Passengers Eatonton Branch |
43,398.68 |
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Up and Down Passengers Augusta Branch |
176,235.37 |
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Total from Passengers |
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$1,058,532.49 |
| Mails, C. R. R. |
31,666.10 |
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| Mails, Eatonton Branch |
2,424.96 |
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| Mails, Augusta Branch |
8,281.20 |
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Total from Mails |
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$42,372.26 |
| Passenger Train and Express Freight |
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150,315.33 |
| Incidental, Storage, &c. |
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27,527.47 |
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Total Earnings |
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$2,288,708.06 |
| Ordinary Expenses for the year have been |
$1,123,340.28 |
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| Rent paid Aug. & Sav. R. R. |
73,000.00 |
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| Extraordinary Expenses have been |
216,642.95 |
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Total Expenditures |
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$1,399,983.23 |
| Leaving actual net Earnings |
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$888,724.83 |
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Current Expenditures |
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| The expenditures for
operating the Road and Branches, have been as follows: |
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Transportation Expenses |
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| Salaries and Labor |
$164,392.16 |
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| Materials (including Gas bills, Savannah, Macon
and Augusta,) and all
incidental expenses in this department |
7,163.55 |
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| Printing, Stationery, Postage and Advertising |
14,674.41 |
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| Agents at Stations |
13,576.60 |
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| Subsistence, in this is included
board of
Conductors, Train Hands, &c., on the road, and food and
clothing for negro Train hands |
57,990.91 |
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| Total Transportation |
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$257,797.63 |
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Maintenance of Motive Power |
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| Salaries and Labor |
$45,676.90 |
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| Materials |
66,209.45 |
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| Engineers and Firemens Wages |
75,876.36 |
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| Printing, Books, Postage, &c. |
41.50 |
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| Oil, Tallow and Waste |
31,799.51 |
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| Subsistence of Firemen, &c. |
33,745.56 |
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| Total Maintenance Motive Power |
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$253,349.28 |
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Fuel and Water |
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| Fuel |
$57,637.36 |
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| Water, Pumps and Cisterns |
5,808.07 |
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Total Fuel and Water |
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$63,445.43 |
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Maintenance of Cars |
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| Salaries and Labor |
$36,261.44 |
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| Materials |
20,599.03 |
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| Printing, Postage, Books, &c. |
20.50 |
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| Oil, Tallow and Waste |
36,578.74 |
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| Total Maintenance Cars |
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$93,459.71 |
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Damage |
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| Paid for Stock Killed |
$14,641.65 |
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|
" " Goods lost
& damaged |
37,456.82 |
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| Total Damage |
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$52,098.47 |
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Repairs of Road |
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| Salaries and Labor |
$81,810.38 |
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| Materials -- Lumber for Bridges, Stringers,
Ties, Brick, Cement and Lime |
78,749.09 |
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| Tools and Subsistence |
112,378.24 |
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| Rails, Chairs and Spikes |
28,198.24 |
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| Repairs of Buildings, Bridges and
Culverts |
5,295.31 |
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| Printing, Postage, Advertising, Books &c. |
53.50 |
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| Total Repairs, road,
bridges, culverts, and buildings |
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$306,484.76 |
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Incidental Expenses |
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| Including Printing, Advertising, Books,
Stationery, Postage, Attorneys Fees, Court Costs, Donations,
Gratuities, Annuity City of Macon, Taxes, except Confederates,
and all contingent expenses not
included under either of above heads |
$14,307.47 |
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| Repairs of Depot and Station Houses |
9,397.53 |
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| Total Current Expenses |
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$1,123,340.28 |
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Rent Account |
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| For rent of Aug. & Sav. R. R. |
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$73,000.00 |
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Extraordinary Expenses |
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| Addition to shops at Macon |
3,884.22 |
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| Station House at Eatonton |
308.30 |
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"
"
"
" No. 6 |
200.00 |
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"
" "
"
" 8 |
741.25 |
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| Negro Quarters at Augusta |
2,915.48 |
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| Purchase of Land in Jones Co. |
5,663.70 |
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| Purchase of Land in Jefferson County |
18,450.00 |
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| Purchase of Land in Chatham |
14,480.00 |
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| Confederate States Taxes |
170,000.00 |
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Total Extraordinary |
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$216,642.95 |
| Total Amount Expended |
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$1,339,983. |
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| In consequence of our
inability to procure suitable materials, very few improvements have
been made during the year. The Passenger House at Savannah is still
unfinished. A brick house, to shelter our Negro laborers at Augusta,
has been built, and the large shed for protection of Passengers at
Millen, has been covered anew with cypress shingles (as tin could not
be procured) making it tight and comfortable for the large number of
Passengers who change cars at that point. |
| Our Trains have run with
great regularity during the past year, and although our effective
means of doing the work have been constantly diminishing, and the
demands from Government and others, increasing, we have so managed as
to give pretty general satisfaction to all. Constant demands have been
made upon us by other Roads for use of Rolling Stock for moving Troops
and Supplies for Government, with which we have complied to the extent
of our ability. |
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One of our Freight Engines has been in use on the
Atlantic & Gulf Railroad since last February, another, with ten
cars, is now in use of Government, strengthening our defences. The W.
M. Wadley, with twenty cars, has been for two months past, and still
continues, hauling Cotton for Government between Augusta and
Wilmington.
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| Very recently, upon the
urgent demands of Government, we agreed to transfer two Freight
Engines and forty Cars to the Roads between Augusta and Columbia. On
the 19th of December last we sold engine Macon, to Atlantic & Gulf
Railroad for $8,000. The Charles T. Pollard and Georgia, both large
Freight Engines, to East Tennessee & Georgia Railroad, for
$40,000, and on January 21st, 1863, the Milledgeville, to Charlotte
& South Carolina Railroad, for $6,000. |
| December 19th, last, sold ten
Box Cars to Atlantic & Gulf Railroad, for $12,000. Same date,
twelve Box and eight Platform Cars, to East Tennessee & Georgia
Railroad, for $20,800. The amount received for Cars sold would not now
purchase half the same number of wheels. The sales of Rolling Stock,
the constant and rapid deterioration of what is left us, and the impossibility
of procuring suitable materials for repairs, are slowly but surely
reducing our means of transportation. |
| The following casualties have
occurred in the past year: January 16th, 1863, Night Passenger Train
was thrown from track on 127th mile (the coldest night of past winter)
by wheel breaking under Baggage Car, very seriously injuring the cars,
destroying Passengers' baggage, to amount of $2,408, which we paid,
slightly injuring several Passengers, and instantly killing Patrick
Dodd, Baggage Master, and James Creed, Express Messenger. |
| August 7th, 1863, Engine
Beauregard, exploded one mile from Savannah, killing the Engineer,
Michael Leonard, Fireman Michael Lacy, and injuring one negro. The
explosion was evidently caused by carelessness of the Engineer, in
having no water, or very little, in the boiler. |
| September 2d, 1863, Mail
Train, about eleven o'clock at night, near old No. 15, ran over a
negro asleep on the track, and injured him so that he died next day. |
| September 23d, Switching
Engine run over a lad named McKenna standing on the track, in Savannah
Depot, causing his death. |
| November 5th, a soldier was
run over and his leg cut off, by jumping from the Train at Station 13,
when in motion. |
| November 13th, a soldier was
run over and killed whilst standing on the track in Passengers' shed,
Macon; Train was backing. |
| The 500 tons new Rails,
mentioned in my last report, have been laid in the track. |
| There has been received for
use of Road during the year: |
| Cross ties (pine) |
56,103 |
|
" "
(cypress) |
126 |
| Total Ties |
56,229 |
| Feet board measure stringers |
1,843,860 |
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"
"
" switch stringers |
10,758 |
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"
"
" bridges and culverts |
159,689 |
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"
"
" buildings and other purposes |
67,582 |
| Feet board measure, ribbon for Eatonton Branch |
43,506 |
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"
"
" in all for Augusta
Branch |
137,518 |
| Total lumber for all
purposes, feet |
2,262,913 |
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We have on hand of above amount, 213,632 feet, and 6,926 Cross
Ties. We have on hand but little Iron fit for use in repairs. We could
use several hundred tons in repairs with decided improvement to the
track and saving to Rolling Stock.
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| I have closed up our
Brickyard, having sufficient bricks on hand to answer our ordinary
purposes for the next year. The hands have been set to cutting wood
and burning charcoal for our shops. |
| Our Shop Buildings at Macon
are finished, and have been in use since April, enabling our repairs
to Engines and Cars at that point to be done promptly. |
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At date of my last report we had in all 729 Cars. During
the past year none have been added, but our stock has diminished as
follows: Destroyed by accident and worn out 4 Box, 6 Platform and 1
Baggage and Package. Sold 22 Box and 8 Platform, making a reduction of
41, and leaving our stock of all kinds 690, which are scattered over
nearly every road in the Confederacy. Our statement of Cars is taken
from our shop books, as the numbers were entered when the Cars were
built, and we have not had any opportunity, within the past three
years, to look up our Cars on other roads and have them returned, and
the number in existence actually ascertained. When that can be done, I
doubt if three fourths of the actual number we own will be found.
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| Reference to the tables
accompanying this report will give full information as to sources of
revenue business, Engines, Cars, and their condition, and other useful
information. |
| The Track and Bridges are in
fair order, and perfectly safe for Trains at the moderate speed at
which they now run. |
| The business for the past
year, under the difficulties which have surrounded us, has been done
promptly and regularly, to the satisfaction of the Government and of
our own citizens. |
| The officers and men have
promptly responded to every call made upon them, and have faithfully
performed their duty on all occasions. |
| Respectfully submitted |
| George W. Adams |
| General Superintendent |
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