| Annual Report of the Nashville &
Chattanooga RR |
| as of July 1, 1861 |
| Engineer's Report |
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| Superintendent's Report |
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| Engineer's Office |
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Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad
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| Nashville, August 1, 1861 |
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Colonel V. K. Stevenson
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| President |
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Sir,
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| The expenditures of the road
department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1861, are as follows. |
| Permanent work,
embracing mew work between Stevenson and Chattanooga, ditching
ponds occasioned by the construction of the road in Alabama |
| Embankment |
$12,363.00 |
| Bridge masonry |
1,400.00 |
| Slope wall and culvert masonry |
1,939.33 |
| Howe's truss bridges |
4,574.57 |
| Freight house at Chattanooga |
2,070.11 |
| Freight house at Bridgeport |
550.00 |
| Ditching ponds occasioned by the construction of
the road in Alabama |
1,491.23 |
| Total |
24,388.24 |
| Maintenance of
way -- ordinary repairs |
| Superintendence |
$2,208.28 |
| Chairs, spikes, &c. |
3,400.07 |
| Cross-ties and stringers |
13,130.81 |
| Labor, including expenses of gravel engine |
35,825.89 |
| Bridges and culverts |
5,073.57 |
| Iron rails |
4,511.22 |
| Tools, and repairs of same |
1,032.12 |
| Road cars, and repairs to same |
155.97 |
| Provisions and clothing |
3,608.49 |
| Division houses |
157.49 |
| Watching bridges |
1,644.62 |
| Repairs of water stations |
584.56 |
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71,323.09 |
| Extraordinary
repairs |
| Rock ballast |
$1,119.45 |
| Other
expenditures not in either of above accounts |
| Down freight house at Nashville |
$4,494.16 |
| Down freight house at Lavergne |
450.00 |
| Telegraph office and repairing depot at
Shelbyville |
284.59 |
| Repairing freight houses at Tullahoma, Cowan,
and Stevenson |
633.60 |
| Temporary freight house at Chattanooga |
836.20 |
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6,698.55 |
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| We have about 4,000 cords of
wood and 15,000 cross-ties all paid for, to start into next year with;
the ties will all be needed to relay Stringer Track, which is reduced
to 39 miles, and take the place of decaying ties, to prepare our track
for the coming winter. |
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The embankments at Love's and Cross Hollows have been
completed, and the steam excavator is now operating at Bridgeport
filling the trestle-work on Long island, which will probably be
completed by the first of October.
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| The Howe's truss bridges,
built last year by Maxwell, Saulpaw & Co., have been
weather-boarded, covered with tin, and painted. The brick freight
houses that were in progress at Nashville and Chattanooga at the time
of your last annual convention have been completed; also, wood freight
houses have been constructed at Bridgeport, Florence, and Lavergne. |
| Small forces have been
employed on the track and bridge repairs during the past fiscal year.
At the opening of the war it was deemed proper to introduce the most
rigid economy, when the forces on the track were reduced and the
services of all that could be dispensed with were discontinued. |
| McMinnville &
Manchester branch The amount expended for cross-ties and repairs
in $1,784.71. The cross-ties have not given way so rapidly as they
indicated at the period of my last report, consequently the
expenditures have not been so heavy as was anticipated. |
| Jasper branch The
following is a statement of the condition of the work on this road,
July 1, 1861, as per reports of the agent and engineer in charge: |
| Capital stock collected |
$28,732.35 |
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| Notes of stockholders on hand |
11,172.83 |
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| Uncollected stock |
14,815.46 |
$54,720.64 |
| Graduation done |
30,027.74 |
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| Masonry done |
1,746.05 |
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| Engineering and incidentals |
2,944.75 |
$34,718.54 |
| Graduation to do |
6,500.00 |
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| Bridging and trestling |
6,000.00 |
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| Cross-ties |
8,000.00 |
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| Engineering and incidentals |
2,000.00 |
22,500.00 |
| Revised estimated cost of road ready for
superstructure |
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57,218.54 |
| Amount paid on above, as per agent's report |
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27,455.92 |
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29,662.63 |
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| The graduation is all under
contract and progressing. No contracts have been closed for bridging
and trestling, or cross-ties. |
| Respectfully submitted: |
| R. C. Morris |
| Res. Engineer |
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