(No. 79.) NEW YORK, UTICA AND OGDENSBURGH. STATE OF NEW YORK, City and County of New York, S ss: HENRY W. HOWELL, Treasurer, and M. O. DAVIDSON, Chief Engineer of the New York, Utica and Ogdensburgh Railroad Company, being severally sworn, each for himself deposes and says, that the statements in the annexed report, which has been signed by each of them, at the end thereof, are true and correct, according to the best of his knowledge, information and belief. This company was organized on the 6th day of June of the present year, with $12,000,000 of capital stock, of which two hundred thousand ($200,000) dollars was subscribed at the time of the organization of the company and ten per cent thereon was paid to the company in cash. Since that time the company have completed the preliminary surveys of one hundred and eighty miles of their line, including the Syracuse branch, and the engineers are now engaged in making the maps and profiles of the same. No stock or bonds of this company have yet been issued; arrangements are, however, in progress, looking to the subscription of a large portion of the stock of the company; and other negotiations have been commenced with a view to the incorporation and consolidation with this company, of several disconnected lines already built. NAMES AND RESIDENCES OF OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY. FRANCIS MORRIS Directors. WESTCHESTER Co., N. Y. HENRY CUMMINGS W. W. DECHERT... J. WARREN LAWTON FRANCIS MORRIS. HENRY W. HOWELL. M. O. DAVIDSON As soon as the permanent location of the line shall have been determined and the right of way secured, it is the intention of the company to prosecute the work of construction with vigor. (Signed) H. W. HOWELL, Treasurer. M. O. DAVIDSON, Chief Engineer. (No. 80.) NIAGARA BRIDGE AND CANANDAIGUA. STATE OF NEW YORK, City and County of New York, ss: CLARKSON N. POTTER, being affirmed, saith: I am the President of the Niagara Bridge and Canandaigua Railroad Company. The statements contained in the annexed report, signed by me, are true and correct, according to the best of my knowledge, information and belief. (Signed) Affirmed to this 30th day of December, 1870. CLARKSON N. POTTER. JAS. B. LOCKWOOD, Notary Public, City and County of New York. Amount of stock paid in, as by this report... 1,000,000 00 CLARKSON N. POTTER, PRESIDENT AND TREASURER.. NEW YORK. ... BROOKLYN. The Canandaigua and Niagara Falls Railroad Company was a corporation incorporated under the General Railroad Act; articles filed March 18, 1851. That company constructed the railroad from Canandaigua to the Suspension Bridge over the Niagara river, and mortgaged its property, corporate franchises, etc., to secure the issue of certain bonds. This mortgage was subsequently foreclosed, and the mortgaged property purchased by Messrs. JAMES M. BROWN, CHARLES CONGDON and ROBERT B. POTTER, who subsequently associated other parties with them, and formed this corporation (General Railroad Act, § 5, as amended, etc.); the articles of association of which were filed, etc., August 25, 1858. To this company these gentlemen subsequently conveyed the property. The line was then leased to the New York Central Railroad Company (for the term of this company's charter) from May 1st, 1858, under whom it has been operated. By the terms of the lease, the lessees are to make the reports concerning the condition and business of the road required by law. Communications intended for this company should be addressed to Box 2854, New York city post-office. (Signed) CLARKSON N. POTTER, President. (No. 81.) NORTHERN AIR LINE. STOCK AND DEBTS. Capital stock, as by charter. $1,000,000 00 Amount of stock subscribed. Total amount now paid in of capital stock.... 35,500 00 '3,500 00 The road passes through the following towns, in Essex county, only: Chesterfield, Willsborough, Essex, Westport; and those towns have petitioned the county judge of Essex county for leave to issue bonds to the road, and the said judge has given his consent to such bonding, and duly appointed commissioners for the purpose of bonding such towns, to the following amounts: Chesterfield, $40,000 ; Willsborough, $25,000; Essex, $30,000; Westport, $25,000 ; but the bonds have not yet been issued by such commissioners. Length of road.... CHARACTERISTICS OF ROAD. 36.60 miles. |