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sum of 82,215,283, being $035,871 more than the year previous, and 

 the expenses of the roa-l were for satne time $1,335,627 and $431,683 

 mi^re than the yoar previous. The net earnings of the road for same 

 time amounted to the sum of $879,656, being $204,180 more than 

 the previous year. 



The annual business of the road has increased in the last six years 

 as follows: 



In the number of passengers conveyed, from 152,672 to 503,664: 

 in the number of tons of freight moved, from 8I,U66 to 241,826 tons; 

 in gross earning-!, from $691,972 to $C,213,283; and in net earnings, 

 from $390,323 to $879,635. The operating expenses from $301,649 

 to $1,335,627. 



The assets of tbe company are as follows : 



Cost of road including depots, $10,300,147 03 



Stock in Steamboats, , 343,830 04 



Stock and bonds in other roads, 1,399,763 99 



Total, $12,043,791 06 



There are 64 locomotive engines on the road, 1 1 of which were con- 

 structed in the Company's shops in this city, and 4 by the Detroit Lo- 

 comotive works, and the others at eastern manufactories. There are on 

 the road 57 first and 12 second class passenger cars; 630, S-wheeled 

 box freight cars; 150, 8 wheeled open cars; 11, 4- wheeled box cars. 



Total Passenger Cars, 69. 



Total Freight Cars, 1,631. 



And 20 gravel dumpers, 70 band cars, and 60 repair and wood 

 cars. 



All the cars of every kind in use on this road were built by the 

 company in their own shops; and the company employ about 1200 

 men in operating the road and car and engine building. 



Tlie population of that section of the State tributary to this road, is 

 216,852; the number of acres of improved land 844,309; and the 

 product of the district in 1854 was as follows: 3,137,875 bushels of 

 wheat, 3,450,946 bushels of corn, 943,330 bushels of grain, 1,078,244 

 bushels of potatoes, 86,760,889 feet of lumber; there are 298 saw 

 mills and 93 flour mills in the section. The depot grounds of this 

 company in Detroit, embrace an area of twenty-two acres of land, all 



