built by Harkness, Moore & Co., for the Memphis Railway [Memphis 

 and Charleston Railroad], was thus working its own passage to the 

 landing of the steamer Memphis. 



(Some years later a permanent track was laid along Front Street to 

 the Little Miami Railroad making delivery of engines to connecting 

 lines more convenient. 5^) 



On June 22 the Gazette noted that locomotive number 2 had 

 arrived at Memphis aboard the steamer of that name. The first 

 engine for that road, also from Harkness, Moore & Cb., was lost 

 earlier when the steamer Chickasaw sank. 



In April 1853 Moore & Richardson reported 280 employees with a 

 weekly payroll of $2,200.^6 j^ May 1854 the firm stated that as 

 many as 300 were einployed when the shop was in full production 

 and that it haci built a total of 100 locomotives since i^^i^.'^' In 

 October 1855 the shop's capacity of from 18 to 20 machines per 

 year was announced.^* Early the next year the Railroad Advocate 

 said that over 120 locomotives had been built. •'^^ A capacity of 50 

 per year with 400 on the payroll was claimed in 1859.'^*' It was 

 also claimed in 1859 that during one previous year the firm had 

 built 23 locomotives and done about $300,000 worth of other work. 

 Only a year later employment was said to be 250. Moore re- 

 counted in his autobiography that the payroll occasionally reached 

 $5,000 per week. These figures cannot be verified, since no cash- 

 books or records of the company exist. Generally, however, most 

 locomotive shops were not worked beyond 50 percent capacity; 

 it can be assumed with some assurance that the management 

 exaggerated the extent and potential of the works for the benefit 

 of the press. The figures given here are not without value, however, 

 for much of this data was screened by such informed and competent 

 persons as Zerah Colburn and does give us an idea of the amount 

 of business transacted. One may also compare the production 



^^ American Railway Times (April 28, 1866), vol. 18, p. 134. 



^® Railroad Record (April 14, 1853), vol. i, p. 103. 



5'' Ibid. (May 4, 1854), vol. 2, p. 148. 



^^ Railroad Advocate (October 20, 1855), vol. 2, p. 2. 



^^ Ibid. (January 12, 1856), vol. 2, p. i. 



^° Cincinnati Daily Gazette, February 5, 1859. 



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