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throughout the whole work has proved a persevering and efficient 
agent of the Company. 
The work was divided into thirty sections. A large number of 
laborers was immediately employed, who lived in temporary build- 
ings along the line of the road, and have enjoyed good health during 
their employment. 
The prices paid by the Company for the different items of work 
and materials are, as nearly as can be ascertained, as follows: 
Excavation of sand, 7 cts. per cubic yard. 
cla ; QO sé 6c ce 
Embankment of sand, 8 cts. per cubic yard. 
Do. clay, 11 “ s 
Broken stone, $2,00 per cubic yard. 
Stone blocks, containing 2 cubic feet, 45 cts. 
Castings for chains and runs, 4 cts. per lb. 
Spikes, 9 cts. per lb.; 5 per cent. discount for cash. 
Grading, $7,500 per mile, single track. 
10,000 “ for the two tracks. ; 
To meet the expenditures, the capital was called in by instalments 
of 6 and 10 per cent. and the whole of the original capital was paid 
mon the Ist of August, 1831. 
Twelve miles of the road were finished about the same time, and 
the whole of the single track will be completed on the Ist day of 
December next. 
The character of the road. With two slight exceptions, the road 
between the Albany and Schenectady planes is perfectly straight. 
t however commences at the termination of the city line on the 
Hudson River, and about thirteen acres of land are now owned by 
the Company, in its vicinity, part of which will include the wharves 
a being constructed for the accommodation of the transportation 
business, and the earth of which is brought in small cars upon a light 
Nes rail road, from a hill above, through which the inclined plane 
Pass, 
The road crosses South Pearl Street, under a fine stone arch of 
ie rable materials and handsome construction, thence it passes up the 
with an inclination of one foot in eighteen until it reaches the sum- 
Ps one hundred and eighty five feet above the Hudson. At this 
a 7 building is erected which contains a double stationary engine 
ail ~ at twelve horse power. It is of the high pressure —_ 
Wo cylinders seven inches and a half in diameter, twenty six 
