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for side tracks, ttc, wiU amouut to the sum of $7,791,075.14 Avliich is Tlie Board tlxus speak Ibr themselves :— 



composed of the follomng items :- 4 t ,77 HR 41 " The Board of Directors, in laying before the Shareholders of the 



trraumg, Masonry and Bnugiug, ,$t,4/i,l.io 4J j r. 1 1 n ■! r. t. 1 r t\, ;,. i,..,„oo„ 



Sunerrtructare o =' 1 795 18B 65 Toronto and Guelpli Railway Company, a stacment ot tneir Iransac- 



Feneino- and Gates' 153600 tions for tlie past year, do so with no ordinary feelings of pride and 



at t- °n 'ij- -ii'"' J "ij' ""it if '„„V Vr ',',{., ",",', ' gratification, at the commiuding position and future importance 



btation Buildings, E.ngme and I'reight Houses. Maclune u- u • n i, ■ »■ • 1 r .1 ■ » «• a: ti • • <•„.<■ „,f„,.„,.:=o 



Shon Oa-Fct -A' 375 000 which, in the briot period of their term 01 othce. this intaut enterprise 



<=*„*• -17' -^ "at' u'^ H' ""iIV.'j T',',,'.r'r ^kI^c." ,is'nnn has secured. When twelve 'iiouths aiio, the Directors assumed their 



otatiouery hngines. Machinery, ools and JLurn iables,. 4a,UUU i i •. n 1 ^ 1 .1 ^ n t „f; „ ,f , 



R' Ih o- St 1 . ■" 66-^ 150 onerous trust, it was generally understood, that the construction 01 a 



■p ■ " • vV ,' f V '"""„<■ ",r," f'-nf " V " Okin'n'iin railroad fi'om Toronto to Guclph would be a task attended with much 



Jtngineenng Expenses and pay of Inspectors ot Work,.. yBU,UUU , 1. jj- .' <■ u -, , f„„„if.,i 



" o I' f J 1 difficulty and discouragement, in consequence of the scarcity ol capital, 



1t;7 7')l075 14 the limited powers granted by Parliament, and the powerful union of 



^ ' ' ' opposing interests. Confideut however, in the intrinsic merits of the 



undertaking, and the vast benefits to be derived from it by the citizens 



The increase of Mr. Benedict's estimate of the 30th Sept. last, is as of Toronto, and the inhabitants of every town and township interested, 



follows : the Board set themselves steadily to work to surmount the obstacles 



„ ri !• ir 1 -n • 1 • dtr-o-no Qo that lay thick iu their path, and the result has been, that at this rao- 



On Grading Masonry and Bridging '^t'^^'i?? fr ment, not only is the railroad visible as au actual fact, in a more or 



un superstructure o"'nQ less advanced state, in almost every part of the line between Toronto 



Un ^euciug, ._ iT'-'mm and Guelph, not only have surveys been completed to Godeiich and 



n" r'ii- '"^?;' ■{ in-'J-n Stratford; and partially so from Stratford to Saruia ; and full powers 



uu uolliug otock , n'~ij,i obtained from the Legislature, despite of all opposition, to extend our 



On Engineering Expenses, - '^"'""'^ liue to the last named point ; not only has this been accomplished, but 



* I '^45 1 RO 4S important as these must be considered, they are only a p^ 'I'tiou of what 



* ' ' the Toronto and Guelph Railway Company has achieved." 



In submitting this report, I have felt compelled to speak ])lainly and After some explanatory remarks the Report tells us that " under 



explicitl3' on all topics discussed ; in my judgment this was a duty the able agency of Alex. Gillespie and A. T. Gait, Esquires, deputed 



alike due to the Board of Directors, the Shai-eliolders and myself. All by your Board, the arrangements have been all completed, the legal 



my e.xertions must be directed to tlie promotion of the permanent in- documents signed and delivered, subject to the sanction oftheshare- 



terests oftho.se who furnish the means to carry forward to completion holders, by which the Toronto and Guelph Railway Company has be- 



the great work iu which you are engaged. Notwithstanding the iu- come a component part of a great congeiics of Railroacls, extending 



creased outlay, according to the estimates now submitted, will reach a from the Atlantic coast ou the east to Port Saruia on the west, a dis- 



sum con.sideraljly larger than had ever been anticipated by the frieuds tance of 809 miles, with branches to Quebec, and theuce to Trois Pis: 



of the enterprise, we may indulge in the well grounded hopes that toles, 253 miles, and to Peterborough 50 miles, being 1,1 12 miles in all, 



with the application of reasonable economy in our future operations independent of the large unmber of tributary lines which must pour 



and with an energetic and cordial co-operation among all the official iu their streams of travel, from Hamilton, from Goderich, Port Hope, 



departments of tlie company, the whole line of road will be open for Cobourg, Rawdon, &c., besides the connecting links which will unite 



traffic at an early day, and this noble enterprise may be made to yield our line with the Railroads of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Maine, 



a fair increase on the capital invested. New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, 



Tj ij 11 V -ti 1 Ohio, Micliigan, and Wisconsin, all situated within reach of one or 



Respectfully submitted. ^j,^^; ^C .^^ =^j,.^^,^ tributaries. 



(Signed) JOHN T. CL.^RK, .,,,,»,»» 



Chief Engineer. On the 4th of May, letters were received, announcing the effective 



Engineer's Office, G. W. R,, accomplishment of the contemplated arrangements, by the completion 



Hamilton, 4th June, 1853. of an agreement, subject to ratificalion of the Stockholders of this Com- 



. p^ny, by which the entire interests of this Company became merged 



„ . .„,.„., in those of the Graud Trunk Railway of Canada, and the Municipali- 



To.onto aud Gm^lph Railway. ^^^^ ^.^^.^ ^^^^ ^^^^^l^j t„ exercise their free choice in retaining or re- 



JRepoHof the Directors of the Guolph Railway Compan,j-Janc 6. «j§""\g t'\<;V' f'^'f- Those letters your Board have appended to this 



^ -^ ■' ^ J I J Report, with the view of affording every proprietor of shares the tuUest 



This is truly au exulting and abounding fver of words. It is far, insight into the nature of the changes involved. By them, all ihe pre- 



very far removed from the subdued goodness, not to say softness of the vious contracts with Messrs. Gzowski & Co., together with all the fiuan- 



Report of the Northern Railway Board. It speaks in a tone of undis- "^^ arrangements contingent thereupon, have been set aside and a 



r . , „. ■'. ,,,,,., . ,., new contract substituted, establishing a mileage rate, for the construc- 



guised, and even affectionate triumph of the wonderful sagacity of the tio„ ^f j^e Railway from Toronto to Sarnia, of £8000 sterling per 



BALANCE — to which it appears the favourable solution of all the mile, including all expenditure for the erection of stations, purchase of 



vital questions affecting the very existence of tlie Guelph line are lands, cost of tubular iron bridges for double track, and other works, 



eratefullv due upon the scale adopted for the Grand Trunk Railway ; besides a suffi- 



° ^ ' cient sum to provide for the jiayment of interest on the entire stock 



We begin at the end of the Report, struck as we were with the late "ntU the liue is opened throughout, and an amount not exceeding 



, . . „., fv 1 , ,. J. .. i, J 1- ^ 1 ■ i, £15,000 sterling for the current expenditure of the Company, or the 



singular exigencies of the Guelph line, so distinctly delineated in the p^y/^^^t of salaries, rent, stationery, and all other incidental outlay." 

 closing paragraph, which we subjoin: — "When it is felt, as your Board 



feel, that all these vital questions have been decided in our favor, by Then follows au account of matters of detail, which are not of interest 



thp mere w-averiug, as it were, of a BALANCE, which a moments de- to the general reader. The report closes Avith a song of triumph and 



lay or a brief indiscretion might have turned against u.s, cfec, ifec, ifec." ... ,. , , j. f ^ i„ ,„ii „i,„,„ +„ i,„ t,„U!,Wo aan 



•' ° o ' > ' rejoicing, which Ave trust future events will sliow to be suitaoie, sea- 



The principle is evidently borrowed from the Bank of England Sov- sonable and sincere. 



ereign Weighing Machine, a short description of which we give in the „-d \ • t j. 1 „-ti 4-i,„ i,;,f„,.TT nf ,Tn„i. Pnm 



° » " ' 1^ = " Perhaps no circumstance connected with the history ot youi Uora- 



preseut number of the Journal. The Report says nothing about the p^ny for the last year, is more significant than ihe fact, that whereas a 



ingenious inveutor, but with quiet Iiumour, tinged with e-xultation, few months since, it was with difflculty tli..t even wealthy individuals 



thinks that the Balance was •discred.' could be induced to invest their capital iu raihoad stock at all, and the 



sole motive which induced the citizens to consent to give municipal 



It may be so, but the aspect of coming times is not so undisturbed aid, was, the indirect benefits to be obtained f om Raihoads ; we now 



to our mental vision as it appears to the Directors of the Guelph Rail- ^"^1 ™^".): "^ "f ^^.'"'^ indivi^duals then inost opposed to holding .stock 



„ „ ,.j. , .,,. ' now unwilling to dispose of It at par with interest. U hen so sti-iking 



way Company, boraething we fear 'looms in the future,' and may a change is kept in view: when too the formidable obslacles which 



not the Great Western Railway form a part of that shadowy veil which have been surmonnted, iu the selfish opposition of powerful and extea- 



we believe is destined to suppress with "cold obstructions apathy" sive rival combinations, are remembered— when the conimandiiig po- 



fiv • f i- 4.1, /-. ;■ cji 1 ij 3 ■ 11 sition of the City of Toronto, as a central Station of the Grand Trunk 



many of the aspirations of the Canadmn Shareholders, and especially j^^^^^^^ ^^ ^.^ J^^_ ^^ contrasted with what it must have been, if re- 



thoseinterestedin thatparticularpirtionof thehnowhichis (fcsfen(;(/(.?) duced to a rank subordinate to a neighboring city, is considered— 



to run from Sti-atford to Sarnia. when it is felt, as your Board feel, that all these vital questions have 



