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CAPITAL STOCK, tENSia OF ROAO, 
. Waterford, 
60,000 
40 miles. 
Newburgh and New-Windsor, 
5,000 
5 
Schenectady and Ballstown, 
2,000 
5 
Unadilla, 
62,500 
40 
Jamaica and Roekaway, 
20,000 
15 
Canajoharie and Charleston, 
30,000 
20 
Hamilton and Schaneateles, 
84,000 
70 
Mohawk bridge and Ballston, 
40,000 
20 
Highland, 250,000 
110 
New-Baltiraore & Rensselaer- 
ville, 
20,000 
20 
Mexico, 
50,000 
50 
Middleburgh & Rensselaerville, 15,000 
15 
Albany and Greene, 
40,000 
35 
67 turnpikes — 
— 
21 bridges E 5,141,750 
3071 miles;' 
~ Bridge Stock as above 415,000 
88 companies, —-- 
Total B 5,556,750 
From this statement it will be perceived that 
our system of road making is rendered interesting 
at first sight by its very magnitude. Eighty- 
eight incorporated turnpike road and bridge com¬ 
panies, with a capital of more than five millions 
AND AN HALF DOLLARS, established within the 
period of SEVEN years, for the purpose of build¬ 
ing more than twenty large bridges, and 
making more than three thousand miles of 
turnpike road, whereof twenty-eight roads 
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