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66 Officers 66 Total Algeria amount Austria average cost Belgium branch cent from freight cent interest centimes Chief Engineer cost of construction cost of operation Cuba Drammen earnings for 1881 extends feet 8½ inches first-class florins francs per kilometer freight cars frontier Grantee gross earnings Holland Italy January 1st Junction kilo kilome kilometer of road Length of road lire lire per kilometer locomotives Main Line Manager marks per kilometer maunds meters radius Mileage to September MINING & RAILWAY miscellaneous sources months of 1883 narrow gauge nine months Norway operation cost Pas-de-Calais passenger cars passenger per kilometer passengers and baggage period of 1882 pesetas Port President Railroad RAILWAY COMPANY road is laid road was chartered rolling stock consists roubles per verst rupees second-class Secretary September 30th sharpest curve South Southern Spain steel rails subsidies Superintendent third-class tons of freight total earnings Tramway Company Valley
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Page 7 - In pursuance of the provisions of section 3564 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, I have estimated the values of the standard coins in circulation of the various nations of the world, and submit the same in the accompanying table. Very respectfully, HORATIO C. BURCHARD, Director of the Mint.
Page 7 - The foregoing estimation, made by the Director of the Mint, of the value of the foreign coins above mentioned, I hereby proclaim to be the values of such coins expressed in the money of account of the United States, and to be taken in estimating the values of all foreign merchandise, made out in any of said currencies, imported on or after January 1, 1884.
Page 52 - July in each year, for a period of thirty-five years ; such annual subsidy to attach in proportionate parts and form part of the assets of the company, as and when each five mile section is completed and operated, or fraction thereof, at terminus at Hall's Bay.
Page x - Locomotives adapted to every variety of service, and built accurately to standard gauges and templates. Like parts of different engines of same class perfectly interchangeable.
Page 51 - ... per annum, in half-yearly payments in gold, in London, England, on the first day of January and the first day of July in each year...
Page 111 - January 21, 1881, on the island of Yesso, between Otaro, on the sea-coast, and Sapporo, the capital, a distance of 23 miles. This road, known as the "Poronai Railroad of Hokaido," was constructed under the able supervision of Joseph Crawford, Esq., an engineer well known in the United States, and was completed in so short a time, and at such a low figure, as to excite the utmost admiration and approval of the goverment and people.
Page 220 - American railroad securities during the latter part of 1881 and the early part of 1882, still, under prevailing circumstances, particular attention of capitalists was again directed to the United States.
Page 52 - ... 141° E. Ion., and between the Southern ocean and 26° S. lat, having an extent of about 400,000 square miles, is set apart for this purpose, and it is provided that no lands shall become private property, except by purchase at public sale for ready money, and at a price of not less than 12s. an acre. The proceeds of the sales of land are to be applied to the conveying of labourers to the colony. The object of the projectors of this scheme is to prevent what they call the dispersion of the colonists...
Page 154 - Nations reported a decrease of one-third in the first half of the year as compared with the same period of 1931. This is proof enough that deliberations' are not sufficient, and that action is needed in connexion with the economic findings listed above.
Page 428 - Oya" extension, which probably will be open for traffic in 1885. In the mean time a portion of the European public is much exercised at what they are pleased to term the apathy of the present governor in declining to advocate and promote the immediate construction of another extension of 26 miles to tap the Happutella coffee district.