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The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], An Honest man. (search)
Richmond and Danville Railroad Company.
--The stockholders of this company held their annual meeting yesterday, at Metropolitan Hall, in this city--Mr. Barksdale, of Halifax, presiding.
The annual report of the President of the company, Lewis E. Harvie, Esq., (a synopsis of which we append) was read, after which the meeting adjourned until 7 P. M.
The entire income of the road for the year ending Sept. 30th, 1861, amounted to $447, 959.93, of which the sum of $398,268.36 was received from the ordinary earnings of the road, and $49,190.57 for transportation and travel on account of the State of Virginia and the Confederate States.
This exhibits a decrease of $113,444.50 on the receipts of the previous year.
The falling off is attributed to the condition of the country, growing out of the war and the blockade of our ports, which has left but little to transport, the bulk of the crops having been withheld from market owing to the low price of produce; and to the low rates