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Notes:
1. Distance
from canal to Dauphin Pool is 2100 feet
2. Canal
to summit is 112,500 feet, 21 31/100th
3. Summit
is 53 238/1000th feet above surface of water in Dauphin Dam
4. Rattling
Run coal run is 230.8 feet above Dauphin Dam 572.694 feet
5. Tunnel
into Perseverance Vein at same gap is 269.203 feet above lower drift
6.
Coal opened at Yellow Springs is 619.08 feet above water of
Stony Creek opposite, and 1003.6 feet above Dauphin Dam
7. Lowest
point coal opening is Rausch Gap is 250.7 feet above Stony Creek
8. Grade
is 17 ½ feet per mile; Grade may vary from level to 21 feet per mile
9. Railroad
bed 10 feet wide embankments- 11 feet side cuts- 12 feet through cuts
10.
H rail weighing 50 pounds per linear yard, from pattern
adopted by Mr. L. W. Roberts on the Little Schuylkill and Susquehanna RR
$9000
/ mile cost of single track
Total cost of excavation
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $35,722.39
One mile of Single Track
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $9000.00
6 Bridges across Stony Creek @
$500.00
each---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $3000.00
Grains of
masonry------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $1500.00
Clearing--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $5000.00
Masonry and pit at head of
inclined plane and platform for
cars-------------------------------------------------------------------- $6000.00
Water Station, Turnouts including
plane machinery workshops, Weigh Scale and Trestle work at
basin------------ $10,000.00
15 ½ miles of single track of
heavy rail line same used on Catawissa RR, $9000.00 per
mile-------------------------- $139,00.00
2100 feet of road at lower end not
located with basin for unloading cars, wharves
style------------------------------------
$2,800.00
Engineering and Continges –
10%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $20,352.00
Labor Rate- 1839
Total------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$223,874.00
1. Cars
carrying coal: Empty 1 ½ tons, Capacity 3 tons each
2. 94
7/10 tons subtracting weight of tender 90 tons equals to 60 empty cars
3. Descending
cars will carry 180 tons of coal
4. Gross
weight 270 tons exclusive of engine and tender
5. Circular
trip about 25 miles, Engines making 4 trips a day
Engineers per day---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $2.00
Firemen per
day------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ $1.50
Fuel, 2 ½ tons @
$2.00--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $5.00
Oil for
engine---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $2.50
250 days @ $11.00 per day, $275.00
per or $1625.00
Wage for 4 men per day
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $5.00} $4.00
Grease for cars
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $3.00} $2.00
250 days @
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $8.00
$6.00
90 cars in use for 250 days
One Engine and
Tender----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $8,000.00
90 cars @ $250.00
each---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $22,500.00
Incline plane for coal car
4 boats loaded at once
Rausch Gap –Turntable, Engine
House, Etc
4 Canal boats loaded at once while
4 waited
5 feet above canal water on
trellis along side weigh scale for 8 cars
Locomotive enter first track
passes to third to replenish fuel and water and crosses to second for empty
cars
Each trip preformed within 3 hours
including all stops @ 9 miles per hour
Train coming down consisting of 60
cars taken on weigh scale 8 each every 5 minutes or 288 tons of coal per hour
Each train of cars will load 3
boats
Considerations: Purchase land-
Dauphin Tannery Company is key to Stony Valley