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Number of houses, about. 120

Number of locks.106 lift and 3 guard locks.

Number of weigh-locks. 2

Number of tunnels. None.

Number of bridges—144 road and farm, and 14 crossings at

foot of locks. 158

Number of dams—17 reservoir and 13 feeder dams. 30

Number of aqueducts—4 wire suspension and 16 wooden

trunk aqueducts. 20

Number of miles of slackwater, about. 3 miles.

Number of boats owned and employed by the company. 541

Number of boats owned and run by private parties—Penn­ sylvania coal company, 579; other parties, 75: total, 1,195

Average tonnage of boats, 125 tons of 2,240 lbs.

Length of boating season—from opening to close, 200 days.

Detained by flood, &c.,43 days.

Feet of lockage on main line of canal, about 1,028 feet, in-cluding 58 feet ascending to Summit.

Are the locks wood, cut-stone or composite ? 12 cut-stone,

94 composite, 1 stone guard, and 2 composite.

Doings of the year in Transportation.

Number of tons of 2,000 lbs. of through freight for the year on main canal,1,464,713, besides lumber, shingles, wood, &c.,for which see below.

The amount of Freight, specifying the quantity in tons of 2,000 pounds.

Anthracite coal | down canal’ 1,397,037} 397,604

Bituminous coal. 448

Cement and cement stone. 36,126

Iron and other ores (lead). 34

Stone, brick, lime and limestone. 2, 410

Merchandize. 14,730

Manufactures. 614

Other articles. 12, 747

Total. 1,464,713

Ship timber, cubic feet. 57,143

Lumber, board measure, feet. 15 , 926,071

Shingles, number. 88,750

Cords of wood. 11,594