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Excerpt from Annual Reports of the President and Directors, and the Chief Engineer and Superintendent of the Wilmington Weldon Rail Road Co: With the Proceedings of the General Meeting of Stockholders, November 11th, 1868 The President and Directors submit to yon the thirty-third annual report; also the reports of the Chief Engineer and Superintendent, and of the Treasurer. If there had been good crops and good prices, the receipts would have been larger. The remainder of the net income, after payment of interest on debt, has been expended for new iron, rebuilding the bridges over the Neuse and North East rivers, and other necessary improvements. This policy of rebuilding and improving the Road has been adopted, because a road, in good repair, can be operated at less expense than one in bad repair. Since the war the Road has been supplied with new station and water houses, new cross-ties, trestles and bridges, except at Tar River and Fishing Creek, eight new locomotives, and five rebuilt, two hundred and five cars additional, four thousand eight hundred and fifty tons of new rail, and a large number of old rails repaired; and new chairs to such parts of the Road as had never had any. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.