H-Continued.

$8,758 40 8,944 00 9,052 00 22, 463 47

8, 678 40 8,678 40 9,513 60

I.

cubic yards

70,092 32

18,759 75

74,218 50

14,041 00

670, 744 26

92, 427 27

1,016, 700 01

K.

Comparative average cost of grading, bridging, and metalling, required to complete and construct a mile of the Cumberland road in the States of Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, September, 1839.

NOTE. This average includes contingencies.

C. A. OGDEN, Major, Corps of Engineers.

L.

Estimate of the cost of completing the Cumberland road in the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, to the city of Jefferson.

JOS. G. TOTTEN,

Engineer Department,

Washington, January 9, 1845.

SIR: Your letter of the 6th instant, inquiring "the amount of money expended for the construction of the Cumberland road" in the States of "Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois," has been referred to this office.

In reply, I have the honor to state, that the appropriations for the road through the States of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, were made under one common head of the "Cumberland road east of the Ohio;" and that the accounts and expenditures have been so kept, and not separated as to the amounts expended in each State.

There may be, however, among the records of the office, some statement that will show the cost in each of these States, for which search is now being made, and if found will be communicated to you.

In the mean time I have thought it might be agreeable to you to know, and might probably answer your present purpose, that the whole sum appropriated for the road east of the Ohio, or expended in the States of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, amounts to The total expenditure in Ohio has been

The total expenditure in Indiana

The total expenditure in Illinois

Total

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

- $2,812,034 21

2,077,631 06 1,128,289 50

742,445 30

6,760,400 07 ·

JOS. G. TOTTEN,

Hon. ROBERT SMITH,

House of Representatives.

Colonel and Chief Engineer.

ENGINEER DEPARTMENT, Washington, January 13, 1845.

SIR: I have been unsuccessful in finding, among the records of this office, any data that will furnish the cost of the construction of the Cumberland road in either of the States of Maryland, Pennsylvania, or Virginia.

The whole cost of the road in these three States, as stated in my letter of the 9th instant, has been $2,812,034 21.

Of this sum there was spent, under the direction of the
Treasury Department, for the original construction of the
road, from 1811 to 1827

From 1827 to 1832, the repairs of the road, upon the plan
of the original construction, cost
In the fall of 1832, an officer of engineers was assigned to
the superintendence of the road, when the character and
mode of repairs were entirely changed, and made on the
Macadam plan; the grade was diminished, the location,
in parts, changed, and the bridges made permanent.

$1,728,714 00

145,950 00

The cost of these changes and permanent repairs, with the toll houses, gates, &c., was

Making the total cost, as before stated

$937,370 21

2,812,034 21

The accounts for these various expenditures having been all rendered under one general head, ("the Cumberland road east of the Ohio," under which the appropriations were made,) it would now be impossible to ascertain the expenditures in the different States.

The cost in each State can, however, be obtained approximately. The whole length of the road, from Cumberland to the Ohio river, is 132.3 miles.

If we, then, suppose that the cost per mile in each State
has been about the same, (which is not very far from the
truth, at least in Maryland and Pennsylvania,) the cost
of the thirty-two miles in Maryland will be about
The cost of the 84.3 miles in Pennsylvania will be about
And the cost of the 16 miles in Virginia will be about.

I hope this approximation to the expenditures in the States of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia may answer your purposes. Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

Hon. ROBERT SMITH,

JOS. G. TOTTEN, Colonel and Chief Engineer.