port, with all the mechanical structures thereon, comprising more than fifty double and single locks, besides the five double combined locks at Lockport; the aqueduct over the Genesee river at Rochester; the two aqueducts over the Mohawk river; one over the Schoharie creek, and many others over smaller streams, including culverts, bridges, &c. The estimated cost of all the work for the enlargement of the Erie canal, is 23,284,931 dollars, of which there was put under contract up to 1841, 11,021,932 dollars, on which there has been paid 10,011,146 dollars; leaving a further expenditure of 13,273,784 dollars to be provided for. (See Tables hereafter.) The Enlarged Erie canal, is to be seven feet deep, and seventy feet wide on the surface, with a slope of two feet to one foot in the banks, leaving a width at the bottom of forty-two feet; with double locks eighteen feet wide, and 110 feet long. The present width of the old Erie canal is forty feet on the surface, and twenty-eight feet at the bottom, and four feet deep; the locks are fifteen feet wide, and eighty feet long. The state legislature has authorised the construction of the following canals, at the time opposite to each one respectively, in the following table. The length of each canal, together with the number of locks and the number of feet of rise and fall, are also appended : All the above state canals, except the Erie and Champlain, are known as the lateral canals, of which there were finished and navigable in 1842. . . 263 miles. Unfinished and suspended . . . . . 113 » Total number of boats on all the state canals, 2140; estimated tonnage thereof, 117,453 tons. Delaware and Hudson Canal company have about 700 boats. dlrs. cts. dlrs. cts. The Erie canal cost . . . . 7,143,789 86 7,143,789 86 It was estimated to cost . . . 4,881,738 00 Total . . . . . 21,693,010 12 Total revenue of Erie and Champlain canals • 1,830,298 25 For the above estimates of the cost of the Erie and Champlain canals, see Canal Commissioners' Report for 1843, Canal Documents, vol. ii., p. 115.* The Oswego canal, from Salina to Lake Ontario, connects the waters of that Lake with the Erie canal, partly by means of slack water navigation, the expense of which was 525,115 dollars. Cayuga and Seneca canal from Geneva, on the Seneca lake, to Montezuma, on the Erie canal, was constructed at an expense of 214,000 dollars. Chemung canal, from the head waters of the Seneca lake to Tioga point, the cost of which with its feeder was estimated, in 1833, at 335,849 dollars. Crooked Lake canal, from a lake of that name to Seneca lake, cost 136,101 dollars. The Erie and Champlain canals have also navigable feeders. The Champlain canal connects the Erie with Lake Champlain. The communication is through a grazing, rather than a grain country, fast parting with its forests contiguous to the navigable waters; and, as is before seen, sending to market a surplus annually. * In 1792, nine years after the close of the Revolutionary war, the Western Company completed a water communication from Schenectady to the falls of the Oswego river, and boats of burden were passed to within twelve miles of Oswego. At Oswego falls there was a portage of a mile, and the navigation was resumed by a smaller class of boats at the foot of the falls to Lake Ontario. The works of the Western Inland Lock Navigation Company, principally consisted of a series of locks and a canal, at the falls of the Mohawk at Little Falls, a canal, with locks, at Fort Stan-wix, from the Mohawk river to Wood Creek (a tributary of Oneida lake and the Oswego river), and a series of locks and dams on Wood Creek. A boat leaving Schenectady followed the course of the Mohawk river to Fort Stanwix, and passing by the canal at that place into Wood creek and Oneida lake, entered the Oswego river eleven miles south of the falls, and twenty-three miles from Oswego. There was but one portage in the whole distance (at Oswego falls) between Schenectady and Lake Ontario. However imperfect the navigation, as compared with that of the Erie canal, which superseded it, its influence upon the prosperity, the early and rapid settlement of western New York, is incalculable. STATEMENT of deferred Works to carry out the New York Canal System. Canal around Niagara Falls ....! Extension of Black river canal .. dlrs. cts. dlrs. cts. 10 Congress'ı 214 1836 Porter's storehouse to Lewiston . 3,610,596 21 Gill creek route................ 4,616,423 47 Lockport and Tonawanda route . 5,041,725 48 5,041,725 48 ..1,394,036 02 3401 .. To French creek ... French creek ............... 1,327,874 67 Ogdensburg, Oxbow, and Oswe- ... 1,681,150 41 4,453,639 36 Ogdensburg, tiá Gouverneur ... 2,515,199 87 Little Oxbow landing .......... 1,954,374 48 Copewango canal, Buffalo to Pennsylvania line ............ 82; Assembly 160 1840 With stone locks ............... 3,156,525 04 209,213 60 3,365,738 64 Woodlocks .....................2,462,310 05 Oneida River improvement .... 59 1839 Locks, towing-path and dams... 100,050 00 100,050 00 Extension of Chemung canal feeder .................... 244 1838 ............................ 49,500 00 49,500 00 Extension of Chemung canal, south ...... 32 1840 To Pennsylvania line ...... 391,056 67 391,056 67 Extension of Chenango canal ...] 116 1839 To Tioga point... 430,460 65 436,460 65 Overflowed lands on Topawanda and Ellicott creeks ........... 124 1838'........................... 289,517 08 289,517 08 Genesee valley canal feeder..... 30 1838.. 84,442 26 84,442 26 Hudson River improvement.... 84 Senate 61 1840 Above Glen's falls ............ 1,348,820 55 1,348,820 55 RAILROADS. Potsdam route...... 1,923,108 09 Norfolk route ....... 1,778,459 24 Cars and engines .. 214,000 00 2,137,108 09 Erie railroad ...... 446 In addition to former law ...... 3,000,000 00 3,000,000 00 New York and Albany ....... 160 A loan asked for, of........... 750,000 00 750,000 00 Saratoga and Whitehall ....... Ditto..................... 300,000 00 300,000 00 21,748,057 78 Add enlargement recommended by Canal Board, Assembly document, April 8, 1839, adopting the estimates on the Erie enlargement, for Oswego canal, about.......... ...... 2,500,000 00 Cayuga and Seneca canal about ........................................................... 1,300,000 00 For giving an enlargement to the Champlain canal, corresponding to that recommended by the Canal Board for the above two canals......, On the principle of contributing ratably to railroads. For the railroad from Albany to Goshen, say..... 500,000 00 6,800,000 00 Total..................dlrs. 28,548,057 78 THE Cost of the Canals, and the Revenue received from them, during the Year ending September 30, 1843, are shown in the following Table. CANALS. Cost. Revenue, for 1843. Estimated Expendi- Estimated Revenue, tures, for 1844. for 1844. dollars. cts. 1,985,726 38 30,300 00 17,000 00 9,000 00 1,300 00 13,000 00 dollars. cts. dollars, cts. Erie canal...... 7,143,789 86 Brie enlargement.... 13,291,616 74 1,236,305 29 Champlain canal.. 1,257,604 26 99,683 51 47,065 20 Oswego canal........ 565,437 35 24,250 00 Cayuga and Seneca cana). 236,804 74 52,431 60 Crooked Lake capal......... 156,776 90 460 82 10,400 00 Chemung canal....... 641,600 58 8,140 26 141,155 66 Chenango canal.......... 2,417,00000 13,323 54 83,500 83 Black River capal...... 1,511,967 00 Genesee Valley canal..... 3,555,000 12,292 44 212,219 96 Oneida Lake canal.......... 50,000 00 225 04 5,250 00 Oneida River improvement.. • 59,432 57 257 01 3,270 89 Total..... 30,885,029 26 I 1,910,701 86 1,815,852 43 interest upon the present state debt, is ......... ce of the canals, is.............. 241,915 91 POPULATION of the Canal Counties at Three Periods, and of those Counties through which the Erie Railroad is to run. Extract from the Report of the Canal Company: “ The Erie canal, as before stated, originally cost the sum of 7,143,789 dollars 86 cents. When the project of enlarging the Erie canal was first advanced to the public mind, what was understood by the idea of enlarging? When an individual speaks of enlarging his house, he means adding a wing to it, or erecting an additional story, or some similar increase of his accommodations. The idea of incurring an expense greater than the cost of a new house of the same size, would scarcely enter his mind-much less an expense several times greater than the original cost. Had it been at first proposed to build a new canal adjacent to the old one, of the same size, the people would have promptly objected to it, on the ground of the expense, and on the ground that if an additional communication were needed with the far west, a route for it, or for a railroad, would have been sought through some portion of the state, not accommodated with a communication to market. Much more would they have objected, had it been proposed to construct three or more new Erie canals, adjacent and parallel to each other. Experience in the enlargement shows that four or five new Erie canals could have been built, at an expense no greater than the enlargement will require. Thus the Erie canal enlargement, like the construction of the three last-named lateral canals, may be said to have stolen a march upon the public mind, and obtained a high vantage ground by insidious steps. The amount expended thus far on the enlargement, is 13,291,616 dollars (see Comptroller's Report of 1844, p. 6), and no one believes it is more than half accomplished, on the plan undertaken." . - CLASSIFICATION of the Canal Debts according to the different Rates of Interest. More than 9,500,000 dollars of this debt is payable within five and a half years, viz. : Six per cent of 1837 .... dollars. cts. 12,771 27 18,967 00 (1,700,897 68 2,362,535 571,304 00 1,584,736 00 2,149,400 00 1,256,000 00 LO . .. .... ..... . Balance to be provided for in 54 years..... 7,669,072 72 One half of the mill tax, hereafter to be applied to the payment of the 0 259 354 Peru .......................... 71 2561 351 Jordan ...................... Willow Spring .............. 781 173 731 168 72 167 1991 70 165 Amsterdam .......... 211 101 58 153 312 Clyde .. 216 1061 53 148 221 111 143 225) 115 139 231 121 133 Spraker's basin................. 44 2031 298 Newark ...................... Canajoharie .................. 2351 125 129 240 1301 29 124 244 134 25 120 247 137 22 117 283 Perrinton (Lindel's bridge) ... 249| 139 201 115 281 Perrinton Centre (Col. Peters'). 251 1411 181 113 Little Falls ................. 181 276) Fullham's basin ............... 51 1741 269 Pittsford .................. 173) 268 Billinghast's basin ............ Fulmer's creek ............... 172 207 Lock No. 3. .......... | 171 266 Rochester .......... 170 265 Brockway's ............ 159 254 Cooley's basin .......... 156 251 Brock port ............. 41 155250 Holley........................ Oriskany...................... 152 247 Scio ...................... Wood cr. aqueduct (Fort Bull).... 306 1961 3071 1971 309 199 132 22 137 232 Knowlesville .. 4 136 26 133 228 Road culvert .......... 2 138 28 131 226 Medina ............... Oneida creek (Durbamville).... 3 141 31/ 128 222 Shelby basin ........ 5 1 116! 36 123 218 Middleport ................... New Boston (Canasaraga)...... 4 1 150 40 119 214 Reynold's basin ....... 156 46! 113 208 Lock port .... 2 169 50 109 204 Welch's ..... 2 162 52 107 202 H. Brockway's....... 1 163 53 106 201 Tonnawanta............ Orville feeder ............... 2 165 55 104 199 Lower Black Rock........ 5 170 60 99 194 Black Rock .................. 1201 |