[158] An analysis of the Coal & Iron Company’s operations in 1881 (Annual Report, 1881) showed that there had been expended:

For coal and timber lands and leasehold collieries, and for dead work, colliery equipments and improvements, real estate and miners’ houses, etc.,$39,385,080
For stocks and bonds and loans to secure the control of tributary properties,5,672,394
For iron ore lands, iron furnaces, mills, and other properties,1,720,566
For profit and loss account in working properties, including interest payments, etc.,22,454,500
For supplies and miscellaneous accounts,1,485,426
For bills and accounts receivable, cash, etc.,2,608,702
$73,326,668
Of which amount there was furnished by the Railroad Company,54,886,647
And the Coal & Iron Company’s obligations held by the public, for which the Railroad Company became responsible as guarantor, amounted to14,929,557
Other direct liabilities of the Coal & Iron Company amounted to3,510,464
$73,326,668

[159] Annual Report, 1881.

[160] Part of the difference was due to the inflation of the currency before 1879.

[161] R. R. Gaz. 9:225, 1877; Ibid. 9:146, 1877.

[162] Ibid. 9:284, 1877.

[163] Annual Report, 1881, p. 28.

[164] Chron. 31:46, 1880, Report of the English Bondholders’ Committee, June 18, 1880. This committee was in the interests of the Messrs. McCalmont.

[165] Ry. Age, 5:365, 1880.

[166] R. R. Gaz. 12:363, 1880.