Historic Highways of America: Volume 10: The Cumberland Road by Archer Butler Hulbert

Author:Archer Butler Hulbert [Hulbert, Archer Butler]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Geschichte
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2018-05-01T22:00:00+00:00

January

$36 00

February

32 80

March

39 90

April

80 75

May

67 25

June

54 85

July

47 15

August

35 75

September

29 27

October

29 26

November

35 05

December

34 05

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Total

$522 08

It will be noted that April was the heaviest month of the year. The gate-keeper received a salary of thirty dollars per month.

It is hardly necessary to say that this great American highway was never a self-supporting institution. The fact that it was estimated that the yearly expense of repairing the Ohio division of the road was one hundred thousand dollars, while the greatest amount of tolls collected in its most prosperous year (1839) was a little more than half that amount ($62,496.10) proves this conclusively. Investigation into the records of other states shows the same condition. In the most prosperous days of the road, the tolls in Maryland (1837) amounted to $9,953 and the expenditures $9,660.51. [58] In 1839 a “balance” was recorded of $1,509.08, but a like amount was charged up on the debtor side of the account. The receipts reported each year in the auditor’s reports of the state of Ohio show that equal amounts were expended yearly upon the road. As early as 1832 the governor of Ohio was authorized to borrow money to repair the road in that state. [59]

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