The total amounts earned and paid compare as follows: Amount paid upon the tunnel, $170,131 95 Amount paid upon the road west of the tunnel, 50,000 00 Amount paid upon the road east of the tunnel, 505,256 92 ---------- $725,388 87 Amount earned upon the tunnel, $129,475 00 Amount earned upon the road west of tunnel, (not fully earned,) 50,000 00 Amount earned upon the road east of tunnel, (temporary work included,) 410,204 00 ---------- 589,679 00 ----------- $135,709 87 Overpayment in reckoning sterling exchange, say 44,000 00 Overpayment when the work stopped, in July, 1861, $179,709 87 ----------- Further payments made upon the same work under the law of 1862, 140,226 95 ----------- Total amount paid more than earned, $319,936 82 If proper deductions had been made from the amount earned on account of the unfinished condition of the seven miles west of the tunnel, on which the first $50,000 was paid, and on account of the worthless masonry and bridging which have been reckoned in at full cost, the overpayments would be shown more correctly to exceed in amount the sum of $350,000. * * * * * Transcriber's Notes: All obvious typographical errors were corrected. Tables containing decimal fractions were standardized to show decimals for all values in the column. Spelling was standardized to the most prevalent form. Punctuation was left as printed. On page 42 the curve value 3-1/2° was changed to 3° 30' to match the other similar values. The sum of the shares in the table in Appendix A on pages 50-51 should total 4,610 shares but was printed as 0,000. This was assumed to be a typographical error. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Report of the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad, by the Joint Standing Committee of 1866., by Tappan Wentworth