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 in ih. no ml J 1? r.{ r ?«^ f''"^'^«'^,'"f t''f present a favourable opportunity to procure additional eubscripti 
 o the capital stock of the Great Western Rai Road Company, have determined to make every possible effort to till up 
 the whole amount recpiired in Canada, and other countries, with as liftle delay as the ma-^nitude of the undertaking 
 will permit, and with this view have appointed one of their number, the Chairman, xMr. Tiflany, to proceed, in the 
 efforr'in GrearSrUain' "" ^"'''' ^' ^'^"^^'^^ ^8""'' '*"'* arrangements are maturing for making a similar 
 
 The Capital Stock of the Company is £1,500,000, or $6,000,000, divided in Shares of £25 or ilOO 
 .^hli""' "?"""'' ^^--"''OOO, or $2,500,000, is taken up, as follows, viz., £250,000 is subscribed for in Fneland' 
 250,000 in the United States, and £125,000 in Canada, liaving a balance of £875,000 yet to be proviJeu "or ' 
 
 eac 
 £ 
 
 yet to be provided for. 
 The contracts already entered into with responsible contractors, insure the completion of the Road within the 
 amount of the Capital Stock, and to facilitate subscriptions, the F actors have passed a resolution to the effect that no 
 call w„l be made on stock subscribed for subsequent to the 16th July last, until the entire amount of stock is taken un 
 thereby assuring new Stockholders that nothing will be required from them until there is a certainty that the Road wUl 
 
 be made. 
 
 The 
 
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 /ny very important sources of traffic open to the road, which are so generally known, and the line 
 being no favorable (or easy construction, as shewn by the annexed Tables, makes the Great Western Road certain to pay 
 IS proprietors better than almost any other known line, and were it not for the comparative infancy of the country 
 Itirough which It passes, and the consequent want of capital for buch purposes, the undertaking would not have 
 remained so long dormant. 
 
 The unfortunate airreement made with a company of gentlemen in London in 1845, and an Act of Parlia 
 ment securing certain privileges to said company, prevented the Directors making the necessary exertions for the orose- 
 cution of the work during the past three years. This Act, however, has been repealed during the last sittine of the 
 Legislature, and tlio Directors are now sanguine that after proper explanations of the favourable position of the Comoany 
 are made in the United States and Great Britain, a constituency formed by such people as are seeking for safe and 
 profitable investment may be obtained. To insure this, however, it is absolutely necessary that the parties most 
 mterested should she\v their confidence in the undertaking by subscribing for such amounts of stock as their respective 
 means will warrant, and the Directors think if only necessary to remind the owners of property Merchants Media 
 nics, &c., &c., in Hamilton, and along the line, that the great advantages this road will secure to them, individually 
 and collectively, cannot be attained without their co-operation and assistance. 
 
 The Directors, therefore, feel that before applying to the residents of other countries to subscribe for stock 
 as large an amount should be taken up in the Province as the means of its inhabitants will permit, not only with the vievv 
 of retaining in the country as large a share as possible of what must soon piove a most valuable investment, but also as 
 an earnest to foreigners of the public spirit and enterprise here. 
 
 The Directors would remind Subscribers for stock, that by an Act passed at the last Session of the Legislature 
 the proprietors, after making one half the road, arc entitled to borrow money under the guarantee of tlie Province to make 
 the other half; by availing of this Act, only one half the subscribed stock would require to be paid up, and as the road 
 IS sure to pay largo dividends, the stockholders would benefit by the difi'erenco between the rate at which such loan 
 could be effected, say 5 or G per cent, per annum, and the rate the road would pay, which latter cannot under any cir- 
 cumstances be estimated at less than 10 per cent per annum. 
 
 The Directors feel a confident hope that if this call is responded to in Canada as it should be, there is every 
 probability of the remainder of the stock being quickly taken up in other countries, and the work proceeded vith at an 
 early day. ' 
 
 Stock Books will be re-opened at Hamilton on Thursday, 9th instant, and as soon afterwards as possible an 
 agent of the Company will visit the different towns and villages on the line of the road to procure subscriptions. 
 
 J. T. GILKISON, Secretary. 
 
 R. W. HARRIS, President. 
 
 GREAT WESTERN RAIL ROAD COMPANY'S OFFICE, 
 UAMILTOK, AUGUST 3, 1849. 
 
 Table of Distances in iHiies. 
 
 Mail Road. 
 
 Niagara Falls lo Harnillon, 
 tlatnilion to Loiulon.... 
 Lnmlon to Wi-iilaor 
 
 Total., 
 
 '19-50 
 
 115;50_ 
 250 00 
 
 Railway. 
 
 42 10 
 
 7.5 84 
 
 109 9,') 
 
 '227-89^ 
 
 Air Line 
 
 ~ 41'22^ 
 
 7420 
 
 _20^r)4 
 
 823'96 
 
 Linear Arranf^cment. 
 
 DIVISION. 
 
 Eistern 
 
 Cesitrn!..! = ; -. 
 Western.. . 
 Sernij_Br^nch, 
 
 1 03 
 
 J 09 
 
 3 02' 
 
 Tangent Radius. I Radius 
 
 in iniles.'lHe0l'i.07r)0 ft 
 
 3982 
 
 70 04 
 
 100 38 
 
 4T24 
 
 26438 
 
 CURVES IN .MILES 
 
 Radius I Radius 
 
 •iSe.'J O.IIUIO It 
 
 041^ 
 
 1 S7 
 
 1 42 
 
 2 04 
 
 533 
 
 102 
 "354 
 
 O'O!? 
 
 O'OU 
 
 Total 
 ler, Jill. 
 
 42 10 
 
 75 84 
 
 109 85 
 
 49 8-5 
 
 277-71 
 
 Table of Gradients. 
 
 DENOMINATION OP GRADE. 
 
 .Level and under 5 feet 
 
 I per mile 
 
 lo 10 feet per mile... 
 [10 to 20 feet per mile.. 
 ,20 to 30 f-ft per mill!.. 
 30 to 40 leet per ti .le.. 
 ,45 fjet maximum west. . 
 Total 
 
 NAME OP DIVISION. 
 
 Eastern^ r-ntral. Western 
 Miles. Miles. 
 
 21-37 
 4 15 
 
 8 55 
 SU3 
 
 4210 
 
 34-83 
 206 
 
 14 75 
 9-rj 
 335 
 
 11-10 
 
 75-84 
 
 Miles. 
 
 85,52 
 8-50 
 6 11 
 6-8-2 
 300 
 
 109-95