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CANALS.

Table of Companies which have been organized for Constructing Canals and Extending Navigation
in the State, continued.

65


Connection.


Names op Canals.


Remarks.


Capital.


Date of
Organization.


Junction Canal Co...................

Long Island Canal Co...............

Long Island Canal & Naviga¬
tion Co.

Manlius Canal Co..,.................

Moflawk & Hudson Look
Navigation Co.

Neversink Navigation Co..........

New York & Sharon.................

Niagara Canal Co.....................

Northern Inland Lock Naviga¬
tion Co.

Northern Slackwater & Rail¬
way Co.

Gneida Lake Canal Co ...

Onondaga Canal Co..................

Ontario Canal Co.....................

Orange & Sussex Canal Co.........

Oswegatchie Navigation Co.......

Owasco & Erie Canal Co...........

Peconic River Lock Navigation
Co.

Rochester Canal & R. R. Co.......

St. Lawrence Lock C0...1...........

Salmon River Harbor Canal Co..

Scottsville Canal Co..................

Seneca Lock Navigation Co.......

Seneca & Susquehanna Lock
Navigation Co.

Sodus Canal Co  ................

Susquehanna & Chenango.........

Wallabout Canal Co.................

Wallabout Canal Co.................

Western Inland Lock Naviga¬
tion Co.

May 11,1845

April 15,1828

$200,000

April 8,1848

300,000

April 15,1828

50,000

April 17,1816

500,000

April 16,1816

50,000

April 19,1823

April 5,1798
March 30,1792

May 13,1846

March 22,1832

40,000

100,000


N$ 25,1824

March 31,1821

April 11,1825

April 25,1831

1,1829
8,1808

150,000

30,000


May

April


March 26,1831
April 1,1808

May 16,1837
April 30,1829
April 6,1813

350,000

15.000

50.000


March 31,1815
March 19,1829

300.000

200.000


May 20,1836
April 9,1828

20,000

25,000


April 18,1838

March 30, 1792

From Chemung Canal at Elmira
to State line to connect with
North Branch Canal.

To connect Bays on s. side and
to cross, Canoe Place to Peco¬
nic Bay.

The same...............................

Erie Canal and Manlius Slack¬
water Navigation.

Cohoes Falls and Schenectady...

From Sharon, Conn., to tide
water to any point on the
Hudson or in the City of
New York.

Lake Erie and Lake Ontario......

Hudson River and Lake Cham¬
plain.

Port Kent and Saranac ...

Erie Canal and Onondaga
Hollow.

Canandaigua Lake and Erie
Canal.

From Columbia, on the Dela¬
ware, through Orange co., to
the Hudson.

From the St. Lawrence to Black
Lake and Canton.

Owasco Lake and Erie Canal.....

To construct Locks and Dams
in Peconic River.

Rochester and Lake Ontario......

For building Locks at Isle au
Rapid.

Lake Ontario aud Port Ontario..

Scottsville and Genesee River.

For improving navigation
between Seneca and Cayuga
Lakes.

From Seneca Lake to Chemung
River near Elmira.

From Seneca River or Canan¬
daigua outlet to Great Sodus
Bay.

From river to Chenango Canal.

Wallabout Bay and Tillory St.
Brooklyn.

Wallabout Bay to Kent Avenue,
Brooklyn.

To open navigation on the Mo¬
hawk, Wood Creek, Oneida,
and Oswego Rivers to Lake
Ontario.

Completed in 1858.

Nothing done but survey.

Nothing done.

State Canal Feeder.

Nothing done.

The project failed. The State
loaned its credit for $
10,000
aud lost the whole sum.

Surveyed nearly on the present
line of the Harlem R. R.

Nothing done'.

Work commenced but no part
completed.

Nothing done.

Finished in 1835, and purchased
by the State in 1841.

Not constructed.

Nothing done.

The right granted in 1828 to
build a
r. r. on the line.
Nothing done on either.

Nothing done.

Nothing done.

Nothing done.

Railroad only constructed.

Locks completed but too small
for general use.

Never completed.

Merged in Cayuga & Seneca
Canal.

Nothing done.

Partly constructed, but never
used.

Not constructed.

Completed to Oneida Lake in
1797. The rights were after¬
ward vested in the State,
and such as were available
were used for the Erie Canal.



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