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Norfolk Gazette And Publick Ledger
Norfolk, Virginia
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Report on infrastructure improvements in New York State, listing 67 turnpike roads totaling 3071 miles with $5,141,750 capital stock, and 21 bridges with $415,000 stock, from Dr. De Witt's communication.
Merged-components note: The title and introductory text at reading order 55 introduce the list of turnpikes and bridges; the two table components provide the detailed data, forming a single coherent domestic news article on improvements in New York.
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List of Turnpike Roads and Bridges, in the State of New-York, with the amount of the Capital Stock of the Companies, and the distance of the roads to be made, Extracted from a communication of Dr. De Witt, to the Society for the promotion of Useful Arts.
| TURNPIKE ROADS. | Capital Length | 0 |
| First Great Western Columbia | Stock. | Roads. |
| Columbia | 180,000 | 52 |
| Renselaer and Columbia | 25,000 | 20 |
| Eastern (with a diverging road) | 32,000 | 28 |
| First North | 50,000 | 40 |
| Seneca (two roads) | 90,000 | 60 |
| Susquehannah | 177,500 | 112 |
| Orange | 116,000 | 45 |
| Mohawk | 21,000 | 25 |
| Westchester | 990,000 | 80 |
| Newburg and Cochecton | 25,000 | 10 |
| Shenango | 80,000 | 60 |
| Oneida | 64,000 | 65 |
| Union | 30,000 | 25 |
| Stephentown | 50,000 | 30 |
| New Windsor & Blooming Grove | 8,000 | 10 |
| Second Great Western | 7,500 | 10 |
| Flushing and Newtown | 50,000 | 45 |
| Quaker hill | 15,000 | 5 |
| Albany and Schenectady | 10,000 | 10 |
| Troy and Schenectady | 140,000 | 14 |
| Hudson Branch | 60,000 | 15 |
| Ulster and Delaware | 20,000 | 10 |
| Dutchess | 125,000 | 110 |
| Schobarie | 60,000 | 35 |
| Newtown | 78,000 | 60 |
| Canandaigua and Bath | 30,000 | 20 |
| Third Great Western | 50,000 | 35 |
| Ancram | 105,000 | 90 |
| Susquehannah and Bath | 24,000 | 20 |
| Albany and Bethlehem | 300,000 | 100 |
| Fall hill turnpike and bridge | 30,000 | 5 |
| Chatham | 12,500 | 15 |
| Coxackie | 10,000 | 10 |
| Albany and Delaware | 41,000 | 25 |
| Little Delaware | 150,000 | 75 |
| Lake Erie | 100,000 | 60 |
| Fourth Great Western | 200,000 | 130 |
| Hillsdale and Chatham | 40,000 | 30 |
| Cayuga | 35,000 | 20 |
| Ontario and Genesee | 175,000 | 120 |
| Ounndaga salt spring | 175,000 | 90 |
| Great Northern | 100,000 | 55 |
| Delaware | 150,000 | 130 |
| Newburgh and Chenango | 75,000 | 50 |
| Neversink | 162,000 | 80 |
| Popachton | 162,000 | 80 |
| Plattsburgh and Chateagay | 210,000 | 90 |
| Utica | 55,000 | 40 |
| Rome | 30,000 | 30 |
| Greenfield | 20,000 | 20 |
| Farmers' | 26,000 | 20 |
| Ulster and Delaware first branch | 100,000 | 35 |
| Waterford and Whitehill | 40,000 | 25 |
| Waterford | 150,000 | 60 |
| Newburgh and N. Windsor | 60,000 | 40 |
| Schenectady and Ballston | 5,000 | 5 |
| Jamaica and Rockaway | 2,000 | 5 |
| Unadilla | 20,000 | 15 |
| Canajoharie and Charleston | 62,500 | 40 |
| Hamilton and Skaneateles | 30,000 | 20 |
| Mobawk bridge and Ballston | 84,000 | 70 |
| Highland | 40,000 | 20 |
| N. Baltimore & Rensselaeville | 250,000 | 110 |
| Mexico | 20,000 | 20 |
| Middleburgh & Rensselaeville | 50,000 | 50 |
| Albany and Greene | 15,000 | 15 |
| Total miles of Road, | 3071 |
| Schoharie kill | 10,000 |
| Cattskill | 5,000 |
| Cayuga | 25,000 |
| Canajoharie and Palatine | 10,000 |
| Jericho | 10,000 |
| Troy | 150,000 |
| Union | 50,000 |
| Fort Miller | 40,000 |
| Newtown and Bushwick | 7,500 |
| Montgomery | 13,500 |
| Schoharie and Cobleskill | 6,000 |
| Fort Hunter | 7,500 |
| Schoharie creek north | 5,000 |
| Wallabought and Brooklyn | 15,000 |
| Delaware | 20,000 |
| Susquehannah | 20,000 |
| Canton | 5,000 |
| Farmer's | 3,000 |
| Cohoes | 7,500 |
| Jefferson | 4,000 |
| Mohawk (stock included in Mohawk turnpike) | $5,141,750 |
| Total, 67 turnpikes—stock, | 415,000 |
| 21 bridges—stock, | |
| 88 Companies—Total amount of capital stock, | 5,556,750 |
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List of Turnpike Roads and Bridges in the State of New-York, with capital stock amounts and road lengths, extracted from a communication by Dr. De Witt to the Society for the promotion of Useful Arts.