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The owned mileage of the Central of New Jersey, 384.855 miles, was acquired either by purchasing and merging other railroad properties or by construction. The Central of New Jersey's records show that it acquired 324.768 miles by purchase and merger and 54.450 miles by construction, a total of 379.218 miles, making a difference of 5.637 miles between the mileage inventoried by us and that shown in the records of the company. [...]
 * DEVELOPMENT OF FIXED PHYSICAL PROPERTY

Acquired by construction:
 * Somerville to Whitehouse, N. J., 1848 9.500
 * Whitehouse to Phillipsburg, N. J., 1852 28.000
 * Elizabeth to Jersey City, N. J., 1864 11.500
 * Elizabethport to Brills Junction, N. J., 1872 5.450
 * 54.450

Acquired by purchase and merger:
 * From The Elizabethtown and Somerville Railroad Company, Apr. 1, 1849, constructed by that company—
 * Elizabethport to Elizabeth (formerly Elizabethtown), 1836 2.250
 * Elizabeth to Plainfield, N. J., 1839 11.500
 * Plainfield to Bound Brook, 1840 6.750
 * Bound Brook to Somerville, 1842 5.000
 * 25.500
 * From The Perth Amboy and Elizabethport Railroad Company, Sept. 30, 1873, constructed partly by that company, completed by the Central of New Jersey, Elizabethport to Perth Amboy, N. J., 1871-1873 12.099
 * From The Newark and New York Railroad Company, Oct. 10, 1873; constructed by that company, Communipaw to Broad Street, Newark, N. J., 1869 6.190
 * From The Constables' Hook Railroad Company, Dec. 5, 1887; constructed by that company, Twenty-second Street Station, Bayonne, N. J., to a point on the Kill von Kull, Constables' Hook, N. J., 1883 1.950
 * From The Manufacturers Railroad Company, Dec. 5, 1887; constructed by that company, Brills Junction to Passaic River, Newark, 1882 1.680
 * From The High Bridge Railroad Company, Dec. 29, 1887, constructed by that company—
 * High Bridge to Chester, N. J., including branches, 1876 21.58
 * Less road abandoned 1.24
 * 20.340
 * From The Longwood Valley Railroad Company, Dec. 30, 1887; constructed by that company, Wharton to German Valley, N. J., 1876 10.960
 * From The Lake Hopatcong Railroad Company, Dec. 31, 1887; constructed by that company, Hopatcong Junction to Lake Hopatcong, N. J., 1882 5.350
 * From The South Branch Railroad Company, Dec. 15, 1888; constructed by that company, Somerville to Flemington, N. J., 1862 15.723
 * From The Buena Vista Railroad Company, Oct. 16, 1917; constructed by that company, Greenwich to Greenwich Pier, N. J., 1890 1.000
 * From The Carteret and Sewaren Railroad Company, Oct. 16, 1917; constructed by that company, center line of bridge over Nose Creek to end of line, 1891 (the records indicate that this road was partly constructed under the charter of the Carteret Extension Railroad Company) 1.220
 * From The Carteret Extension Railroad Company, Oct. 16, 1917, constructed by that company—
 * East Rahway to Carteret, N. J., 1889 1.780
 * Less road transferred in 1897 to The Carteret and Sewaren Railroad Company .08
 * 1.700
 * From the Cumberland and Maurice River Railroad Company, Oct. 16, 1917; construction by the Bridgeton and Port Norris Railroad Company, Bridgeton to Bivalve, N. J., 1872 21.303
 * From the Cumberland and Maurice River Extension Railroad Company, Oct. 16, 1917; constructed by that company, Bridgeton Junction to Bridgeton, N. J., 1887 1.010
 * From The Elizabeth Extension Railroad Company, Oct. 16, 1917; constructed by that company, Great Island, N. J., to end of line, 1889 1.620
 * From The Freehold and Atlantic Highlands Railroad Company, Oct. 16, 1917—
 * Constructed by The New York and Atlantic Highlands Railroad Company; Atlantic Highlands to Belfore, N. J., 1883 2.80
 * Constructed by The Atlantic Highlands Railroad Company, Belford to Lorillard, N. J. 3.80
 * Constructed by The Keyport Railroad Company, Keyport to Lorillard, N. J., 1889 2.50
 * Partly constructed by the Monmouth County Agricultural Railroad Company, completed by The Freehold and New York Railway Company—
 * Freehold to Matawan, N. J., 1877 12.0
 * Matawan to Keyport, N. J., 1880 1.7
 * Keyport to Keyport Pier, N. J., 1881 0.5
 * 14.20
 * 23.30
 * Less an unexplained difference of 0.63
 * 22.670
 * From The Lafayette Railroad Company, Oct. 16, 1917; constructed by that company, in Jersey City, N. J., 1890-1892 .650
 * From the Manufacturers Extension Railroad Company, Oct. 16, 1917, constructed by that company, Cornelia Street, Newark, N. J., to end of line, 1889 1.230
 * From The Middle Brook Railroad Company, Oct. 16, 1917; constructed by that company, Bound Brook to end of line, 1900 1.950
 * From The Middle Valley Railroad Company, Oct. 16, 1917; constructed by that company, Middle Valley to end of line, 1897 1.338
 * From the Navesink Railroad Company, Oct. 16, 1917; constructed by that company, Atlantic Highland Pier to Highland Beach Station, N. J., including spur, 1892 4.630
 * From The New Jersey Southern Railway Company, Dec. 15, 1888[sic]—
 * Constructed by The Raritan and Delaware Bay Railroad Company—
 * Port Monmouth Pier to Lakewood, N. J., 1860 26.00
 * Eatontown to Long Branch, N. J., 1860 5.00
 * Lakewood to Atsion, N. J., 1862 38.00
 * Lakehurst to Toms River, N. J., 1866 7.50
 * 76.50
 * Constructed by the Long Branch and Sea Shore Railroad Company—
 * Long Branch to Spermacite Cove, N. J., 1865 8.00
 * Spermacite Cove to Horse Shoe Cove, N. J., 1870 2.50
 * 10.50
 * Constructed under charter of the Camden and Atlantic Railroad Company, Atsion to Atco, N. J. 9.30
 * 96.30
 * Less road abandoned 20.50
 * 75.500
 * From the New Jersey Terminal Railroad Company, Oct. 16, 1917; constructed by that company, Reformatory to Williams and Clark Station, N. J., including branch, 1902 5.610
 * From The Passaic River Extension Railroad Company, Oct. 16, 1917; constructed by that company, Newark Transfer, N. J., along Avenue R, Newark, 1916 .700
 * From The Raritan North Shore Railroad Company, Oct. 16, 1917; constructed by that company, Perth Amboy, N. J., to end of line, 1894-1896 1.702
 * From The Sound Shore Railroad Company, Oct. 16, 1917; constructed by that company, Bayway to Williams and Clark Station, N. J., including branches, 1894-1896 6.170
 * From The Toms River Railroad Company, Oct. 16, 1917; constructed by The Raritan and Delaware Bay Railroad Company, 1866, a part of road extending from Lakehurst to Toms River, N. J., conveyed to The Toms River Railroad Company, Aug. 29, 1881 7.500
 * From The Toms River and Barnegat Railroad Company, Oct. 16, 1917; constructed by—
 * Toms River and Waretown Railroad Company, Toms River to Waretown, N. J., 1872 13.00
 * Ralph B. Gowdy and others, Waretown to Barnegat, N. J., 1879 1.80
 * 14.80
 * Less an unexplained reduction of .09
 * 14.710
 * From the Vineland Railroad Company, Oct. 16, 1917; constructed by the Vineland Railway Company—
 * Atsion to Vineland, N. J., 1870 24.545
 * Vineland to Bayside, N. J., 1871 22.238
 * 46.783
 * From The Vineland Branch Railroad Company, Oct. 16, 1917; constructed by The Vineland Branch Railroad Company, Bowentown to Bridgeton, N. J., 1910 3.620
 * From The West End Railroad Company, Oct. 16, 1917; constructed by that company, East Long Branch to West End, N. J., 1878 1.420
 * From The West Side Connecting Railroad Company, Oct. 16, 1917; constructed by that company, in Jersey City, N. J., 1895-96 .940
 * Total 379.218
 * Difference between total recorded mileage and mileage inventoried 5.637
 * Mileage inventoried as of date of valuation 384.855