«!60.980 from freight or a total of $108,768, which it was said would fully meet all expenditures and yield a profit of at least 25 per cent, on the capital invested. Another engineer calculates upon an immediate income of $60,000, $950 of which is to come from the Catholic School at Fordham and Powell's School at Westchester. The following is another statement ventured by the President of the New York and Albany Railroad in 1838. "The town of East Chester will contribute along with Kain's Marble Quarry $15,000, and six other towns of Westchester County $16,000 to support a railroad." It is safe to affirm that no one took as much interest in the construction of this road as Mr. Gouverneur Morris. The route found to be the most advantageous after leaving the Harlem, was to aim directly for Mill Brook, and thence along it to the valley of the Bronx near William's Bridge, and thence along that valley to White Plains, the whole distance being 20 miles. Here were found broad level flats above the bed of the streams averaging 500 feet in width, skirted by table lands of gravel 30 feet above the flat and averaging 200 feet in width, affording great facilities for grading. Rock occurs at a few points, chiefly granite and gneiss, offering stone for culverts at reasonable distances and inconsiderable expense. The road was constructed and in use to Fordham by October 1841 ' to William's Bridge by 1842, to Tuckchoe by July, 1844 and to White Plains later in the same year, passing through the towns of Morrisania, West Farms, Yonkers, Eist Chester, Scarsdale, Greenburg and White Plains. Says one long an employee of the road, "the first running of the trains through the county was a matter of great curiosity, and crowds of people surveyed it from the adjoining hills.'' From the report of the company in 1846, we learn that the cost of construction of six miles of road from the south side of Harlem River Bridge to William's Bridge was $38,475 per mile, while the thirteen miles of road from William's Bridge to White Plains cost $11,277 per mile.