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. Stages from the important villages, were immediately put on for the nearest stations as the work advanced. It is stated as a fact that the company suffered severely at first from the dishonesty of the conductors who collected their fares on board of the trains. The building of the road above White Plains seems to have been proceeded with, after very little, if any, delay. In the report above cited the completion of the whole distance is promised by May, 1847. Mr. Allan Campbell, the engineer, thus details the route chosen : " It pursues the valley of the Bronx for three miles, when it passes to the valley of the Saw Mill by Davis's Brook and Fly Brook . . . The Saw Mill is then followed to its head-waters, where the ridge (of high broken ground running from east to west about eight or ten miles above White Plains, the principal obsta-

• Coiiimittco's Keport to Stockholders, October 15, 1841.

GENERAL HISTORY

FROM 1783 TO 1860.