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At the end of April, 1873, the railroad was mortgaged for over $ 6 million, though the DH&LM placed its own value at that time as just short of $ 4.2 million. But with a profit of more than $ 400,000 on revenues of $ 940,000, the firm's future must have seemed bright to president J. F. Joy, who
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