Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1882 — Railway Construction. [ARTICLE]

Railway Construction.

The last number of the Railway Age contains the so lowing regarding nd road conntroetion lor Octobe : The work of adding to the railway mi eage of the United States still goes on wJh remar able rapidity. Our retu ns for i lie month of October show an aggregat not much less than that of the two preceding months and imit ate that the total for the year will probab y be larger than the most liberal estima’e heretofore. Summarizing the detai ed statement which is given below, we have a record of 1,(68 mi es o row track —main lines only—added on seventy-one diffei ent lines in’th rty of the States and Territories, as follows: No. No. States. Lines. M. States Lines. KT. Arizona Ter’y..2 29 Minneso'a 7 172 Arkanas 1 53 Mississippi 1 11 Calif- rnia 2 22 Missouri..•s 2 26 < • lorado 2 47 MontanaT r’y...2 62 Dakota Ter’y. .6 131 ebraska 2 8 Florida 2 21 New Hampshire..! 5 Gi-oreia 1 :0 New York 1 25 Idaho Ter’y... .2 22 North Car Ima 1 19 11 in0i5.........4 4!) Ohio 4 55 Indiana 1 :6 Oregon 2 11 lowa 5 38 Pc. nsylvania... .4 29 Kentucky 1 16 Texas 6 6 1 Maine... 1 2L Virginia 1 !■ Maryland 1 3 | West Virginia.. .1 Michigan 3 33 I Wisconsin 2 38 Total lines and miles m thirty States . and Territ ries :.71 1,068 Reported to Oct. 1 8,075 Total Jan. 1 to Nov. 1 293 9.14 J Adding the figures for October to those previously given, we find that at least 9,143 miles of new track have been added in the ten months of 1882 just closed, ; nd that tbe work wa« prosecut d on no less than 293 different lines in forty-three States and Territories, leaving only three States and one Territory—New Hampshire, Rhi de Island, Delaware and Wa hinglon Territory—in which no trac laying-i or the year has thus far been repo ted.