Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1883 — MEXICAN RAILWAYS. [ARTICLE]

MEXICAN RAILWAYS.

Nearly Twenty-five Hundred Miles Completed. The Mexican Financier give the following list from official sources of the railroads completed in Mexico up to the ehd of April: Miles. Tlascala railroad 2.60 Orizaba-Ingenio 3.00 Nuetla-Tlasciaco 3.76 San Andres.. ......... 7.-00 Tlalmajialco 9.00 Pueblo and Matamoras Izucar 19.00 San Martin 23.00 Tehuacan-Esperanza 81.00 Tehuantepec 31.00 Sinaloa and Durango 36.00 Vera Cruz-Medelin 39.00 Hidalgo railroad 56.00 Pueblo San Marcos. 67.00 Yucatan lines k . 68.00 Mexico-Tlalpmalpam...'. 76.00 Sonora railway, Guaymas to Nogales ..234.00 Interoceanic, Mexico to Cuantia and branches 183.00 Mexican National, Mexico to Acamblaro 178.00 Laredo southward 208.00 Branches 87.00 Mexican Central, Mexico to Lagos. .811.00 Paso del Norte to Chihuahua. 302.00 Tampico to San Luis’Potosi 62.60 Mexican railway, Vera Cruz to Mexico ...264.00 Pueblo and Jalapa branches 89.60 Total 2.379.25 The table foots up 2,379% miles, although the Financier gives the total completed road at 2,437 miles. The Mexican National, the Interoceanic, the Hidalgo, and the Yucatan lines are narrow-gauge, the i;est standard gauge. A number of the shorter lines given above are worked by horse-power, and some of them have been in existence a long time. v