People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1894 — Countries That Own Railroads. [ARTICLE]

Countries That Own Railroads.

Living Issues. Brownwood. Tex. Mil Editor: Below I give you. a list of the countries or governments that own their railway systems, all or in part, with mileage. My authority is the Encyclopaedia Baitannica. American Revision, Vol. 111., pages 1302-6. By way of parenthesis, will say that railways had thenorigin in tramways more than 200 years ag> in the mining districts of England. Austria owns and operates . n ?arly 206'0 miles of railway. Baden owns 829 miles of railway. Bavaria has 2896 miles of railway owned by the government. Belgium owns about 2000 miles of railwaySome 181 miles of railway is owned by Ceylon. Chili owns 670 miles of railway. China owns and operates all her railways. • The United States of Columbia owned 218 miles of railway in 1890. '♦ Denmark has about 1000 miles of railroad owned by the government. France owns about 2000 miles o' railway, but most or quite ad , is leased to companies. The German empire owns; about 21.840 miles of railway. England and Wales own 14,034 miles of railway. Scotland has 3118 miles. of railway belonging to the state. Ireland owns 2791 miles of railroad. * Hesse owns 226 miles of her railway system. ‘ A large per cent of the railways of Italy belong to the government, but are leased to companies. Japan owns 603 miles of railway. The colony of Natal owns 305 miles of railway. The Netherlands has nearly • 1000 miles owned by the government.

New South Wales ownes 2182 miles of railway. New Zealand in 1899 owned 672 miles of railroad. Norway has 929 of railway—all her own. Portugal owns about one-half of the railways in that country. Oldenburg owns 222 . miles of her railroads. » Peru has 1625 miles of railroads owned by the state. ' Rouinania in 1880 owned 1590 miles of railway. Poland and Caucasia own 5065 miles of railway. Sweden owns 16-15 miles of railroad. Victoria '* al! her railroads —2341 mile< Some 113/ - of road h; FinlaHi:? bt ' ">.■> Russia. About one b ■>’ ■■ •_ me roads in that empi:o ..mod by the government. ■ Servia also tm,.- few lines of railway owned by tim state. Brazil owns and operates 2094 1 miles of railway. South Australia ownes her railway system. GENERAL NOTES. On June 1, 1891, there were 361,318 miles of railway in the world. The average cost of-construct-'ftig a mile of railroad in the ■ United States in 1890 was about A 30,000. The cost of a high class, ’B-wheel passenger locomotive is about 88.500. | The cost of a palace sleeping car is §15,000, if “vestibuled” §17,000.