Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1883 — MEXICAN RAILWAYS. [ARTICLE]

MEXICAN RAILWAYS.

Nearly Twenty-five Hundred Miles Completed. The ATextcan Financier gi e the following list from official sources of the railroads completed in Mexico up to the end of April: Miles. Tlascala railroad 2.50 Orizaba-Ingenio 3.01 Nuetla-Tlasciaco 8.75 San Andres.., 7.01 Tlalmanaico 9.0 J Pueblo and Matamoras Izucar 19.01 San Martin v ... 23.0) Tehuasm-Esperanza 31.00 Tehuantepec 31.00 Sinaloa and Durango 36.00 Vera Cruz-Medelin 3’9.00 Hidalgo railroad 56.00 Pueblo San Marcos 57.00 ■Yucatan lines 68.00 Mexico-Tlalpulalpam 75.00 Sonora lailway, Guaymas to Nogales' ..234.00 Interoceanic, Mexico to Cuantia and branches 183.00 Mexican National, Mexico to Acambaro...k 178.00 Laredo southward 2U8.U0 Branches 87.00 Mexican Centra], Mexico to Lagos. .311.00 Paso del Norte to Chihuahua. 302.00 Tampico to San Luis Potosi 62.50 Mexican railway, Vera Cruz to Mexico 264.00 Pueblo and Jalapa branches......... 89.50

T0ta12,379.26 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 rest standard gauge. A number of tife shorter lines given above are worked by horse-power, and some of them have been in existence a long time