Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1876 — Progress of Railroad Building. [ARTICLE]

Progress of Railroad Building.

One of the most enoonrsging features of the tail trade ia the in* crease in the railroad building that in going on. The Chicago Journal qf Cmmtret has a summary, > from which we quote: “At the East a narrowgage road, nine mites • long, hit bom oomthenoed between Boston and Stoneham, that will oost 1800,000. -A -read following the valley of Lamoille river. In VermottVis being ironed, ana will be opened to Lais Champlain this fall. The lWhesfer, nTt., Void will reach Salamaooa this y«ar, and be pushed forward to the .eoal Helds of Jefferson county in the spring. The Columbia snd Port Deposit, ‘ * v

DeL. read baa twen«y-€ve miles of Iraoklaid, and is pushing ahead actively. The Portsmouth and Huntington, Ohio, togive the Scioto Talley an Eastern and Western oooneetioo, and obviate the delate es Ohio river navigation, only wafts until it is deeidsd whether the gage "hall be common or narrow; and theHarrlaonbnrg and Fredsriokaburg, Va,,'having been ohangad to »three-foot rage«n the eompieted portion, will he pushed forward »nd eompieted from Orange Coon House to Rawley Springs at onoo. A otal tributary of theooioto Valley road baa been surveyed, ootnmeooing a dosen miles above CirelevillA The Cincinnati Mid Purtamouta having adopted the oMrowjgtep will adverUaa for it* tdh complete ths wsy tO' Ky. Tbe Faderal Creek,' 0., eotf road, eighteen mile*, has its bed oofflplftod yMPIi of ths distAQos and ia sxpSgSmn. Ths Rock Islshd and Mercyr county, 111., striking the eastern portion of the country, is laying ti-ftek and using It. ffrs Omaha apd HorthweMern, completed tst Herman, ia being constructed at the rate of half * mite uatswA gage road is open forty-four taties to Lexington, Mo. In the South funds arc biting rafted to extend the Mobil a and Alabama road sevmiles, frofo Uniontown to Birminghata, with a promise of speedy sueossa. The gaga of the Houston and Texas has been efifcnged to 4 feet 84 inches f6r 120 miles between Houston and Htjarne, mmk it uniform through folW adelphia and New York, .. Track laying bast recommenced at* Kings-, bury, on the Galveston, Harrisburg and tfou Antonio road, advaneing toward Han Antonio,. Utah Is soliritans of sommeneing a raid from the Union or Central Pacific, by tat valleys of the Snake ana Columbia rivri-a toward Portland audau>nlfojral*^ surveyed alongtaa Colorado V alley with the hope of reaching San Diego. The Tomales, Cal., road to Freestone, Sonoma eounty, will rsaoh Russian river this fall. Colorado is also at work ou a narrow gage from Floyd Hill, terminus of a branch of the Central, to Idaho and Georgetown, that will branob to Central City and be extended into the Middle Park.”