Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1904 — THE RAILROADS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE RAILROADS

The total mileage within the State of South Dakota is now 2.980-45 miles, an increase of 23.(58 miles over the year previous. The State board of assessment for Alabama has raised the assessments of the railroad properties in that State about $1,000,000.

The work of double-tracking the Washington Southern, and Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac from Washington to Richmond is being pushed rapidly. According to the latest estimates the railroads of the United States earned more than $2,000,000,(MX) during 1003. It is interesting to know that it took the railroads fifty years to reach the first $500,000,000 mark, fifteen years to attain the second, ten years to pass the third and only four years to round out the fourth. The Santa Fe has decided to erect a new SIOO,OOO hospital in Los Angeles, and by so doing complete a chain of hospitals from' Albuquerque to the coast The new building will be located on Boyle Heights, and will be large enough to accommodate 75 to 100 patients. The committee on Indian affairs of the United States Congress has authorised a favorable report on the bill for the Santa Fe to purchase two short railroad lines in the Indian Territory, one from Chickasaw to Paul's Valley, twehty-six miles, and one from Paul’s Valley to the Canadian river.