Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-04-24

It viii be observed that Virginia has greater length
road u opera ion than any other State, and that she
Dat, invested q much larger amount OF capital IN those
works than has any other section of the South Toe to-
l length Of the line in that state 2J5S miles and the
length In operation SO miles, the Of building and
equipment having been forty three million dolrs.
d. 1888 the total mileage OF road IN operation in Virgin
i was $50 miles, the increase since that period having
been 5S4 miles or about itty-ve per ccut-a progress
most ere lba % the enterprise of that State. Next in
Importance comes the State Of Missouri which, although
i,, length OF road Is equal to that of other
States has vet expended amount OF capital in It's roads
sr passed only by Virginia. Upon operative mileage
OF I1S miles that State has expended nearly thiry-two
million dollars Tennessee with $3.50 miles more road
than Missouri hiss invested only S2I3iS TAI IN structure
and equipment whilst Georgia has built aud equipped J.
24I miles .5l miles more than Missouril at cost Of
only sos Gs- 22O Alabama has secured a large extent
Of road at comparatively light cost having opened
sgs miles at an outlay of $50 1859. The growing
wants OF the State have caused the projection OF amuch
lager extent OF railway accommodation, there being
t the present time OZ4 miles of road awaiting compile
to0 lo South Carolina tie cost OF the road has been
S lower than i'm the last mentioned Shte-.he length
OF che road being nine miles additional and The agsre
gate cost nearly million less. The cost OF the North
Carolina lines has been still lower than that OF South
For somewhat less than fourteen million Of dollars that
State has constructed and equipped 40 miles OF road
th' average cost per mile having been only SIS, l''
louisiana the other hand has invested large capt.
Gal for much more limited results. Her leng OF ROAD
BOZ operation is il9 miles az cost Of over sixteen million
dolarthe average per mile being S5S,S6l, or 500
Isl more than that OF North Carolina roads. LOUISIANA
has az the present time al miles Of road uncompleted
which hushed az the Of cost as that already
n operation, viii involve additional outlay OF SIS
425 sol, making the total OF railroads in that State
nearly St4 500 uUu kentucky is somewhat behind some
other parts OF the South in the extent Of her railroad
works Her neighboring State, Virginia, has $50 mil
OF rolisiu operation with population OF millions
whilst with a population Of Million Kentucky herself
has only 46S miles Of operating line The comparative
~ heavy cost Of road building in this State may
have tended more less to limit the extent of railway
accommodation the average outlay per mile on the conf
pleted lines having been Sag 600 Mississippi does not
great length Of road ranking in this respect tenth
among the States of the South She has, however, the
great Mississippi river skirting her entire Western boun-
dary which renders unnecessary proportonate lengt
OF rOGa and il is to be taken into the estimate that her
population being only 100000 she has not such large re-
qurements have some Of the more popalous States
Texas has yet great work perform in railroad con-
lruciiOn She has only PSI miles Of completed hue Tor
the development Of her immense territory. With pop
ulaon however Of $4,000 she cannot be expected 10
do much more immediately and the probability seems to
be that she must wait patiently for some years ere the
S3 miles which her enterprise has projected can be COM
peted Five years ago she had only thrtytwO miles OF
road aud il is highly credabe the state that with so
few Inhabitants She should have completed $50 miles OF
line IN the interim. The roads Of Florida though nl-
tied, are probably proportOned TO her wants-29O
miles Of railway 10 less than 10000 inhabitants being
very tar ratio a accommodation. Arkansas Is as
yet only commencing her railroad works With large
territory aud population ofabout 100000 she has need