The Phoenix herald., 1880-09-24
Railroad Gu7:aIag.

More miles of new railroad were l laid last year in the United State:
 than in any year since 1873, the in- crease of mileage being 4,721 miles 1 Statistics Of the new railways now il i process of const uction, or Whicl | have been projected, indicate that 1 the increase for the present year will
 much exceed that of 1879. They
 have been gathered by the Railway
 Age.
 That journal gives reports of 287 railway enterprises undertaken oI
 projected durin the first half of the | year, which show q contemplated mileage Of the enormous total of
 over2O, COG miles. Of this aggregate
 l ,7O0 miles have been laid, 5000
 miles are n process of construction,
 and projects for the laying of 1O,S5O
 miles are announced.
 This railway building extends in to almost every State in the Union, and with few exceptions the project cd roads are entirely legitimate, and
 their completion is probable. The
 proposed lines are as a rule intended
 to develop new regions which stand
 ities and many Of them arc built by
 strong companies as feeders to their
 existing systems.
 in Canada also there is promise
 of activity in railroad construction.
 Negotiations have been nearly com
 piotcd with an English syndicate, with he object of forming com pany with a capital of $iO0OC0, eco to construct the whole of the rail war across British North America to tine Pacific. A land grant of 50, GjJ,GUg acres is offered as a subsidy.
 Onr Mexican ncighbors, too, are likely tc get during the next few years very considerable additions to tAeir railway system, though of the many systems that have been dis cusSed but few are in q condition to promise substantial results. There are two, however, which are actual ly tO be prosecuted, and upon which work has already been begun. Ac- cOrdihg Go inc Financial Chronicle, both the SOno- Railway and the Mexican Central Railway are now to be vigorously pushed forward to completion. They are controlled by capitalists of this country interested in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, who have organized the companies under the Massachusetts law which grants authority to con- structs rofds in foreign countries.
 The Sonora Railway is to run from Guaymas, on the Gulf of California, uOrtleastwaTdly to ti-o triZoaa fron tier, there to connect with the Atchi- son Topeka ard SantaFe road which is being extended 10 meet it. The subscribed capital is 51, 900 J10, and # IS expected that eighty-six miles Hili fe completed before the first of March.
 The Mexican Central project em- braces q line from the City of Mexi- co tO Fl Paso, with branches to Lar edo in one direction and the western coast in another. Already over S1,- 0U00O have been expended OF it and ss55, ,409, ,G00 is subscribed to the capi tai stock. 4 money subsidy of 515,- 000 mile is given to the Mexican Central on the portion Of the line from Mexico to Leon, a distance of 262 miles. The remainder of the ! line fIOm Leon to Fl Paso is to be l construced according to 9 contract, | which requir' the final approval of | Inc Mexican President.
 The Southern Pacific Railroad. l which is extending its line to Fl | Paso, has recently laid out scheme for a connection with the city of Mexico over substantially the same .oute as that fixed upon by the Mex can Central. The Sonora Railway md the Mexican Central Railway are however, the two enterprises which re now actually showing results, md from which the most is to be ex- ,ected. We therefore see that this is O be year of remarkable progress Il railway extension on this conti- ieQt