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come near 81, 500, 600. The new mileage
foOts up 400. Many improvements will be
made by this line next year.


foots up 400. Many improvements will be
made by this line next year.
The Minneapolis & st. Louis road has
made but few improvements. 1t has COM
pleted no new lines this year. but con-
templates extending its line ten miles dur
ing the coming year from Eagle Lake to
Mankato. The expenditures were S27. 500.
The showing made by the ST. Paul. Min
neapolis & Manitoba road eclipseS that of
any road touching st. Paul that has yet
given a report of its expenditures and inn
provements. New lines completed aggre-
gate 379 miles, and the total amount eX-
pended was $S6O.329.
The Fremont, Elk Horn & Missouri
Valley road added 295 miles to its system.
The Minnesota 6 Northwestern built 272
miles of road and expended S242, 900 for
other Improvements, not including those at
the st. Paul stock yards 1t has been de-
cided upon to build 300 miles of extensions
during 1887, between Chicago and Dubuque
and Des Mones to st. Joseph and Kansas
| City.
The Minneapolis & Pacific has built 21S
miles of its line. extending from Min
| neapolis to Lidgerwood, Oak. The esti-
| mated cost of the road built is $40, 600 pei
mile.
During the past year the Northern Pacific
| has built 1864 miles of new road at the
cost of SO, 306, ,767. In addition to this
| 1924. 800 was expended for other improve
| ments.
The Chicago & Northwestern built $50
| miles of road, at an estimated cost of $15,-
| 600 per mile.
The Wisconsin Central built no new road
| during the past year, but several of the
roads operated by that line did. The only
| extensions so far decided upon for next year
are from the main line, twenty-fOur miles
south OF Ashland, to the Gogebic iron
| range, distance of thirty-four miles, ana
| sixteen miles of branches to the different
mines.
The Duluth 8 Manitoba. which will be
operated when completed by the Northern
Pacific. has built eighty miles of road at au'
approximate cost of S14, 600 per mile.
The Minneapolis. Sault Ste. Marie 6,
Atlantic built seventy-three miles. The
estimated cost of construction was $500
per mile. Next year the company will
build from Turtle Lake, Wis, to Mime
apois, distance of seventy-three miles.
The Burlington. Cedar Rapids & Northern
has built forty two and half miles of road,
extending from Ellsworth, Minn., to Sioux
Falls, Oak. The approXimated cost of the
new road built during the year is $12, 600
per mile. The company has not yet de-
cided upon any extension for next year.
The Duluth & Iron Range completed its
extension from Two Harbors to Duluth,
| distance OF 291s miles.
The Improvements made by the st. Paul
| & Northern Pacific were Of varied char
| acter. The new trackage of the company
| figures up about ten miles, located princi-
pally in St. Paul and Minneapolis. The
cost of Improvements made during the year
| foots up $3.50. 900. of which amount $780,
| 900 was for new mileage.
| The expenditures for improvements made
| by the Minnesota Transfer company foot
| up 5000 The improvements consist of
| three miles of new track. stock exchange
and roundhOuse.
There will be a large amount of work
done in 1887. The Manitoba expects to
build at least 200; the Northern Paciic's
| lowest estimate is 200 miles; the Minnesota
& Northwestern figures on 800; the Mil
waukee & st. Paul will complete the Kan
sas City line, 205 miles in length, and build
at least 100 more in Dakota; the Montana
Central will build several hundred; the
| Washburn system of roads will construct at
| least 800 miles, and all the other roads will
make more or less additions to their present
| systems