Telegram-herald., 1888-12-29
RAILROAD BUSINESS
wrAT IS DoNg T-E PAST YEAF
49, Liass ThAs Were E4iit saa tns
b4ziasss Dsssr-ss Sss ks-4s Bans
Ia Is~s ga Asasaaa sf Lsgis
Lsfis.-OsBer sssss

~ Yoax. Dec. - Tie Eaqsaesriag
gssss tlis ~sek ~ 49, slacs laa--fF 4,
f.os sas .stal amount of rail ~ag co1sirl1-
Goa "a ia Lalle1 safes h4s neea 7.sD
Ailss. Ths asE Usex aas osea al O.
-. 8ldsfsat lass, salca Esrs oailt o. ~
sfsrsat coalp4llss. Ihs ns- rsilNay eol-
ssr1alisn l1f Tie year la >ss Engiaad
e1.sss aAoaats5 % l63 ales divided
amoax lins companiss IA asS lsfk.
ss~ J-rsey. MARI aad snd Psansy iFaalA,
rs miles ssrs coaslrlcisd - tssasy fArse
cuuipaalss. IA Oaio, Michigan, Indiana
Illaa4s and ~ ise0nsll. s.3 uaiiss -srs o1iit
h thirty-ous c0mcaAies. Ia virginia
Wsst Virginia 8rll Carolina. ooutn caro-
Ina tisofxlA and .orids. l.. l14 Adss Sefe
caa.fr4cIad bY fJftF-ts3 companies. II
Alabama A.-sisslppL leonsss~s. h-h-
t.ckF and Louisiana. $40 ia 90 Sere 0uils
bf t1fty -Ona com A1lss- IL Msse-fi'
Arkan.4a Texas Kansas. Colorado, New
AzxicO aad lnlisn Territory, A'Vt mi.ss
szrs boil. b. tssnEy -nins col "a pahlrs II
NIrae.ata Sebraska Dzkcla. wyoming.
80 A.ut.aa T51 n.i.es we're built. divided
.monk twelve companies. Ia Washington
Isrritsry lIah0. Oregon, ~aAl0fnla ali
It.a 8s7 miles ~srs o4AL b. twenty nvs
soutnaniss. ID Canada f1urieen cutn Panlcs
have baiIt sixteen us~ lines. N1ose total
3xtsar is 800. Ia Mexico the tao principal
Amerlcan svstsas. the central aad tbs
Nsuonal. have been sc4Ys IN construction,
and have aid tr1ck on 40 n4llss ~ exten-
aoDs.
Tas 5 4oo miles completed IN the past
ve.f La rn- nilsd states. Naiie ls - Only
hal lhaf recorded for l,s1 snt bat tHo-
thirds or tie mileage built IA l,so, - still a
largs sAoNi : Tor year ia which conndsacS
ia railway he FsstIaenls has receifSd such
serisus shocks
Esn4ss stiIl sands al the head of "a { list
o. states -ith 523 lnlss. sat - followed oy
California win as Georgia with SlS
kenrucky With 23i Warrington Territory
witb 30 All ALBANIA with 5)f- TAKEN As
= sh0ie, The south has snoSn more
activity CON pared With the North than ever
before.
The Only very long line built during the
past var vas the extension OF the Chicago,
Kansas a Nebraska division of the Rock
lsaad syssem TO Colorado Springs, 70
nliles ia length. Most Ol tho grading on
this line was done tais season, but on q
very larxe proportion OF the longer lines
built during The year much OF the grading
Wa dene in 1851. Inls Ia part account.
fcr The amoUnr Of construction Tor TIE year
Plans made and partly carried ont during
the previous year aad 20 oe carried through
10 avoid loss.
A great contrast between 1883 and the
two prccedl9g years - seen 10 the owner
.bi5 of the extensions. The twenty 81 Z
companies that bulty So.o miles IA 1851
Or nearly y per cent OF the whole Mileage
built Only z5ls miles this wear. or only 81
Per cent. OF the whole Tie current oeiisl
that the Interstate Commerce ls1 tends 20
force the local roads 10 consolidate with ths
-
tarxsr number Of local lines built IN 1888
/. seems. indeed. open 70 question, whether
the AN While IL tends 10 i0rce t1e cORs9iid
sti0n OF coupefirg lines. does not haedicaI
the great systems. which are seri
ously Affected oy competition. and leave a.
most untouched the smau Local rcaf'
which - their limited fields ara mo1arct
of AL they survey. Or tie work waicf
las been done b. the grss. systenls - ex
tepslons Of Ehs Rock Island are the nos
noticeable. Is nas built IBIS ysa- 392 a'iles
The santa Fe. which 0uiit the enoroiou'
amount u f729 nlles asst year. has tR'
modest record this year OF oaly ia miles
only tsath 81 its isss years record "
the Other Chicago svsteris the NortH west
ern has oult 10 miles the Burlington 10.
miles the Illinois teatral ninety miles and
the Chicago. Milwaukee = 81 Pau, whics
has srfarst badly .-om both the rate VA
ard the shors whea- crop. only nve miles
The ST. raul Minneapolis g Manitoba
has built 3l3 milss. the Northern Pacluf
so u lss and the southern Pscific ~ III IS
In rns Fast the most prominent liae 8 tn
Canadian Fscldcs extension toward it
future terminus IA t1e Plo7ince OF Ne'
EFrnswieK.
The fscr tha, no mileage has been built
in Iowa during the past ysa- is sisuia
cant ore TIE snti-rai wsy legislation
uhich has been 90 favorable ia few state
a fhe North west. snd IN wh.ca i0Ss hs
taken tse eaI has ~ course, resulted n
sharp CHECK 90 investments IA new raiINsl
Dropsrtv 10 hose States.