The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-10-28

The Easssuss .sr< makes the statement
shss since January last S.3ls mixes q
nsin lire railway track have been lad Ia
the United STATES. in addition 10 the total
mileage that existed before This new
track iavinS has been going sorward n
thi-fv-rin< states and territories. and on
~ lines The 1s< estimates that oy the
wears end there viii have been 500 miles
OF nex main l,ne track laid during tsse pre-
eer<sins twelve months. The greatest ae-
sfr:rv Il, construction has been witnessed IN
the South. In eleven southern states. IN
Guiding Texas, the track laid aggregates
LAS miles. or nearly IS per cent.
OF the total AEong the states
Georgia leads. with IS miles
Texas CONES next. with 10 miles; Nir-
GINA follows. With f.6 miles: Tennessee.
with no. North Carolina. IA: Mississippi,
no. aud Kentucky. Isl. In Pennsylvania
lSs ruiles of track have been lait or Ia
lines. The Sex England states, New York
and New JERSEY have added 235 miles OF
track. Michigan Isl. Indiana loo. Nebraska
lis. Indisn Territory lis, and the new state
of Washington PA. Comparatively little
track has been laid in Illinois. Wisconsin,
Minnesota. the Dakotas. Kansas. Missouri,
wars have. for the tine being. checked new
railroad enterprise IL the prairie states OF
the Northwest
The progress made in construction this
year. while falling far below that OF the
preceding years since 1855. has been by no
means Insignificant. 1t has neeessisated
the consumption of vast amount OF
material. TIE showing for the South Is
especially noteworthy, and indicates that
railway enterprise is keeping pace with the
rising prosperity OF that section What IS
being done this year is but the beginning
OF = railway development in the South that
viii yet afford il transportation facilities
equal to those in the North.
Ii is noteworthy feature of the present
railroad situation that there has lately been
a revival of demand for steel rails at ad-
vanced prices, and that the carshops are
are 50 full of orders for new rolling stock
that the demand for silis and strips has
greatly revived. In the South such demand
has been boon 10 the yellow pine and
cypress manufacturers. Ii is an indication
of what will result when the South is
as we'll supplied with railroads AS the
North. The day is not far distant when the
railway requirement in that section will dis
pose of large share of the home product
Then there will be less dependence than
now on the Northern markets. This is the
brighter outlook that will dawn on the
southern trade. Railway construction
means the development of industries and
the growth and new building of towns
and cities, which will also create
an enlarged demand for forest prod
ucts. Within five years it will be found
that what is called the new South will re-
auire so much mill output that the neces-
sity for shipping the larger part to distant
markets will have passed away. This de-
veiopment of Southern trade will also re-
Iieye the North OF the avalanche of South
ern lumber that manufacturers and dealers
in this section are go fearful viii over
whelm them. The process of events will
even up the lumber conditions in this
country, as it usually does in other depart
ments of industry and trade.