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COMPARING
The Railroad Mileage in the Vari-
Gus States and Countries

The Railroad Mileage in the Vari-
Gus States and Countries
New York is the first of the states
IN respect OF population, Pennsylvania
is second. Texas is the largest of the
states, California is the second, says
the New York Sun. Yet neither New
York Pennsylvania, Texas nor Califor-
MIA stands first in respect of railroad
mileage; that distinction belongs to
Illinois. The railroad mileage of Illinois
exceeds 10000. The significance of that
figure may be understood when if is
known that the railroad mileage of
russia is only $4,000. Second in the
nst or states in railroad mileage is
pennsylvania. New York comes sixth.
Kansas, Ohio and Iowa being ahead
OF 1t; Kansas has a railroad mileage
OF $500 Iowa Of $500, Ohio of $500 and
New York Of 5000. The railroad mile
age of New York, small as it is by COM
parlson with that of some other states,
is large when compared with that of
some European countries. The mileage
or Spain, nation of 16, 900 600 people.
is only $500 and that of Portugal is
ahout 1,5OO, though the population is
three-quarters as large as that of the
Empire state. Montana, with an area
or l4o,OOO square miles, has only 200
miles of railroad, while New Jersey.
with. only 1880 square miles, has 2 200
miles Of railroad. Utah and Minnesota
are almost exactly of the same size.
and the little difference which exists
between them is in favor of Utah. but
Minnesota has only 1900 miles of rail-
road, while Utah has 5000 Nevada
and Vermont have almost to a mile the
same railroad mileage, but Nevada has
an area of 10000 square miles and Yer
mont an area of only 900.
The total railroad mileage of England
is $4,000. less than that Of Illinois and
Indiana together, and the total mileage
of the United Kingdom, England, Scot
land and Ireland Ghere is a larger
railroad mileage in Scotland than in
IrelanO is less than that of New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio The disparity
between the states in the matter of
railroad building is increasing, for new
lines are being pushed constantly IN
some sections of the country, while
others are neglected. In Connecticut,
for instance, the present railroad mile
age has increased less than 100 in the
last seventeen years, though in the
same period the railroad mileage of
Florida has increased from 518 to 5000.
Virginia has doubled its railroad track
age since 1880; so has Kentucky; but
Washington state has increased its
mileage in the same period from 2S3 to
1880 miles.
1t is supposed popularity that there
has been less railroad development in
the South than in many Northern
states, but the contrary is true. From
1850 to 1895 the railroad mileage of the
Middle Atlantic states-New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and
Observation-Disclosures d so per cent, and
that of the five north central states
Ohio Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and
Wisconsin-60 per cent But in the
same period the railroad mileage Of
what are called the Mississippi valley
states = Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala
bama, Kentucky and Tennessee-in-
creased 100 per cent, and the railroad
mileage of the South Atlantic states
Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Georgia, West Virginia and Flor
ida-increased 120 per cent The aver
age cost of constructing mile of rail-
road is $65, 900