Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-30


greatest activity. The states west of the
Mississippi river have added 2,446 miles
and the states south of the Ohio and east
of the Mississippi 1,021 miles. making a to-
tai of 3.467 miles. The states in which no
new mileage is reported are New Hamp-
shire Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Is
land. Connecticut, Delaware and Nebraska.
Longest New Road Completed.
The longest new road completed during
the year is the San Pedro, Los Angeles
and Salt Lake, from Caliente, New, to Dag
gett, Cal, 29s1a miles, 40 miles of which
were built in 1903. The Minneapolis, ST.
Paul and Sault Ste. Marie laid 2O7 miles
of track from Ottertail, Mimi, to Emerson,
Man, on the Canadian border, thus COM
pleting the extension from Glenwood,
Mimi, to a connection with the Canadian
Pacific at Emerson. The st. Louis, Browns
vile and Mexico completed it's main line
to Brownsville, Texas, 11S miles from last
years end of track, and built branch
posite San Miguel. Mex. 81 miles The
Louisville and Nashville has completed
with the exception of tunnel its Knox
ville La Toilette and Jelico line from Sax
of which &c miles were built in 1903
Branches of this line aggregating &c miles
were built, and the Louisville and Nash
vile proper also constructed 63 miles of
branch lines in Alabama and Virginia.
This makes total of 142 miles built by
the Louisville and Nashville system The
Midland Valley was extended from Bokesha
to Tulsa, l. T., 1241zf miles. of which 20
miles We're completed in 1903 by the Mus
kogee Southern. The Missouri Kansas and
Texas completed it's Texas and Oklahoma
line from Coalgate, T. T., to Oklahoma
City Okla. by laying "a miles of track,
and also built 80 miles of new line from
Georgetown to Granger, Texas The st.
pleted numerous extensions in various
states and including the ST. Louis. Browns
vile and Mexico, which is generally I'M
derstood to be Frisco line, laid 1866 miles
of track in Louisiana, Missouri, Okla
homa, Illinois. Arkansas and Texas.
Other New Lines.
New lines constructed by other compa-
MES may be enumerated follows: Mis-
souri, Pacific. 1856 miles in Louisiana, Ten
nessee, Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas
Great Northern. 1873 miles in Minnesota,
North Dakota and Montana, and 81 miles
in Canada; Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cific. 116k miles in Missouri and Arkan-
sas; Mobile Jackson and Kansas City,
1854 miles in Mississippi: Norfolk and
Western. 100 miles in Virginia and West
Virginia; Seaboard Air Line, "a miles in
Alabama and Georgia; Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe, 60 miles in Texas. New
Mexico, California and Arizona; Chesa-
peake and Ohio, SO miles in Kentucky
The Denver, Northwestern and Pacific
the mysterious road under construction
from Denver to Salt Lake City, Utah. was
extended from Coal Creek to Arrowhead,
Col, 50 miles. The Tonopah road, 81 miles
long, was completed to the new mining
camp in Nevada, and the Unitah railway
was constructed from Mack, Col. to Gilson-
lite mines at Dragon. Utah. So miles.
The Wabash Construction.
With the exception of the 60-mile link (of
which 10 miles were completely to connect
the Western Maryland and the West Vir-
ginia Central and Pittsburg, and the COM
pletion of the Pittsburg, Carnegie and West
ern into Pittsburg. no work has been done
during the past year on the various roads
necessary to complete the Atlantic sea-
board line of the Wabash system, and there
are no indications that work is to be re-
sumed soon on these lines. There are per-
sistent rumors of an understanding between
the Pennsylvania railroad and the Gould In :
terests which will make the construction