The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-31

It is apparent that the southern and southwestern states are still the scenes of greatest activity. The -.~tes west of the Mississippi river have added 2,446 miles and the states south of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi 1921 miles, making a total of 3467 miles. The states in which no new mileage is reported are: New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware and Nebraska
 The longest new road completed dur ing the year is the San Pedro Los An geles and Salt Lake, from Caliente, Nev, to Daggett, Cal, 29S1a miles, forty miles of which were built in 1903. The Minne- apolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste Marie laid 2O7 miles of track from Ottertail, Minn., 10 Emerson, Man. on the Canadian bor- der thus completing the extension from Glenwood Minn to a connection with the Canadian Pacific at Emerson. The St. Louis. Brownsville and Mexico com pleted it's main line to Brownsville, Tex, 1ls miles from last years end of track, and built a branch from Harlingen Junc- ton to a point opposite San Miguel, Mex ico 57 miles, The Louisville and Nash vile has completed with the exception of tunneD its Knoxville, La Toilette and Jellico line from Saxton, Ky, to Knoxville, Tenn, 79 miles, of which 26 miles were built in 1903. Branches of this line aggregating 26 miles were built. and the Louisville and Nashville proper also constructed 6S miles of branch lines in Alabama and Virginia. This makes to- tai of 142 miles built by the Louisville and Nashville system. The Midland Val ley was extended from Bokesna to Tulsa, I. T., 124ia miles, of which 20 miles were completed in 1903 by the Muskogee South ern The Missouri, Kansas and Texas completed it's Texas and Oklahoma line from Coalgate, l. T., to Oklahoma City, Q. T.. by laying S4 miles of track. and also built 30 miles of new line from Georgetown to Granger, Tex. The St Louis and San Francisco system com peted numerous extensions in various states, and including the St. Louis. Brownsville and Mexico which is gener- ally understood to be a Frisco line laid S66 miles of track in Louisiana Missouri. Oklahoma, Illinois, Arkansas and Texas.
 New lines constructed by other com panes may be enumerated as follows: Missouri Pacific, 1S6 miles in Louisiana, Tennessee. Illinois. Missouri and Arl.an- sas; Great Northern 13S miles in Min nesota, North Dakota and Montana and S7 miles in Canada; Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, 116h miles in Missouri and Arkansas; Mobile, Jackson and Kansas
 
 and Western, 100 miles In Virginia and West Virginia; Seaboard Air Line, s4 miles in Alabama and Georgia; Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe. 60 miles in Texas, New Mexico, California and Arizona; Chesapeake and Ohio. B miles in Ken lucky.
 The Denver, Northwestern and Pacific the mysterious road under construction from Denver to Salt Lake City, utah, was extended from Coal Creek to Arrow head, Colo, 59 miles. The Tonopah road 6l miles long, was completed to the new mining camp in Nevada and the Unitah Railway was constructed from Mack, Colo., to Gilsonite mines at Dragon Utah, 55 miles.
 With the exception of the GO-mie link (of which 10 miles were completed) to connect the Western Maryland and the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg, and the completion of the Pittsburg, Carnegie and Western into Pittsburg, no work has been done during ;ne past year on the various roads necessary 10 com Wabash system, and there are no indi- cations that work is to be resumed soon on these lines. There are persistant ru- mors of an understanding between the Pennsylvania railroad and the Gould in- terests which will make the construc- | ton of these lines unnecessary, and the fact that the work is still being held up lends color to them.
 | The following table shows the track | Ia hx- since 1NSf.