The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-31

Canadian border, thus completing thu extension from Glenwood. Minn.. to . connection with the Canadian Pactdo at Emerson. The St. Louis, Brownsvill4 and Mexico completed It's main line tQ Brownsville, Texas, 11S miles from last years end of track, and built Q branc6 from Harlfngen Junction to q point ops posite San Miguel. Texas. hfty-seveu miles. The Louisville and Nashville has completed (with the exception of q tunnel) its Knoxville. La Toilette and Jellico line from Saxton, Ky, to Knoxr vile, Tenn. seventy-nfne miles, ot which twenty-six miles were built in 1908. Branches of this line aggregate ing twenty-six miles were built, and the Louisville and Nashville proper also constructed sixty-three miles of branch lines in Alabama and Virginia. Thia makes a total of 142 miles built by tha L. and N. system. The Midland Valley was extended from Bokesha to Tulsa, \. T., 124 I.2 miles, of which twenty milea were completed in 1903 by the Muslkor gee Southern. The Missouri, Kansa4 and Texas completed It's Texas and oks lahoma line from Colgate, I. T.. to oI<s lahoma City, Okla. by laying eightyS fou. miles of track, and also buiie thirty miles of new line from Georges town to Granger, Texas. The St. Louis and San Francisco System completed
 numerous extensions in various States, | including the St. Louis. Brownsville
 and Mexico, which is generally under-
 stood to be a Frisco line. laid 366 miles
 of track in Louisiana, Missouri, Okia- homa, Illinois. Arkansas and Texas New lines constructed by other cons panies may be enumerated as followss Missouri Pacific, 1S6 miles fin Louisiana, Tennessee. Illinois Missouri and Ar-
 kansas: Great Northern 13S miles in NA rN- and thirty-seven miles in Canada; Chi. cago Rock Island and Pacific. 1Ie 1-2 miles in Missouri and Arkansas: Mobile Jackson and Kansas City. 10S 1-2 miiea in Mississippi: Norfolk and Western, 100 miles in Virginia and West Virginia: Seaboard Air Line. eighty-four miiea in Alabama and Gorgia; Atchison To- peka and Santa Fe. sixty miles in
 Texas. Ndw MexiGA California and Arizonia: Chesapeake and ohio. fifty- three miles in Kentucky.
 The Denver Northwestern and Paciffu. the mysterious road under construcs tion from Denver to Salt Lake City. Utah. was extended from Coal Creek to Arrowhead Colo. fffty-nine miles, The Tonopah road. sixty-one miles IonR was completed to the new minina1 camp in Nevada and the Unitah RaIl~ way was constructed from Mack. Colo. to Gilsonite mines at Dragon, Utah, fifty-five miles.
 With the exception of the sixty-mila link (of which ten miles were come pleted) to connect the Western Mary- land and the West Virginia Central and PtttsburE. and the completion of the Pittsburg Carnegie and Westerm into Ptttsburg. no work has been done during the past year on the varfoua roads necessary to complete the Att lantic seaboard line of the Wabash system. and there are no indications that work Is to be resumed soon on these lines. There are persistent ru- mors of an understanding between the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Gould interests which will make the con- struction of these lines unnecessarv. and the fact that the work is stilI bee ing held up lends color to them.
 The following table shows the tracn laid by years since 1886: