The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-08

Total in S9 states ana
 aItsn,,sh thare are several exten- sions under construction in tho New England States. no track has yet been Ilaid in that section of the country and but no miles of new line have been completed in the middle stftes, which include New York. New Jersey, Penn sylvania. Delaware and Maryland. In other groups of states the track laio is as follows: Central Northern States. 1ba miles: South Atlantic States, 254 miles: Gulf and Mississippi Valley States, s32 miles; Southwestern States, 800 miles, Northwestern states, S52 miles; Pacific States. 497 miles.
 Tn the states south of the Ohio river
 and east of the Mississippi the new mileage aggregates 447 miles, ana III the states west of the Mississippi river 1891 miles. Texas shows larger new mileage than any other state, with 260 miles of track laid. Nevada is second with 227 miles, Wyoming third with l52 miles and Louisiana fourth with l4S miles. The only other states showing over 100 miles eacS are Mis- sissippi with l10 miles and California | with 10S miles.
 | Tn the North and Northwest track laying is just being started on many | lines and there will be a rapid increase in new mileage for the next six months For instance, in North Da- i kota, where but twelve miles of track are reported for the first six months over 400 miles are being built by the ! Great Northern and the Soc Line. Grad | ing is we'll advanced on much of this | mileage and tracklaying on several ex 1 tensions will begin in July. &
 In South Dakota the Minneapoi# and St. Louis is building 230 miles, th& l Chicago and Northwestern 191 miles
  l Paul over 400 miles. making approxs1 1 mately $50 miles under constructAnN in this state. Tracklaying is alreadt l underway on the Northwestern exteAfS sion from Pierre to Rapid City ana | on the St. Paul extension from Cham berlain to Rapid City, and the Mime apoIis and St. Louis expects to start tracklaying about July 15.AlI- of these extensions are to be completerd this wear, as a portion of the St. Pauis ex- tension from Evarts west to the Pact- fic coast, over 200 miles of which are located in South Dakota.
 In Nebraska the 103-mile line from South Sioux City to Ashland to con- meet the Great Northern and Burling- ton, on which one-half the track was laid in 1905, has been completed, and the Union Pacific has laid twenty miies of track on the extension from Her shey to Northport. leaving ninety-one miles to lay to reach the latter point The Union Pacific is building two other extensions in Nebraska aggregat- ing thirty three miles, an dthe Chicago St. Paul Minneapolis and Omaha will complete a fifteen mile branch in this state before the close of the year.
 The 152 miles completed in Wyoming have been built by the Bdrltnglon a4id the Chicago and Northwestern, and the
 latter has forty-six miles to lay to complete its extension from Casper to Lander, which will be finished to the latter point in August.
 In Montana some 700 miles of line are under construction, but no track has
 yet been laid. The only other western state in which no new track has been
 put down this year is Iowa.
 The 227 miles of new line in Nevada
 have been built by three companies,
 namely, the Las Vega sand Tonopah,
 the Nevada Northern and the Virginia
 and Truckee, and there Ls a still larg-
 CT mileage under construction.
 Tn addition to the 260 miles of track
 laid in Texas there are over 500 miles
 under construction, a good percentage
 of which will be completed this year.
 and In Louisiana, where l4S miles have
 been completed since January 1, work
 is being pushed on 800 miles of addi-
 tional extensions, with tracklaying
 just started on several of them.
 The Western Pacific has just begun
 tracklayin on it's 924-mile line from
 Salt lake city to San Francisco. The
 present work is west from Salt Lake
 City and an oficial report from the chief engineer states tat that track
 laying on this line is being pushed
 with much vigor in Utah. Nevada and California