Show WILL SPEND A BILLION astounding figures demonstrate Demo nitrate growth of our railroads railroad chicago american railways will spend close to a billion dollars during the year bear in an effort to sufficient equipment power and track including new loads to make it possible to handle the great amount of traffic being offered to them if the eat cai ail ami locomotive buil builders deis and the steel do their part the bear ear will be a recoil one in the three industries mentioned it is estimated that if the tubers are equal to the task between and ti A eight cars to the total equipment of the lie hallwa railways of the united states fully passenger gei cars and more than locomotives will be added to the steam power which Is now available jt it Is said eaid now that the railroads will pas fully 92 for steel rails alla i during the he year if this proven tuie title the steel mill will have I 1 to turn out olit about 1300 1200 tons of 0 th that t ni 0 ant the output last year was about tons it Is bald the estern loads will use fully I 1 tons tona of rails and that nearly tons of this will be lolled in the eastern mill |