Show RAILWAY construction LAST YEAR the past year wu was marked with huab a palpable quietude in trade all along the line amounting to nearly tion in places that the impression prevails that inaction existed in every department that railway building for instance was at a complete standstill this is a case in which the appearance and the reality are widely at variance g the falling oft off la in activity in commercial circles upon which of course the railways largely it if not cipully rely it is a fact that over miles of track were laid la in the united states last year while gr grad ing was completed for the greater p pit of 1000 more this does not relate to new or to grand lino lin hut but to extensions and the routes surveyed and upon many many of which work has been done to BOOM extent number many thou more but these need not at present te 6 counted va the railway age announces that in forty three states ettes and territories of the union the grader and tracklayer found work last laet ye year r and as an there are but five more this would seem to be a very good showing after all some of these avenues of employment were necessarily very lined limbed others not so 90 much so go and the demand for more roads is as great now as at any time in our bi history story the total mileage of 1892 is contained in the following table states miles es states mit miles maine main 1466 14 66 minnesota za sew new hampshire 2840 28 north dakota massachusetts 2169 21 69 south dakota 1350 new york 32 iowa asro new jersey 16 15 29 V nebraska tom pennsylvania 2669 94 kansas lw 1 maryland ryland II A missouri west est virginia irginia 94 indian territory virginia virgin 2387 2337 87 arkansas norih orth carolina Bro llna 66 30 texas ad south carolina 33 OU colorado Ge orila 67 70 wyoming florida 63 53 Montana alabama 20 go 90 california Oali fornia mississippi 13 od 00 new mexico r 85 louisiana 50 idaho tennessee 66 60 utah kentucky 36 35 IJO arizona 2660 ohio 10 15 oregon michigan 64 washington indiana 70 illinois 02 total wisconsin 26 it will be observed thus thug that our territory is neither at the top nor bottom of ef the list but is ii doing very well it should be considered that the figures relate mat to main line track oni only yo not to go the hundreds hundred of miles 0 of f second third and other tracks laid alongside the main lines linea and switches spur etc with private lines for loggin g 9 and other purpose ee lee nor has the table any reference whatever to the hundreds hundred of miles for which grading and bridging are underway under way or have been completed the states in which no track of any kind was waa laid ald fire are connecticut delaware nevada and rhode loland island the one territory oklahoma lohoma Ok oma kan MM me had one mile only constructed and mississippi where there has not been much in this this line done for years built a short abort road to a lumber camp the construction for the past ten hearp yea as aa shown by poors manual is as follows follow year tear miles year miles 1888 jaa 1881 1889 1886 2 1890 1886 1891 im 1887 and the following la in the comparison of met last year with previous year 1883 to 1892 increase in ten years miles yearly average miles isla 1873 to increase in tw t enty years miles yearly average miles IM 1863 to increase in thirty years miles yearly average miles ins 1863 to te Ine increase reale in forty years miles year yearly average 8 r 8 9 ese miles 1848 to 11 1892 increase 11 in fifty years miles hetey average miles |