Show RAILWAYS OF THE WORLD At the Close io of or 1889 1889 there V Vre re Stiles la ira Operation I The Th E Engineering Engineering- News prints the I following interesting facts act i in li relation to the growth of the railways of the te world from 1885 to the tho close of 1889 Tho The total length of the railways at attha atthe the tha close cloe of th the last decade amo amounted to miles mlles equal to nearly II fifteen teen coSt times the equatorial circumference of the tho world and more than miles in excess of tho the mean distance of the moon from the earth On Dec Dee 31 81 1879 the the length length of the lines in actual operation was vas miles and the increase In the last ten years has therefore been per pcr cent If Ifa Ifa Ifa a similar increase takes place piano in the present decade the mileage at the tho bo- bo ginning of tho the twentieth cent century ry willbo will willbe willbe be bo more moro than J America contributed the tho greatest number of miles of road during during- the four lour years under consideration and especially the United States where the tho growth amounted to 2 1 per cent Canada and Mexico also show v heavy I gains After America comes Europe i wilb per coat Of OX tho the various countries there Germany shows vs tho pr Increase followed wed by Austria France Trance un I c a jQ Asla British India has developed the gr grest greatest great great- est eat activity and its lines have increased ed two thirty-two per cent cent- In densely densely- I peopled China no long line is is yet built but tho the proposed trans trans-Si trans rian road of the Russian fint nt may result in increased construct construction on In Africa the tho only JY marked aso has hasu u Ai ei bu n fini comparativelY com com- Pid a Id development may be r claims expected when the tho conflicting Pt ot pr qc Germany any and England are se settled t ed th basin is moro more settled The TEe linn systems have extended rapidly os especially eci- eci ally in South Australia and Qu Queens Queens- ens land It is interesting to note that West Australia ha the tho grea mile mile mile- mileage age in proportion to its population population-of- on of f. f any country |