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Show ! The announcement by the Railway Age that a larger addition has been made to the-railway mileage of the United States in 1901 than in any pre- f ceding year since 1S90 lends special interest to some figures just pub- llshed by the treasury bureau of sta- " tistics regarding th railways of the United States and the world. Accord- ing to these figures the steam railways of the United States now aggregate -f practically 200,000 miles, and those of 4 the entire world nearly 500,000 miles, a This, it is understood, does not in- elude railways operated by electricity, of which the mileage exclusive of street and suburban roads is now consider- able and rapidly increasing. |