Show The statement of tho Hallway Age that during tho present year railway budding reached a lower point than In any of the last twenty years Is susceptible sus-ceptible of very simple explanation Tile greatest era of railroad construction construc-tion Is over and In the future mOlt railroad growth will bo In tho gradual extension of their Iron tendrils In sections sec-tions already occupied by their trunk or branch lines In 1891 railroad bat anro sheets were showing an alarming regular decrease and tho whole theory and practice at railroad management was temporarily condensed to one postulate pos-tulate of tbo times reduction of ex lienics With locreailnic earnings and intensive crops already many of the tompanlra are discussing future extensions exten-sions Iu adjacent territory upon which their covetous fingers have been Itch lag I to close I |