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Show ELECTRIC RAILWAY BUILT IN 1913. Tho new track built and placed in service during 1913 by city systems, In-terurban In-terurban lines and electrical steam railroads Is tabulated in the accompa-nving accompa-nving list. The statistics were compiled com-piled from reports received from the railway rninpanies themsehes. and the recorJ is complete except In the case of a few of the smaller properties whose replies were not received In time for inclusion in the list. All items which appear are, of course, accurate, ac-curate, and the omitted mileage, if It exists, is negligible, the reports being checked from the items appearing during dur-ing the year in the construction news columns of the Electric Railway Journal Jour-nal The following summary shows the electric railway mileage built or put Into operation each year since 1907 In the United States and Canada: 1907 1880 miles 1908 1258 5 miles 1909 887.1 miles 1910 1397.2 miles 181 1191.5 miles 1912 9r,0.2 miles 1913 1071 9 miles Texas heads the list of states with 177.77 miles reported. This total includes in-cludes the longest Interurhan railwav built in the United States during 1913, namely, the Southern Traction company, com-pany, which built 154 miles of track connecting Waco, Dallas and Corsl-cana, Corsl-cana, Tex. Missouri Is second with 74 52 miles of track constructed. The largest part of this mileage Is represented by the Kansas City, Clay County and St. Joseph Jo-seph Railway. Pennsylvania, with 55 79 mils, Is third, of which the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company built 21.58 miles The Hershey Traction company completed a ten-mile line. In Minnesota, which has a total of 54.22 miles, the Electric Short Line railway and the Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester and Dubuque Electric Traction Trac-tion company built twenty-five and eighteeu miles of track, respectively. Two long extensions were built In Iowa. In Massachusetts the majority nf of new track Is credited to the Berkshire Berk-shire Street railway Tho electric railways of Canada built 147.86 miles of track compared with 78.37, or an Increase of 47 per cent over the prevl- ous year. Electric Railway Journal. .on |