Railway Gauges. 177 



The following 



PROJECTED ROADS 



Are organized and more or less under way : 



North Pacific Coast 250 



Biff Sandy Valley 137 



People's Narrow Gauge, of Iowa 170 



Minneapolis, Rochester and La Crescent 140 



St. Louis and St. Charles 14 



Holly Springs, Brownsville and Ohio (being graded) 



Long Island Narrow Gauge 



Toledo and Maumee 



Northern and Southern Narrow Gauge, N. C 



St. Louis and Florissant 16 



The South Park Railway, Col 260 



Tennessee Central 



Memphis and Raleigh 



From which we see that the total length of projected nar- 

 row-gauge roads in the United States is 8,889 1-2 miles, and 

 in the Canadas 791, making a total of 4,680 1-2. Of this there 

 are completed 1,354 1-2 miles; 908 1-2 in the United States, 

 and 446 in Canada. 



Wherever the narrow-gauge has been adopted it has proven 

 a success — in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, India, Great 

 Britain, Canada, United States and other places. Costing 

 about one-half as much as the broad-gauge, many sections of 

 the country now waiting for railway facilities for development 

 can afford to build them at once, and thus prepare a market 

 for their produce. Their first cost being small, their operating 

 expenses and maintenance light, they will prove paying in- 

 vestments in almost any part of this country. For the rea- 

 sons enumerated, I would recommend the narrow-gauge of 

 three feet for general adoption. 



