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a Thin is 77 miles in excess of the true mileage in 1880, but being the figure assigned by States in Hi* i. nth < . nsus, it 



report of population in 1880. 

 d iDcluding South Dakota. 



< Iiielinleil witli Iinlian Territory. 

 J Iin-lij.lril with North l)jik(tu. 



Tho aggregate Icnirtli .f tin- nn'hvjiy-- .f tin- 



.1. 1896, was 188^01-06 inil.'s, six 

 times as great as in any other count ry. and ex- 

 ceeded the 1 -Mirth >f tin- lines serving tlic whole of 



v 30.000 miles. 



It is n.t MimYiciit to measure the transportation 



farilitien of a nation in miks; the true criterion is 



their tin- demand for the movi-nn-nt of 



persons nnd |im|M-rt | i.-l.-riiiinatioii of the 



this ileinaii'l i- j-ractically iin|Kssihli>. lut 



||inixiin:i At OODOhukNM fan IK: reached 



by eoroparing mileage with population and area. 



d. the people of th- I'niterl States are 



serre-: ength of railwayi in pro|riion 



r than ihoso of any other country 



;. ih" oranp- 



ilasia. 



1 inhal.itants the I'nited States has 

 ;-eat liritain and Ireland, 

 ince.6'48: . lud- 



i 'inland. 2 T : I'.ni/il. .Vi:{ : Ar- 



81-90; and 



The {.P.p-rtion of railway mileage i. area is ex- 

 ceeded only in the most densely populated countries 



of Europe. With 6*08 miles of railway for 



100 Sfjuare miles of land area, tin- United States 18 

 surpassed by Great Britain and Ireland with 1 

 by Belgium' with :{n-jr : \>\ the NYiherland- and 

 Lazemoon with 11 .-nnany with '. 



. it/erlaiid with 18*58; l-\ /li 1 1 !!: 



l.y Italy with s-Jl : l,y I), mnark with !i-J : an. I l.y 

 Austria-Ihin^ary. inr-'ludin^ Itosnin.with 711. The 

 average for the whole of Kur-.pi- i- Imt 1-n:! miles: 

 for Bra/.il. <i-J:5: for Arp-ntina. n-7s : f,,r I'.ritish 

 N..rth Am.Ti- a. n- )i; : ajMJ for Au-t ralasia. 



The nnmlM-r of passengers carried l.y Die raii 

 of the I'lr.' is exceeded in but one e.,imtry. 



.nd : it i- twiei- a- ^i-eat a- in Krai. 



han in the (J'-rman Kmpire. 

 freight tonnage annually carried ly the rail\\;. 

 iaii the totalfl for ' 



lirilain mid' IP .md <i' nnany com- 



l.ined: and the average distance cani> >1 i- miuh 

 longer. 



American ingenuity }\n< provided railway faeili- 



OM per mile than in any 



country in which due regard i- f;iid to the 



rerjuirements of -[. -ed and safety. The average 



dization of the railways of the I i. 



