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1144 

 Total number of miles of railroad in the United States, 7677 



A writer in the Mobile Herald and Tribune makes 

 use of the following statement, as showing the bene- 

 ficial result of combining capital with labor : — 



Georgia has 640 miles railroad, costing $11,500,- 

 000 — 138 miles of which were built by the State at 

 a cost of $3,500,000 ; South Carolina has 244 miles, 

 costing $65,000,000 ; Virginia has 473 miles, cost- 

 ing $7,000,000, and a general law authorizing the 

 subscription on the part of the State of two-fifths of 

 any railroad chartered and built within the State ; 

 Maryland 571 miles, built and building, at a cost of 

 $22,000,000, upwards of $5,000,000 of which the 

 State has finished by the loan of State bonds ; Penn- 

 sylvania 1,050 miles, costing $35,000,000 — 82 miles 

 of it were built by the State, at a cost of $4,225,000 ; 



