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This Railway is being constructed under a concession on the land grant 
system, the Company receiving 12,000 acres for every mile of Railway. The total 
distance will be about 295 miles. 
Albany-Torbay Railway. 
Messrs. C. & E. Millar have also under a special concession constructed a line 
of Railway on the land grant system from a point on the Great Southern Railway 
(10 miles 17 chains from Albany) to Torbay, a distance of 12 miles. This line is 
now complete and open for traffic. 
Darling Range Railway. 
A special concession was obtained by Mr. E. Keane in 1891, and a line of 19 
miles 62 chains has since been made from Guildford along the Darling Range, 
more particularly for the purpose of opening up a timber industry. The conces¬ 
sion is now held by the Canning Jarrah Timber Co., Limited. 
The Jarrahdale Railway. 
Under a special timber concession agreement the Jarrahdale Timber Company 
have completed a line from Rockingham to their timber mills, a distance of over 
twenty miles, and from the mills inland. 
In addition to these railways there are several private tramway lines belong¬ 
ing to Timber Companies in the South and South- Western parts of the Colony, 
which eventually may become a portion of the Railway System. 
Cossack-Roebourne Tramway. 
Cossack and Roebourue are joined by a Tramway, 8| miles in length, belong¬ 
ing to and worked by the Government. This line is built to the two-feet gauge. 
Western Australia has now in working order 204 miles of Government 
Railways and 385 miles of private lines, or in all 589 miles open for traffic. 
Lines under Survey. 
The following lines are now being surveyed or constructed :— 
Eastern Railway Extension, from Northam to Yilgam Goldfields, 164 
miles. 
Geraldtou to Mullewa Railway, 80 miles. 
Bunbury to the Yasse, about 30 miles. 
POSTAL SERVICE. 
English and Intercolonial Mail Service. 
The English and Colonial Mails arrive and depart weekly. Since the end of 
January, 1888, when the fortnightly contract with the P. and O. Company expired, 
they have been brought to King George’s Sound, alternately, by the steamers of 
the Peninsular and Oriental Company, and the Orient Company. The steamships 
of the Messageries-Maritimes Company, which are under contract with the French 
Government to convey a monthly mail between Marseilles and New Caledonia, 
also call in at the Sound, and generally carry a mail for this Colony. Special 
occasional Intercolonial Mails are, in addition, received and despatched by the 
vessels of the Adelaide S.S. Company, a line of which runs irregularly between 
Fremantle and Sydney. All outward mail steamers call in at Adelaide, where the 
mails are disembarked and conveyed to their destination by rail. 
