PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION . 
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RAILWAY PROGRESS. 
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The following table is interesting in this connection : 
“The last issue of the Railway Monitor furnishes a great mass 
of interesting statistics concerning the railroads of the United 
States. From it we learn that the whole railroad mileage in this 
country is 71,664 miles with second tracks and sidings of 13,512 
miles, making the total equivalent of single track 85,076 miles. 
The total number of locomotives is 14,223; of passenger-train 
cars, including baggage, express and smoking cars, 13,725; of 
freight-train cars of all sorts, 338,427; the total capital stock 
amounts to §2,072,251,954, or about $28,956 per mile ; the total 
floating and funded debt, $1,999,741,597, or $27,957 per mile; 
and the total cost of railroads and equipments $3,728,416,958, or 
about $52,099 per mile. The total gross traffic of railroads for 
the latest year obtainable was $178,855,597 and the total net re¬ 
ceipts over and above operating expenses were $174,350,923. 
These earnings, however, are based on 54,484 miles of road, that 
being the total for which earnings have been reported ; and hence 
the net income of railroads applicable to the payment of interest 
and dividends amounted to about $3,201 per mile on the 45,454 
miles operated. 
“During the year just closed, there were built in the United States 
4,190 miles of railroad, distributed over the states and territories 
as follows: 
States and Territories. 
Miles. 
Built. 
Miles. 
1872 . 
1873 . 
1873 . 
Maine. . 
891.5 
44.0 
935.5 
New Hampshire. 
882.7 
73.1 
895.8 
Vermont. 
736.3 
57.9 
794.2 
Massachusetts. 
1,625.0 
113.7 
1,738.7 
Rhode Island. 
133.2 
36.9 
170.1 
Connecticut. 
898.3 
29.7 
928.0 
5,107.0 
355.3 
5.462.3 
New York. 
4,884.9 
398.4 
5,282.3 
New Jersey. 
1,343.7 
69.5 
1,413.2 
Pennsylvania. 
5,432.5 
412.9 
5,84.'). 4 
Delaware. ...... 
222.7 
16.0 
238.7 
Maryland and District of Columbia- 
865.4 
69.7 
935.1 
Wp<?t Virginia . 
493.3 
493.3 
13,212.5 
266.5 
14,209.0 
