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complete and in the course of a very few years, at the past 
and present rate of progress, will open every important agricul¬ 
tural, mining and lumbering district to the principal ports and 
shipping points on the lakes and on the Mississippi. The sur¬ 
face of the country is such that they are very cheaply con¬ 
structed, and the immense and rapidly increasing carrying 
business must eventually insure to all judiciously located and 
well-managed roads large profits on a fair cash valuation. The 
total length of railroad track in actual operation in this State 
is 943 miles. The name, length within the State, cost, amount 
of indebtedness and amount of business done in I860, as re¬ 
ported to the Secretary of State, will be found in the follow¬ 
ing table: 
NAME OF ROAD. 
LENGTH 
IN OPER¬ 
ATION 
WITHIN 
STATE. 
MILES. 
COST OF ROAD, 
INDEBTEDNESS. 
BUSINESS OF 18G0. 
rec’d for 
TRANS. OF 
PA SENG ERS 
REC’C FOR 
TRANS. OF 
FR'T & MAIL. 
Milwaukee & Chicago. 
40 
$1,833,695 
$868,202 
$81,371 
$59,825 
Milwaukee & Mississippi. 
234 
8,135,674 
4,932,521 
174,215 
589,465 
Mil., Wat. & Bar. Val. 
76 
1,520,478 
1,608,838 
27,411 
171,183 
Milwmilrpo Xr. T,n Ulvnctcjc* 
200 
329,485 
511,353 
ATi 1 w5i hVpp Rr. TTnvipnn 
37 
Kenosha, Rock’rd & It. I. 
28 
898,808 
501,304 
1,768 
4,719 
Ttn.mnp Xr. TVTississirmi 
68 
1.092,922 
136,776 
Chicago & North Western 
104 
10,307,037 
7'610'526 
240,734 
43l'826 
Beloit & Madison 
16 
Afinornl Pninf 
28 
Frvsr T.n.kft . . . 
9 
AJ 
15,000 
1,088 
1,874 
Sheboygan & Mississippi. 
20 
826,977 
3,961 
5,593 
943 
$23,539,639 
$16,614,316 
$860,338 
1,928,265 
It will be observed that roads with a total length of 349 miles 
are not reported in the cost column of the above table. Were 
they included the agregate would be something over thirty- 
seven millions of dollars, instead of twenty-three, with an av¬ 
erage cost of §39,629 per mile. 
The map accompanying this report presents only those lines 
which are in actual operation. It may be remarked, however, 
that several of them are in progress of extension, and that 
numerous projected lines will be undertaken immediately on 
the return of prosperous times. 
Next to this net-work of railroads, the Fox and Wisconsin 
