Railroad Progress in the United States.
By Uriah Smith
THE Railway Age of the present month shows that the number of miles of railroad now in operation in the United States reaches the enormous figure of eighty thousand. It may help us to appreciate this statement to consider that eighty thousand miles of railroad is equivalent to a railroad three times around the entire circumference of the world, with five thousand miles to spare. But more than this, our railroad mileage is greater than that of the seven great powers of Europe combined. Russia, Turkey, Germany, Austria, Gt. Britain, France, and Italy, combined, have only seventy-six thousand, six hundred and twenty miles, while the United States has, as above stated, about eighty thousand miles—a most significant record of progress, when we view our country as a subject of prophecy.