Excerpt from Second Annual Report on the Statistics of Railways in the United States to the Interstate Commerce Commission for the Year Ending June 30, 1890 According to the First Annual Report, the railway mileage on J nne 30, 1888, was 2 miles. The increase shown by the present te port is not wholly due to new mileage constructedduring the year, but is in part accounted for by the addition to the railway list of 117 private roads, whose mileage was excluded from the list for last year's report. The new mileage thus accounted for is miles, leaving as the length of new line brought into Operation during the year end ing J nne 30, 1889. Included in this mileage reported, the number of bridges is found to be of which are constructed of wood, of stone, of iron, and being a combination of Wood and iron. Tunnels to the number of 649, with an aggregate length of feet, have been reported, and trestles to the number of with an aggregate length of feet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.