For the benefit of those inventors have turned their attention to the improvement of railroads, either in rolling stock or permanent way, we condense the following information from the New York Herald, of the total number of miles of railway in the various States up to the close of 1858 :—
Total Length Length of Road of Road. Completed.. Maine 631 551 New Hampshire 591 560 Vermont 557 537 Massachusetts 1,480 1,378 Rhode Island 86 63 Connecticut 809 651 New York 3,476 2,695 New Jersey 645 553 Pennsylvania 3,735 2,971 Delaware 119 91 Maryland 873 792 Dist. of Columbia 3 3 Virginia 1,776 1,410 North Carolina 836 760 South Carolina 1,077 779 Georgia 1,554 1,177 Florida 730 198 Alabama 1,504 679 Mississippi 371 246 Louisiana 1,039 393 Texas 2,229 205 Arkansas 701 38 Tennessee 1,511 1,035 Kentucky 724 399 Ohio 4,278 2,988 Michigan 1,627 1,032 Indiana 1,692 1,290 Illinois 3,177 2,714 Wisconsin 2,403 822 Minnesota 1,058 -- Iowa 1,346 343 Missouri 1,164 547 California 170 22 We have purposely omitted fractions of miles in our table, but adding
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