Ihe Railroads of the World.

Progress, Volume III, Issue I, 1 November 1907, Page 26

Ihe Railroads of the World.

making a grand total of 562 780 miles m the whole world at the end of 1905. or the nearest date for which reports are made. This is an increase of 12 525 miles or 2.3 per cent, over the previous year, and is the smallest increase since 1900, it having varied since 1898 from 10,800 miles in 1900 to 16", 754 m 1904 while the total additions to the world's mileage since 1898 have been 95,816 miles, an average of 13,688 miles yearly. Of the inciease in 1905 a little more than one-nail was ir America, 5 891 miles in North America and 426 in South America (including the West Indies). Canada is credited with 990 miles, against 533 in the year before but m Mexico the additions were but 150 mileo in 1905, against 1,720 m 1904. In South America, Argentina opened 337 miles Peru 39, Brazil 36 and the other additions were 12 miles in the West Indies

The experiment of growing tobacco under cover is being tried in Porto Rico. The cost of production — about £100 per acre — is more than repaid in the increased yield and finer quality of leaf. ******

Iv a laboratory of the Pasteur Institute two months ago a well-known surgeon broke a glass Uibe containing virulent tuberculosis bacilli, and a fragment of the glass cut his neck. He immediately began a treatment, but the disease, which in a few days had seized him, has not yet been got under, and it is a question whether he will overcome it.

Fit rope Asia Africa Miles. Miles. 192 251 North America 25? 098 .... 50,593 South America 32,859 16,538 Australasia 17,441 259.352 303,338

The statistics of the railroads of trie world, published in the June number of the Archiv tur Eisen hahmvesen gives the mileage of the several continents as follows —