. American engineer and railroad journal . ss control cent, of the total mileage of the countiy, necticut miles ; for Delaware, ; forlllinois, miles ; for Iowa, miles ; for Massachusetts, ; for New Jersey, iniles : forNew York, miles; for Ohio, ; for Pennsylvania, only countries in Europe which havean excess of 10 miles per 100 square milesof territory are Germany, with ; Great Britain, with miles ;France, with miles; Belgium, miles; Holland, with miles,and Switzerland,
. American engineer and railroad journal . ss control cent, of the total mileage of the countiy, necticut miles ; for Delaware, ; forlllinois, miles ; for Iowa, miles ; for Massachusetts, ; for New Jersey, iniles : forNew York, miles; for Ohio, ; for Pennsylvania, only countries in Europe which havean excess of 10 miles per 100 square milesof territory are Germany, with ; Great Britain, with miles ;France, with miles; Belgium, miles; Holland, with miles,and Switzerland, with miles. Nocountry in Europe, Sweden alone ex-cepted, has 10 miles of line per 10,000inhabitants ; while in this country, on theother hand, but two States have less than 10 miles per10,000 inhabitants. The increase in mileage during the year was 4,805 is less than the average of increase for several yearspast. The greatest activity in railroad building seems tohave been in the States lying south of the Ohio and east of. receive per cent, of the amount paid l)y the pub-lic for railroad service, and perform per cent, ofthe total passenger service and per cent, of the totalfreight service of the country. Out of a total of 81,073,-784,121 tons of freight carried one rnile, the railroads inquestion carried 67,008,448,436. Such figures as these in- 74 THE AMERICAN ENGINEER [February, 1893. dicate the extent to which concentration of railroad controlhas proceeded in the United States. EQUIPMENT. The total number of locomotives used was 32,139, show-injr an increase of 1,!)!»!) dining the year ; and the totalnumber of cars, the property of railroads, was l.^ 1,showing an increase of 4.),!li4 during the year. The num-ber of locomotives per 100 miles of line was 20 : the num-ber of passenger cars per 100 miles of line was 17 ; and thenumber of fitight cars ])er 100 miles of line was 714. The increase in eqiMpment has not proceeded as rapidlyas
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