ARGENTINE RAILWAYS.
Argentine Ims now about 20,000 miles of railways. The world from time to time hears of Government buying up company-owned railways', but in Buenos Ayres the Argentine Railway companies have offered to buy the Sf-ate tines known as the Central
and Northern and North Argentine, and to convert hot-h from narrow to broad gauge (oft Gin). Tliey would at the same time broaden a number of other lilies, in all 6188 miles. This work tliey .undertake to carry outw ithin ten years at an estimated < ost of from .(."25,000,000 to £:W,(XK),OOO. It is estimated that 15,000.000 sleepers would bo required, which would be. ••!<> usual, of native 'hardwood, as far as possible. The programme is said to include a vast scheme for the coloni>J'tion of the lands through which their lines run. The assent of tho Argentine Congress would, of course, have to be obtained.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 January 1913, Page 4
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146ARGENTINE RAILWAYS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 January 1913, Page 4
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