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288 feet, and with stone piers. Each bridge is 1,000 feet in length. There are no tunnels on the line. The work on the railway is progressing at the rate of a mile and a half per day.

It is expected that the Chihuahua division will connect with the southern terminus of the line about July 1, 1884. At present 2,000 men are at work on the division between Paso Del Norte and Durango.

The following is a list of the various ranches along the line of the railway, as far as the present terminus—viz., Villa Lerdo:

We may add that the completion of the Mexican Central Railway will give a great impetus to the development of the immense mineral wealth of Chihuahua, which contains so many mining districts that an elaborate description of them would require a volume. The following is a list of the principal mining towns in the State, classified according to their richness: Batopilas, Parral, Santa Eulalia, Jesus Maria, Cusihuiriachic, Morelos, Guadalupe y