The total length of the railways in operation in the United States on the 1st day of January, 1877, was 76,640 miles,[93] being an average of one mile of railway for every 600 inhabitants. The railways are as follows: [93] January, 1884, over 120,000 miles. Miles. Alabama 1,722 Alaska 0 Arizona 0 Arkansas 787 California 1,854 Colorado 950 Connecticut 925 Dakota 290 Delaware 285 Florida 484 Georgia 2,308 Idaho 0 Illinois 6,980 Indiana 4,072 Indian Territory 281 Iowa 3,937 Kansas 3,226 Kentucky 1,464 Louisiana 539 Maine 987 Maryland 1,092 Massachusetts 1,825 Michigan 3,437 Minnesota 2,024 Mississippi 1,028 Missouri 3,016 Montana 0 Nebraska 1,181 Nevada 714 New Hampshire 942 New Jersey 1,594 New Mexico 0 New York 5,520 North Carolina 1,371 Ohio 4,680 Oregon 251 Pennsylvania 5,896 Rhode Island 182 South Carolina 1,352 Tennessee 1,638 Texas 2,072 Utah 486 Vermont 810 Virginia 1,648 Washington 110 West Virginia 576 Wisconsin 2,575 Wyoming 459 ------ Total 76,640 In 1873 came the great financial crisis, with its terrible results of interrupted production, poverty, and starvation, and an almost total cessation of the work of building new railroads. The largest number of miles ever built in any one year were constructed in 1872. The greatest mileage is in Illinois, reaching 6,589; the smallest in Rhode Island, 136, and in Washington Territory, 110. The State of Massachusetts has one mile of railroad to 4.86 miles of territory, this ratio being the greatest in the country. The longest road in operation is the Chicago & Northwestern, extending 1,500 miles; the shortest, the Little Saw-Mill Run Road in Pennsylvania, which is but three miles in length. The total capital of railways in the country is $6,000,000,000, or an average of $100,000 per mile. The earnings for the year 1872 amounted to $454,969,000, or $7,500 per mile. The largest net earnings recorded as made on any road were gained by the New York Central & Hudson River, $8,260,827; the smallest on several roads which not only earned nothing, but incurred a loss.