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Show If SIBERIAN RAILWAY FINISMElK W " The last rail of the great Trans- j Siberian railway from Moscow to Vladivostok has been laid, and with the completion of this great h .ghway of travel the world is practical gird i-d bv the empire of the rail.. This to its final success by Rs mn and by the Russian gove mmen J h all of its branches and its auxiliary Undertakings, the railroad has c $390,000,000. Of this sum not less S350 000,000 was expended at the leSg of'xm The first stone o the undertaking was laid on May X by the. present czar who was lhen both ends Simultaneously. rTrol Uaverses3 th. most fruitful d comparatively the most populous Sfof Biberla-the granary frthe s'rSe:,,1St: triver Yenisi. It is 2,940 feet long, eels the Canadian railway, which has much in common witfa it, and which took ten years to build. I " and has spans measuring 490 feet. I For rapidity of construction the Siberian Si-berian railway is. unequaled, and ex |