Show l ANOTHER RUSSIAN CANAL Proposed Shipway Between SL Pc tcisburg and the White Sea A few weeks ago It waS shown In these columns what Ihe forthcoming d eep water canal from St PclcrHhurg lo Ihe While O2a would mpan to thft industries i of central Russia luTVeU I as to the countrys defenses in wall nodh west and ll uas hon to be apart a-part of It very elaborate syolcni of communication and iransporlallon which would Include not only walcr ways but railways as well I Is now I learned i that it is the intention of the I Russian Ministry of Ways of Communication Commu-nication to mukc Rostoff on the Don a I port of considerable Importance the I construction of a deepwater canal I from that town to lie Sea of Azof The Idea i of csliibllihing a navigable water way for Aewels of average draught toRo to-Ro Lof Is not new hut the Idea or making t a deep waterway there Is now the suhcmo owl ng Its inception to the I Don river commission whose project has Just received the approval of Prince Khilkoff of the Department orS or-S of Communication in the courrc of his recent Inspection of the walerwnys of southern Russia Prince Khilkoff spent some lime In Roslorf wheio he discussed thc project pro-ject Hi length 1 wi th the Don river commission com-mission The sfheine provides for a canal with a minimum deplh of IS feel which the promoters consider sufficient to t allow even large vcssola to come up lo Rosloff and leave with at leant a tolliirdo cargo The assumption Is that the majority of outgoing vessels I would adopt the prncllcu followed by Kleamslilpp using 19 feet 4nehes wa lerway to Nlkolaleff and call al Odessa or other Black sea ports for complementary comple-mentary cargo Tho promoters assert that If I the iransaclion pays in the case of vessels leaving Nikohilcff It should pay In the car of essels leaving Ros off The cost of carrying out the scheme as It stands Is roughly e l malcd at 1000000 rubles practically the whole of which would be spent In dredging operatIons Prince Khilkoff has h expressed himself in thorough accord ac-cord with the project and has promised prom-ised i lo exert hlf influence in St Petersburg Peters-burg in ils favor which Is considered by hose interested to be tantamount to an official statement that the canal will be conatruclcd New York Times |