Show I I As now progressing tile TransSi berian railway will be finished in about two years I is said tho cost will considerably con-siderably exceed the original estimate of 173500000 eBlmat 7350doo Some great engineering englneeIng work has been done upon IL I has many bridges Nearly all the rivers of Siberia run across it on their way to the A relic The mosl Arctc mosllmporlant bridges are those crossing the Irtysh the Obi the Ycncsel and the Solongo The first two arc each 2790 fqct long nnd the I third and fourth each about a mile In length The dbl bridge is a fine slruc I ture oC steel with alone piers eighty feot above the ordinary water line and fifty foe1 l above Iho flood Hntv Thd other bridges mentioned ar the same type of construction The road has I 1120 wooden bridges to bo replaced with steel and stone ulruclurcs The whole of the third and fourth sections are lobe lo-be rclald with heavier rails The stations sta-tions are about twentyfive miles apart ono siding being at each In all Its 00 miles of length lime t highest eleva Is of 3603 feet tion tho road crosses ono ot In tho Yablanol Apple mountains |