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Show EAILBOAD IN ARCTIC SWEDISH COMPANY OWNS MOST NORTHERN LINE. Runs From the Port of Lulea, In Northern Sweden, to a Point fifty-two fifty-two Miles Inside of the Arctic Cir- cle Carries Iron Ore to the Gulf. Americans can no longer claim the distinction of being the pioneers of lailway enterprises that penetrate the trackless wastes of the world. A Swedish company has surpassed the lailway builders of all the rest of thc-world thc-world by constructing a line that reaches farther north than the whistle of the locomotive has ever lieen heard before. Some writers iv ho "peak of the White Pass and Yuko.i road, which runs from Skag-uay, Skag-uay, Alaska, to White Horse, generally gener-ally rtv'cr to it as the most northern iailroai in the world. The Wild Goose t-.iad, which maintains a precarious pre-carious existence throughout its en tire live miles, inland from Cape Nome, being rjuit e devoid of ballast or grading, frozen solid during the long winter months and thawed to death i:i t he sum nor, is also referred to as the northernmost bit of track in existence. ex-istence. Iln; there is a regular railroad rail-road in regular operation, quire well ordered in ' const ruction and equipment, equip-ment, which anils passengers, freight jj.nd mail many miles nearer the north j'olo than do cither the White Pass nd Yukon or the Wild Goone lines, both of which terminate well south of the arctic cii-'lc. At the head cw the Gulf of Bothnia, In northern Sweden, is the port of I.tilea, a town of almost 5,000 inhabitants, inhabi-tants, distinguishi-d as the southern terminus of a railroad which runs to a point fifty-two miles inside of the hrctic circle. No .lie is almost 200 miles south of this; White Horse over 150 miles. This Swedish railroad ia a well-kept, well-built lino of the standard Swedish gango, which is the f-.anio as our own, and it carries iron oro to the gulf from the mines at iValnibergot in Swedish Lapland. From Lulea to Malmborgot the dis-tnnco dis-tnnco by rail is about 100 miles, the line running slightly west of north through a country very sparsely inhabited, in-habited, with almost continuous woods of light gro-'ii. stunted evergreen ever-green trees with their limbs slanting down instead of upward because of tlio long burden of snow they bear. Malnihcrget. is far enough north so that it lias the midnight suu in June, and even in August tile sun just barc-f barc-f dips und.-r the hills at 11 p. m., m.d then tho crimson sunset travels though a si ort eclip.e and becomes biuiriso in the east at 2 in the morning, morn-ing, without losing u trace of its l:ea;ity in between. |