Show RUSSIA LOOKING TO UI U. Si S. TO BUILD RAIL SYSTEM Lions Lion's Share of Miles of Development Will I Come Here NEW YORK July 22 la In In one of the most important bulletins issued d since the outbreak of toe war the National Association of Manufacturers ers era called attention to projected im improvements imi aggregating hundreds 0 or of millions of dollars by the Russian government nearly every dollar of or which will go to the manufacturers of ot this country The most notable improvements projected are the the- construction construction con con- construction of miles of railroad and a system of ship canals unequaled anywhere in the world According to the bulletin which was prepared by W. W Aisenman chief of the Russian trade division of the I association Russia now demands immense immense immense im im- im- im mense quantities of supplies embracing embracing embracing em em- bracing machinery of all kinds kinds and ana railroad equipment in vast variety nearly all of is to be supplied supplied supplied sup sup- plied by American manufacturers Hundreds of Russian railroad men are arenow arenow arenow now in this country studying the American railroad systems of opera opera- tion Among those now here are I included mechanical and constructing construct construct- ing lag engineers and they are construct I studying locomotive and car building plants I Ithe the equipment and operating of railroad railroad rail rail- rail I road repair shops and railway methode methods meth math ode in general I The bulletin states that on Jannary January Jan uary nary 1 1913 there were ere miles of railroad open to traffic in Russia not including miles of railroad railroad rail raU- road not open for tor passenger or freight traffic but used for tor the requirements of the railroad service exclusively About 70 per cent of ot those railroads belong to the central government the remaining 30 per cent to private companies com corn panics the government reserving the right to purchase and incorporate them in the national railways after twenty-five twenty years of ot private opera opera- tion To Build Miles Since September 1915 says the bulletin the Russian Hussian government has granted permission for the construction construction construe construe- tion by private companies of ot miles mUes of railroads to cost the central centra I government guaranteeing the capital stock Private companies or individuals were permitted to build twelve branch lines or feeders with a a. total length of ot seven ninety-seven miles at a cost of ot makinI making makin I a a. total for private enterprise of miles an and an investment of ot Besides these lines approved projects for tor the construction of J 67 miles to cost are ide de- de rayed because of ot inability to se secure ure urethe the private capital needed to prosecute prose cute their speedy Furthermore Furthermore Further Furthermore more a number of oth other r private ate projects for tor railways miles in length and to cost 44 cost t ost will wIH be investigated by the proper cabinet ministers in the near fu in- ture I It is announced that the Russian government now intends to build 26 25 more miles of railway lines all to be completed within five years if it possible Those various systems will link together practically all the localities localities localities lo lo- lo- lo possessing the richest natural natural natural nat nat- ural resources in minerals and metals Some of them will wIH moreover penetrate penetrate penetrate pene pene- vast regions of primeval forests forests forests for for- ests which have hitherto been totally unprofitable because of ot their inac mac The conference of the ministers of railways and means of i t. t nunica munica tion of ot commerce s n nd induce r r of finance and of war together with exi expert ex ex- i pert members of their respective I staffs sta recently held in Petrograd has recommended that the railways be built without delay an anti and connected with trunk lines handling traffic to and from Siberia central Asia and the White sea Existing lines must mustI I be connected with willI a new railway line to be built to the port of Reval on the Baltic from Orel and from the coal iron and steel districts farther south That line will be about 1100 miles long and the conference declared declared de tie- dared it ought to be one of the earliest earliest ear ear- liest taken actively in hand and pushed to completion To Go to United States Of course adds the bulletin Russian domestic establishments for tor producing construction material and metal work worl such as they are will be pushed to their fullest capacity but Russia expects the lions lion's share of ot this great improvement and development de to fall to the United States Profiting by the example of American American Ameri Amen can business methods detailed system tem tern and anti efficiency in railway construction con con- I and mal d management ement Russia confidently looks for enormous increase increase in in- crease in mileage and substantial im im- im provement in management and maintenance main main- Particularly is this general improvement counted upon in the matter of increased productiveness in existing plants and in those to be installed in strict conformity with modern n American methods The bulletin says that those who know well and whose whoso Judgment is not affected by tho the of prospect personal personal per per- material advantage are aro of the opinion that a conservative estimate of the high grade and costly maI machinery ma ma- I chinery for tor the completion of public improvements puts their value at over for the first year vear i for government needs alone and for Cor private ones furthermore that something like the same ratio of ot needs and disbursements will continue con con- for at least ten ton years rears longer although in gradually decreasing sums I of ot actual money outlay Inquiries are now being made maje with a view to purchase of ot American man man- in vast variety including n ay rolling rolling stock machinery ry for Jigging and equipping canals dredges machinery for tor hoisting digging min mm ing bridge building shipbuilding motors and tractors tractors' traveling cranes steam shovels tools tool and arid appliances for building machine I shops and equipping the same ce cc- ment making machinery rotary ovens ovens and ovens for the making malting of ot wood pulp and anti cellulose paper making machinery machinery ma ma- chinery and aud iron and steel rolling rOIlIng mills machinery According to the bulletin a colossal colos cobs I sal scheme for improving internal waterways communication in Ia Russia I ts Is about to be executed It is to unite in their upper courses by a system of canals deep enough f jr large ship hip ping the West Vest flowing into the Baltic sea with the flow flow- i 1 ling ing into the Black sea and the North flowing into the White sea These canals will link together Odessa Odes Odes- I sa Warsaw Riga Higa Petrograd and Archangel and Moscow rod on Don and Astrakhan with the Don and Volga rivers The association urges that American American Ameri Amen can bankers are likely to find tind Russia I Ia a fruitful field of operation after the I war and the suggestion is made that the establishment of branches in the tsars tsar's dominions be seriously considered consid consid- I i ered |