| Show THE RAILROADS RAILROADS I 1 scheme for a line from america to i asia and europe it la is quite probable that some of those enose woo read this says the railway hallway aye am will mage ao an all rail lourney from new york to Lof london idon row bow can this ever be when three thousand miles of atlantic ocean separate our continent from isles isle england lies to the east but bat to reach it by railway the traveler will start westward and riding day alter day and night after until he reaches the opposite side of the klobe where west and east meet and separate and then keeping on still westward he be will arr arrive in london having well nigh circumscribed the globe this Is no idle fancy toe the scheme involves no ocean ferrying no stupendous and impracticable bridge briding bu iding from the east era shore of 0 Ac america to the western border or england there stretches continuous daiy diy d i y land wita the exception of the narrow and comparatively shallow straits of batmos between amelca and A atia aa perhaps thirty miles wide avide toe the narrow darrow Eng engliski listi channel conf only y twenty miles across and the rivers science bal ready already kno knows vis dow bow to span As for the englina channel capital has tor for years been ready and anxious to tunnel beneath it and thus connect Jari maritain tain and france preliminary work sufficient to establish esia blish the entire feasibility of the enterprise was long ago made and but tor for the strange fear of french invasion which at present dominates a majority of the english people the channel tunnel might already be an almost most fact act it is impossible ossi ble to believe that the bold britons will long yield to this spell of timidity and so the possibility of eventual eventually y reaching great britain b rail from europe may be admits admitted ed the great obstacle the immense distance must betraver stil across the russian an empire the fhe czar has in contemplation it is said paid a line from st petersburg to the Pac pacific itle the 1610 siberian erlau Des desert ertil as itris itis marked on OB the maps is by no means so desolate a place as many belie believe ve indeed the greater part art of it is a vast fertile berdle plat plain 13 not ot gunlite unlike those between denver and ithe mississippi and were comma ol loi catlen cation nobce established through this almost unknown part of tile tbt world orld a large amount of immigration baica is flecking ta to america woula bt be directed thither if the should interpose no or closta cles in this day of gigantic projects nothing in 48 so go stu stupendous pendon 4 as to be thought bethought absurd sa rd and abid possibly future generations generation 8 may see a baud band ol 01 steel encircling strobe with the exception of vc tc between london and York buelt would take millions yes bil lion Jion Sot of dollars to build such a road and whether it would pay or not ib something beyond present knowledge tb the e distance would be as follows miles new york to port moody britch america port moody to Behring bahi ing Straits ai raita awo hebring to ural mouna talus ural mountains to london now new york boik to london all rail A 4 the sixth annual report of the kan sas bas state board of railroad commissioners shows in detail the pro progress grest and further extension of the states railroad road gy systems t ems the doings of flit il a t year in transportation and the sast lancial 1 1 strength and condition of the various roads the construction of the year counting 2 21 miles under contract to be built by december 15 this makes the total mileage this is S double the mileage of three years ago 41 the e report says that compared with t the e population kansas is the best beat e equipped ul p ed with ith railroads of any state stat in t the union mon or any country in the world WON for every 1000 of her bier population she has five and one half miles of railroad this while it furnishes great advantages has its correspond ing drawbacks toe the multiplication of railroads beyond tny point where the volume of business Is ia sufficient to ao yield remunerative rev revenues eaues to companies charged with their operation and main maintenance tena 13 ce I 1 must necessarily become to some e ex X tent a mortgage on the fat future are since 1815 the conditions for the rapid cevelo development of in kansas has no favorable the strike on the colorado mid midland land at leadville has ended ceded by the com pany pa granting the increase of wager aaa asah y the golden Gol deitt gate special reached market street san francisco from omaha tyro two minutes behind the schedule time |
