| Show A GREAT enterprise four distinguished foreigners are to be in salt bait lake the latter end of the week en route from eastern siberia to st petersburg it is probable that their stay bore bere will be limited to the time that the through east bound train stopp atop an am they t ey are d of at taking a view ot of the worlds fair before the removal of the exhibits begins though the gentlemen referred to are not known here except one who passed through salt gait lake on a former occasion they are men of note in their own land their names are MOWN gelet geist ski eki ivanoff and All alimoff allhoff eminent civil engineers of russia and mr Ko karaloff a large operator of siberian mines J J is the member of the party who has been here before he to Is the superintendent ol of construction on the eastern division of the he great siberian railway the most extensive project in railway building that ever has bait been undertaken when oom plated edit it willbo will be more than miles long and will connect Euro european peon russia at the present terminus in the ural mountains with the port of one of the pacific ports port of eastern siberia the route in siberia is close along the fifty fifth parallel of north dorth latitude from Ziata uOk and to the jonesel river there branch lines will connect with the towns of tomek and aad binak white while the main road pursues a southerly course to it then hen runt along the southern shore of lake baikal through the valley of the river over the lena to the amoor and along that stream to a town called there it will again turn 80 southward along alon thee right bank of the ussury and on to on the sea of japan to in latitude 43 degrees the cost of the roa i ranges from W to per mile the total ex tend pend iture being estimate dat roubles coubles or about there are great engineering difficulties to be met which render the work slow low and tedious the rho country is wild with all the dangers and in aces of such a condition tion the construction from west ward was begun begue on the of may 1891 when aheu the cz carowitz turned the first sod laid the first rail and drove the first spike when the w aik oik was begun it was wao the intention of the ROO bus biao government to comple e it in 1896 1695 but in a short time this was found to be impossible and 1897 was the date fixed mr Ga galetari letard has however expressed the opinion that it cannot be completed till 1900 the accomplishment of this vast project was a theme to which the czar gave much thought for twenty yeam before the work was actually begun he H considered that thai it would become the great highway from the east to europe and notwithstanding the high rate of speed attained over sea and rail by crossing kroesing cro esing the two oceans and america in abing from eastern A asia aa to wybern europe were is still a large balante ef time to IQ favor of the russian enterprise it now takes thirty five to forty days on the quickest journeys irom from shanghai to van couver or sm sa francisco across america and over the atlantic to europe by way of the suez sui z canal to genoa and marseilles requires forty three to to 10 forty six days when completed the siberian railway will reduce the time to from ton ten to fifteen days by this saving of time russia Runia expects to out into the business that now falls to the united states canada great britain prance france italy and germany and to divert to the czar caara in do domains mainis much of the trade of chins china japan end and corta cora besides the financial view of the matter the construction of the road la Is regarded by russia as of great strategic importance and as the czar de largely on the military power this la 18 a leading incentive to building the line another prominent ob object set to la the opening up of siberia to settlement by immigration emigration from european russia which la Is greatly overpopulated tills latter fact la Is one of the chiei chief causes which prompt the czar in his hia expulsion of the jews economic conditions ne require a reduction of population and the russian ruler kretem to expel what he be louke looks upon as aa the most moat objectionable class clans ot of his people others thau jews will have tu to go soon loon or a terrible plague will do the work of depopulation to avert this and to retain title the native russians iu in the czar domains the government is making those these great efforts to open and develop siberia as a home for the excess of population it believes that asiatic russia can be thus made a beurce ot of revenue and strength instead of cou con giant mr Galet galetzky has baa already completed about of his ble portion of 0 the bon contract tract west irom from more are almost ready and another are in course of construction A verat or russian mile is IH about two of a mile in this country there are employed on nn the eastern division about chinese and C roans reans besides an army of convicts and exiles exile it in ie tou too slow and expensive a process to ship materials mate rals als overland for the work so now they are sent from europe across the atlantic and america to the pacific coast and then to it may be learned from this great undertaking that russia aisse pisse ses a goodly share of what is looked uvon unoo as the spirit of modern enterprise great greal changes are going on nut not only in the more civilized nations nai lons but even in the abe domain of and through the agemy of abe emperor of all the abo A it ft la in not beyond the limit of possibility that by this means another half century may behold not alone the dawn of reli elous and political freedom in the great russian empt empire rebut but the complete ushering in ot of the glorious day ot of liberty things more strange trian anan we thia have been wrought in we affairs of men and nations |
