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Show The Teuhauntepu railroad is nearly completed. If kept in independent hands it will hurt the overland over-land railways in the United States a good deal, for it will be only 180 miles long and goods can be unloaded, shipped across the road and reloaded at small expense It is liable, too, to take a good deal of trade from San Francisco on goods shipped Japan, or from Asia to our eastern coast and Europe. The only saving grace is that the further north goods or ships are moved, the less the distance. dis-tance. It is nearer from San Francisco to the Philippines to sail away north almost to the Faulkland islands, than to, so to speak, sail over the hill, that is, to follow the great circle of the earth and go in a direct line. |