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Show The KlhvrUa Railway. The British commercial agent In Russia. Mr. Cooke, haa Just Issued a very optimistic report on the great trans-.-iiberlan railway. Siberia, he points out. is no longer a mere Russian Rus-sian penal settlement, but a yciung country with a gnit future before It Tbe railw.iy has already diffused hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of settlers over th vast domain and Is opening gold de poelts which tt haa not h.therto possible to work at a profit. Siberia already ranks among the leading gold-prod gold-prod icing c otir.tric and other Important Import-ant industrials are expected now to develop rapidly. In many respects th ITslory of Siberia Is curiously Ilk that of Australia. |