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Show Railroads in Siberia Siberia, coupled as its name is with Btories of Russian barbarity, is not the barren, terrible land of limitless deserts which fiction and the drama have pictured pic-tured it. The building of the trans-Siberian trans-Siberian railway and the extension of lines along the northern frontier of Cliina will greatly change the entira drama of civilization. The railroad from Vladivostock to the Ural mountains will bring that great Russian naval station within fourteen days' journey of St. Petersburg, and along this route atations will rapidly grow into towns and offer opportunities for new and striking development. de-velopment. Russia's enterprise stimulates that of China, not only as a matter of competitive com-petitive ambition, but for strategic reasons. The railways now being surveyed sur-veyed and completed with the Celestial empire are numerous, and to this end many foreign engineers are employed. Soldiers and convicts are largely employed em-ployed as workmen, thus cheapening tha cost of labor as far as possible. Hartford Hart-ford Globe. |