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Show A Hallroad In tba Arctic Circle. In one respect at least the Swedish and Norwegian railroad between Lulea on the Gulf of Bothnia and Luffodon on the shores of tho North Sea Is the most remarkable engineering achievement of the present century. It has the unique distinction of being the only railroad In the world situated wholly or partially within the Arctic Circle, it being some l,20Cmlles further north than any railroad In Canada. An interesting meteorological fact stated is In relation to this boreal railway, rail-way, viz: That snow falls much less-frequently less-frequently alone the line and in far less quantities than at points on other roads 1,000 to 2,000 miles further south, the darkness of tho long winter nights being partly compensated by thje light of the aurora. The objoct in view in constructing this "North Pole through line" is to tap the enormous enor-mous deposits of iron ore in the Gelli-vara Gelli-vara Mountains, tho exhaustion of the ore in the Bilboa field making it absolutely abso-lutely nocessary that the Iron-workers find a new locality if the magnetic pole itself has to be undermined to get at tho precious mineral. |