Show SIBERIAN RAILWAY two thousand miles of a gap remains i not before 1900 will russia have completed the great reaching from st petersburg Peters burK to traveling by the amoon river san francisco jan the call aye bussell L dann a mining engineer who has raveled extensively in siberia as the representative of a mining syndicate in prance arrived from the orient day before yesterday on the steamship coptic mr dann left recently but ahen asked yesterday concerning the number of russian troops at that garrison replied 1 I did not try to ascertain the number and it I 1 knew I 1 would not eay anything about my knowledge of the strength of the garrison as I 1 expert to return to russia vladivostok is a fine city of inhabitants and is rapidly growing the improvements are of a character and the merchants are enterprising ter and prosperous it is sure to become a great commercial metropolis and the leading city of eastern russia there is no reason why a large trade between san francisco and vladivostok should not be developed the ice there obstructs navigation somewhat in the winter bat with the aid of crushing ice boats the harbor can be kept open all the year round we out with an ice crusher yes russia ie the dominant power in the orient today remarked mr dann in response to questions on that line at first glance it seems that russia will china but the result may be that china will russia the chinese merchants in vladivostok are influential and tul russia is powerful in manchuria and korea and power once by russia is never relinquished mr dunn gives an interesting account of the progress of work in the building of the siberian railroad to connect st petersburg and vladivostok it is his belief that the work on the main line cannot be completed in 1900 but a ra iland water route will be opened tor traffic across the continent of asia before that year comes Chela lisk in the valley of the eastern slope 0 the ural mountains is practically tha initial point ot the trana siberian railroad the line which connects that paint with st petersburg and moscow was finished some years ego from Chela lisk east the road is completed aud in operation to niini ft point about miles from much of the track on the extension to is laid in order to complete the main line from to vladivostok it will be necessary to buld nearly two thousand miles of railway in going from petersburg to a point near mr dann was eleven days in the railway car lie said of the journey ve were going all he lima night and day and we seemed to be going at a fair rate of speed but I 1 was eleven days on alie rail the railroad now in operation from vladivostok ago miles north to the amoor river is not part of the main liae 0 the russian siberian railroad but it ipei is the only available route now for travel between vladivostok and russia nd europe tee traveler leaving vladivostok for st petersburg or moscow goes by rail north for miles and there connects with steamer on the amoor river the river ie one of the largest in the world being navigable 1500 miles above the point where the railway strikes the tS tream the head of navigation is a place called Str elinsk distant miles from A vast deal of heavy work has been done in building a railroad from the head of navigation on alio amoor across mountains to american methods of construction are employed by decree of the czar all the rails ute dare of russian manufacture many of the locomotives in uee are 0 american make perhaps within a year the railway will be completed from the head of navigation on the amoor to and at tha latter place connect with the main line of ahn siberian railway aa the main line ie extended eastward from and westward from vladivostok connection will be made with a road building in manchuria to connect port arthur with the russian system of roads troops can now be moved in email detachments tach ments across the continent from russia in europe to the pacific ocean the amoor river la open from april to september the edream carries such a large volume ot water that there is no hindrance to navigation during the open month of the year As the gap is being closed rapidly between and the head of the river navigation on the amoor marching distance ie being correspondingly despondingly ly lessened russia will soon be in position to move large bodies of troop from moscow and st Peers bure to vulnerable places of her empire on the pacific |