Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1911 — Railroad Building In Asiatic Russia. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Building In Asiatic Russia.

At the present time Russia has railway communication with her Pacific seaboard only through Manchuria. If you consult maps of Asiatic Russia published during the last eight or* nine years you will find the route of a proposed railway indicated alongthe Amur river from Khabarovsk toStryetensk on the Shilka, an uppertributary of the Amur that is entirely" within Russian territory. According' to the Revue Generale des Sciences, acredit has been voted for the completion of this railway. Another greatproject about to be undertaken will give St. Petersburg direct railway" communication with the Trans-Siber-ian via Viatka, Perm and Ekaterinburg lo Kurgan in place of the present route to Moscpw. Most inyportant ■* of all, it is proposed to build a railway from the termination df the present Chinese line, which extends from Pekin to Kalgan, across the Gobi desent, along the route of the old Chinesepost road, via Sair-usu and Urga, toKiakta, south, of Lake Baikal. This would enable travelers to Journey" from Paris to Pekin in nine and a. half days.—Scientific American.