Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1917 — Russia to Build More Lines. [ARTICLE]

Russia to Build More Lines.

....The war .Inis awakened Russia to her poor facilities in the matter of railways, according to a late report from Petrograd. Immense extensions are being planned. Russia now has only 44.000 miles of railway, an amount equal to about three miles per 10.000 inhabitants. The United States has 20 miles of railway per 10,000 inhabitants. Russia’s plans for the next five years include extension at the rate of 4,000 miles of new line annually. This will be more than equivalent to a new transcontinental railway built annually in this* country. The construction will c05t.5450,000,000, or more for each year of the 4,000-mile program.