Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1898 — RUSSIA TO BUILD GREAT CANAL [ARTICLE]

RUSSIA TO BUILD GREAT CANAL

Will Connect Black and Baltic Seal and Cost $97,000,000. The current issue bf the publication by the office of naval intelligence presents a detailed account of an immense canal about to be undertaken by Russia, which will connect the Black and Baltic seas, and will enable her to concentrate her fleets at either end in less than seven days. The canal’s entire WnjgAwill be 1,080 miles, but by usmgdMM&£ rs the artificial cononly 125 miles. The cost ire construction is esti111 ::! A»W>.*U-000,000. , •<