Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1895 — Railway Between Russia and Persia. [ARTICLE]

Railway Between Russia and Persia.

Persia is about to be provided with a new railroad. The line is being engineered by the Czar’s officials, and constructed by means of Muscovite capital. It is to have its base at the Russian port of Baku, which is connected with the entire Russian railroad system, and is to extend across the plain of Mogan to the frontier station of Dulfa, whence It will proceed southward to.the great Persian city of Tabreez. Fi’dm there, by way of Kazvln, it continues to Teheran, whence branches are to be constructed to the great pilgrim resort oi Meshed, on the northeast frontier, and to the ancient metropolis, Ispahan. In the South. Apart from the political consequences of this line, the practical opening up a great country bo rich and yet so undeveloped as Persia. cannot fail to prove of immense interest to trade and industry in every part of the civilized world.