New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-22

previous attempts gets new European engineer ana
lays out entirely roads There now tho begin,
are all very grand. macadanizcd affairs. but all end
very the city. All the way from Aeppo TO Aniioch
made road, few rods each in extent but those are all
on clear leycl ground. where nature aior Sssors
u horse can. with difficulty. pick his way, way,
these cnterprisng Governors do nothing n hnpw
necded-and only one Between Antioch and Aleppo.
along 70 miles of postroad there ,s hot erc for
centuries there has been fUe stone bridge over mo
OTOntes Passing over the road lately IL was WIN
difficulty and some danger that forced my ho morse
turI some of thc streams and nlics that cross inc
road The Covert nent has fine system OF ToauSo
paperof three grades costing from $1,000 10 sooVo p
mile such roads az are good enough for country towns
I'm America could he made here for $500 nIle; nn'
VI and because the Government cannot afford TO
establish system of boulevards the country o t
o,ny with such paths the caravans MAKE oI tuoin
selves nodding through the mud or climbing over inc
rocks A French company has made an eAgeem, rTau
fron Beirut Damascus, and runs uSchee inc oe'
The smyrna and Adm and the Smyrna and Casaoa
RAILWAYS are. | think. the only ones operating III
Asjatic Turkey. These mainly owned IN Englahu,
The nteres, the bonds being guaranteed ny the iuh
AIoXandretta TO Bagdad, If built will he directly III tne
interest of England. but SO anxious me sublime Ioro
for RAILWAYS that they offer in aid OF this road 10 carry
the mails and English soldiers free and to guarantee
four per interest the bonds As security Tor TINS
guarantee the Turks offer 10 put the custonhouses AZ
Bacad and AeXandreta into the hands of the English
Governments but Russia protests against this as equiva-
cument itself building with economy and dispatch
railroad from Scutari, opposite 10 ConsantlnOpe, 10
posed to continue Eski shayher is also proposed to
continue the Euphrates Valley Railroad IRON Alex
audretta 10 Eski Shayher, in which case there viii be
through line from Constantnople to Bagdad and BON
bay will be less than weeks travel from London ~
assured good authority that the Euphrates valley
Railroad viii he begun. There IS every reason 10
believe that Turkey has abundance OF mineral wealth
but almost all of 1t lies In the ground untouched me
natives have not sufficient skill encouragement to
develop these riches, and the Government IN spite OF
its necessities is jealous OF foreigners What few mines
are open carried on by the Government with native
wOTkmen exclusively. Even geological survey WOulu
be stopped by the Government which afraid to have
fore gners discover the hidden wealth OF the country
lest the possessions of the MAN. should be more
than ever before bone OF contention between the
European Powers Thus the Turks play the dog In the
manger; they cannot develop their resources and
are afraid TO have Others do 1t.
Agriculture is in a very primitive state. The plows
are crooked beams, sometimes snod with iron They OF
course have mold boards, and simply scratch int
ground TO o depth OF three or four inches. BeiWeeI
AeppO and Antioch land rich any in the world
though Ii has been cultivated nyc thousand yeas ana
yields good crops. though the farmers have only lately
learned that is good for the soil With proper
culture magnificent crops might be obtained, but me
great lack is market 1t costs more to carry bdshc
OF wheat miles here than IL does III America 10 carry
IL from Chicago to NewYOrk. And takes longer TOO
farmer, therefore, has motive 10 raise more prod
uce than will suffice for ms own neighborhOod turkey
exports little wool she ought TO export large quantities
of II, and also Of wheat cotton, ana tobacco Labor
cheap, and cotton might be raised, manufactured al
home and exported TO Europe Instead OF tins. Turkey
imports most of her cloths Antioch raises great gga.
| and imports all her sugar. weaving Dy mana wa,
formerly great business in all the interior cies Du
the looms have been stopped by the great European lac
tories. When Europeans try to establish factories mere
they so annoyed 10y the local Turkish GoVfrment'
that many have been abandoned fIenGn m,
mandatory at Antioch ana an Engsh cotton mn II
the same city, are examples or the want or encourage
Nearly all the foreign Se of the Empire done
In COnstantinOple and smyrna and by European mel
chants IL Ioielgn eapai were "ltndwn t iuihTS
the Government would be bankrupt in six months.