The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-20
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Russian Engineers Tell ofthe Great Work
-Nl~andivOstOck Booming.

Russian Engineers Tell ofthe Great Work
-Nlandivostock Booming.
Vladimir BeloborodoiT, imperial Rus
sian engineer in charge of ports and
bridges, and John Barber, one of the
most skilled of mechanical engineers.
who arrived in San Francisco on July
81 on their way to Vladivostock, told
some interesting facts about the trans
Siberian road in an interview with an
Examiner reporter.
They go to further the work of build.
ing up Valdivostock and this great road
which extends from Valdivostock 1000
miles away to the crest of the Ural
mountains. there connecting with a line
pushed out from the Russian capital.
Both engineers are men in the prime
of life and are of great size, being typi.
cal Slavs in appearance. Mr.. Barber
however, explained that he was an Eng
lishman by birth. lie spoke English
as well as Russian. They told an inter
esting story of the work of railroad
building in the Cars domain. Huge maps
were spread cut. detailing the route of
every part of the road, and the kind of
country it p%ermeated was discussed in
detail. From Xlatust, in the Ural
mountains. the line stretches, via Omsk,
Tomsk, Irkutsk, Chilah, Strolinsk and
lIabarooka to Nladivostock. 1t runs
along the Obi, ienisei. Angora and
Amoor rivers ana crosses innumerab!e
mountain chains.
Engineer RelobordOil. who has been
in active work on the line hitherto, and
who has Just been home 10 consult about
it SAYS that in the Trails the work was
immensely more difficult than in the
Sierra Ncyadas, through which he has
just come. He was much interested in
asking questions about the Central Pa
ciiic. and said it struck him as being a
very cheap road, with tlimsy bridges and
light work all around, when there ought
10 be heavy work.
''!Such work would not be permitted
in Russia he said. All there work is
in cemcnt and every bridge Of any con
sequence is built FROM the cement and
| rock foundation with iron and steel"
No one could be Il division superin-
tendenI. au engineer. OF occupy and
| position of trust unless he had finished
a course in the great Imperial Engineer
ing University. On all the imperial
roads he said that there was a watch
man for every mile. and he had a house
to 1--we in and make his observations
from.
Five thousand men are now working
on the first division. from the Cral
mountains eastward On the next divis-
ion ii reconnaissance is now being made,
but on the other division reaching to
| N~ladivostock 5000 men are employed.
| 1t is the intention to increase all the
forces and push the work as fast as pos
siblc. The 4.NtU miles from the Trails to
ST. Petersburg are 10Y done.
rhe engineer says that it is now the
intention to spend many millions of
dollars in building docks and walls i'll
the harbor Of Nladivostock. 1t Is eX-
pected by the ear that NladiNostock
will become a mighty city. Engineer
Beloborlotf has all this work in charge.
He says no attention has been pad to
| Nladivustock hitherto. There we're too
many other places to look after. Now.
however. the government intends to ad-
vance it and make it II of the first
maritime and commercial cities in the
| world.