The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-09-25

roads have been commenced in order &c
give the starving peasants something to do.
There is new line being built along the
Caspian sea, ana the Tartar city of Kazeu
is being connected with the railway system
| OF the Volga. The chief of the railway
branch Of the interior department of St
Petersburg. with whom / talked the other
day, tells me that the work on the Trans
Siberian road is still going on, and that
about $50 miles Of il have been built fl >m
Vlsdivostock, on the Pacific to the ', },
and that the work is advancing in other
parts of Siberia. This Siberian road will
run from Vladivostock, across Siberia to
Russia and 1t is estimated that when it is
completed passengers will be able 10 sc
from Moscow to Vladivostock in fifteen
days, aud the time around the world ought
10 be then reduced TO less than fifty days.
| am told that the road will cost about
Sl00.000,000. The Russian government has
made surveys of all the possible routes, and
the one that will probably be adopted will
take advantage Of the navigable rivers on
the way and will by this means be able to
largely reduce the amount Of track. If an
all-rail route is made it will be nearly 5 900
miles through Siberia alone. and it will cost
Sl50.000,O00. By the use of the rivers the
necessary track can be cut down from 8 1000
TO =, 900 miles, but in this case the road will
be practically useless for six months of the
year on account Of the freezing of the
rivers and lakes during the winter. Gen
eral AnRenkOn, the builder of the Trans
Caspian road, estimates that the Siberian
road can be completed in five years. aud
that by 1897 we may have trains running
from the Baltic TO the Pacific This road
will open up some of the richest wheat
growing countries of the world, and 1t will
enable machinery 10 be taken TO the Siber-
ian gold mines, which are now practically
unworked for the lack of it. Siberia is be-
ing rapidly colonized by Russians, but the
country is so vast that they can make but
little Impression upon it. This railroad
would increase the im IMMIGRATION from about
IL. 600 year, which it is now, to hundreds
OF thousands and it will result in the OPEN
ing up OF north Asia to civilization.
TRANS CASPIAN ROAD.
The fate of this Siberian road will prob
ably be the same as the Trans-Caspian, It
Is being built by the government as mill
tary line but it will eventually become
great commercial highway. The Trans
Caspian road is well constructed and well
managed 1t was largely made by Asiatic
labor, and it cost only little over $4,000
mile The ordinary workmen upon it re-
ceived only Is cents a day for their labor,
and the probability is that the Siberian
road Will find cheap workmen from China.
Mongolia or Siberia. The trains on the
Trans-Casplan now run at the rate of
thirty miles an hour, and the locomotives
burn nothing but petroleum.
HOW COAL OIL HAULs RUSSIAN CARS.
have travelled on many cars here in
Russia which sre moved by petroleum, and
all the engines OF central and south Russia
are worked with this iuel. II takes 50. 900
tons OF petroleum every year for this
Trans Caspian road alone and though the
first cost of this is greater than the same
weight in coal, General Annenkoff esti-
mates that coal oil is four times as cheap in
its steam-producing powers as coal, and |
am .old by engineers here that pound of
oil viii produce twice as much steam IS a
pound of coal ! have been travelling this
week south of Moscow, and have taken
look at the engines which use this Gil fuel.
The oil Is kept in tank back of the engiue
and it is Injected into the furnace through
a pipe 90 made that 1t meets jet OF steam
aud this steam converts the oil into spray
before it meets the flame, and it is so regu-
lated that steady, hot fire 10 produced.
The fire in the boiler is first started with
coarse. heavy grass or wood, and it takes
pressure OF about five pounds TO work the
steam jet. The engineers like It much bet
ter than wood, aud | found that most of the