The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-12-10

81 miles. the Doaetsk. 80 miles. TIE
Baltic. 50 miles. la the present year ne
government bare already SECURES thz
Nicholas raifway. With the fGIa4ea
branch, 81 miles; the =. Petersburg
Wsrxaw line. s94 raIles: the MoscoE-e iinis
- the Mitan. -. and the RIga-Itanao1r<.
fs8 miles Negotiations are roE IN pro
grsss uith a view 30 the purchase D
the crozn 81 the southwestern system OF
Russian railways. On the other hand-
the government coded 20 the Southeastern
Company the Ore. Griaxi line. ID miles,
and the Ltvna railway. tniriy-eigns ma.es.
In the matter OF extension pui III
sfs was done during the psst yeaE.
A rew line from Rlssan TO hs'an
Vas opened N December. and the hnrsk-
EerODesh railway was nearly competed
Tie newiy-estsblished Southeastern hus-
sian Railway Company has obtained per-
mission 20 construct the following lines
From BalakorA TO khsrkofs. dis
tanee OF 80 miles; from khark-
the k1rsk-kharkof or Donetx railway,
ard from the latter railway 10 kalateh.
district OF Boggenarsk, distance Of sixty
miles. and some small branches The
RlaEan- Z raj Railway Company has been
allowed TO construct g branch from
BogoYavieBsk station 10 S0snovky
village. The Eapatoria Railway
from Blyuk-Oniar station OF the LozoyO-
Sebasiopol railway 10 Eupatoria, with
branch 20 the port. Lastly, the Eladlkav-
kax Railway Company has received power
10 c0nstruct branch from the Kaykazki
station 10 Stavropol. over q distance OF
eighty-four and two-shlrd miles
''Ih siberian railway, " hich has been fully
described In the columns OF 1TosspoTf. and
which the stirring events in the Far East
renders doubly important from the Rus-
sian standpoint Is pushed forward
with the greatest rspidity, and the
whole line will, u is said,
be completed much earlier than
was anticipated In order 10 accelerate
the WORK. convict labor is 10 be employed
on the central portion OF the line. The
Ussuri section, extending from kIadiyo-
stock TO Gravskaya Pristan. is beng
actively advanced, and, indeed, . section
OF II has already been opened.
Railway communication IN the regions
surrounding Archangel has lately been
the subject of animated and prolonged
discussion in the Russian press. The
commission sitting at ST. Petersburg
10 decide which of the many
northern railway projects should be
carried into execution has apparently re-
solved on ths continuation TO Archangel
of the existing Moscow ologda line. This
proposal by no means meets with general
approval among the merchants, who fear
that such railroad would rather
detract from than add to the trade of the
port. by carrying southwark goods hith-
erto shipped via Archangel. They would
have much preferred the project press
ingly urged on the authorities by the new
governor, viz: railway from Kazan,
on the Nolga. to kotlass, at the
junction OF the Vyehegda and North
ern Dwina Various other routes,
Russian and Finnish, have been
fully considered, but political motives have
for the present operuted against line
through Finland, and the remaining plans,
always excepting the TWO mentioned,
never stood much chance OF being
adopted. So that, probably owing TO
the powerful influence of the old
capital, the Vologda-Arch-
angel plan now TO all appearance
holds the field. Ii is thus proposed that
the present railway, which drags its Slow
length along TO Vologda, shall be pushed
on some $50 miles further 10 Archanget,
and three years. II is said, should see it
completed.