The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-15
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RUSSIA BUILDING
PERSIAN .RAILWA
shah's Pledge Of Monopoly and
Russian Tricks Increase
!. -: ..=. Grip Of Gar. .se
Journal: Special Service:

Journal Special Service: - Z 'Sgz
St: Petersburg, Oct. l4.-The Rus.
sian report of railways. for 1904 is@
just out. The sum of sllo, 100000
'. set aside for the minister Of Of
the war only $35, 100000 was actually
issued to Prince Khilkoff. The total
length Of line laid; down in the Russian
empire is, 81 300 versts, say $4,000
English miles, of which 51,5s7 versts
are in European and 1928 in, Asiatic
Russia. The principal lines finished in
1904 were the Orenberg- Tashkent and
the Cireum, Bal kal: The Bologoie. Sled
(Which will give direct Communication
between the capital and the Trans
Siberian railway and finally the
Erivan-Julfa lines, which are in present
construction. : q " -: m y ..5fs:: .
II 7. Lines Across Persia + zs5
"A pamphlet has been for sale for
graphical department in St. Petersburg,
entitled "'Railways Across Persia. II
contained a. map on which: are shown
two lines evidently to be constructed.
One Of these, is, that from Kara-Kliss,
station midway between Tifis and
Eriyan, which was then the terminus
Of the line to Tabriz, Teheran, Shah
names Of the stations were all laid
down in this interesting, if not alb
,solutely official, paper. The two great
railroad stations on the way to Tabriz
were Erivan and Julia. This last place
is on the RUSSO ersian rail frontier in
sight of the lesser Arrarat. =.
At this moment trains run from
Tifis to Eriyan in eighteen or twenty
hours. BY next year the line to julia,
only thirty five miles: furth .on, will
be completed. !: e :. & A. o. :. j. =: 4
f =. Flow the Shah Built a Road.
From this town, which is close to
|Nakhitchevan, in: Russian territory,
Tabriz Tie manner 81 Is CONSTRUCTION a1a On
was curious. The Russian government,
when first it lent a few millions to: the
shah for his first visit to Contrexeville,
stipulated for the construction of this
road by Persian labor within a given
period. If by the specified time it should
not be completed the contract was to
pass into the hands Of q Russian firm.
Nothing was more simple. or above
board. The agreement was in" writing,
the time allowed. for ;, the work was
ample: But nothing was more certain to
those who knew their Persia that on
! the specified date. the road would still
be unfinished. So, as foreseen, the con-
tract passed into Russian hands and the
road is q fairly good one for the coun-
|try.,. ... q ssz
Thus the, railroad. from Kara kiss
to sTabriz, Teheran and Meshed is in
somewhat more than an incipient stage
FOR the first 100 miles of. it are open
1 to traffic aud thirty five miles more
will be finished this year. At present
the shah stands pledged to Russia not
4 to allow any more railways to be built
in. his dominions without Russian con
sent. >,.: ..,s 81. :: : IS IS # Y Z
The object Of running the. line t.
I Meshed is plain enough. 1t is a mile
4 stone either to .Herat 81, towards, thu
} south Of Persia. Russia; has for years
). considered the possibility of reaching
i the Persian gulf or the Mekrani coas
i BY a railway, . passing through seistal
from, .Meshed. Though the maps O.
utheastern Persia are nntruIstNorth
j it does mot appear. that there are ss man,
i great engine difficulties TO proven
the completion Of such D. task.