Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-03-18
SULTAN PLANS
RAILWAY WHICH
WILL CROSS ASIA
Tracks Will Connect Mediter.
ranean and Persian Gulf,
Starting from Tripoli.

London-Great railway developments
are in progress all over the world.
The new era in Turkey has resulted in
many plans, the most extensive of
which is a railroad to connect the Med
iterranean and the Persian gulf, start
ing from Tripoli in Syria, and proceed
ing by way Of HONS along the south
ern banks of the Euphrates and emerg-
ing on the Persian gluf at Busrah or
Koweit. A modern harbor will be con-
structed at Tripoli.
There is also a line Of railway under
government consideration from Meso-
potamia to Halfa, via Damascus, with
a modern harbor at Haifa. Sir William
Wilcox, of England, has proposed to
the sultan various irrigation and con-
servation plans scarcely less extensive
than those now being carried out by
the American government in the west
ern part of the United States.
The historic old Euphrates river is
to be diverted from It's course. The
Valley of the Tigris is to be improved
and an extension of the Mediterranean
Persian Gulf line is planned to carry
it through Persia and Baloochistan to
India. Sue a rout when completed
will give England n France an indie
pendent railway route to India entire
ly distinct from the Russian Trans
Siberian line Of communication be-
tween Europe anC the Pacific ooean.
American Capital interested.
The proposed British route across
mid-Asia, and thence down to the In
dian ocean, with its existing connec-
tons across Southern China to Canton,
and thence up to Pekin, will give a
transcontinentaI route open all the year
round, which is not the case with the
Russia Trans Siberian.
American capital is interested in a
projected trunk line through Asia
Minor, 1248 miles long, from Sivas to
the Gulf of Alexandria. Other con
cessiOns are being south by Americans,
including harbors, telephones, reclama-,
alton of lands and electrical enter
prises. The proposed through road to
India is to be built by an English syn
dictate. 1t will be about 1900 miles in
length, from Adrianople to Rumeli Sis
sar, Anatol Hissar and Suleimameh.
The German Anatolian railroad, usu-
ally called the Bagdad railway, is about
to be continued eastward across the
Taurus Mountains into Opotamia. The
English are getting ready to build a
railroad to connect the 400-mile gap be-
tween the British raildoad terminus
In Northern Afghan frontier. The
building Of a line across Afghanistan
would CONNECT the indian railway sys-
TEN Of some 400, 900 miles with that of
the, Russian via Cpenburg at the Cas-
plan Sea. Pl@~ are also under con-
sideration "a london for a trunk line
from Egypt to India, crossing Arabia
and Persia. This would be in direct
competition with the proposed Constan-
Observation-Disclosures route.
Africa Has Railway Projects.
The British political agent at Alden,
at the Arabia Red Sea end of the SueZ
Canal, has arranged for a railroad into
the interior of Arabia, thus doing away
with the present means of cOmmunica-
ton by donkey and camel service.
In Africa the railroads are being built
in tsetse fly district, connecting Mombo
with the .Choume forest. The German
Colonial Minister has decided TO extend
the line to Kilmandjerd. The Upper
Congo and Great Lakes Railway Is
being rapidly pushed. The Kindu-Con-
COLA line is now 217 miles long.
In Canada the Grand Trunk Pacific
is putting the finishing touches on it's
943 miles prairie section which is ex-
pected to save approximately 500 miles,
operating form Prince Rupert to YOko-
hama, over the present grain-carrying
route to the Orient via the Suez Canal.
The Hudson Bay Railway, which will
give new 1OTkeTS Il CldnCe 10 take
summer yachting cruises in the Arctic
Circle and shoot polar bears from
bungalows. is considerably surveyed
and engineering parties are spending
the winter In the frozen Far North
with their surveying instruments.
In Honduras the Americans are
building a railroad from Truxillo, on
the Atlantic coast to Tegucigalpa, the
capital. In Argentina the government
is developing a railway from Taeuman
to Catamarca to cost 81, 700, 900. In Bra
I'll the Great Western Railway is be-
ing pushed into vast regions suitable
for coffee. More than 200 men are at
work on the Observation-Disclosures Rail-
way. in the most difficult region i'm
Brazil for an engineering point of view.
The Brazilians are also building q line
into the state of Goyaz al far as the
capital. Work was begun recently on