ASIA MINOR RAILWAY.
AMERICAN SCHEME. EXTENDING TO THE TIGRIS VALLEY. TO COST TWENTY MILLIONS. . (By Teloerapn.-Preas iisßoclatlon.-GoDTrleliU (Ike. August 20, 1.10 a.m.) ' ... ' London, August 19.'' It is stated that the Porte is favourable to an American offer to construct a railway from Angora to Van, via Siva's'and'Kharput, with branches to the Mediterranean, to Diarbekr (on the Upper .Tigris), and to Mosul (lower down the valley of the Tigris). ;
The. syndicate asks for a guarantee of 4 per cent, of the cost, and 1 per cent! for amortization,' with the tithes of six vilayets as security; also tho right to exploit mines and oil fields in a zone of 20 kilometree on each side of the line. .-■"'■ .... The scheme involves an outlay of 20 millions sterling. ■ ... ■' [Angora is already connected by railway with Skutari, the Asiatic suburb of Constantinople. An extension of this line a.f proposed would practically reticulate Asia Minor: Tho scheme would appear to be in competition with the German Bagdad railway, which takes o. moro southerly but parallel coursflj
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 591, 20 August 1909, Page 5
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171ASIA MINOR RAILWAY. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 591, 20 August 1909, Page 5
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