TO PARIS BY RAIL.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 8, Issue 29, 9 April 1907, Page 3

TO PARIS BY RAIL.

Fr«nohmnn U Promoting: a Line Which Will linn Under Bobrina: Straits. Locqui Lobet is promoting the building of a trans-Atlantic-Siberia railroad and thereby affording an all-rail route from New York to Paris, shifting the commercial axis from the Sues canal to Behring straits. In 1898 Bold visited Alaska on a scientific mission and it was there he first t firmgin of the scheme that has since interested many wealthy men of Europe and resulted in the formation of a big company, he says, which has pledged him ample funds to carry it out. He is now making a tour of the world in the interest of this railroad scheme. The present plans outline a road across the United States from New York via Chicago to San Francisco, thence northward through California] Oregon and Washington, along the coast to Juneau, thence to Fort Cudahy, and thence to the most westerly point of Alaska, extending into Behring sea. Mere a tunnel will connect the two mainlands and thence the road will go through Siberia to St. Petersburg, and then finally through Europe to Berlin and Paris.