The Railway to Russia.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 456, 22 March 1890, Page 3

The Railway to Russia.

People who are laughing over the contemplated building of a railway from America to St Petersburg, via Behring Straits, don’t want to make the mistake of thinking the thing impossible. Such a road may not be constructed in this generation or the next. Bub it is not an impossibility by any means. The Northwestern country is but sparsely settled and, as a financial investment, the proposed railway is nob inviting to capitalists,who know that to be successful it must have a local as well as a through traffic. But America is growing. Westward, and considerably north of west, the star of Empire takes its way. The great Northwest is rapidly being peopled by communities of vigour and thi ifb, and conditions are changing faster than the map-makers can record them. It will be but a few yearß, comparatively, when all that region will be thickly populated. Vancouver’s Land and Alaska are far from being the ice-bound God and man-forsaken countries which primitive geographers picture. The sun shines on no fairer spot in all the world than that washed by the Straits of San Juan de Fuca, and as the resistless tide of immigration surges on the home-seekere will nob be slow in possessing themselves of it. That these people will have railways is a self-evident proposition, and from them will come, if it ever does, the road from Chicago to St. Petersburg.— ‘ Chicago Journal.’