A WORK FOR THREE NATIONS.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 115, 22 January 1879, Page 3

A WORK FOR THREE NATIONS.

One of the latest American “ notions ” (says a contemporary) is a project for getting the United States, Great Britain, and Russia, to unite in the construction of a railway from Washington City to St. Petersburg, which would leave only forty jrpjlos of fhe way to be done by wafer.

The plan of the projector of this project, Mr Greaves, would have the capitals of the three countries unite in the work, each country to construct the line in its own portion of the wav to be constructed. He proposes that the American capitalists should make their portion of the road to some point of the British territory—say to a point where the Columbia River runs into Washington territory. English capitalists would then continue the line through New Georgia to the point where the Yoilcan River runs into Alaska, thence through Alaska to Cape Prince of Wales, on Behring Straits ; then Russia, or a company of great capitalists of the old and new world, would construct the rest of the road from East Cape, nr Behring Straits, to St. Petersburg!). Passengers ami freight would be carried from Cape Prince of Wales, on the American Continent, to East Cape, in Asia, directly opposite, and only 4U miles apart, in splendid steamers, built and put there for that purpose, and owned by this great company. Certainly, the project must be admitted to be wen thy of the. country of Franklin, Morse, and Edison ; and to bestow on the world the possibility of making a trip through America, Asia, and Europe, seated in splendid saloon carriages, with laud under one, expect for the short distance of forty miles, about as far as from Dover to Calais, and visible throughout that short bit of steamer travelling, would evidently be a much better aim for the genius and resources of the three nations thus called upon than the expending of a still larger amount of money, science, effort, and pluck in war for the acquisition of one another’s territory.