A Yankee Proposition
RAILWAY ACROSS BEHRING SEA. Per United Press Association, By Electric Telegraph.—Copy right NEW YORK, March 10. An American syndicate offers to construct at its own cost the KnnskAlaska tunnel railway across the Behring Sea in return for a strip ol land along- the entire railway for industrial purposes. This is viewed more favourably in St. Petersburg than formerly. The syndicate professes its readiness to find fifty-four millions sterling for the purpose. (Kansk is in the heart, of Siberia, west of Lake Baikal, and is an important point, on the Trans-Siberian railway. If the project were carried through American travellers could travel by rail to the English Channel, and across the Strait of Dover to London—practically an all-land journey. In addition to agriculture the syndicate probably has an eye on minerals).
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Southland Times, Issue 19768, 19 March 1906, Page 2
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133A Yankee Proposition Southland Times, Issue 19768, 19 March 1906, Page 2
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