. The Russian road to China . y returned a dollar of themillions that have gone to maintaining its leveesand training-walls and channels. Yet indirectly thereturn and the value, as an asset to the Americanpeople, are so great as to be incalculable. From itscontrolling position in relation to the cultivatableland and the interior watercourses of CentralSiberia, as well as in relation to the far easternartery, the Russian railway is an empire-builderas important as has been the Nile. The results already achieved are city of Omsk, where the railroad and the IrtishRiver lines meet,
. The Russian road to China . y returned a dollar of themillions that have gone to maintaining its leveesand training-walls and channels. Yet indirectly thereturn and the value, as an asset to the Americanpeople, are so great as to be incalculable. From itscontrolling position in relation to the cultivatableland and the interior watercourses of CentralSiberia, as well as in relation to the far easternartery, the Russian railway is an empire-builderas important as has been the Nile. The results already achieved are city of Omsk, where the railroad and the IrtishRiver lines meet, has risen from a population ofthirty-seven thousand in 1897 to seventy thousandin 1908. Further east, Stretensk has sprung froma town of two thousand people ten years ago to overtwelve thousand to-day. Irkutsk has climbed fromsixty to over eighty thousand since the railroadopened. The rural population has Increased even as thatof the cities. At the beginning of the seventeenthcentury, all Siberia contained but two hundred and. - s:t->x^. i)F KALTIGEI
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