. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across of sci-entists to prove the correctness ofits claim, the question resolves itselfinto one of cheapness of productionand transportation. For the marketof Europe and Asia we think wehave a great advantage in beingnearer to it. It is as far from Ba-toum to England as from New York,and therefore you may be able tosupply Great Britain with petro-leum, by reason of the cost of trans-portation. Two plans are under considera-tion for overcoming the
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across of sci-entists to prove the correctness ofits claim, the question resolves itselfinto one of cheapness of productionand transportation. For the marketof Europe and Asia we think wehave a great advantage in beingnearer to it. It is as far from Ba-toum to England as from New York,and therefore you may be able tosupply Great Britain with petro-leum, by reason of the cost of trans-portation. Two plans are under considera-tion for overcoming the disadvan-tages of the closing of the Yolgaroute by ice for one-third of theyear. Look on the map of Russiaand see the position of Vladikavkaz at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains. The railway reaches that point,and it has been proposed to extend it to a connection with the Batoum-Baku line at TiHis, a distance of one hundred and ten miles. The linewould be very costly, as it must run through the Caucasus range; alonger but less expensive line would be from Vladikavkaz to Petrovsk,on the shore of the Caspian Sea, half way between Baku and the mouth. BITS FOR DRILLING WELLS. 41G THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. of tlie Yolira. It could be reached in a day bv tlie tank-steamers fromBaku, and communication is open for the entire year. Since either of these lines would be useful for strategic purposes aswell as for commerce, it is probablethat one or both of them will be builtwithin the next few years. Theywould be useful for the supply ofKussia and Germany in the winterseason, and render the enormousstorage depots less necessary thanthey are at present. The Baku petroleum is utilizednot only for making kerosene, butfor the manufacture of lubricatingoils and for liquid fuel for steam-sliip, Iailway, and other oil refuse is burned on thesteamer, and railways; for the lasttwo or three years it has been em-ployed by the Tsaritsin-Griazi Eail-
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