Railway development.

Projected lines, surveys, construction, betterments, etc.

Alaska.—M. J. Heney, who was contractor for the White Pass and Yukon Ry. from Bennett to White Horse, recently arrived in Yukon, having inspected the preliminary survey for a railway between Valdez and Eagle. The survey was made by engineers who located the line for the W.P. and Y. R. They found a pass through Copper River Mountain, the highest altitude of which is 2,400 ft., or 400 ft. less than White Pass. The proposed road will be between 450 and 500 miles long, following the Government trail part of the distance. Mr. Heney figures that he can build the road in two years, by starting construction at both ends. It is said he will go to New York and London this winter to finance the project. (Aug., pg. 225.) R. Barbier, Manager of the Russo-China Bank of Pekin, representative of the Russian Government, and Manager of the Manchurian Ry., who has recently been in the U.S., is credited with a gigantic scheme of railway communication designed to unite Alaska and Siberia, and furnish rail and water connections between Circle City and Vladivostock, the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberia Ry. at a cost of $200,000,000.

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