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works; e. To ensure the works being duly supplied with timher an order issued to. proceed to 

 the felling of avenues in the forests and negotiations in course with timber merchants in 

 reference to the building on one of the raftable rivers of a saw mill and the rafting from the 

 head waters of the rivers Obi and Tom of the timber prepared partly by the means at hand, 

 and partly by contract. 



4. U s s u r i line, a d i s t a n ce o f 382 v e r s t s. 



a. Earth-works carried out to the extent of 380,000 cubic sagenes, or 52 per cent of 

 the total quantity, and laying of pipes and bridges 4,260 cubic sagenes or 65 per cent; b. Sleep- 

 ers and rails with bolts ordered to the full amount and 20 versts of railway from Vladi- 

 vostok laid down; c. All the civil buildings in course of construction; d. Rolling stock ordered 

 to the full amount and partly delivered at the scene of operations. 



5. Transbaikal Railway, a distance of 1,(»09 versts. 



Parties of engineers organized and despatched to the scene of the works to carry out 

 the final surveys. : 



6. Siberian Railway from C h e 1 i a b i n s k to Irkutsk. 



a. Ordered 7,400,000 pouds of rails from Ural and European Russian Works, of which 

 186,000 pouds are received at the works; negotiations in course for the order of the remaining 

 400,000 ponds rec^uired; b. Ordered of various works 148 eight- wheeled engines and 2,300 

 covered freight cars, and negotiations in course for delivery of the remaining 1,811 cars ami 

 platform trucks. 



As for, finally, the (|uestion of the building of the connecting branch between the Si- 

 berian and Ural railways, for its elucidation and for the determining the initial and terminal 

 points of the said line a careful survey will be made on the spot in the course of the present 

 year. It may be further added that there exist three variants of the connecting link, which 

 are shown on the map, namely Ekaterinburg-Miass, Ekaterinbnrg-Cheliabinsk and Ostrovskaya- 

 Cheliabinsk. The exact cost of this work of course cannot be defined until the final designa- 

 tion of the initial and terminal points of the route is adopted, but it is approximately assumed 

 at 7,000.000 to 8,000,000 roubles, with the condition of the completion of the whole con- 

 struction in 1894. 



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