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Siberia, thus conquered by arms, is being made secure for Russia by a trans-continental railroad and hosts of new settlers, and promises in the future to become a land of the greatest prosperity and wealth. On the 15th of May, 1591, five boys were playing in the court-yard of the Russian palace at Uglitch.
"Yes, there are to be several," spoke the colonel. "I heard something about the government offering a big prize for a successful trans-continental flight from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but I know nothing of the details." "Well, I suppose Dick would be rash enough to try for that, if he hears about it," murmured Mr. Hamilton.
At this time he had his Trans-continental Railway in mind, and he patiently tried to get me to realise how closer settlement of the western country by smaller areas would obtain under it more than it would, under the conditions by which it was then held, that is, in very large areas.
It is true that on clear days, when the great trans-continental expresses, long lines of swaying Pullmans, swept through Fort Romper, passengers were overcome at the sight, and the cult that knows the brown-reds and the subdivisions of the dark greens of the East expressed shame, pity, horror, in a laugh.
We've got 'em all beat a thousand ways tearing through forests, swamps and those blooming ridge-mountains and here we are pretty near up at the end of the earth. The new Trans-continental isn't in it with us! The " "Ring off, Mac!" exclaimed Thorne; and Howland found himself laughing down into the red, freckled face of the superintendent. He liked this man immensely from the first.
Cheyenne and Laramie became common words now, and drovers spoke wisely of the dangers of the Platte as a year before they had mentioned those of the Red river or the Arkansas. Nor did the Trail pause in its irresistible push to the north until it had found the last of the five great trans-continental lines, far in the British provinces. The Long Trail of the cattle range was done.
"Get aboard, fellows!" "He's as cheerful about it as though he were inviting us to a hanging," laughed Paul. "Oh, I'm not worrying about any accident," said Dick quickly. "I'm only afraid we've made her too big and won't get any speed out of her. And speed is what's going to count in this trans-continental flight." "She'll be speedy enough," predicted Mr. Vardon, with a confident air.
Though they had covered a large part of their trip, the young aviators had not yet seen any of their competitors. As a matter of fact, Dick's craft was among the first to get away in the trans-continental race. But he had feared, several times, that he might be overtaken by lighter and speedier machines. Now, it seemed, his fears were about to be realized.
It seemed in '72 much more probable that the Coon Swamp and Byzantium Trans-Continental Railway would be able, the year after completion, to pay eight per cent. on fifty thousand dollars of bonds to the mile, sold at seventy in the hundred, than it did in '75 that ten millions of fifty-cent tickets could be disposed of in six months at any point on the Continent.
"The glaciologist and geologist will study ice formations and the nature of the mountains, and this report will prove of great scientific interest. "Scientific Work by Other Parties. "While the Trans-continental party is carrying out, for the British Flag, the greatest Polar journey ever attempted, the other parties will be engaged in important scientific work.
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