. American engineer and railroad journal . n ofrailroads are from the government, and the idea is to renderChina impregnable in case of war. Tins is the purpose of theviceroy at Hankow. He hates the foreigners, and he wantsto drive them out of the country. He is using them to buildfactories, anil he has a cotton mill run by steanr and filledwith modern machinery, which is one of the largest in theworld. Tt contains looms, and it is located on the banksof the Yaugtse, in tin city of Wuchang. It is now makingmoney, I am told, and it is profiting off the rise in foreigncottons through the f
. American engineer and railroad journal . n ofrailroads are from the government, and the idea is to renderChina impregnable in case of war. Tins is the purpose of theviceroy at Hankow. He hates the foreigners, and he wantsto drive them out of the country. He is using them to buildfactories, anil he has a cotton mill run by steanr and filledwith modern machinery, which is one of the largest in theworld. Tt contains looms, and it is located on the banksof the Yaugtse, in tin city of Wuchang. It is now makingmoney, I am told, and it is profiting off the rise in foreigncottons through the fall in the value ot silver. Speaking of extravagance in railroad building, it is doubtfulwhether there has ever been creeled a more costly plant thanthat which is now being put up here by this viceroy for thebuilding of cars, the making of rails, and the turning out ofa full equipment for the line which is at some future time torun to Peking. The works are being put up by Belgians asforemen, and about .ill high-priced men are now employed. Fig. 2 Vol. LXVIII, No. 7.] ^AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 303 here on salaries. They arc located at the foot of a hill justabove the month of the Han River aud a aboil distance backfrom the Yangtsc Kiang. There is a railroad being built in the northern part of theempire, and the regular appropriation set aside for this hasbeen $3,000,000 a vear. This northern railway is the onlyworking road in China. It has been pushed rapidly withinthe past year or so toward the Manchurian frontier, and wasof service to the government in the recent rebellion there. Itis for the purposes of defense that the Chinese will build rail-roads. This northern road was first built to take coal from themines to the Taku forts and the naval ships. Five years agoit was only about 80 miles long. It has now about reachedthe great wall, and will soon penetrate Mongolia.—HalifaxIleraUI.
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