. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . coal, iron,manganese, mineral oils and gold. Until the British North Borneo Com-pany entered the territory, the principalmodes of transportation were the backsof men, ponies and bullocks. In orderto develop their property, the BritishNorth Borneo Company began buildinga railway about eight years ago, andnow they have over one hundred milesin operation through a country whose commissioner of lands, and quoted bythe Railway Magazine. He says: In189s, I made a foot path 33 miles long,and the nat
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . coal, iron,manganese, mineral oils and gold. Until the British North Borneo Com-pany entered the territory, the principalmodes of transportation were the backsof men, ponies and bullocks. In orderto develop their property, the BritishNorth Borneo Company began buildinga railway about eight years ago, andnow they have over one hundred milesin operation through a country whose commissioner of lands, and quoted bythe Railway Magazine. He says: In189s, I made a foot path 33 miles long,and the natives assisted me, and I paidthem in cloth-—a fathom of red or blackcloth to each man, woman and child,at the end of each days work. Whenthey had stored up more cloth thanthey could use, they requested money,and I paid their wages in bronze cents,one hundred to the dollar, and laterthey took their pay monthly in dollarnotes, with which they bought goodsat the shops established by traders, whogladly took advantage of the new roadto push their trade into the The trader paid no money—. WORKMANS TRAIN CROSStNC. TEMPORARY RAILWAY BRIDGE IN NORTH BORNEO, WITH BALLAST TRAINCROSSING.
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