Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-08-18
RAILROADS IN CHINA.
Preliminary Contract for Tho Con.
slTlcliOn OF a Line
BETWEEN pERISG AND nASKOw.
A Movtm nj 10 indIce III llTng
chang 10 Visit
thcigh

CHICAGO, Aug. is.-A movement IL
on foot among prominent club men Of
this city % extend an invitation 10
III Hung Chang, the Chinoso vlooroy,
to have him stop over a couple Of days
In Chicago, whilo on route TO the Pa
cllo coast.
Col. ~. II. Jolarde, G. Il. Of shang.
bal, an American promoter Of railroads
Ia Chan, has beuu IN town the past
TOW days and no hna helped along the
movement. In n conversation with q
reporter last night. Col. Jeiierds said;
~ am returning now 10 perfect the
plan Tor building the Longest railroad
IN the empire. A year ago last June /
left London for CHINA, for tho purpose
Of invtHlighiing the needs nGd PROS.
pcuts Tor railroads there. returned
with the preliminary contract Tor con-
etluctlug liuo Of railroad from Ptgin
90 Hankow, distance Of 700 miles.
10 viii DO built largely by foreign cap.
itah ywo-thifdH " this has hcVn con.
ttibutod by tho Chinese merchant
% mpanlch and the other third comos
larg ely from America. TINS conhtruc.
ton OF thn railroad VIII require n capt.
tai OF 30 100000 taols. a lnoi IL worth
n0out72 cents In American money.
"Chua has nt present. ouly l52 miles
OF railroad owned and operated by the
/ imperial government. Ono reason f1t
tho tariinoas N the invettmouts OF
foreign capital IL that there hro no laws
which will make 10 secure. / nm now
returning TO iuspoct the papors Ia tho
Elicit from Tbs emperor allowing tue
construction Of the road, 10 SEQ that 10
conforms 10 the requirements o. tho
iuvcslm MS OF the Anglo-A
/ capital Americans up 10 the present
/ time have been more backward about
invcsting IN China than Othor capital.
lists anu nave maize no effort 10 send
agents there TO invcuilgatc. But theii
/ condition ~ chasing.
"Lhe iFipof ii Hung Chang through
| Europe ami America will result Ia the
4 fnpid develoumsnt Of railroad systemh
~ Chinp. He 10 man VI great iutul.
ligenco and appreciates the wonderful
I advantages % he gained through mod
urn mnthodB OF tfnusp9rluiou.
Shen Too Tai IL Hi present tho gen.
orai manager Of railroads and OF the
| development Of MINIS ami other Ia.
duslflts In China. He ~ not only n
warm personal friend Of III Hung
Chang, bul he ~ his partner iu tbs
Chinrfe Merchant company aud olher
great enterprises.
All g.oHies o. III Hung Change
depcoiiinn from power Ia China ate
false. lie IA the greatest man ia the
empire next % the emperor, ana the
mifsion TO 81. Petersburg was the
] greatest honor that could be conferred
on any subject OF tho empire. The
| Clinefo viuef0y viii Ias' thfoul h
Chicago September o or with his
thifiy.oight ministers, man1arins aud
/ other men Of smaller greatness on his
way 10 tho Pacific coast. tie will fret
be- entertained Ia New York where
President Cleveland, John w. Foster,
ex'minisier TO China, aud commit.
too will receive HIM. From there lac
goes 10 Pailndolphis TO ue the guest Of
ieI- Minister John Russell Young, anu
othcr gentlemen OF that city, at the
Union League club. After that he
goes " Washington.