The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-06-23
RAILWAY
Sy stems and Telegraph Lines
Alarm the Cinnamon.

WASHINGTON, JUNE 22-CspeciaD.-
Telegraphs and railways appear to be
among the causes Of the anti-fore.gn riot
now in progress in China. The develop
ment of this feature of modern enter
prise in China Is described in considerabl
detail In a recent publication OF the
treasury bureau of statistics, entitled
Commercial China in 1899 1t shows that
the telegraph system of China included
in 1852 about 5000 miles Of line In opera
ton, and that the railroad system includ-
ed $50 miles of road in active operation
and over 5000 miles projected. The tel
egraph system connected all of the cap
itals of the provinces with the nat onal
capital, Pekin, and in turn connected
with the Russian Trans s-Siber an te'e-
graph line and the ocean cables; but it
appears from the recent reports that
these lines have in many cases been de-
stroyed by the ant.-foreign mobs and
armies.
The railways thus rar constructed be-
long to the Chinese government and were
constructed under it's control and drec-
ton and at it's expense. They connect
Pekin the capital with Tien Tsin which
les the head of the Gulf of Pechili and
is tn eseaport of Pel1in, while other lines
run northwardly from Ten Tsin to Shan
kiakwan and still others southwardly
from Pekin as far as Paoting the capital
of the province of Chill in which Pekin is
located. From that point southwark a
railway was being constructed in 1899 by
elgian capital, though it was suspected
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sian capital, was associated in this work.
This line was expected to extend to Han
kow, which may be described as the Chi
cago of China being its best and largest
and most prosperous inland commercial
city, located 500 miles up the Yangste-
<iang from Shanghai which lies at the
mouth of that river Hankow is city of
nearly 100000 inhabitants and it was
expected that the Belgian line would
connect Pekin which lies well at the
north with Hankow, located near the
center, and that an American line would
extend still further south from Hankow
to Canton and Hong Kong.
The American line was surveyed by a
corps of engineers under Mr.. w. b. Per
sons Of New York in 1898 and 1899, under
a CONCESSION granted by the Chinese gov
enrment to Calvin Brce, Hugh j. Grant,
Thurlow Weed Barnes and others ana
this line. like all others for which con-
cessions have been granted, was after
a term of years to become the property
of the Chinese government. 1t was eX-
pected that this American line running
from Hong Kong and Canton northward
tn Hankow and connecting at that point
with the Belgian line which would extend
TO Pekin, would for man extremely I'M
portant artery of internal commerce from
China's most important southern CITY,
Canton, and it's most important central
city, Hankow, and thence to its capital
at the north, Pekin, from which point
it would connect with the Russian rail-
wav system which enters China in Man
chur.a at the extreme north.
Numerous other railways have been SUI
viewed and some of them were under con-
struction. The Germai government has
been encouraging the construction of rafl'
WAYS in the province of Shantung IN
which its port of Kiao-Chau is located
while concessions to British companies au
thorize the construction of lines along
large share of the eastern coast and eX
tending up the valley OF the West River
to the borders of Burmah where 1T wa:
expected they would finally connect will
the railway system Of India.
The railways projected in China anC
for which concessions had been granted
contemplated a length of more than g.
900 miles and it was confidently expected
5 that their construction would bring thu
Trans-Siberian system of Asiatic Russi;
into touch with the trans-lndian system
of British India, which in turn woult
finally connect with the railway system
Of southern Europe and thus give to tn
world an inter-continental bet In
stretching norhwardly from northern Eu
. rope through Russia and Siberia, theme
southwardly through China, thence west
wardly again through Burmah, India
Persia and Turkey in Europe to a con
nection with railway systems of south
ern Europe
What the effect of the hostilities in Chi
ma with reference to works Of this char
acter will be cannot now be foretOld. Rus
sia controls a long stretch Of territor
along her north, and England the terri
tory OF British India and Burmah at tn
southwest Railway lines existing or Pre-
jected into the very heart of China an
intermingled with, and an important lin
among these is the great American er
terprise already alluded to, upon VIII C
a company had according to the state
ments of accepted authorities in railwa
matters, arranged for the expenditure {
500, 900, 900 of American funds.
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