Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-10-21
copyright, 1905, by Frank q. Car"
penter)

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practically gives Korea to
Japan. Il stipulatcs that Russia must
keep It's hands OF. and that tho Mikado
win do as he pleases without let or
hindrance. The klug OF Korea is al
ready under the thumb Of the Japanese
emperor. and this treaty means the
Japanization Of the hermit kingdom.
Organization means westerni2ation or
as we call it, civilization.
The modern movement has already
begun. The Japanese have been build
ing railroads during the war. They
have completed the line from Fusan.
the port al the lower end OF the PENN
sula Just across the strait from Japan.
20 Seoul, and have extended this line on
north to the Nalu river at Wuii With
in q short time bridge will he put
across the Yalu and the line extended
on 20 Mukden TO connect with the
new japanese railroads which have
heen transferred to them by the Rus
SLAMS. when the Mukden -Yalu line ia
built there will be n continuous rail-
road track from 81. Petersburg to Flu
san, and one can 60 by land from Paris
% Fusan and, with only few hours
steamship voyage, on to japan,
KoREAs GREAT TRUNK LINE
The railroad from Fusan to the va
IN will De the great trunk line Of Korea,
II VIII tap the largest cities and Will
open up the whole Of the western and
southern parts of the island, ! UNDER
stand that the japanese have bought
large tracts OF land here and there
along it, and chat they win establish
colonies, There are already thousands
of japanese I'm Fusau and Seoul and
from now on the ships Will be full OF
immigrnts.
This railroad viii altogether be about
Boo miles long. The Seoul Fusan end
s. Of the standard American gauge. Il
IS largely equipped with American rails
and the bridge work is American. IL
has American locomotives and other
American rolling stock
The line from Seoul to the Yalu was
started as a private enterprise, but the
Japanese government took charge "
It during the war and completed it In
n sloyenly military way The result
IS that the rails are too light for
trunk line and the bridges are wooden,
The track will have 10 be relaid and il
viii take some time to put it in COM
mercial working order
KoREA'S FIRST RAILROAD.
The first railroad IN Korea was built
by Americans. II runs from the port
OF Chemulpo on the west coast 26 miles
inland TO Seoul, the capital. The COM
cession for this was secured IN the lat
ter part OF the nineties by James II.
Morse. and the road was built by Col
ais and American rolling stock We're
used As soon as the road was COM
pieted It was sold to the japanese and
1t is now a part of the Seoul-Fusan
system. I understand that a road win
be built from Seoul to Gcusan, on the
opposite side OF the peninsula, but
whether this win be done by the Seoul
Fusan company ! do not know.
/ have travelled considerably In Korea
ana know something Of It's old means
OF transportation. When / first visited
the country IS years ago there was
10 way OF getting from Fusan 10 Seoul
except by ponies or by porters, and 1t
would have taken two or three weeks
20 have made the trip, II can now be
made In less than a day. | then land
ed at Fusan and sailed round to Che
mulpo II took whole day TO go
from Chemulpo TO Seoul a distance Of
26 miles. and II Is my remembrance
that the cost was S2j. | had my wife
with me and we We're carried over the
mountains I'm chairs with eight men
to each chair, or 16 In all. The trip can
now be made at low cost, In a little
more than an hour and that in COM
Portable ears.
My next trip 20 Chemulpo was just
before the Chinese-Japanese war, when
the peninsula was torn by rebellion |
then went to Seoul up the Han river In
a little japanese steam launch, ana was
carried from the river to the city IN "A
chair. Leaving Seoul l made my way
over the mountains OF Korea TO the port
of Gensan, on the east coast along
about the same route that a. railroad
will have to take i'm crossing the penln-
sula. The distance Is llj miles, and IL
cost me between one and two hundred
thousand cash, or, In American money,
about one hundred dollare, I had TO
equip a pack train and carry q guide,
cook and food aud bedding. II took
about a week TO 80 from one place Co
the other. With the new railroad the
trip viii De made IN less than day
A NEW MONEY SYSTEM.
one Of the first things the Japanese