Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-11-20

and most populous parts of the empire.
The northern section begins here at
HankoW, and runs FOR i2o miles south
ward through the province Of liupch.
This is the section with which ! ann
connected lluueh win control a. Toe
money win be raised here, and the
road will Doe managed from Wuchang
until the entire line is completed. The
novt section goes south from Hupoh
60 Human. aud the third through north
cIn kNanetuug joining there Co th
fourth which runs south through
southern KWaugtuug Geo canton. Eacn
Of these provinces win handle its own
division. just as uuprh VIII do.
A COSTLY RAILROAD
"Wm the line be- easy TO builde"
NO DO will not. According To- the
urst estimates made by your American
engineers. the cost was put az about
$4,000 600. or at something like S25,-
OOO q mile The probability is that u
will be- twice that The country is
either mountainous or rolling. and
there viii Dee curves almost all the
,v9y Our route VIII Doe longer than
chat surveyed by the Americans. They
followed the custom OF the United
States as TO such matters, forgetting
chat our conditions are different. la
YOUR country most of the big roads
have been pioneer lines. They have
been laid out through the Wilds, ana
the traffic has grown up TO them.
China Is already developed We have
many large cities, and the road should
bo built to Join these together. Your
engineers planned the road without
regard TO these cities, making IL
more or less straight We are building
the road for the people and the traffic,
and are diverging little here and
there to connect the great centers.
The moment the road Is completed We
shall have an enormous business
ONE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE.
can Won give me some idea of the
population the road win taP?'
"Not in actual figures" replied Mr..
Tsou owe are backward in statistics,
and / can only estimate the posi-
hlities The tnrca provinces through
which the road runs have population
OF about 1OO.O0O.00O. There are many
large cities Here az Hankow We have
between one and two millions Canton
is as big us Chicago and there are
other large towns all along the way
The road viii be the chief trunk line
of interior China, connecting the
carital with Canton. and running from
there TO the port of Kowloon, opposite
Hongkong According TO the estimates
OF MT Barclay Parsons. the average
OF the population numbers zoo
to the square mile, but / ven
ture It Is more than this The country
is devoted TO tea, silk and other in
dustries II is agriCulturally rich. and
we believe that it contains extensive
deposits of iron. copper and lead.
There IS no doubt but that the road
will pay"
But can YOU manage it well in
four divisions with four sets OF Of
ficials directed by four different gov
ernments?"
yes" replied Mr. Tsou "The inn
perial government has required that
the same gage must be made
throughout, that the rolling stock
must be standardized, and that the
rails be Of a certain PATTERN and
weight. Most OF the iron work is
now being made here at Hankow, and
the track will be of Chinese steel.
As TO the management, the probable
ty Is n will be consolidated when
the system is completed. The diff
ferent divisions will be Joined, and
there may be one great government
road from Pekin TO Canton