| Show RAILWAY PROGRESS The follow following n information cO tho the building of the railway and tho time American supplies S is us fur fur- h by Vice Consul L. L Carleton Haker Ha- Ha ker of A ino The he railway which is ultimately ultimately ulti ulti- mutely to connect this province plo Pub Pub- kirn with the Ibe province of Tung on the time south and aini Kiang Si ou on time the west is now v well under 11 way The Amo Aumoy to Chang ChaDt Chew a distance this dis tance of three thirty miles has baa been heeD e surveyed ed find and the right of way secured HUI anti and tho time tracks track have o already been laid for a distance of three or four miles II A largo large construction force is now working work work- Olk il jug ing on ou tin the road and anti tho the work is st steadily steadily stead stead- adil adI ad- I ily il- plO r fing The term ls l narmo near nar Amoy mo moIS is situated on the ti-me mainland at atSung atSung Sung Suni Sn Su two t or three miles di distant from Amoy Amo city proper It adjoins the tho water front and amid large ships may IDay con como alongside side as soon eoon as is tho rho piers are arc built A railway ralla depot and car shops have already already al al- al ready been completed arc very substantially substantially sub flub built of brick and present quite an imposing appearance The Tho rails for th the road were ere all ordered from Crom the iron works in in the province pro of hit Hii worth hay hav having haying haying ing ing- been heen delivered erd while worth arc on tho the way The Tho contract price was about 35 3 per pCr ton The ties or sleepers 1 ale all of Japanese e manufacture sonic some of them ba having ving- ving been delivered a amid paid pai for at about the thc rate of 53 cents apiece Material Supplies The bridges for this toad road have ha all been ordered from the Ihl United States through a firm in Shan Shanghai which works I conjointly with an au American firm with headquarters in New York Considerable Considerable Consider Consider- I able American rolling stock has bas aloI also alo been ordered through this firm also I American couplers turntables and other general supplies Only two locomotives so f far r have I been ordered One is of or American nail and the other of of- German manufacture Both arc are now not here ou on tho the field The Tho German Gennan locomotive has just been set et up b by a local engineer n ineer and the tho American cn engine is IH being in put to together ethor b by a t personal rep rep- r o i of the thc American Locomotive o company which manufactured it The fhe two locomotives loc are aro of similar type typo and ear each cant h cost a about hout Additional J al locomotives locomotives loco loco- motives will doubtless be ordered according ac ac- ac cording to whichever of the two locomotives loco bce- I motives proves tho more moro satisfactory It It may be said that the tho nc necessity of ofha ha having in 1 It personal representative nta thc of technical training on OD tho the field can bo ho seen ecu nowhere more mono dead clearly than here herc Thin Tho American merican locomotive will be shown hown and handled to much better advantage e by ly the American in charge than thau the German product can cau bo be by some person who is not actually conn connected with tho time locomotive business Somo Some of the tho leading beading officials of lie tho road seem to be bo favorably fa disposed toward American cau rolling stock and railway railway rail rail- way ar supplies of all kinds at least to tim tho extent of ot giving ivin American manufacturers a fair chance to prove pro t the o efficiency ef cf ef- ef of their products 1 and ancl thus enable en en- able illO the tho road to purchase them with profit which is all that can be expected There is is therefore every cYer opportunity ity for the sale of ot American railway s supplies to tho the a railway and a a proper representation should accomplish h profitable aud and results for more memo au and more moro material will be required require I Ia a as tho thu railway extends its f field cl of operation opera operations operations tion which will will c eventually cover covet tho time i greater part pait of this tillS province pro I IReal Real Representation Little can ho bo accomplished for vanous various van van- vari varia ous inexplicable reasons without personal personal personal per per- representation Therefore the mau who vho is on ou the thc ground has by far tho the greater advantage ad Where American firms cannot have ha American mel cm a agents to tu represent them directly it iL is better to tobe tobe tobo be bo represented upon the ground b by some somo foreign n firm handling American goods than to merely merel send ud out catalo catalogues ues and anti letters which seldom accomplish the tho desired results The American locomotive loco boco- motive moti now here was sold ol through a a. i Japanese concern whilo t time e other American goody goods as IS stated were sold soil b by bya a it t. t firm in Shanghai As thero there is no American firm handling n railway supplies in this province it might bo be well for American merican houses to corre correspond with this 1 firm rm at Shan Shanghai hai if they desire es to sell supplies for the aud and cannot ho bo directly represented by flY an au American a agent for this firm is in close touch with tho the railway officials and has furnished tho the greater part of th thI the supplies thus thins far Address of ot tho ho Shanghai firm is on file in in the bureau bu hu lu- lu I reau roan of Shanghai Railway I Consul General Charles of I Shanghai scuds sculls a printed report prepared pre pre- pared parCQ by time the ell engineer in chief of the theroa I roa road on the time completion of the Shall Shang hai bai railway ay which gives i cs a I complete account of the agreement for I its construction the co cost t thereof the tho engineering work connected therewith tim the material equipment etc Th The re report report port may be he e consulted at the time bureau of I manufactures 1 I |
