work is being pushed on up the ghauts to Maymyo. The lower portion is completed and the upper haut ought to be ready by the end of the year, as it only consists of about 13 miles of zigzag line. When this is done the rails will be pagered laid as far as Gokteik Gorge, the bridge over which will be shortly taken in hand. Unless special efforts are made the line will not get through to the Salween at Kunlon Ferry until 1902, but, in the meantime, the country as far as Talifu will have been surveyed. This coming season it is hoped to traverse the country as far as Yinchou, 24 miles east of Shunning-fo, and to ghetto Talifuin two or three years,
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