Good Prospects for Roadbuilders in the Province: 26-Mile-Road Nearly Complete From Our Own Correspondent.
Changsha, Jun. 19.
Wo have had a visit from Mr. Todd, Ghiof Engineer of the International Famine Relief Commission, whose headquarters are at Peking, 16 inspect the work which lias been done on the motor-road between Siangtan and Binngsiang and the prospects of its continuation to Paoking. reds of nilles of motor roads in the province, ho pointed out that the section constructed was not Oitly joined to the capital by the military road. from Changsha. to Binngtan, but was designedly aimed in the direction where water transport was most dificult through rocks nud rapids and uso most extended in length by the tortuous nature of a chapnel running through mountainous country. Facilities of érans-port. we the hest means vvinen where the dif pr ines ina pro ferences hietween "the productiveness of the lands in the lower valleys and the lands in the hills were so great.
Mr. Todd was able to re. port to the local branch the Association that the work dono on the road was about. the ost he had ween in any road in Ghina., Not only was the rond-way Well and substantially built, hut the bridges were most. suit" able and $0 well designed that the wished to have a photo of one of
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