There is a very fine wide road between the towns of Yushan, Kiangsi and Changshan, Chekiang, connecting the ¢wo provinees. As fat back as 25 years ago preparations were in hand to link up this great trade route with the iron horse. The course has been surveyed several imes over and the money for the project, I understand, has melted The only this scheme is to see a fow and sleepers rusting and rotting away by the river side. The last foreign surveyor who was on the job said that the whole work of construction could easily be carried out in one year.
The Salt Trade Changshan is a great salt emporjum. The six counties of the Kuangsing fu prefecture, Kiangsi, are served with Chekiang salt. It is transported by boats to Changshan and then by pack mule on the great high-way to the Kuangsin River. There are about a dozen large salt godowns in the town and there is an annual turnover of some $500,000.
It is an interesting sight to see these mule trains arrive just as day dawning, bringing the famous
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