A__ native dispatch states that the Yuch'nanpa has appointed Prefect Yi Feng-jen as Manager of the proposed rs from Kalgan to Saiyuan, and that a survey of the route was begun in the 9th moon. It is now estimated that the entire line will cost about Tls. 17,560,000 and this estimate has been placed before the Yuch'usnpu. President Hei has arranged with his colleagues that this amount should be appropriated from the annual profits of the Peking-Mukden line and the Board will devise other means to fill any deficiency from that source.
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