During the past year General Wu'has been interested in conservancy as well as in communications. He has constructed an elaborate irrigation system over a wide area south of Loyang, fed by the Lo river, which has already aidded considerably to the agricultural wealth of the district, has lined all the roads with trees and has set out several hundred mow in young trees which will subsequently be transplanted on the surrounding hills. All of these works, which he personally superintends, were shown to the American Minister's party with pardonable pride.
The only set-back to these local improvements has been the partial collapse of a massive concrete bridge across the Lo River built!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.