In a short time, the first lot of conveyers for Egersheld will arrive. This will make it much easier and cheaper to load ships from the warehouses and also to load and unload trains. The cisterns for bean oil are also to be~added to, as the existing cisterns are too few to cope with the large amount of bean oil that is being exported wid Vladivostok. The estimated cost of the addition is Gold roubles 50,000, and the administration of the railways has been asked to assign this sum. The Commercial Agency of the Ussuri Railways is stated to have entered into an agreement with the Chinese Salt Gabelle to ship Chinese salt for Manchuria vid Viadivstok. For the last two years, the salt has been shipped vi? Dairen, owing to differences of opinion with the Ussuri Rlys., but these differences have now been settled. The first lot of salt, 180,- 000 boods, will soon arrive and will be despatched to Harbin* and other towns in Chinese territory. The total quantity to be shipped over the railway is estimated to be about 3,000,000 boods. A special freight rate has been worked out. The railways are also making arrangements to insure goods for export at Egersheld.
Since the railways made arrangements with the Amur Shipping Ca., to ship export cargo from points on the Sungari vid Habarovsk to Egersheld, 480,000 boods of cargo have been shipped in this way, and another lot of 25,000 boods is awaited in the near future.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.