Motor Car's Fifty-Day Journey from Canton The greatest array of workers in China since the building of the Great Wall {s now building roads in Kueichow Province.
Not long ago the first motor car reached the provincial capital after 2 50-day journey from Canton, being transported in pieces on backs over the mountain when water transportation ended. The province was bandit-infested and famine-stricken.
Narrow-tracked trails over steep mountain passes. provided its only contact with the world, Over these trails a coolie tracker could transport $200 worth of opium with Ino more Inbour than it took to carry $1.50 or §2 worth of rice or other produce.
Opium traffic flourished; other trade was demoralized. "As a method of correcting this condition it was decided that better means of transportation would be constructive.
Within two years, 600 miles of road have been built. The Tsunyi-Chiuhi section of the system in the extreme northwest tip of the pro-vinea will connect with a small tributary of the Yangtze River. Steam launches connecting with river boats at Chungking will provide a river transportation outlet for the products of this isolated pro-vinea for the first-time in history. the beneficiary under his policy, either individually or as trustee.
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