There is in Sianfu the usual Reconstruction Board, but its funds fare too limited todo anything. I was told, from outside sources, that its income did not exceed $2,000 per month, All that has been done hitherto is to draw up surveys for three main roads from Sianfu: to Yulinfu in the north, to Laohokow in Hupeh, and to Hanchungfu in the south: This last is a good example of the difficulties road and railway building will have to contend with in Shensi, This road, 250 miles in length, runs entirely through moun-famous country and has to climb a large number of passes varying' from 4,000 feet to as high as 6,000 feet, The expense of such a road jernnient is supposed to conti 30" per cent. towards reconstruct: lion, and the provincial government the balance, with the result that at present there ate only two main motor-roads in the whole province: that from Tungkuan to Sianfu, and the problematical one to Lanchowfu, problematical, because the journey by motor-car alo an unknown quantity, varying from ten to twenty ays, or even longer.
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