There is at long last some definite news to. report on road-building. Various local schemes during the past quarer of a century have fail-produce single Trond, either within ov ovtaide the ely, but, this year in both regions building Actually has commenced. The long road west to Chuchow when finished cexiainly will make one of the finest motor run in' China for grandeur of scenery, for it winds around the base of the steep ranges that ike our of the winding Fiver, and is for Tong distances cut shelf-like out the solid mountain granite. In the higher reaches of chis viver, which shat ita: mouth beside, Wenchow city, the water becomes clear, and great vatts {rom the mountain forests are Hoated aver the rapids downstream, "The city of Chuchow is, reached now, and has been since time, ime memorial, by hand-rowed or hand-stowed -bonts, and the trip takes about three' days. The motor one will shorten this distance by an. easy 4wo days. T wax recently up) in that direction and was interested sto watch the blasting operations. 2 ye performed with crude tools, in @ manner dangerous to 1 Numerous casualties. have been Wrought, to the Wenchow Methodist Hospital. "Holes for the explosives are made Ly ordinary cold chisel and hammers, the refuse after a ca discharge being with arent deals tumbled over the clift into the rivel by the mere use of bars. The echoes lise charge can be heard rumbling, -amiong the hills for a duration of several seconds. Besides the blast Sng there are ocher great difficulties be overcome by the sweat and lat quantities "masonry and earth must be upon the bake of men, "AID the: small stones. which will form the "road Surface are broken by an army of nen Wi atuall hammers siting all chay "to taels. monotonous task. Moreover, w bridge, usually. of reine forced concrete must be raised over every stream, and abore ave streams every few yards,
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