The dead-alive little market town of Poochi, about 120 miles west of Sian, has attained an importance which its citizens can scarcely have hoped for, even in their wildest dreams. It has become the terminus [of the Lung-Hai Railway and is likely to remain so for some time to come. All idea of extending the railway northwest to Lanchow in Kansu has been given up for the time being. It is now planned to build a railway from Poochi south to Hanchung and then on to Chengtu the argument being that this line will prove such a paying proposition that with the profits derived from it the economically less promising line to Kansu can then be built
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