'The contract called for $1,000,000 silver deposit by the "railway, G.$95,000 a month payment' by the: railway to the company, and a guarantee deposit of half 'a million silver by the company. The harbour was scheduled for completion in October, 1935—3,700 ft. of concrete wharf, 5,100 £t. of breakwater, 3,900 ft. of quay-walls, retaining dykes, the so020 dredging of a harbour basin, reclamation work and large scale excavation were to be included in the work. The Chinese port authorities undertook to complete such facilities as
Fon ght, water, hospital, hotels and. good Equipment was installed and living quarters provided. I addition to Duildings, left standing by previous contractors, a dozen brick houses were put up, and such buildings as machine-shop, carpenter's-shop, loco motive shed, godowns, special' storehouse for spare parts, general store, ower station, hospital and main office were erected. More than 300 labourers were working under 20 engineers and overseers. Crowds of workmen from famine-stricken areas promptly relieved the labour shortage in that area, and wages dropped from $1 a day to $15 a month.
Work was progressing in 1931. In September the American Consul at Mukden visited the new port with an eye to possible opportunities for American business. But the Japanese Army seized Mukden on the night of September 18, sadly hampering the Consul''s arrangements for the return trip, and Chinese development cof this port, which was intended fan outlet for the great hinterland of Manchuria and Mongolia, again came fo a stop. Overtures from the Netherland Harbour Works to the new lords of the land were of no avail. The Japanese did not want a rival to Dairey constructed.
Later, as had been accurately' predicted by many observers, the need for a port was "discovered." and surveys resulted in the choice of Hulutao. The General Direction State Railway (SINER) started to improve the existing pier. Then a new project was evolved, Improvements. estimated - to cast 'Y.16,000,000 -were started last year and are scheduled to -be fished March, 1999, The completed piers will be much less than. those- called Tobacco for by the Chinese project at a cost G.$6,400,000." The completion of this ice-free port will greally reduce the need for developing the existing part of Yingkow,
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