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“...bottles and
150,000 square feet of window and rolled glass in 24 hours. No
skilled labour is required, but the engineer in charge of the works
informs me that it takes six Chinese to do the work of one white
man, and that the works jwill probabfy give employment to 1,000
Chinese.
The erection of a flour mill at Haichow, on the north-east coast of
this province, was mentioned in the 1905 report. Another industry
has been added to Haichow in the shape of an oil-crushing factory—
the Kiang Feng oil mills—with a daily capacity of 110 tons. The
output will, however, be dependent on the local crops of bean and
groundnut.
The local work in connection with the Shanghai-Nanking Railway
has progressed but slowly during the year. The Chinkiang tunnel
has presented unexpected difficulties to the engineers, with the
result that a considerable portion of the proposed tunnel is to be
transformed into a cutting, and the actual length of tunnel reduced
to about 1,000 feet. A sanguine estimate places the date...”
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