Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1898 — Railroad Building in China. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Building in China.

For more than a year work has been going on on fourteen miles of railroad from Shanghai to Woosung and the grading has not yet been finished. Not a tie or a rail has been laid. Only Chinese workmen are employed. About a month or two ago the first sod was turned at* Hankow for the HankowPeking Railway, but its further prosecution depends upon the success of the Belgian syndicate in floating a proposed loan for Its construction.