Use Green Island Cement
for
Constructural Work of
Every Description.
HOW GREEN ISLAND CEMENT IS MADE
Green Island Cement is manufactured from hard limestone and clay. It is necessary that these materials should be finely ground in order that they may come into intimate contact with one another in the burning process.
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The finely pulverised materials are mixed in a certain definite proportion, roughly oneTM part of clay to three of limestone, and are fed to the Rotary Kilns.
In these kilns they meet the hot gases and flames generated by pulverised coal blown in / at the other end of the kilns, and after various chemical actions have taken place, they combine to form Portland Cement Clinker.
The Chinker is ground down with a small percentage of gypsum to regulate the setting time, and Green Island Portland Cement is thus produced."
Although sounding so simple, in reality the process is an intricate combination of mechanical; physical and chemical operations, needing great skill and care. Nothing but constant and accurate supervision will yield the results so well-known with Green Island Cement, namely, strength, uniformity and reliability,"
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THE ONLY RAILWAY IN SZECHUEN.
TWENTY-FOUR INCH GAUGE AND
MINIATURE ENGINES.
DANISH ENGINEER TRIUMPHS OVER
INSUPERABLE DIFFICULTIES.
Labour troubles developed. The Now that it began to appear AS nincs drew their workers chiefly though something were actually from among those freed from the going to be done there was farms by the winter. While in an opidemic of cold foot and summer some 8,000 carriers were a barrage of ridicule from kept working, this figura jumped the Chunking press Some of cities below. Then 1911 the half to more than 10,000 in winter. In the original group grew skeptical strangled birth of a now world ingenious systems of squeeze wore per and after some complications,
fected and serious losses sustained finally withdrew from the scheme, by the company. The large labour leaving a smaller group and a de turnover soon loomed as a major ploted capital available. But Tong problem that had to be dealt with and two of his associates stuck to if continued operation were to their guns. Plans were reduced to prove feasible.
the original 24-in. gauge arrange
China
a
of
After that atoamers operating on this upper river boome more nam erous and it was soon found that the coal was an excellent fuel for boiler, use,There were some years of grace during which coal was.
From this situation emerged, atmont and it was decided to long last, definite plans and ar
ahead with the proposition. - taken out in grenter quantities and
rangements for railway construc distributed to steamers at Chung.
tion. king, Wanksion and Ichnag. But Desultory talk of building by 1910 a long, series of troubles with briefly-roigning military men railroad assumed the shape For nearly two years the only take over without purchase any began
direct action lato in 1926. The railroad west of Hankow has been mines then already being operated General Lu Srti and his able running the Kiang Ho Coal Min. group of Chinese businese mon puffing daily along its thirty li of by local natives. They purchased rails not far from Chungking: Its the Lu Wang, Tung, spent most of existence is known to few and un- the next four years aurveying the suspected by most-but there it ground for a railroad from the goes tonting through country trod mine down to Shih-chiku, a dis in the dreams of many an opti-tance of 40 li mistic rail surveyor" but otherwise still untouched by the engineer.
Equipment from England,
votoran Mr. Tong Chin-chiang, A Chinese engineer was engaged to make a survey along the Western Range for a line to serve the six mines already in operation.
Mr. Stults Engaged,
Tho Peh Chuang Railway Com- pany came into existence and pur through the years in godowns, for chased the rail equipment, rusting. $38,000 Two years previously lot duwn from Shih-shi-ku to be's Yang Sen had brought the whole
But meanwhile a military tarnover used for road building purposes.
Yang for the time being and the eliminated the versatile General equipment remained in Xiang Peh. Many of the rails had been lost and through depreciation. Some $10,000 the rest had suffered considerably additional was spent in recondi tioning and in the purchase of new parts. All was transported back up the Kialing Ho and in Novem ber, 1928, the first shovelful of dirb
known as Section 8 was in opera was turned at Won Shin Tang.
By October, 1929, a 17-li stretch tion and the first locomotive toot ever heard in Szechuan resounded been built on a 2% grada and com- through the countryside. It had ploted at a cost of $170,000. The til the following winter, 1927, when from the river in parts, car Matters were left in abeyance un equipment had been brought up the group met again at Poi-Pei and lies: Every inch of the rondbed
on the backs of hundreds of coo decided to engage a foreign engine was turned and graded by hand. er to do the job. A representative, 30,000 Cubic Fest of Limestone' Mr. Li Yuen-kung, was sent to Now Year's Day, 1928, fr. Jesper This "middle" stretch" brought Shanghai. Shortly afterwards, on
Blastoi
from that date the nebulous railrocky hill at Bei-Mico 000 metres Shultz arrived on the scene and the rail line. plump up against &
and eventually achieved under his able obstacle in its path to the river way project began to take form high, which was the last formid-
rails and hissing atenua, seen and only five i distant. Shultz took direction the realities of clanking which flowed past, far below, but heard for the first time on the hills the bit in his teeth, brought up 'a' of Szechuen Mr. Tong Shui-wu. "nephew of the tough limestone. He constructed
large supply of black powder and Together with young and able blasted away 30,000 cubic feet, of older Tong, Mr. Schultz made a roadbed around the side of the hill detailed and painstaking survey nonr the summit on a 25% grade. which he completed in March, 1928. At a cost of only $60,000, this His plans and estimates were ready atretch, called Section 1, was com two months later, calling for the pleted in eleven months. It began construction of the line at a cost operation in February of this of something more than $300,000 on year. a 20-in. gauge basis.
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under whose auspices the price shot accuracies and exorbitant price. level of 4. During the hoetic up to 812 a ton from a previous years that followed the mine fell into the lap of one warlord after
another.
cohorts trumped up a long term taxing Company but their heads to chargoungainst the company, arrest-gether under the leadership of the ed its managers, confiscated all papers and occupied the min. Mined coal to the value of Tls, 100,000, a fine of an additional Tls 100,000, with interest compounded to a total of nearly 100% brought. Tous miles of two-foot rails are all Meanwhile two locomotives, 40 the subsequent losses to nearly Tis to be found in the province that li of 20 lb. rails of 24-in.. gauge, 300,000. When the cash was paid in His rough map and estimate, twenty years ago buzzed with plans iron sleepers and repair equipment the officers of the company were re-finished after three weeks, in the for rail links connecting Burman were brought out from England leased from jail but the mine, refield was rejected on grounds of and Tibet to. Szechuen, which is and after endless months woremained in the hands of the military what later proved to be gross in still buzzing with the memory of brought up in junks from Thang the famous Chengtu-Hankow fasco, and deposited on the foreshore at where talk of ambitious railroad Shih-chi-ku. The purchase value of ! projects is still hoard.
the equipment is unknown. but is There are four toy engines pull- estimated to have been Tis. 25,000 ing little toy cars from coal mines. A godown was built to house the developed in a vast field on a material and preparations were miniature scale. But because it is soon underway for initiating con- the Kiang Ho officials to recover Repeated attempts on the part of the only such in all the vast miles struction.
the mine finally succeeded in 1923 from Mongolia to the Himalayas But the smooth progress of when it was "returned" to them and from Hankow to Tatsenlu and affairs was at an end. The En by General Liu Hsiang, then en- endlessly beyond, its story seems glishmen hit a snag in the shrewd joying one of his several reigns at worth telling, especially since no opposition of certain local officials Chungking and now enjoying his full account of its existence ever who adopted unassailable tactics longest. Shares totailing $40,000 cams to have found its way into to block them. They merely set the ware given the military, in addi- print.
natives to work in, as many places tion to 830,000 for alleged invest Fathers and beneficiaries of the as possible breaking into coal meats made by them. An identi- project are a doggedly persistent seams and starting mines. Technical settlement was made with the group of Chinese interested in min- cally, the Peking government writmen who had been operating" on ing coal. Builder and chief reason forbade encroachment on native behalf of the military and the for its success is Herr Jesper coal preserves and the Englishmen Kiang Ho people finally recovered Shultz, 64-year old Danish engine soon found themselves hemmed in possession of their property after er whose shining white beard and on all sidesThe commissioner of an nilotment of $140,000 in shares bright bald pata still glow with the the area, then known as the Twab to those from whom it was being enthusiasm of a young engineer on tang Tao (Eastern District), was recovered. The firm was reorgani- his Arst job. Shultz is still on the a man named Chou Shiao-mei. Byzed into the Shich-chi Kiang Ho ground surveying the proposed treading softly and deviously Mining Company and operations route of the line's extension.
Automobiles 'still unknown.
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around official sanctions he soon resumed. By that time other firms gained his end and eventually the wore in the field, costs had risen The existence of the Peh Chuang Englishmen had to give up the and things did not ride too smooth- railway is part of the history of ship.
Jy. Attention was turned mean 'coal mining in the Kiang Peh dis- Longthy representations were while to another field. trict of Szechuen, whose boundaries made at Peking and a protracted When the Kiang Ho Company carve a considerable slice out of the controversy carried on. A settle-took over the original rights in eastern portion of the province ment was finally reached and ap 1001 they also began operations in bounded en the west by the Kialing proved by the Imperial Government mines. along the Western Range Ho and on the south by the Yangtze whereby the Englishmen wore to be where a different quality of coal River. Sailing up the Kailing compensated for the surrender of was available. While the Lu Wang from Chungking 60 miles or 120all their rights and equipment by Tung was situated in sandstone, li to a point just balow. Pei-Pei the payment of Tls, 300,000. The with an 18 inch seam of compara through country where automobiles money was soon raised by a special tively non-gascous semi-bituminous are still unknown and the river tax in the tao and the Englishmen coal, the Western Range proved to motorboats are still curiosities, left Szechuan in 1001 to return, be largely limestone, rendering coal. one is likely to hear the unexpected presumably, to England, minus that was slacker and of a poorer blast of a locomotive siren, to see considerable energy but none the quality, lending itself more to the curling around the top of a hill the worse off financially,
making of coke than for boiler utterly incongruous sight of a tiny For the next twenty-eight years upes. The quantity there was tre- train woaving like an insignificant the railroad never left the gloomy mendous, however, and equalled caterpillar to the summit. It has shadows of godowns, first at Shih-only by similer deposits at Ohi been there less than two years but chi-ku, and mach later in Kiang Kiang in the western part of tho its history goes back more than Peh. The. Peh Chuang Railway, provinco where widely used coke of thirty.
conceived but unborn, suffered in an excellent quality is produced. silence through an" inordinately long preiatal period. Meanwhile, the
At about this point but sixty miles north-east of the river bank
2 peak known as the Hwa-ying group that was eventually to save shan noses up from the ground the womb. from becoming a tomb forming the keystone of two low was introduced into the cool aitun but long ranges which extend from | tion,"
Rival Groups Encroach.
In 1910 when trouble started with the military the little developments. over on the Western Range were left undisturbed. A subsidiary or it in relatively parallel lines,Shortly after the Englishmon left ganization; known as the Itai Coal known as the Eastern and Westera in 1901, a number of Chiness form- Mining Company was formed to Ranges respectively, both bisecteded the Kieng Ho Coni Mining operate there and work was carried by the Kisling. On the eastern Company and bought the rights on. Other groups had begun to
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TURBO-ELECTRIC DRIVE ON main circulating and sewage dis- range, nearer the Yangtze but only won by the English from the Ste-encroach on the rights owned by the
posal NEW SHIP.
Artistle Stateroom Heaters,
forty from the Kialing riverport chuen Provincial Government for Kiang Ho and are still working of, Bhih-ohi-ku, is the Lung Wang Ths. 70,000, which included all the mines there, although litigation is The Westinghouse Company de-Tung mine, source from time im-railway equipment. Thus this in progress somewhere in the (Continued from Page 3
veloped a special stateroom heater memorial of coal used by the local money operations were begun at the courts. designed to suit all the special natives.
Lu Wang Tung The coal proved When all the money required for The steering gear, which is prob- | mlizine requirements, such $15 mbly the auxiliary which is most method, of mounting, type of an In 1997 two Englishmen arrived to be of excellent semi-bituminous the recovery of the Lu Wang Tung vital to the operation of the vessel, closure, switch, arrangement and in Szechuan and presented the local quality but only little could be had been paid out the company is driven by either of two 75 hp, various features to provide safety governor with's writ from the Im done to incrence the output. The found itself with a deficit of Tis marine drip-proof, sell-ventilated from fire risks, and at the same timo motors. This type of motor is used present an artistic appearanceperint Government at Peking giv market was still confined to local 70,000. This was adon covered by for driving practically all the under: There are 202 of those heaters, oning them the privilege of mining supera.jpg
the slow but steady flow of coal deck auxiliaries. T
the President Coolidge.NET,
Trouble with The total number of motors used In a vessol operating in tropical coal and opening new developments for such auxiliaries is 12, with a, aervice, it is just as important for in both ranges emanating from the During the next nine years, coal total capacity of over 2,000 hp the comfort of the passengers to Hwa-ying-shan for a distance of was mined (as it is still being 1923 all was in the clear. Em which is more than 10 per cent. of have suitable individual stateroom no li from the fown of Kiang Pel mined) in a fashion changed but phasis shifted away from the Lu the power of the propulsión plast ventilation as to be provided with These motorn vary in size from 1/61 the proper ligating equipment Ato He Twanhsien. They formed little from the usages of centuries Wang Tung to the Western Range k.p to 116 hp. and are used chiefly i cordingly, the President Coolidge into the Hwa Yin Mining Com- Carrying-coolies were able to make on pumps for ice water circulation, has 365 Westinghouse marine type pany for that purpose. ballast, main condensate and auxi fans finished in such a way zna. to liary condensate service, fuel oil harmonize with the stateroom de- service, fire and sanitary purposes, sign
from the Western Range and
"and" it was here-that- The writ they possessed contained to the Kisling where the coal was Anally laid for the cont
one trip daily over the 40-li down.
ruction
one condition that they could not loaded on junks and carried to the÷1
g-taile
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