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LONG DREAM TO COME TRUE BLAST TURNACES NEARING.
The long dream of the people of Ip Province in Japan for a rail- way line to connect Atami with Ito The Chaininaert, operated by the as the. Railway Offion has recently will be tehlized in the near future Chinoso Eastern Railway, is dested deaded to extend one of its own not far from the station of Manlines to the southernmost part of churia near the Russian frontier. the locality With an Its output, which is lignite or brown of V.3,000,000 aprorppziste cool, declined from 254,000 tons in
1925 to -186,000 in 1926, owing to the new rall kdatilitic Nearly all of the 1929 Ito, production was used by the rails will way.
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COMPLETION.
The fret blast furnace of the Magnitogorsk steel mill in the Urals
the water system, power plant, air- was completed on January 9. Since
blowers, coke ovens, ore mines and railroad line had been previously completed, the full cycle of produo- tion was began. A committon of. xperts and government officials. went over the furnace, tested the
The Hokang mines belong almost in
1907 Much diffchanical equipment and declared entirely to the Hailingkingpro Foult
the construe- it ready for operation. The second vincial government, and are located tion of the line, as there are two furnace is also nearing completion, not far from the Sungart River, large tunnels and many minor ones The first battery of ovens at the with which they are connected by to be opened up. A lacks tunnel a short railway. According to Vice must be dug at a pas between coke and chemical works was put Consul T. Leonard Lillestrom, Usami and Ajiro,, and other be into operation at the end of Decem Harbin, production in 1999 totalled tween Atami and Taga. Six bur. It produced 271 tons of coke- 199,000 tone, of which 23,000 were stations are expected to be built. sold to the Chinese Eastern Bail-along the railway line, namely, aton January 3 and 500 on January way. The principal market in foot of the Atami Plum Forest, and
the entrance of the Tunnel at the & The Magnitogorsk mill, which Harbin, which receives the co by sach at Taga, Ajiro, Usami and is being designed for a capacity of river.
Ito.
2,600,000 tons of pig iron, will he the largest in Europe and the second largest in the world. Enuses
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The Mulin coal mince in the Pro vince of Kirin, operated as a joint Sino-Russian enterprise, are son nected by rail with the station of Siaochengtze on the eastern line of the Chinese Eastern Railways. Pro- duction in 1029 amounted to 314,000 tone, of which 175,000 were sold to the railway and 133,000 in the open market. This is reported to be the highest quality of coal pro-1,871,000 tons. It is understood duced in North Manchuris with that the Shantung Hallway in 1923 with a capacity of 40,000 meals volatile matter 25 to 30 per cent. handled 1,300,000 tons of coal and daily. and 12,000 Btu. It is said to cake. coke. Exports from Tsingtao in The mine is located about 452 kilo-1929 and in 1930 were 575,000 and meters from Harbin. The comple 166,700 tons, respectively, The re tion of a railway, about 1926, begion has been unsettled politically tween the Mulin mines and the for some time. Chinese Eastern, aanbied that coal to compete with. Fushun coal on the Harbin market...
This mine is operated by the She tung Railway, and supplies export and bunker coal through the port of Tsingtao. Some of this coal has been received in the Pacific Coast States of the United States.
Production in the Province of at Magnitogorak. A large hospital Shantung in 1993 was reported as was opened and a factory kitchen
Changchun coal, in the Frovince of Kirin, has a high moisture and volatile content with about 11,300 B.t.u. The Naitzushun mine, pro ducing about 0:100 tons $payally Production of all the principal mines in North Manchuria in 1928 amounted to about 785,000 long tona and that of all Manchuria to about | 10,900,000 "tona, s
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Demand and Competition-Com- parative Foreign, Trade,"
Jehol, just west of the South Man obarian Province of Liaoning and Manchuria, is a coal-producing Poz- vince, but date for its reserves or total production are not available. Provincial production, in 1990 an reported at 70,000 tons but the Batei atvira dhe ton ave, pro- one-third of which was exported through the port of Newchwang
Hope (formerly Chihli) a pro vince west of the Gulf of Poha together with the metropolitan STO was ostimbted to have re
· serves: of anthracite amounting to 797,000,000 tons and bituminous :00μÏ,. 9,031,000,000 tons. Incidentä!- The principal competitor of Manly, Shansi Province, west of Hopei, churian coal in foreign markets is is very richly endowed with coal that from the Kaidan or Kaiping reserves, estimated at 35,358,000,000 nines of Chili Province, -91 milestone of anthracite, "91,585,000,000 of from Tientsin, and about the anme bituminous, and 173,000,000 6₤ distance from Chinwangtao, the lignite. principal shipping port. It is an Aaglo Chinese company, which in 1925 produced: 4,583,000 tona, of which 1,872,000 were shipped to Japan and 1,205,000 to other coun tries, while bunker coal amounted to 700,000 tons. This is a colding cond with about 1 per cent. sulphur, bigh in ash, madium volatile, with about 13,380 Btu. Mining costs have been estimated (1920) at 80.75, United States, currency,"
Exports of cost from the port of Dairen in 1928 were 8,000,000 tone, of which 1,350,000 tons went to
Chosen, bordering, the Man- churian Provinces of Lingning and Kirin, has coal reserves of 81,000,000 tons, according to Toronto congress. The Japanese authorities say that the principal reserves are brown coal) but there are important re sources of anthracite. Dr. Wate nahe remarked at the World Power Conferenoc, Tokyo, 1929, that the Keijo field reserves amount to 45,000,000 tons, but other authoritier place them as high as 200,000,000 tons. Most of Choson's production comes from this field, and in chiefly
ly used for manufacturing briquets. Production in Chosen im 1929 total- lod 529,744 long tons of anthracite and 301,345 of bituminous..
Interdependence of Manchuria and
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Islands, 900,000 to Chinese ports, and 800,000 for bunkers. Exports from Newohwang were 386,000 tons. In 1927 coal received at the port of Dairen totalled 3,033,000 tons; at Chinwangtao, 2,283,000 and 2 Kinochow, 188,000. The total for all Manchurian ports was, 6,293,000-|- tons,
Exports from all China are about 4,000,000 tona annually, and imports about 2,500,000 tons. In addition, bunker coal probably amounts to about 3,000,000 tons a year.
Potential Competition from Meigh
The interdependence of Man- churis and Japan is indicated in a report from Assistant Trade Com- missioner L Com Venster, which states that in use with Japanese expansion in MalicBurke, zaura thap |200,000 Japanese and 800,000 Korean colonists have entered the area and that over 2,000,000,000 gold, you have been invested within the past Few data are available for coal | 30 years,” It further states that production in castern Mongolla "the import and export trade be- which "in, 1929" was estimated at tween Japan and Manókuzia, grad” 1,000,000 tons. Most of China's conli vally has been built up until in comes from North China, includ 1930 the volufe of goods that passed ing Manchuria, - and any appraisal back and forth was vained at near
bouring Goal Azean. -
of the fuel and power: situation, înly. 200,000,000; haikwan taels, of Manchuris ac forsign, trade of about 400,000,000 haikwan tsels. O
| Manchuric must consider the coal reserves of adjacent territories: These are briefly described in the following paragrapha
former president of the South Manchurie Railway is reported to Shantung, just across the Gulf have said that in 1929 Japan ime of Ponai from South Manchuria, has ported patroleum products to the ressives of 30,000,000 tons of anthe value. pt. 90,000,000 yen, fertilizery racite and 2,500,000,000 tons of worth 18,000,000 yen, and machinery bituminous coal, according to the worth 139,000,000 yen, and that it Obiness Geological Survey, kd petroleum, opaly, iron, and fertilizet The Poshan mine in this Provisco Waroandubad from Manchuria,, the produces a low volatile coking cond) annual foreign imports would be re- with about 14,000 B... The ax- duced: 400,000,000 vend port port for this coal is Tsingtao, According to Boris P. Tors -900 miles away, and now under the in The Mineral
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