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Although three successive Gover- nora havo in turn voiced the am- bition to drive over a new Howrah GROWING USE OF RED LEAD. Bridge before leaving Calcutta, the rol structure still stands, and no definite plans have yet been sanc tioned for its replacement. In 1913 an international competition led to
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BY DAVID BROWNLIE.]
EAST AND WEST.
ELECTRIFICATION SCHEME tem in the central and northern set
FOR MANCHURIA.
CANTON RECONSTRUCTION
The
THE VOLCANIC ANDES.
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Lions of the city. It is a vo-year with An outlay of! programme, y.17,000,000, of which 5.12,101,400 will be raised by loan. The city Then the Central Railway in Peru, intonds eventually to modernise the by brilliant engineering, laid a line entire sewage of the city. The 'cen-
#cree.
POWER PLANT AT ICHANG.
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The scenery of the Andes, is as FLA its climates. At In varied Gunira the red-coloured base of the from the Caribbean Sea, bare but. Sills de Caraons rises steeply up for the tiled roofs and the painted walls of Venezuela's chief seaport, Higher up come shades of green. and then the dark tros-alad peaks. of which a fleeting glimpse may be had early in the morning before the pennant of cloud settles down and blots it out.
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There are at prosent some sixty ectric power companies in Man churid. It is learned that among the new projects of the recently tral portion of the city unbraces a soross the Andes. It zig-zaggod its established Government is a scheme total area of approximately 3405 way up to the high plateau of Fert The septic, compartments as a height of 15,880ft, above..sem to consolidate these into ona, great will be catablished along the banks level and on to the edge of the basin. power trust with capital exceeding of the Kizugawa,, where, after of the Amazon. Alter that other $100,000.000. It is estimated that purifying the sewage will be dump companies built lines across the this scheme for the electrification ad into the river. The northern mountain top, and in 1909 the Trea
connecting the of the whole of Manchuria will take portion, where the "city intends to shndino, railway, at least five year to carry through. lay out modern sewer mains covers, capitals of Argentina and Chile, Bouth Manchuria, the focal point, an area of some 2,450 Beres. Thy was completed. will have the already big power sowage collected will be conducted plans as Fushan, which will serve into septic compartments, whers the whole of that territory. In two species of bacteria with the aid North Manchuria a huge modern
the purifying operation It is well known that one of power-plant will be constracted at of accelerating chemicals will do
with lengthy Harbin
overhead a large monotary award for the beat the major problems of civilization power-lines to the outlying districts. |design being allotted to a German is corrosion and deterioration of firm; meanwhile, numerous alter-metals, which in the case of steel
The construction programme of
The Chinese Ministry of Indus native designs have been produced, alone causes the loss of millions but financial difficulties have hin- of tons every year. Thus according the municipality of Canton for the
to-ona estimate, in the period 1800-year ending July 1 next involves no try announces a fifty million dollar water-power project near Ichang to
Scenes from the Magdalena River dered progress, and it remains to
city is divided into fifteen zones, be constructed within three years. be seen whether the new Governor 1923 the world produced 1,786,000,000 outlay of, roughly, £300,000. will force a decision. Revised esti- tons of metals, of all kinds of which In the first of these the plans pro Mr. Chen Kung-po; the Minister can never be forgotten. From the 718,000,000 tons were destroyed by vide for the construction of a num has already authorised the construc steaming heat of the mosquito-in- donse tropical growth, rare sunrise: rates have been produced, rang-
40 per cent. bar of avenues of a uniform width tion of a 40,000-kilowatt hydfeated river swamps, covered by corrosion, that ́is
of 30 ft., flanked with 18-ft. side-electric power plant at Ichanges ing from under à crore to 1 erore,
slopes, at first with forest, then compared with previous estimates Steel, however, is more easily at walks. Buildings over five years part of the five-year industrial plan glimpses of the great mountain. running as high as 3 crores, and tacked than most metals, especially old are demolished or reconstruct for the development of the Yang with grass and coffee plantation,
In the city proper total of the flow of water in the chang it is just possible that the curtail when freely exposed to the air, ed, so that all may conform to plan.taxo Valley. According to expert. above them baro rock, and finally gorgs was recorded as 800.000 cubic the gleam of rosente hues on the infeet second last October, and he shows of the peak of the old volenuO
Toleran. ment of the contemplated expendi-And the percentage loss is undoubt 73,340 it,, of road is being construes
ed during the present year,
Again, after a couple of days' ture may lead to reconsideration odly greater.
Every industry is badly hit by addition to Honam Island and other estimates that horse power to the suburbs. Buildings include the total of 92,000,000 can be developed
The 10.000-kilowatt station sailing south from Panama, one of the scheme and to the issue of further invitations for tenders. A rust and corrosion, both as regards erection of 100 dwelling-houses; a there.
& time with shock one realizes serviceable rather than an imposing structural steel and plant and new municipal building, which will at Tchang will first be constructed, seas the land and some hills above require two years to complete; utilising 66.000 horse-power of what which hangs a film of haze. After twenty-four public markets; four is available there.
that there is something beyond and This is a first bridge is now favoured, and the equipment, and a striking new
the example is the recent corrosion school dormitories and a mañuel
glimpse at the colossal bulk of the revised
estimates represent
It seems absurd that system will, it is expected, require, maximum outlay practicable, de-summary prepared by the American training school. The now sewerage
above that flm.
three years for completion.
A hew plant is to be built by the mountains.
there should be mountains. pendent on the type and dimension Chemical Society. It is stated on
a conservative basis that rust and works at Chowtauteui (Honam) in Chinese Ministry of Navy for theas so high an angle above the clouds
airplanes near of the structure selected.
A series of committees have from corrosion is costing the oil in- volve the construction of an em construction
bankment nearly a mile long Em-Shanghai. It is of 12: ft. deep and time to time examined the various dustry in the United States over bankments are also being construct- 501 wide. The main floor will THE SPIRIT OF THE ANDES. types of bridge suggested, and all 8195,000,000 (£25,000,000) per annum. ed along the western and middle be devoted to assembling and manu
tains grips the traveller us, walk- each horse-power the American sections of the Pearl River Vari- facturing. Plans for six airplanes. Here, too, the spirit of the moun- being up the great gorges that eteh They band... the data necessary for judgment For this reason
Buspansion bridge across the Pennin [now being available is is hoped than Petroldum Institute have formed us wharves are being rebuilt. The of 0
Besides these six planes, two fight something, of the wonder imposed.
by such tremendous bulk, amid the the few Governor will take steps two committees to work out the River, which is being constructed completed by the end of this year. the mountain flanks, he catchen
ing craft are being considered
great, dark volcanie cliffs that After that will result in the construction best methods of protecting steek by an American company, is ex
abound in these rangos, of the new bridge without further work, one of which deals with pipe pected to be completed this sum
about 10 days' walking from the deiny. Constructional engineers lines and general transport, while
coust up sugh a valley terraced display a very human desire to make
hero and there by the handiwork of the old Inca sultivator-one emer- res, on to the fat-topped plateau, roetess and clothed only by short The bright green grass,
storage plant and equipment.
ne structures as large and impres the other is devoted mainly to re- sive as possible, but utilis is nefinery problems and productive and. the governing consideration, and no design involving expenditure in of the revised estimate stands the slightest chance of being considered.
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A 7.8,000,000 iron foundry is to be erected in Kerea by the Mitsubi shi Mining Co., which owns a big mine in Kinkyo Province, supposed to contain between 100,000,000 and The per 1,000,000,000 tons of ure.
iron, however, is umal, centage but investigations have convinced the company of the advisability of starting mining, as the magnetic suparation process will enable it to carry on the business on n con- mercial basis. The proposed four dry will be erected in Seishin and construction will be started next
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Further, the American ail in-year. dustry apenda about $100,000,000. (£20,000,000) per annum in paint and other coating material for use on plant and equipment out of doors, and much improved results have been obtained by using better paint.
In this connection it is of im portaave to stress the fact that one of the most valuable methods for the protection of iron and steel against corrosion is the use" of Red Lead paint, which as regards iron and steel occupies the same posi- tion as White Lead for woodwork, Every description of steel structure is being protected on these lines including pit-head gear; and in many cases the steel is in perfect condition after 40-50 years of which a notable äxample in England is the Blackpool Tower, 480 feet high, erected in 1891-1892, and which is still in perfect condition.
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Harbin Chamber of Commerce, the Binchang Transportation As sociation, and the Chambers of Commerce of various districts along the Sangari and Heilungkiang Rivers, realising the need of a new wharf in the Binchang districs, have tensed land, and potitsmed the Administration for approval of the scheme. This will be the third wharf in Binchang.
OSAKA SEWERAGE,
The municipality of Oaks will embark during the year on the con- struction of a modern sewage sys
CHINESE "AIRPLANE PLANT.
to are
ELECTRIC POWER IN JAPAN.
A new 72,000-kw. power station to cost £300,000 is to be erected on the Kuroba Rivar, in Japan, by the Nippon Electric Power Co.
If the traveller climbs a minor 'Yasaka Hydro Electric Power Co of Japan proposes to erect a new eminence above this plain and looks 60,000-kw, electric power station at around along the western edge he Taihu.
will see a series of glacier.fretted The Daido Power Co. of Japan peaks rising only a few thousand has decided to introduce automatic feet higher than he stands. To the cast the plateau ends, and beyond tion, with a probable extension of to the horizon is endless forest operation at its Takise power sin the system to its other stations
Farther south barren rock takes The Aomori Prefectural the place of the grass-clad platean, luter. The work will be started in July. Office is considering the erection of and many volcanos, conforming in power station, probably on Lake shape to the conventional Fujiams- Towada, where 80,000 kw. could be like cone, are perched high along developed.
land.
the divide that forms the Andes Milea of barren rock slope down to SINGAPORE NAVAL. BASE.
the arid shores of Northern Chile in the west and to the phrapes of The Naval Estimates show that Argentina in the east. The peaks the instalment towards the now themselves have been sculptured by naval base at Singapore, which has the keen, cutting gouge of ice into crays and pinnacles, cirques' and been the heaviest item in the Works years, will he
arrêtes. In this belt are situated Vote for some £800,000 in the current year, the recent volcanoes in viulent ac- against £784,000 voted a year ago. tivity. Tn the House of Commons recently Capt. D. Evan Wallace, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, said the work un
der this contract was progressing gency had placed the dovernment well, and there was no reason to in such a position that no plana suppose it would be anfinished when had yet been made for the con-
to-date Base. due in 1935, but financial strinstruction of a fully-equipped, up.
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