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RESOURCES OF MANCHURIA

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The Chalinoerh, operated by the Chinese Eastern Railway, is located doo far from the station of Man- churin near the Russian frontier, Ite outpus, which is lignite or brown coal declined from 254,000 tas in 1825 to 186,000 in 1929, owing to hostilitica. Nearly all of the 1929 roduction was used by the rail- ways

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The long dream of the people of Izu Province in Japan for a rail- way line to connect Abazi with Ito as the Railway Offod has recently will be realized in the near future decided to extend one of its own lines to the southernmost part of the locall With an of Y1,000,

The Hokang nines belong almost in the entirely to the

vineal government, and are located not far from the Sungari River, with which they are connected by a shorb railway, According to Vicer Contul T. Leonard Lillestrom, Harbin, production in 1920 totalled 198,000 tons, of which 23,000 were sold to the Chinese Eastern Rail way: The principal market in Harbin, which receives the col by river,

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The first blast furnace of the Magnitogorsk steel mill in the Urals

the water system, power plant nir was completed on January 9. Since

blowers, pake ovens, are mines and

lins had been previously completed, the full cycle of produs- tion was begu. A committe of. experta and government officials

went over the furnace, tested the mechanical equipmans and declared It ready for operation. The second tion of the line as there are two furnace is also nearing completion. large tunnels and many minor ones to be opened up. A large tunnel

The first battery of ovens at the must be dug at a point between

oka and chemical works was put Usami and Ajiro, and another be into operation, at the end of Decem tween Atami and Tags, Six her. It produced 971 tons of coke stations are expected to be built along the railway line, namely, at on January 3 and 200 on January foot of the Atami Plum Forest, and the entrance of the Tunnel at the The Magnitogorsk mill, which each at Taga, Ajiro, Usami and Ito.

is being designed for a capacity of 3,000,000 tons of pig iron, will be the largest in Europe and the This mine is operated by the Shansecond largest in the world. "Houses tung Railway, and supplies export and bunker coal through the port with dwelling space totaling 18,000 of Taingtao. Some of this coal line been received in the Pacific Coast square meters have been completed: States of the United States.

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The Mulin coal mines in the Pro- vince of Kirin, operated as 8. joinb Sino-Russian enterprise, are con- nected by raf with the station of Siaochengtze on the eastern line of the Chinese Eastern Railways. Pro- duction in 1929 amounted to a14,000 tons, of which 175,000 were sold to the railway and 13,000 in the Production in the Province off at Magnitogorsk. A large hospital open market. This is reported to Shantung in 1935 was reported as was opened and a factory kitchen be the highest quality of coal pro- 1,571,000 tons It is understood duced in North Manchar with that the Shantung Railway in 1923 with volatile matter 24 to 30 per cent, handled 1,800,000 tons of coal and daily.

capacity of 40,000 meals and 12,000 Bt.u. It is said to sake. coke. Exports from Tsingtao in The mine is located about 459 kilo 1929 ind in 1930 were $78,000 and meters from Harbin: The compie 188,700 tons, respectively. The re- tion of a railway, about 128, begion has been unsettled politically tween the Mulin mines and the for some time, Chinese Eastern, enabled that coal to compete with Fushun coal on the Harbi market.

Jehol, just west of the South Man- churian Province of Liaoning and Manchuria, is a coal producing Pon Changchun cos, in the Provincevince, but data for its reserves or of Kirin, has a high moisture and volatile content with about 11,300 Bt. The Naitzushunmine, pro ducing about 70,000-toni sunnally Production of all the principal mines in North Manchuris in 1928 amounted to about: 765,000 long tons and that of all Manchuria to about 10,000,000 tons. fi.

Demand and Competition-Com- parative. Toreign Trade.

total production are not available Provincial production in 1990 was reported at 70,000 tons but the laced we would maaye, pro one third of which was exporteu through the port of Newchwang.

Hopei (formerly Chihli) a pró vince west of the Gulf of Pohai, together with the metropolitan area was estimated to have res serves of anthracite amounting to 797,000,000, tona and bituminous coal, 9,031,000,000 tons. Incidentäl The principal competitor of Man-y, Shansi Province west of Hopei, charian coal in foreign markets in is very richly endowed with col that from the Kaidan or Kaiping reserves, estimated at 35,306,000,000 mines of Chili Province, 8 miles tons of anthracite, 91,538,000,000 of from Tientain, and about the same bituminous, and 178,000,000 of distance from Chinwongtao, the lignite.

principal shipping port. It is an Chosen, bordering the Man- Anglo-Chinese company, which infoburian Provinces of Lanening and 1028 produced 4,583,000 tons, of Kizin, haarcoal reserves of 81,000,000 which 1,872,000 were shipped to tons, according to Toronto congress, Japan and 1,285,000 to other coun. The Japanese authorities say that tries, while bunker coal amounted the principal reserves are brown. to 700,000 tona This is a coking coal, but there are important, ve coal with about 1 per cent, sulphur sources of anthracito Dr. Wate high in ash, medium volatile, with the remarked at the World Power about 13,380 B.t.u. Mining coats Conference, Tokyo, 1829, that the have been estimated (1020) at 30:75, Keijo deld reserves amount ta United States, currency.

45,000,000 tona, but other authorities Exporta of coal from the port of place them as high as 300,000,000 Dairen in 1928 were 2,000,000 tons, bons. Most of Chosen's production of which 1,150,000 tons went to comes from this field, and is chiefly

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Islands, 900,000 to Chinese ports, ly used for manufacturing briquets, and 600,000 for bunkers, Exports Production in Chosen in 1999 total- from Newchwang ware: 380,000 tons. led 529,744 long tons of anthracite.

In 1927 coal received an the port and 393,345 of bituminous,

of Dairen totalled 3,033,000 tona at Chinwangtao, 9,258,000; and at Kinochow,188,000. The total for all Manchurian ports was 6,293,000 tons.

Exports from all China are about 4,000,000 tons annually, and imports about 2,500,000 tons. In addition, bunker coal probably amounts to about 3,000,000 tons a year.

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The interdependenos. churia and Japan is indicated in- a report from Assistant Trade Gom missioner L Coltenator, hig states that in line with Japar expansion, in- Mahchurles (endre, t 200,000 Japanese and 300,000 Korsan colonists have entered the ares and that over for 004 cour gold ver have been invested within the past Few data are available for con 20 years. It further states that production in enstern Mongolis, the import, and export trade be which in 1929 – was estimated at tween Japan and Mandhuzin. grade | 1,000,000 tona. “Most of China'r coni fually: has beer built up until in comes from North China, includ-1960 the võlufe of goods that passed ing" "Manchuria, and any appraiss back and forth was valued at near- of the fuel and power situation in ly 200,000,000 baikwad teele, of | Manonuzio must consider, the oos! Manchuria of foreign trade of about

roserras of adjacent territories: 400,000,000 haikwan tselskad These are briefly described in the A former president of the South following paragraphne Manchuria Bailway is reported to | Shantung, just across the Gulf have said that in 2018 Japan im/1 of Pohai from South Manchuris, has ported petroleum products to the |_ réserves of 30,000,000 tons of aath | value of 20,000,000 yen, förtilizers racite and 2,500,000,000 ton of worth 38,000,000 yen, and machinery bittiminous coal,, according to the "worth 139,000,000 gert, and that Chinese Geological Survey on patroleum, epal, iron, and fertilizer The Foshan mine in this Province, ware, samured, from Manchuria, the produces a low volatile coking coal, annuel, foreign importa would be re with about 14,000 Bt. The ex-duced 400,000,000 yen A port, port for this coal in Tsingtao,

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