The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-19
ABOUT THE BURMESE
COX at the Last Bright Jewel
in England's Crown.
HOW INDO-CRNA IS CHANGING.
The Tattooed Man at HOme-The Great Ran
COON Pagoda-A Yankee Printing
Establishment in Burmah.


TSpeciaI Correspondence of The HERALD. +
The great southeastern peninsula of Asia,
Indo-C China or farther India, is fast making
history. The French are developing the
/, eastern provinces of Tonquin, AMMAN and
,Cambodia, which line the Pacific. The
English have now
.E FAST GRIP on BCRMAH,
and Siam lying between awaits only great
European war to fall into the hands Of one
or the other. The day will soon come when
~siCis great territory, equal in size to one
laird of the whole United States, will be
governed from Europe. It's interior will
be penetrated by railroads and its immense
resources will be thrown open to the world.
AS write this letter corps Of engineers
are at work surveying a railroad from
Bangkok, the capital Of Siam, to Mandalay,
the great city of upper Burmah ana before
this letter is published, the English rail
road, which now runs, from the city OF Ran
COON. 1913 miles to the city OF Prone IN the
Interior will have been extended 10 Man
dalay and will be opened to traffic. Tins
will give Burmah between four
and five hundred miles Of railway and the
day will come when the line viii be eX-
tended to Canton in China.
These roads will open up
ONE OF TIE RICHEST COUNTRIES
Of the east. Indo-China is practically UNI
developed and unCultiyated. Its people are
lazy. easy-going, half-savage races, from
the Burmese to the Siamese and the
Nfalays and they have in the past lived
from hand to mouth They are not &c
cuululatOrs nor investors and their rich
soil. forests and minerals are awaiting the
advent of the immigrant. The immigrant
is already upon the ground IN the person OF
theEuropeans and the Chinese, and WITHIN
a generation or so u new race Will lnhaolt
it. This race will be the Chinese crossed
with the natives. Everywhere 20 l find
that the Cinnamon are doing the business
~ the peninsula. They are marrying with
Hhe natives, and old English residents tell
me they are producing race that Is better
than either At Singapore and in the
southern part of the Malay peninsula they
are crowding the English merchants out OF
business, and they own grand residences
and work with large capital. Here at Ran
COON none of the Chinese do cOohe labor and
in Siam they form already nearly One-half
of the population The English employ
them largely, and they engage in all trades
and in all kinds of business They are, so
Europeans think, a necessity to the develop
Ilent of a tropical country, and the pros
pect is that they will eventually own the
larger part of farther India. They will not
DO laundry work here as they do with US,
and the lowest grade of work at which you
ind them employed is Carpentering.
Indo-China is still
LARGELY A JUNGLE OF FOREST,
but its soil is as well fitted to support a
great population as is that Of India. 1t is
yatered by great rivers and since the
Crritish took possession of lower Burmah,
L angOOni has become one of the greatest
re ports in the world. One million tons
rice are exported from Burmah yearly,
nd the rice mills Of Rangoon compare IN
1 lie almost with the great Touring mills OF
Iiuueapolis. 1t takes as much machinery
) aid work to prepare the unhushed grains OF
Ljatl for the market as il does to make roller
Vitent process -four. and millions OF dollars
Eorth OF capital are engaged here IL this
business The forests OF mdO-Chlna are
another great resource. In the south you
find cOcoanut trees by the millions, and
noted of the carg0es that were put on the
shiDs in the harbors of the south that they
were owned b the Chinese. Then there IS
also the teak wood trees. This wood IS as
hard as ebony and it takes a polish and has
a grain like that of mahogany, 1t Is used
for shin timber as well as for furniture and
ir-is now exported from Burmah and Siam
to all parts of the world.
N PRECIOUS STONES
Tudo-C China is not lacking, and the rubies Of
Burmah and the sapphires OF Siam are
spted the world over. There Is gold IN
. some parts of the country and the southern
peninsula is one bed of tin, which IS now
exported largely. Petroleum Of several
kinds has been found here in Burmah and
- evidences may result in the develop
be II of a new oil field. OF the whole
ha Ursula. however, the empire of BGrmah
S. perhaps the best part, and it is, am told,
of the best paying OF England's lately
Gal duired possessions. AT the beginning OF
be present century 1t was by FAR the
Ivav INCEST empire in farther India and 1t is
- equal to six states as big as Ohio.
4A' ndaiav. which until about three years
ne "a was the capital, is a city of several
- ndred thousand people and RangoOn,
M ere l write this letter, has 100000. 1t IS
=, capital of lower Burmah, which has
''H onged to England since the days OF
are esident Pierce. and General Grant, when
be stopped here on his way around the
no rid. predicted that II would be
a. As BIG As CALCUTTA IN TEN YEARS.
IS growing fast and it will, without
,ubt. be the great city Of IndO-China. 1t
is about twenty nine miles from the sea on
one of the many rivers which form the
delta of the great Iriwaddy river. This
river, is navigable, for the largest of ocean
steamers to RangoOn and boats of five feet
draft can sail up it for 300 miles. Mandalay
i situated on it about five hundred miles
from the sea and it forms the great means
of interior communication for Burmah. Ii
is one of the greatest rivers IN the world
in its volume of water and il discOlors the
sea at points out of sight of land for dis
+auce Of $50 miles along its delta. The
rainfall of some parts of the interior OF
ISI,rmah ranges from three hundred to SIX
hundred inches of water year, and July
this river brings down to the sea the lncon-
ceivable amount of $4,000, 100000 tons OF
water day. Surprising there to be
b;ilion people in the world and that these
i,;iIion of men. women and children have an
average weight of ninety four pounds each,
all of the worlds aggregate humanity
vrould be outweighed by one days flow OF
this rivers water.
THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT WEIGHS,
;e ror,ember correctly, $4,000 tons It
you'd take 900 such monuments to
t,,eigh as much as the daily discharge of this
;,,e2, in Julv. 1t is the fourth river IN
1-oIume in the world, and its source IS yet
II no diecovered. 1t rises somewhere in
he Himalavas or Thibet and has wide
and fertile valley. The branch on winch
5anoOon is situated is nearly mile WIDE
Al this point and its waters are almost
5ruid mud. Burmah has altogether
aonnIation of about five millions. The
p5io1,itv of these are the Burmese and they
80 a different people than any have yet
90 The women are beautiful and the
20, ore straight. proud and fine looking |
w. have Olive-broWn compleXlOns,
e+Ioi ONT ewes of dark brown, lat noses, ana
Sns a little thicker than those OF the AVERAGE
I HPS They have no boards, but IN
"a ooeas have downy moustaches OF
go, Tbeir hair is Jet black and they
D LdCh; io-lCr rolling it up in q bright red or