Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-11-14
GOLD MINING IN CHINA.
Ten Thousand Men Who Dig Three
Ounces of Gold a Day.

Minister DENLY has sent to the State depart
ment, in a recent report, translation OF an
article which recently appeared in native
newspaper published at Shanghai, giving an
| account of the gold mining in Shanghai. 1t
| SAYS:
There are gold mines in Manchuria which
may give a better account Of themselves than
any of our coal or iron mines. Some Of the
latter as for instance the Ch'ih-chow mines of
| Anhui and the Su-chow mines Of kiangsu have
so far been anything but a success, owing to
| difficulties of transporting the mineral to the
places where it is required But for gold there
| is a good market everywhere, and all that is
brought out of the earth is sold Immediately
and on the spot What has stood in the way of
| successful gold mining in China is want of
method The P'ingtu gold mines. on the Shan
| tung promontory, employ about 10, 900 persons,
and the working expenses are 800 taels day,
but the output daily is only three ounces of
gold. But we are pleased to chronicle the ex-
istence of very different state of things at the
Amur gold mines When Project Ii assumed
the direction six months ago the working Of
these mines was commenced with sudden and
wonderful energy. and subsidiary mine was
opened at K'i-kan Ho. Here, where the gold
brigands had worked at their forbidden mines
before they were SO disastrously scattered by
the Chinese government troops. gold mining is
now actively proceeding under the sanction
and encouragement of the government. At
first the output was very small, but it has since
so increased that during the last ten days of the
third moon april 1929, 1882 the joint pro-
ductlon OF both mines was between fifty and
sixty ounces of gold dust. There are from 500
to 600 miners employed, and each is finding
now about tenth of an ounce of gold every
day, and it is expected that before many more
months there will be 5000 miners working
there and producing 300 ounces OF gold day.
Happy shareholders
''Ihese mines of Hei-lung Kiang lie near the
frontier between that Chinese province and the
Russian Amur territory. There are the Tung
Kin Shan and the 81 Kin Shan worthy of being
named beside the California of the Americans
and the Australia of the British which are
commonly called by US, respectively, Kiu Kin
Shan and Sin Kin Shan, the old and new gold
helds. Here stretches gold vein of 400 to 500
Ii long, which if properly worked will yield us
incalculable wealth, and is now only waiting for
capitalists to come forward to supply the work
ing capital. 1t must be confessed that the way
these mines were managed before Project Lii
came along was anything but reassuring to in
vestOrs but now we may hope that more conf
dence will be felt and that these noble mines
may be properly developed.
According to the first clause of the Russian
treaty the range of hills called the Hing An
Ling separates our territory from the Russian,
the gold country of Tung Kin Shan lying to
the south and that of 81 Kin Shan or Mob Ho
to the north of that range. The mines under
Prefect Lis superintendent are on those
mountains, some 20 or so Ii from Mob Ho. All
provisions for the mines must be imported
overland from Album otherwise called Sagha-
lin Via, or BLACK river'), distance Of $500
Ii, through Mob Ho, passing Russian territory
on their way. Project Ii intends to effect n re-
form In this respect and partly by the employ
ment of steamers and partly by opening of new
roads to render it possible to bring from China
everything necessary for the proper working
of the mines and the supply of the personnel
with provisions without the aid of Russian
roads,"