The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-21
COlD-MlNlNG IN CHINA.
Ten Thousand Men Who Dig Three Ounces
of Gold q Day.

of Gold Day.
Minister DENLY has sent to the State
Department., in recent report, trans
lation of an article which recently APP
peared 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 better account of them
selves than any of our coal or iron mines.
Some of the latter, as for instance the
Oh 'ih-chow mines of Anhul and the Su-
chow mines Of Kiangsu, have so far
been any thing but success, owing to
difficulties of transporting the mineral
to the places where it is required.
But for gold there is a good mar
ket 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'ing-tu gold mines on the Shan
tung promontOry employ about 10000
persons, and the working expenses are
500 taels day. but the output daily is
only three ounces of gold. But we are
pleased to chronicle the existence of a
very different state of things at the
Anlur gold mines. When Project Ii
assumed the direction six months ago
the working of these mines was COM
menced with sudden and wonderful en-
ergy. 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 pro-
ceeding under the sanction and encOur-
agement 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 2O-29,
1881, the joint production of both
mines was between fifty and sixty
ounces of gold dust. There are from
500 to 600 miners employed, and each is
finding about tenth of an ounce of gold
every day, and it is expected that be-
fore many more months there will be
5000 miners working there and produc-
ing 800 ounces of gold day. Happy
shareholders!
''These mines of Hei-lung Klang lie
near the frontier between that Chinese
province and the Russian Amur ter
ritOry. 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 fields. Here stretches a
gold vein of 400 to 500 Ii long, which
if properly worked will yield us meal
culable wealth. and is now only waiting
for capitalists to come forward to sup
ply the working capital. 1t must be
confessed that the way these mines
were managed before Project Ii came
along was anything but reassuring to
investors, but now we may hope that
more confidence will be felt and that
these noble mines may be properly de-
velOped.
according to the first clause of the
Russian treaty the range of hills called
the Hing An Ling separates our terri
tory from the Russian, the gold country
of Tung Kin Shan lying to the south
and that of Sih Kin Shan or Mob Ho to
the north of that range. The mines I'M
der Project Lis uperintendence are on
those mountains, some seventy or eighty
Ii from Mob 40. All provisions for the
mines must be imported overland from
Aiken (otherwise called Saghalin Via,
or BLACK River''), distance of 800 Ii,
through Mob Ho, passing Russian terri
f.N,.r Al <.x
to effect reform in this respect, and
partly by the employment 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. Washington
Star.