The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-06-06
GOLD MINING IN CHINA.
Ten Thousand Ifuman Creatures who Die
Three Ounces of Cold Day.

Minister DENLY has sent 30 the State
Department. in recent report a trans
latlou of an article which recently APP
peared IN a native newspaper pub
llshed at Shanghai, giving an account
Of the gold mining Ia Shanghai. II
says:
,.There are gold mines in Manchnria
which may give "A better account Of
themselves than any of our coal or iron
mines. Some oi the latler ~ for In
stance. the Ch'ih-chow mines oI Anhui
and the Suehow mines Of kiansn. have
81 far been anything ut success
owing 10 difficulties o ira Sporting n O
mineral 90 the places where IL Is re-
qured. But for gold there Is good
market everywhere, and all that is
brought out oi the earth Is sold on the
spot. What has stood IN the way Of
successful gold mining in China Is want
OF method The Piag-tu gold mines.
on the Shantung promontory. employ
about 10000 persons, and the work
ing expenses are 800 els a day
but the output daily il only 3 onnces
of gold. But We are pleased 10
chronicle the existence of n very differ
ent state of things at the Amur gold
mines. When Prefeet III assumed the
direction six months ago the workin z
of these mines was commenced with
sudden and wonderful energy, aud a
subsidiary mine was opened at k'i-kan
Iio. Here, where tie gold brigands
had worked al their forbidden mines
before they were SO disastrously scat
tered by the Chinese Government
troops. gold mining IS now actively
proceeding under the sanction and en-
first the output was very small. but IL
has since So Increased that during the
last ten days of lhe third moon (April
20-29 1890. the joint production oi
both mines was between iifty and sixty
ounces of gold dust. There are from
500 10 600 miners employed aud each
| Is iinding now about a tenth OF an
ounce of gold every day. and il is ex-
pected that before maEy mora months
| there will be 5000 miners working
there and producing 800 ounces Of gold
| a day Happ, ebare-huldersi
ffhese mines oi Hei-Lung Kiang III
near the frontier between that Chinese
! province aud the Russian Amur ter
/ ritory. There are the Tung Kin Shar
aud the 81 Kin Shan worthy of being
named beside the California of the
/ Americans aud She Australia Of tn,
British. which are commonly called bl
us, respectively, Kin Kin Shan and
| Sin Bin Shan, the old aud new gold
fields. Here stretches a gold vein o
400 To GOO Il long. which If properl,
worked will Yield rs inealeulabl,
wealth, and is nov only waiting fol
capitalists Ia come forward TO supply
the working capital. II must be con
fessed that the WAY these mines weFs
managed before Prefect Ii came along
was anything but reassuring TO invest
ors, but now we may hope that mor'
confidence will be felt aud that thes'
noble min MAY be properly developed
According TO the first clause Of tia
Russian treaty the range of hills ealle,
the Hing An Ling separates our terri
tory from the Russian. the gold countrl
OF 1ung King Shan lying TO the soutl
and that Of 81 Bin Shan or Mob ilo 4
the north of that range. The mine
!, under Project Lis superiniendence ar,
on those mountains some seventy o
eighty II from Mob Ho. All provision
Tor the mines must he imported overlani
from Aiken otherwise called Saghalil
Via, or Black River }. distance OF /.
. 500 ii. through Moh Hu, passins
. Russian territory on their way. Pre-
feet Ii intends 10 elect a reform il
this respect. and partly 10y the employ
ment OF steamers and partly by open
, ing OF new roads 20 render il possibl
. 20 bring from China everything
necessary for the preper working q
. The mines and the supply OF the per
sonnel with provisions without tire ale
sf Russian roads