Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-27
A. B. SNOW DISPELS ERRONEOUS
IDEAS REGARDING THAT
COUNTRY.
RECOMMENDS 1T AS
PLACE FOR HUSTLERS
Mr.. Snow Has Travelled in China
Il Says Ii Hung Chang Has an
American Secretary.

"A. B. Snow, the well-known mining
man, waited in on the ice breeze from
Siberia yesterday and is at present hold
ipg court at the McDermott. Mr.. Snow
Is a great friend of the Sultan of Jolo
and since his arrival has kept the hotel
attaches leg weary in carrying stacks of
paper and envelopes to his room, pre-
paratory to giving the Sultan the news.
one large batch of letters has already
brought a special sack into service at the
postofice, and in a few days a bundle
OF Inter Mountains will be on their way
across the seas to enlighten his majesty
on the doings of civilization within the
last few weeks.
Since his last trip here Mr.. Snow has
travelled over a large territory and is full
OF and "reminiscences re
garding his journey. His ideas of ST.
befla are interesting and instructive and
Will be thoroughly appreciated by the
majority of people, by whom the region
has always been regarded as a vast snow
country, chiefly remarkable for the ex-
lies who have been consigned there to
what has been termed a living death.
siberia is a country of extensive re-
sources said the mining man, land is
developing at a wonderful rate. Es-
pecially are the mining and railway in
d%ustries growing rapidly and it will not
be long until better transportation will
induce so many people to enter there and
become familiar with the region and it's
resources that the air of mystery 'envel-
oping the country VIII be entirely dissi-
pated.
My advice Ito any young man of good
education, who is what may be termed a
hustler.' Is to go to. Siberia. There is a
great future ahead of the country"
M Snow speaks both the Malay and
Persian tongues f1uently. He explains
his friendship n admiration for the
sultan of Jolo by asserting that his ma
Jesty is not only a well-educated man, of
a broad mind and progressive ideas, but
a perfect gentleman.
He relates with keen enjoyment an oc-
currence during his mining career at
Singapore that is also food for thought
to students of the Chinese problem.
I'VE took a lot of Chinese coolies down
on the Malay peninsula" he said, with
the intention Of working them in the
mines. All Chinese looked alike to us
and the idea that an Interpreter would
have n trouble with them never enter
ed our leads. The coolies a hardly
been set at work when the interpreter
came to us with tears. in his eyes and
tears in his voice. He was all tears, so
to speak.
"What was the trouble? Trouble
enough, to be sure. Not a single
Chinese spoke the same dialect.
Not only could the interpreter under
stand but one dialect, but no two coolies
cq'Ad understand each other. The next
consignment of Chinese freight to those
mines was picked up in the same district
and we afterward had no trouble"
American talent, according to the YER
satile traveller, is pretty we'll disseminat-
ed over the inhabitable globe and even
the denizens of the Flowery Kingdom
appreciate u advanced ideas.
"Something not generally known" he
stated, lis that Ii Hung Chang has an
American secretary. This secretary is a
stenographer, typewritist, fluent con-
versationalist in Chinese and a man well
acquainted with the customs and insti-
tutions of THE country. I'VE heard from
men who have personally met the great
Chinese diplomat that he would almost
have to shut up shop if anything hap
pened TO his secretary"