The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-06-08
by the miners and $4,000 per an
mum for dynamite.
The New Gold Mines.

me New OOiu III
There is a great deal of placer min
ing done by the Korean natives. They
are satisfied with mall prohts, ana
a man will work at such mining When
it nets him 10 cents a day, where ne
would not labor steadily in the quartz
mines at % cents a day. Altogether,
the total export Of gold from this
and about S1,OOO,0O0 Or more OF TINS
comes from mines and placers out
side the Oriental Consolidated CON-
pany above mentioned.
I have just had a long talk with
Mr.. A. r. Weigall, a Well known MIN
Colibran n Bostwick Development
Mr.. Weigall is a graduate
Of the Sydney, Australia, Mining Uni
yersity, and during the past nine
wears has been operating throughout
the far east. He left the famous
Mount Morgan mines Of queensland
to prospect in the Dutch East Indies,
and later on was employed in Siam,
Siberia. japan and Korea. He has
been all over Korea, and he tells me
the country is we'll minerallzed !!
asked Mr.. Weigall about the COLO
mines. Said he:
Nearly every stream shows more
or less color, and we nave reason 70
believe that there is gold in every
province. There are several large
concessions in the same region as the
Oriental Consolidated, which nave
been more or less worked. One OF
them belongs to the English, another
to the Germans, and a third to the
French The English ran a twenty
stamp mill for some years on high
grade ore, but they shut down about
two years ago and have left. The
Germans are still mining, and they
are said to be making money. Ihey
have rich ore, but Will give no lnfOr-
nation as to their profits. The
French are also operating near CnOsan
in the same district.
The Suan Gold Mines.
I'm addition to these mines in
mines, belonging to Collibran and
BOstWick. They lie about fifty-slx
miles from P~yeng-yang, and can be
two days across country. These mines
promise to pay very well. They nave
been worked about a year. and they
have taken out about forty thousand
tons of ore. which will yield So per
ton. In addition, there is 3 per cent
of copper in the ore. The company
is putting up q plant, and by next
October it will be reducing about one
hundred tons daily. This mine was
discovered by an Englishman, who
took Mr.. Collbran in as a partner. Ha
got up a combination, including the
NIitsuis of Japan. They sent engin-
GERS to investigate it. who reported
against it, and so the Mitsuis dropped
out. Then the E~ngI1shman gavt up,
and Collbran and Bostwick organized
a new company in Seoul. on a c~apitali-
cation of $500. 900. 1t will not take
more than 100000 to develop the
property. and it promises to be one
Of the most valuable mines in Korea
The Chicksan Gold Mines.
Are there any other gold mines now
being worked?"
Yes" replied Mr.. weigaIl. 'and
there are several which promise to pay
much more in the future. One OF
these is the Chicksan mine, which lies
~forty-five miles south of Seoul, not fal
from the sea. That mine has large
quantities Of low-grade ore. and it car
be worked at a profit. if on a large
scale, at as low as 50 per ton. The
ore contains seven or eight dollars pei
ton, and it is better on the average
than the ore of the Oriental Consoli.
dated. The country is granite, and the
lOdes are of quartz and of great size
This mine was originally granted tc
the japanese, but they gave it over tc
a young American, named Deshler, {
stepson of the late Go. Nash. HI
came out here from Columbus, Ohio
After he got hold of the mine he in
terested Columbus capital in it, ant
lis liz well hi1oNu i1ll11ioild1TG Oh ia
pan, Baron Shibusawa. The company
began work, but in some way or Other
it has gotten tangled up, and is nov
in bad shape. 1t is said that Jardine
Natthieson < Co., a We'll known Eng
fish firm which is operating in the Fa1
East, is about to get hold of the prop
erty. and that they will develop it"
is it considered very Valuable?'
The indications are exceedingl,
good said the mining engineer. 9TH,
concession is twenty miles long anC
fourteen miles wide, and the Seoul
Fusan railway runs through it. TIL,
natives have been mining gold Their
for years, and there is one lode fv
miles IN length, which has Korean
) workings all over it. The engineer