Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 18, 1900, Page 19

November 18, 1900 THE ILLUSTRATED BEE. 7 Big Money in China-- et the er Tunein aod thete s druamited W THE SENATORS ARE \END am told they are to be found near Nan 1 Kkin, Hankow and from Chin Kiang to th Rich Coal Fields vy visited a coal mit " It China and | We Scarcely Fin cal Fight r Sichuen, on the Yangtse, about 2,000 mil 1 he g eolving we f Chih L, Until Wi (Conyright, 1%0, by Frank G. Carpenter.) there is a bed five feet three inches thick back from """" ' l-"“‘ say ‘:" “ l W ; nortl “'H\"“ s !“'I':'I SHANGHAIL Oct. 3, 1900.—(Special Corre- ch o e worked on t Natos o four fect thick and was of a hard bit the W oy \E by b 3 "CER . pondence of The Bee) '|'u.-xunn~ ral re- :\I:;: .!] .lm;)rlj .’nu“\ l‘vlu :L.: \‘!. t.l h .:.“4‘ nous nature. It was reached by a tunnel e AL, o em-| ROSEWATER, MERCER AND MEIKLEJOHN sour of Cl will form an important heen sold for $4.500 to the Ges one feet long, in which was a wooden tramway, P 1 lie provitice of Bual ‘ ,\) “h\.l{i con ' he payment of ‘he war fn- » mines of t} . 1 Iy nd the coal wa irrfed out in baske ot 4 ( vate ! st cod . ! femnity.. The CHihe I.» WHITHOL S L A s ”'m"‘i"m”'l”ml "H Al ol :‘ e ’_::’.‘l whtes Wil wiine Was Worked duy and wrea of () be. 1 j ! ViR 5| These Three North Plaste Wen Are crease of taxation, the reformation of the apother has produced coal to the amount of NERC N shifts of twelve hours, the g ‘ L ;‘ 1 o2 4 il bl g bt L L L L corrupt officials is a work of years and the $100,000 being paid 14 cents a day, with an allow. people. 1 oL i olfiss i At and the Woolls Are Not most of the money demanded will probably There are other regions in Shan Tung thee of three meals of rice. The | | | Hline o river Vet Brushed have to be secured by concessions. There that are much better than this, some of #bout 40 cents a ton in labor and a short 1 LML il bl & is no doubt but China has enough minerals which the Chinese have been working for distance away from the mines it was selling o A i s ', . ohd :“ ’ to pay its war debt a thousand times over. ages. In the mountains just back of Kiao for $1.75 a ton i B, g S L fact I'v “ l: When i 5 g : It has long been considered the richest coal Chau there are thousands of Chinese min- 10 the upper Yanstse, near Suchau, there probably be t st el ebicl Bt e : country in the world and the railroad sur- ing coal. They work twelve hours a day @F¢ coal mines in the side of a 1. which bl Gl dode iy visiteda| the tictans becon han veyors have discovered coal and iron almost for from 6 to 10 cents, The mining s have been opened by galleri Ao (s f ’1 ‘“l ha ll\ (‘I: -‘N‘u A AL B : s everywhere, The Germans have found dia- primitive. The coal is dug out with picks the top with ropes of plaited bambeo. The ! e ' ,;".'ff“\ ',";, y| and emoluments attract ther e monds in Shan Tung and mines of gold and and carricd from the mine in rawhide Miners bring the coal out upon AL Bl AL RLGOLL R B, o ot | CAECTIESS Of welfish ambitior sl b gilver are being operated in several places 'ks on the backs of men. It is then put and thence slide it down in 1 ts into & hra res ot ’:"““' )'” 'I'"'. Ofl 4 wire edge. Hence, while it a profit Still, no one knows what into baskets on wheelbarrows, from two to he boats on the Yangtse SALLIACLTLRI G m“lhn; “v‘ ; l‘n"I. EHARY | China contains and the powers should un- four baskets being fastened on the shelve There are thousands of abandoned mines f“”" more (han “Mm“mll "““l N ‘““n; i quietly musing and. 1f b doubtedly take advantage of the situation which jut out on each side of the wheel both along the Yangtse and in other parts There ‘, quite as much ‘-| u ]“I:‘!“mkl x;“ BB HEV Ny Wl i J | and demand & carcful geological survey of It is in such harrows, pulled and pushed ©f China. One of the greatest troubles s anthracite, and the ""'“’“”; "(‘ O T | WalP thi e tTve it n the cnpit Such a survey would be in- by men, that the coal is taken to the mar- Water. The Chincse have no good pumps are beyond description wonderful bows and seeking rewards for ind as soon as the water comes into the Shan Si is a mountainous country with a 't \ ¥ \ i mines they leave them. Shafis are seldom great table land In its center rising more | The pre "l',l‘ et i ) hd 1t down more than $00 feet than a mile above the sea. This table land | Fepublican, the legislature | In Shan Tung the experiment of trying {8 made of sandstone, shale and conglomer (41 ;\"“ ~ o modern pumps was attempted, The pumps ate of as many different colors as the cliffs | will be a republican. 1 R T were ordered from England and were of the Colorado canyor The top of the|lature s of that political falt Wi brought into the coal regions at great cost, plateau covered with a rich loe de the lucky two? South Platte nd North | Fhey were allowed to lie there and rust posit, a bed of clay or dirt from 500 to | Platte will insist upon one apicce. Tt | until thieves had stolen many of the part 1,000 feet deep shich 18 gulleyed with on, Henshaw and Lindsa re ked of f il Then an engineer was brought from Shang- water courses. Under the dirt there are|the south and Rosewater, Mo hai to put them up, but was unable to vast d of coal and iron, exposed by | Meiklejohn from the north, with 1 do so. the water. There is a great deal of coal | tic to hear fron However The old Amertcan firm of Russcll & Co., about the edges of the platean and in the No Matter Which Wins, | when they owned the steamers on the mountain It lie at an clevation of | the Bankers Reserve Life Association will Yangtse, got all their coal from Kukiang. about 2,000 feet in horizontal beds, and Is| continue to write the hest policy he There was an explosion from fire damp and to be scen wherever the rivers have eut| world upon the latest plan, containin the Chinese thought the devil had gotten through most liberal options and opening the wa into the mine and it 18 shut to this day The anthracite geams are unbroken over | for Nebraska people to keep their ving n area of more than 13,000 square |t home to build up great financial instity { How Water Demon Flooded o Mine. They are of a thickness from | tjons in their own midst | Another instance of Chin up oestition twenty-five to fifty feet and of an average 1L Robison, President, cecurred in one of the Kaiping mines, of forty feet. The anthracite gives from | . g.. oncirating to the people of the i which lies near Teng Shan, en the Tien 8 to 10 per cent of ash, and {t 18 but|p. poiessity and the advisabilit of Tsin-Shanhaikwan railway These mine lghtly impregnated with sulphur patronizing worthy home in ton A\t wre the greatest in China. They employ The bituminous coal fields of Shan 8i have | (yo game (ime his corps of underwrite about 10,000 men and have an output of an area of 12,000 square miles, or as great |y wuiiine o profitable business. Write Mr EVERY CONCESSION MUST INCLUDE A SCHOOL FOR YOUNG CHINESE MINING 1500 tons of coal & day. 1 have visited as that of Massachusetts and Connecticut Robison McCague Building, Omaha for ENGINEERS them and can s terms and agency contract v that they are up to date They lie in the western part of the prov in their machinery and modern methods of ince not far from the Yellow river, and valuable to the scientific and industrial ket. Some of the wheelbarrows have sails N iine b are spotted here and there with deposits world Only little can be carried on a barrow, and mines at Kaiping are operated by of petroleum or limestone and rich fron Some of the biggest fortunes of the next the freight rates are so heavy that it costs 953 (phinese under forelgn supervision. Not ore The 20th Century Beer twenty-five years will come from the de- $6 to bring a ton from the mines to Kino ! [ | M ) ' m v “ long ago a new mining engineer from Lon- | | velopment of China's mines. The country Chau, a distance of seventy miles. Coal n ' A Concession Worth Milllons, is n very cave of Aladdin, which needs only worth $2.95 a ton.at the mines sells for §7 008 Was brought to take charge of them. ., ... 0 inis rich territory has been|,Diue Ribbon ia the brand | o (R the genit of modern progress to displ 1t a ton a few miles away He went through the mine .’”M b gobbled up by some hig capitalists, under date in every particular | to mankind Let me give you a faint idea The Germans are now building a railroad surprised to find a large "Iml‘. of the: beat the name of the Pekin syndicate. These e * of 1its possibilities, I have gathered in- to these mines, The roadbed is almost 081 in the center of one of them, He == %o . "ooin from the emperor and I ”‘H"I““ about it from all available completed and the cars are on the way asitediviy ,“ RachHoEAgen ML.“, ou3 .\“". have farmed out the development of their | { find much in the library of the As soon as the conditions become setrled W45 (0N hA AL was the home of o water S CRRG 3o Tatian syndicate, which ‘ i ¢lub, which has pape on China it will be put into operation and this com ‘I“‘l’.""ll"l,. .,,y’v‘.“‘.H. r II‘.“ln-l| ’I:fl l.\- I:.:y"lv m»l“\. ‘. e Claims a capital of §30,000,000 — which unobtainable elsewhere, and 1 will have an outlet to the sea he t'hmr».‘- Aliactonssandipartlvitiatniise e The concessions of the kin syndicate have much from the mouths of Chinese offi- Rich Mines Aong th Yangise, thought there might be something in the include the rights to all the petroleum of done out here was by Raphael Pumpelly, a wonderful rivers of the world It m.n\vr The new n.mn sald Hang the w ,l or ”“I- A .:nl AR AR R Harvard professor, who was t'm]-ln\“ll. by hipy ".”l‘\. 10§ 810G 1} almest .IH‘.H'\-‘ Binn ‘I-‘ i LU RRE QHE LU0 D0 insi oy three million tons of fine anthracite. The the Chinese government as a mmi‘ng <-l|.— The biggest ocean q'"'.m'm.‘ B0 Mlliup it Gbinone atill ipratested, "-m' 88 Lo Snalnion ted is l\n‘n'\ two feet thick on lh--‘ aver- glianr; L GHE Goantafiva Gl B ol A into China as far as New York Is distant they put in a blast and fired it. When the wge. They have other deposits which are tour around the \\'lrl'llL’{lll" much of this from Chicago, and with its ”A‘l.‘”:l.rl“\ 1 wall .of agalufell: o great siream yushed in ‘,i.'l\ more v IV|HI|<|1 i {itia Wias ‘AavataRs theabing MUate yeoett furnishes more |h::|.| 12,000 miles of navi- flooding the mine :|.|nl shutting up access to "I‘Iu i ”“:IH:MH‘ TP S [ investigations 'ave thone af Bason Bishts gable waterways. There are vast coal de many chambers. Since then the water in d | Otenc At A SEchen st B DAL, which could easily be made accessi- that mine has not been controlled, although uthern Shan 8i and extend over into | und, astly, of the engineers and sur- ) ", ho yangtse Kiang. This is so of the costliest of pumps have been purchased. Honan and the mountainous reglons below have concessions from the governme the Shan Si coal beds, which I deseribe fur- The block of coal was in reality a great the Yellow river, comprising a territory | ) ”. 1008 SE0D TRe gAvernmant: ther on. They are the greatest in China, pipe in which a subterranean river flowed #reater than the whole of New England ’ r Chinn's 1y se Coal Flelds, and a short railway will bring them to the through the mine. The coal had been et and forming perhaps the richest con: con Ilirst take the two great industrial met- pgan river, which flows into the Yangtse out about it, but the pipe had been left cession ever made als, coal and iron. China has one of the gt Hankow. The mines of Yunnan are not intact until the engineer ordered it 1 find a general belief he best labor populations of the globe and in eyors of the railroad syndicates which that China le rich in the preciou metals, and the this age of st , with coal, iron and mod- e — — | geological surveys so far made point to the ern machinery, it will be a factor in the ame conclusion The Germans say that world's manufactures, Pumpelly says it there is plenty of gold in- Shan Tung and that | Highest in quality and purit reatest | has the greatest coal fields on earth. There the Chinese there are washing it out of the | jopularit i perfect in tast It m is coal and iron in every province and tream Gold is now being mined in Mon- | miatchless table boer l veral of the provinces are as rich as golia and in different parts of Manchuria.| ‘l'clephone 1260 Pennsylvania in these minerals., o far The Moho Mining company is working | - N | west of Pekin there is a great coal bed placer deposits not far from Mukden; it | 0maha Brew"lq Asso(ia"“n' which extends along the frontiers of Chih Li, has already ¢xp ortod something like $1,000,- | | through the province of Shan 8i, and thence 000 worth of coarse gold, There is gold in| lown through Honan and Hupeh into Yunnan, in southwestern China. There are s L4 tnother vast ccal and iron district n placer depe tlong the Han river and Bt e i i o oo | i JE Stands alone, dera of Thibet : 'abore, apard, Hunan on the south side of the Yangtse Fhere are important coal fields in eight i provinces below the Yangtse Kiang, tnd especially in the province of Yunnan Yunnan is about the size of California It alm as b s the combined areas ¢f Michigan and Wisconsin. It lies right on the border of Burmah and will be reached by the railroad which is projected m Burmah to China The Yangtse ver forms a part of its northern boun- | | Pumpelly found silver in sixty-three dif- ! ferent localities and lead in twenty-four. | In Yunnan the silver is mixed with lead. | The province has algo tin, zine and fron. | Lead is also wound in Fukien, opposite the Island of FFormosa, and in Kwantung, not a ’ e from Canton Fortunes in Copper. ry and through it the coal can have ac- The big div Lyv-{ now heing paid on cop- | to many thousand miles of waterways e ; e : ‘IH'I‘( H""' ”M}‘r"“ } reaching hundreds of millions of people ome time he paralleled in China The | & COPPer or ( n i 0 is | Iit g Yunnan has a population of more than Pl I rich and it is said to exist in | The O“""'IO' \ 1,000,000, and with its coal, fron, copper CVery provines It i being mined in nd other minerals will probably be a great industrial and manufacturing center . . The state has already a trade of 00,000 ' year, a part of which is coal. ; The mines have been worked for ages he previnee is mountainous and the coal both bituminous and anthracite, lles on the edges of a great plateau in the center of e Yunnan, at an elevation of a mile above the 1. Other beds are near the Yangtse Ll 50 in Kweichan below the Yangtse Yunnan has a white copper which is mixed | pURE with tin, iron, nickel and lead, and it has | copper mixed with lver, tin and lead MALT The Yunnan copper ming e now worked by native « i who have been paying w“lsKEY about 1 cent a pound royalty to the gove ernment and four times that amount to the owners of the mine 18 unconditionally uperior to the | lang rivers They are sald to be I know several Americans who are study. oreign article You | ly worked, ing the stones of China with regard to the z'm;e the import duty ericay ke VK N 3 115 3 ¢allon when e in Ge « 2 Amer market I met a gravestone | G 3 mie ormaAn Ching man from Seattle at Hong Kong two weeks youbuy it. Purity \ 1un Tung, which is clalmed by the Ger A P e PR T N above suspicion, h“ rich conl fields. The mines be- province of Kwantung looking 1 p granites Druggists, Dealers sell b, ittt s | sietbiely forty or fifty miles of Kino Chau and marble He told me he expected to| @WILOWSPRINGS DISTILLERY. OMANA U S A q L l extend through the mountainous establish a bhusine in Canton for the mak- | celens back of it, Our consul at Chefoo ng and .-\m; 1 of |.‘m> "wlu and fine | v " 1y ,xu.\-..‘u 1 report made upon some Billdlng stonas to (e linitad Statas: Hal.: e N S ! o a4 o nr‘\ a Il;ur‘ v‘.‘n :{‘nmnm-r He reports s AL gl e THE HAIR TELLS ALL. county, which k ” ”'" thick in Shintal as fine, If not finer, than ours, and that| If slck send a lock of your halr, name, ‘ N A l‘ e says I8 for sale. It s A . ¢ our workmen are not so skillful as the|8f®: e and 4 cts. In stamps and | will viuse 1o another mine which {8 now heing . ' : " = al dlagnose your case FRE and tell you \ 4 operated at a profit. Near this same mine CHINESE MAKE MAGNIFICENT MONUMENTS (Continucd on Kighth Page.) Yhat Wil oure your Mimenta. Address D J. C. Batdorf, Dept. 12, Grand Rapids, Mich'