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A correspondent of the Shangnai Mercury gives some facta of the working by Japanese of the Corean gold mines in the vicinity of Fusan. The mine is reported to be only eight miles from the fine seaport of Mas sampo. In the mining district of Chagwan there exists bearing quartz reefs and auriferous alluvial soil ; the latter is being washed in the usual way, in primitive native fashion, by those entitled to it, and so is the quartz belaboured in the most un scientific, barbarous manner. After heavy rains many people may be observed wash ing for gold, which has been carried down in the floods from the mountains, and this process has been constantly repeated an nually from generation to generation. The mines were worked for about ten years, under Japanese auspices. The easily con tented Coreans are pleased with their own rude manner of carrying on business, where, if properly cananelh an enterprising and intelligent mining concern might easily OCF 288 paying good dividends to share holders and an excellent royalty to the Government. The Japanese had actually some houses built, and sank seven shafts ; they employed about a hundred natives, besides their Japanese staff and about thirty Japanese miners, but without the neces sary mining appliances, such as stamps and quartz crushing mills, the operatives had to throw up the working. The Japanese were working some rich galleries at a depth of 60 to 100 feet, but the necessa ring and pumping gear made itself badly t.
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Birtle Eye Witness
Birtle, Manitoba, CA
Thu, May 04, 1893
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