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natural outlet, by reason of the high barrier range of mountains on the Kwangtung bórðar, which absolutely cuts off all communic-
ation.
Mining it should be noted is the industry of Hunan par excellence, this province containing coal, iron, antimony, lead, tin, zinc, mang-nese, wolframite, realşar, ursenic, copper, silver, and gold. The famous Shuikoushan lead, zonc, and silver mine with easily the biggest output of any non-ferrous metalliferrous mine in China, having an annual output of 30;000 tous, is in
and Hainghua antimony mines Southern Runan as are also the Anhua
The large Pinghsi-ng colliery and the Pingklang gold mines. although actually geographically in the Kiangsi Province commer- cially may be consileral as in Hunan, to Chuchow, in which latter
It would thus join up with province it is connected by rail. the Caton-llankov Railway.
As you know, we only took up the question of completinų the Canton-Hankov Railway in connection with and as incidental to our serch for a deposit of workable coal within economic distanc
tance of Hongkong.
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Our Wolframite engineers having found traces of coal in the North of Ewangtung, and we being well aware of the grut and vital importance to Hongkong of obtaining a good local coal supply we brought up a colliery mining engineer from our coal p operty in the Malay States to make a systematic and thorough serca for a commercially workable deposit.
After over a year apent in examining and testing coal depsoits, our engineer, Mr. J. Barr, came to the conclusion that the only valuable deposits were some gonsiderable distance be- ying the present railhead at Shiuchow, and that before we could proceed any further in the matter of opening a colliery of a size
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inlfuence on Bongk onė, va must first got the line completed over the mountain range and through to the Hunan
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