The magistrate is getting ready tw leave for Luchou. During his stay here, of thirteen years, he has taken an in: terest in gold mining. Some mines about twenty mil's from the city, have been opened and worked with partial success. Two thousand or more miners, are new engaged at the mines aad are dependent on the employment they get there for a living. Now that the magistraro is yoing away he proposes to close the mines before he leaves. The mines are on the Tibetan king's land and he has not been getting anything out of them, so that he wants them closed too. Therefore the king has united with the magistrate in ordering the mines closed. They have given the operators ten days to close up the mines 1d for the miners to yet out. TF the nines are not closed in that time the king, jing to send one hundred, and the trate fifty soldiers into the mines te drive the miners out. Tt means that many of the investors will lose their capital and thousands of miners will be deprived of their occupation. Such is the fte of euterprises controlled by the official class in China.
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