His Excellency, Governor Tuan Fang, keeping up to his reputation as a pro-oficial. Ho is actively promoting mining industries along foreign lines and has at the present two well-known German mining engineers employed. It is the intention to construct smelters and stamp mills for the extracting of various valuable minerals from the ore and if the plan is carried through Hunan may astonish the world with her fields of gold, copper, silver, coal, ete. One of the German engineers is now on his way to Germany to buy the necessary machinery for the plants to be constructed. Hi Excellency, the Governor, has also introduced the telephone to staid old Changsha and the various yamens are now being connected by the telephone. It is understood that an extensive electric plant is to be installed and that ina very short time the whole city wi be illuminated by electricity.
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