This is one of the summer resorts, adjacent to the cities of Jung-'Taeliutsing and Tsichow, being a half day or less from Junghsien and about a day and a half or-perhaps 50 miles from the others. The elevation is perhaps 2,500 or 3,000 ft. above sea level and over 1,500 ft. above the plain. 'The temperature is certainly 10 to 20 degrees cooler than the plain and this allows one to proceed with work, study, letter writing or reading' without great discomfort.
This hill_was bought in 1910 by one of our Mission and named after is son Douglas. The Chinese name is "High Stone Steps" and it in well chosen, There are perhaps 50 acres but very irregular, with a number of hillocks. It is bound by recip ious cliffs from one to two hundred ft. high, covered with a dense growth of small trees, pine In some places wide. There are no Chinese living on the hill as the ground is unfit for cultivation, even corn, Water is naturally searce.
It was divided into 10 plots and cost about $88. silver each. Ad-JJacent sites have been secured, church, a school and 16 bungalows have been built. The bungalows fare mostly a living room, two bedrooms a kitchen and much verandah, built of adobe or mud, board floored, lime ceiled, glassless windows and roofed with tile, costing from $500 to $1,000 silver.
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