The gold bearing land of the Jcountry will be divided into state and ce-operative areas. The state will take all the gold bearing plots in the northern parts of the Hingan, Province and all similar lots in the Heilungkiang and rin provinces, while the co-opera tive gold bearing plots will {those which are to be found in the Mukden and Jehol provinces and in the southern part of the Hinean province, Gold mining on. those plots will be sanctioned by the Government. "A special gold" min: ing corporation will carry its operations under the" joi management of Manchoukuo "and Japan. In the beginning this com-will carry on its work on the ie gold bearing plots and will also develop operations in' other mining areas. Some of the state mines will be offered for working jon rental terms.
For the purpose of preventing jarly gold leaving the country an embargo has been placed on_all output and in forbidding the export About one year ago the Depart ment of Health National Government established a county hospital here under the direction of Dr. Wang Vu-tsang. On October 1 this hospital celebrated "the completion of twelve months work. The Minister of Health, Dr. Liu, and some other came to Taichow and inspected the work. There is much to encourage them and in the course of a few more years there may be a disappearance fof the old hot. needle in this part of Kiangsu and the old Chinero physician may find that he has to {go to work at some useful oceupation and cease to. prey on the credulity of the public. In. this connection it can be mentioned that Taichow has one of the most active Jand up-to-date "magistrates ina, Mr. Chang who has held the office of magistrate here for several years la a returned student from Europe and he endeavours faithfully to push forward the development of his district. Two years ago he had a project for automobile road. from Taichow to the Yangtze but, opposition, and also financial difficulties, were t0 great that the road did not. materialise. However, if Mr. Ford is interested in the sale of cars in the JOrient he should keep his eye Taichow because, in another few years, the honk and dust of the motor car will be as common Taichow county.as the squeak of the wheelbarrow is now.
he local electric light Company also been infected with the ficiency idea and lately "has installed a new power plant, now have an engine of 360 h. p. and promise bigger and better service at a cheaper rate. Let us hope that the cheaper rate is veal-ised. We believe in light. Tt is a useful agent in driving out darkness and. ignorance. Perhaps another year Taichow people will be saying: il to the Light Brigade" without the echo: "Oh, what a Charge they made."
Crops in Taichow county are Jabandant but there is _coinplaint that the prices for farm products fare too low for the farmer. One man's meat is another man's poi-mor, to quote a, Chinese proverb, always Bad with Good." of gold the Government will, tal measures to purchase the gold out~ put. All gold from the state mines Jas well as fromthe other areas will be purchased by the Government. Manual Inbour which has been in existence up to the pre sent will be replaced by, rational methods for the purpose of increasing the output.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.