Police Interested in Pamphlet Circulated Locally:
"Richest Field in the World"
SCHEME promising untold wealth to prospective investors in vast mining lands on the western border of Szechuan Province was being investigated by the Shanghai police on Friday.
'The inquiry is based on a booklet, printed in Chinese, which describes the region as a veritable El Dorado, dwarfing in richness the gold-fields of the Klondike, California, and Australia. some places the precious metal actually' shines in the sunlight, it is related, and in one of the mines has been found "a tremendously large column of gold whose weight cannot be ascertained."
The booklet hints at the forma~ tion of a company for, mining the area on a large scale.
'Two of the reported promoters of the scheme, peculiarly enough, fre dead. Hsu' Shu-tseng ("Little Hsu"), who was assassinated some ten years ago, and Liang Dz-yi. Of the living alleged sponsors. three are in. retirement—Fong Dahenien, a former Prime Minister, and Koo Yung, Minister of Labour in the Ching Dynasty, in Anhwei, and Chen, Wen-tso, formerly "Liltle Hsu's teacher, ina monastery in the Wu Tal Sacred Mountains. Other _pro~ moters are Tsai Kwong-tsi and Ching Maz-chien, according to the pam= phlet.
"Richest in Wor at the booklet will con~ vince any reader that in the promoters' avowed opinion there is "gold in them that hills." a3 the California fortune-seeker aptly ¢x~ pressed it @S years ago, Not only Is. there gold, but there are other Valuable minerals as well, among them sliver. As. a gold country, however, it Is "the richest in the And probably the largest, The region is known as Chuen Hai Tu, Ching Ning Ying. Tsung Hwa Ying, 'Tang Tung, Ko Si Tsai, and Kan Mu, all of which are richly endowed' with gold mines.
"PI Kee Mountain has its orig from Tsung Ning. On its norther range lie two branches, one by the name of "Golden Helmet' and the other by the name of Silver Cup." Which appellations indicate to what a surprising extent they contain these precious metals. As the Pi Kee mountain spreads eastwards, the valleys are full of sand gold. unfit they reach Wen Shih Ping, where the natives have a. saying:—Break open Wen Shih Ping and there will be no poor on earth' Wen Shih Ping is Mterally a gold cave.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.