From the small town of Liling, approximately iffy miles south east of Changsha, come reports that the natives are finding deposits of gold' near the surface. In the fields and Jon the hillsides near the city, Chinese Jare working by the hundreds, mining and washing the gold, discovering! surface deposits that evidently are Jauite rich.
The crude methods that are being used are shown by some reports: which state that many people are making a comfortable living merely.
rewashing the dirt that has been jdug up and washed by others. 'Estimates are that between two and five hundred people are earning from to $20 a day through their rough. and primitive methods of mining the gold. Should the find prove to be more than a chanco one, it is expected that the Hunan' Provincial Government will assume charge of As the third general ce the Chinese Medical Association will be held in Canton, meny distinguished doctors are expected in Changsha, en. route to Centon overland through. southern Hunan. Preparations are being made to accommodate forty fuesis with the ce-operation of the! Municipal Government, in order to accommodate those who will journey via this inland route, instead of go-Ing by sea. The Hsiang-Ya Hospital. formerly known as the Hunan-Yale Hospital is the official headquarters {for this area. and Dr. P. F. Greene, Desn of the Medical School of the Helang-Ya Hospital, is in charge of arrangements, as the Chairman of the Hunan branch of the C.MLA.
The guests have been advised to bring their own bedding as it will probably be necessary for them to take lodgings in Chinese inns on their south. When all have assembled here, the large group will then be split up. into several smallers ones. who will continue south through Hunan by bus, frst to Hengchow, and then to Chenchow. South of Chenchow they will make connections with the Canton-Hankow Railway, on which work is being rushed' at a great rate. to arrive in Canton the third day from Changsha. The] trip is regularly made by travellers fr three days From the Hsiang-Ya Hospital will go seven delegates, including Dr.
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