Hot Springs Winter Resort in Fey Weather Front Oun Own Comrsroxext Chungking, Feb. 7.
The common people seem to be more hopeful and happier than usual. Taxes are less heavy, the Province is fairly free from bandits and the Reds, and there is promise a good crop this season. They consider the New Year's snow a sure omen of prosperity, and after all, prosperity is a state of the mind and of of financial conditions.
T was talking an old man yesterday who has lived in Chung-King more than seventy years, and Ne said it was the heaviest snow within memory. Other residents made the same statement It snowed steadily for 36 hours. Many parties to the hills and hot springs were cancelled because of it, and the people remained at home and hovered over their open fire boxes, Yeta few of the bolder ones bravéa the elements ang made their excursions.
One party Jeff on the second day of the year and went to the Southern Hot Springs. These ie about fifty south and the trip was made in chairs. Because of the snow the price jumped from 35 cents per man to 80, Yet this was not too" high, considering "the weather and the snow. The trail is along the old route into the Kweichow Province, running south from the river, over the first range, then down the valleys and over lower passes, 'They report that snow was seven Inches on the hills, or more, and that trees and bamboo' were" weighted down by it and some of them broken, Tu some places an extra man was yecded to go on ahead and break the all, since the party was the first to through,
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