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Show r poor and not calculated to sustain a very largo population, such as is found elsewhere in China. Mr. Wisel remained at the Jchol mines until February 14, lHflO, when he started on his return journey, lie traveled trav-eled as before, by cart to Tientsin. The river was now free, of ice, and at Shanghai Shang-hai he went on board the Chinese Merchant Mer-chant Steamship Navigation company's steamer to Shanghai. Thence to Yokohama Yoko-hama he was u passenger on the French mail steamer, where he embarked on the l'aciiie mail steamer City of Kio do Janeiro for San Francisco. No stops wero made between Yokohama and San Francisco on the return voyage, and iu eighteen days after leaving the Japanese port he arrived, April 20, 180, iu San Francisco, having been absent sixteen months. Mr. Wisel reached his home in Salt Lake last Thursday looking none the worse for his long journey and many hardships. He has some idea of returning return-ing to China in four or live months to engage in gold quartz mining on the coast of tho yellow sea for Russell & Co. This firm is composed of Americans, Ameri-cans, and has been established in business busi-ness on the China coast for forty years. CHINESE SILVER MINES, The Travels of a Salt Laker Through tho Iuterir of China and Back Home. MONGOLIA AND ITS INHABITANTS, A District Barren of Interest to Americans Ameri-cans and Not Very Rich in Ore, diaries Wisel left Salt Lake December Decem-ber 3,188, under contract to Lee Hong Choug, the viceroy of China.to reopen, in a practical shape, some old silver mines situated iu the province of Mongolia, Mon-golia, China. He sailed from San Francisco, Fran-cisco, December 8, on the Pacific Mail steamship (lily of Kio do Janicro, and on the passage called at Honolulu. At Yokohama he look passage on the Japanese Jap-anese mail steamer Tokio Maur, and arrived at Shanghai January 14, 1881), Owing to the frozen condition of lhe river Mr. Wisel traveled inland from Shanghai to Tieiilscn, a distance of 1200 miles. About ollO miles of this journey was performed by canal, and the other 000 miles by cart draw n by mules, lie passed through the Hooded and famine-stricken district of Whong Hoe or Yellow river. Arrived at Tientsin, Tient-sin, ho again took cart for the Jchol silver mines, 400 miles further on, Mr. Wisel found that the mines were situated in a mountainous country almost al-most stripped of wood. At one limn it had been heavily covered with timber, but the natives had cut this nearly all down. In scattered patches, however, there still remained oak, elm, birch, chestnut and a little pine. -The mountains moun-tains are none of Ihcm lofty, the altitude alti-tude not exceeding 3ri00 feet, and coming com-ing down to about 1700 feet above Sea level. The .pre 'is found in; small but well defined ledges, and is principally silvor-Jcad, silvor-Jcad, running from forty to five hundred hun-dred ounces to the ton, the percentage per-centage of lead -being low. These mines have been worked iu a very primitive way by the native's for close on to a century, and havo;pro-riuced havo;pro-riuced large quantities of silver, accord-iug accord-iug to Chinese reports from 10,000,000 to 18,000,000 ounces. . The people of the mining district and lhe surrounding country are called Mongols; after' tho province in which they live.' They -are a' hardy, well-formed well-formed race, larger in stature than the Cantonese of the south and of a more docile and a more even te-ruper. About half the men, wear queue. The chief food of these, people is produced from millet seed, rice not growing so far north. Their meat dietis beef, mutton, goats' flesh and chickens. Vegetables similar to those in tho United States arc extensively grown, and also u poor grade of pears, peaches and ap pies.' Wheat is cultivated to a limited lim-ited extent. The country is thickly but not densely populated. The soil is I |