Show SUM SIAM sapphire aar chire MINES value of their product I 1 Is in the quantity not ot quality the pall palan m mines are spread over an area lri a cz rr P s tey by two and consist of 13 uin ao I 1 r r hlll s the chief of which are av xv r 1 I d amr eav aimea ali these ee ft two 0 r oro ciaci four miles apart but 1 i 1 I y re by an excellent ro roid id ca cut i 15 t forest fur cst and well drained sappl i laires the london times are found all over this district the whole i countryside is riddled with holes sunk sank in n the red sail down to the sapphire layer formerly the stones 7 were found quite near the surface but those places I 1 have long since been exhausted although ali I 1 the burmese still continue to I 1 turn over the old heaps in the firm conviction I that precious stones frow now nov the stones are found at a depth off 0 tram rem 15 to 25 14 feet in a reddish gs aravell rell 1 layer of varying thickness sq up un top to 18 inches the pit sunk is usually some five feet in diameter and either square or circular soil is raised in bamboo ba baskets k atta attached ebed to the end of rt balan balanced ceI lever and when the sapphire layer is reached th tha stratum stra rura is carried to 10 the nearest water enfer and washed care carefully fulir fur for aton stones not more than one chrit shaft n three pays for its v orl or gnp ig ec ass but ahe w he the sapphire layer is struck the lite profits ts may giai be lame ine leed tt is ill fill a question of luck and workout work oat one shaft occupies two or three men ore month two or three irakly po go into partnership anti hire bire r aos am miners to work for theta thera and sink ink the shaft huft at the rate of two urn licals two shilling 1 pe anre per IS 18 it inches clips occasionally oele ocle casio nally pailhes cann hires of considerable le aue value reward the rainer but the sap chires of pailin lire are of more mo al avalne valne because se of than because of their in intrinsic excellence |