| Show A cameo Bonanza CHICAGO Feb HA conference of great importance was held today between two Chinese dignitaries and repfnIUns of the big mIn Inc machinery firm orT Fraser < k Chalmers I of f city The result was that negotiations were formally entered Into looking t the construe lon of a ibeehundredstamp mil In the mountains of China The magnitude of the deal may be understood un-derstood when it i stated that the mill set up complete will cost nearly four million dollars Including Includ-ing transportation erection skillet lOr tlpton Chinese Informed them that there had bran discovered the richest and mott extensive gold bearing lead In the world The ChIne have known for many years that In the mountains of Eat Shan In the province of Bbau Tang there had been gold but not until a year ago did they realize the extent of It when some one who had worked in the mines tudmllls in California began prospecting and discovered the bonanza plnp They erected a rudo mill and from tho outset the product of gold was eiiorinou They claim that not a I ton of oru taken out h yielded I stan s-tan 700 while much oUt has run Into the thousands Tho matter Woo kent nultt and a bltr stock com pony formed that secured control of pny eighty miles or land in the vicinity and the two Chinamen now here were sent t this country t make for the preliminary arrangements te purchase uf machinery etc aud aloe to float a xjition of the stock Chu LingIClanand Tong Sing Kou landed In San Francisco two months ago and had no difficulty indisposing In-disposing of the stock 1 wealthy Chinamen of that City From here they have gone to Washington In an interview one of them said that the gait roperty i on I peninsula across the sea from thepeniiiiula of Cores and directly west I It ha said within sixteen miles of the seacoast sea-coast and not more than twenty miles from a good port They contemplate = Irku template erecting the finest plant in tile world During the day there was a gieat hubbub among the well todo Chinamen of Chicago and fully a score of them called at the hotel and talked with their countrymen country-men Tho visitors are richly attired at-tired ton and wear the mandarin but |
