04 COGGIN BROWN : MINES & MINERAL RESOURCES OF YUNNAN. 



Other Localities. 



I passed through P'ing-tai in March 1910. This place supplies 



iron to a great part of the Yung-ch'ang Fu 

 Yung-ch'ang Fu. prefecture . It lied two days to the east of 



the city itself and is quite close to the Mekong. The ores are 

 obtained locally and are smelted in high blast furnaces of the 

 untapering variety mentioned above. The crude material is worked 

 up into bars of wrought iron for general smithy purposes, and there 

 is also a foundry for the manufacture of iron bowls. 



In the Yuan-mou Hsien district, I heard of a mine at Yi-na- 



ch'ang, five miles from Lung-kai, a village 

 Yuan-mou Hsien. th main road between Ma-kai and 



(hit. 2o° 28', long. 

 io^°-0') Ma-an- slian. 



There is an iron ore mine at Lao-p6-ya in the Teng-ch'uan Chou 



~. district, and one stage from the town of that 



Tcng-ch uan Chou. mi ■ i i -, 



(lat. 25° 55', long. name. There are said to be over 10 separate 



100O5/ ) workings which find employment for more 



than 40 men. Cast iron is made on the spot and turned into 



pans. I believe that these are used in the brine-boiling centres 



around Yiin-hmg Chou (lat, 25° 48': long. 99° .18'). 



Hui-li Chou is supplied with iron from I-lang Ho, two stages 



west of the city and also from a mine and 



llui-li Chou. ,. T 



smelt at Lao-ping-wan. 

 Davies mentions a small iron-stone mine at Chiao-tso, a village 



near Ssu-clreng, on the route between Hsin- 



ping Hsien and Yi-men Hsien. It lies 



approximately 20 miles north-east of Hsi-o Hsien and doubtless 



belongs to the group of small producers referred to by Lantenois 



as existing in that region. This particular mine is said to be worked 



on a very small scale and did not appear to be very productive. 



Most of the ore was smelted near the mine and there appeared to 



be enough to keep one small furnace in operation. (D., p. 20G). 



It was reported to me at Shui-chai in 1908, a village between 



Yung-p'ing Hsien Yung-ch'ang Fu and Yung-p'ing Hsien, on 



(lat. 25° 27' : long, the main route to Ta-li Fu that iron was 



"° 32 '*) smelted at Tong-shan, three stages to the 



south. This probably refers to the P'ing-tai neighbourhood which 



I visited in 1910. 



Near T'ieh-ch'ang, a village four or five miles to the south-west 

 of Yung-p'ing Hsien, I found heaps of iron slags but I could not 



