MINING DISTRICTS OF LOWER PERAK. 9 



to about 300 miners. No gold is found at Chaugkat Cliumor. 



This hill is situated a little further to the South-east of the 

 preceding one. 



The works are only carried on in the valley where two Kong- cuangkat 

 sis, numbering one hundred men, are working two mines pro- 

 vided w T ith water-wheels. 



In one of the mines the wash is found at a depth of ten feet 

 below the surface, and is from five to six feet thick. It is fria- 

 ble and clean and gives good results. Small quantities of 

 gold are found with the tin — from 40 to 55 grains to one pikul 

 of ore. 



In the other mine, sixty coolies are engaged. The wash is 

 six feet deep and measures three feet in thickness, resting on 

 a false bottom of clay four feet thick ; below this is a second 

 layer of wash four feet in thickness, the total depth of the 

 mine being seventeen feet. 



The first layer contains a little tin, but no gold, whereas the 

 bottom wash is rich in tin-ore and contains 60 grains of the 

 precious metal to one pikul of tin sand. 



Two furnaces smelt the product and no blast is required. 



At Klian Baru four or five small Kongsis are at work and JK7««« Bar 

 employ one hundred men. The most conspicuous feature of 

 this small district is the greater proportion of gold found 

 in the wash, averaging 260 grains to one pikul of ore. 



Most of the tin-fields in the vicinity of Tapa have been 

 worked since a long period of time, and may be considered at 

 present as pretty w^ell exhausted. New researches must noAv 

 be directed towards the upper part of the river, at the foot of 

 the Batang Padang range, where new deposits will probably 

 be found. 



The general deductions to bo drawn from this rapid sketch 

 of the mining conditions in this wonderful little country are 

 sufficiently evident. 



In all the districts, mining is still in a state of infancy, a few Genera f 



n J 7 Remarks. 



small centres have been exhausted, but they form but a very 

 trifling portion of the country. New fields are constantly 

 being discovered and there remains to establish between them 



