142 MY VISIT TO KLIAX INTAN. 



My own opinion is that the lowest pass from the Kroh 

 plateau to the mines, and also the lowest pass from the 

 Kroh plateau into Keclah, will he found to he at Padang Niring 

 Todok. We then went on to Padang Berkwai, a mile or so 

 further, and camped there. Dato' Mat Saleh, the Kemenan 

 of Kroh, received us and had a long chat. 



On my second visit I appointed him to he our Penghulu. 

 Under him are the villages of Becha Deradap, Padang Berkwai, 

 Kwa (three), Kroh and Klian Intan. 



Under the Kemenan are " Nehan " (local headmen), who 

 are only appointed if there are ten families in a village. They 

 have no very definite rights or duties, hut are occasionally 

 useful to the Penghulu or Government Officer when labour 

 has to be procured for some special purpose. They have 

 hitherto been responsible for the carrying out of " forced 

 labour." 



At 8 a.m. on the 12th June we moved on, and at 12.40 

 reached the mines- — very bad broken hilly country. Mr. Kemp, 

 of the Reman (or Rahman) Tin Mining Co., met us and put us 

 all up. Mr. Kemp's mine is a revelation, and it is almost in- 

 credible that he has been able to convey so much machinery 

 and set up so magnificent a mill in such an inaccessible place. 

 There are 25 head of stamps on a hill, next door to Mr. 

 Kemp's house. Water is brought by gravitation from the 

 Kajang river from a hill behind. Firewood is brought from 

 the valley below on an endless chain, railway trucks, full of 

 water, pulling up the trucks of wood. The mine itself is a 

 hill, 2,300 feet high, in front of the mill, but f mile away. An 

 overhead wire rope — 3,800 feet long — carries 11 cages at one 

 and the same time, brings the stone from the hill top to the 

 mill, and takes empty cages back to be filled. The mine is 

 technically knowm as a Stockwerk, and it is estimated that it 

 will produce 10,000 pikuls of tin in the next twelve months. 

 The property is 220 acres in extent. 



The Rahman Hydraulic Mine — Mr. Pearse, Manager — 

 has about 600 acres of land all round Mr. Kemp's hill top. 

 The water for this proposition is brought in an open ditch for 



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