EULDJA, CHINESE TURKESTAN. 
This town, where Mr. Frank N. Meyer, Agricultural Explor- 
er, arrived March 25, 1911, is the principal town of the 111 
Province, the scene of the. recent Russian-Chinese controversy. 
It lies at almost exactly 44° H. latitude, and has a strictly 
continental climate, having long cold winters in which the 
mercury goes down to 20° "below zero P., and short, hot 
summers. , 
Mr. Meyer writes, "A dirty unkempt town this Kuldscha is, 
and not populated "by the best sort of folks. A real "border 
town, nominally Chinese, but really Russian, inhabited by 
Sarts, Tartars, Chinese, R-assians, Kirghiz, Kalmuks, Dsungans, 
Manchus and some mixtures between all these races. They 
told me some ten or eleven different languages were daily 
spoken here." 
