Identifier: handbookoffedera01belf (find matches)
Title: Handbook of the federated Malay states
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Belfield, H(enry) Conway. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: London
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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thousand feet. The following products can be cultivated with success:— Coffee, tea, sugar, pepper, gambler, sago, rice, rubber,cocoanuts, ramie grass, nutmegs, bananas, areca nuts, tapioca,and many varieties of native fruits which yield a profitablereturn. Detailed information regarding the method and cost ofopening estates will be found in Appendix B. Mining for alluvial tin ore in the Western States is theprincipal industry carried on in the country. As alreadystated, Chinese labour is almost universally employed in thiswork. The tin-bearing stratum is usually found at depthsvarying from five to fifty feet below the surface. The over-burden is removed by excavation, and the metalliferous sandtaken out and washed in sluices. The water is controlled bydams, races, and water wheels, and pumps and engines ofEnglish manufacture are used in almost every mine. Theordinary method of alluvial mining is not scientific, and ismore profitable in the hands of Chinese than in those ofEuropeans.
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Federated Malay States. 23 Mining for alluvial tin by hydraulic power has beenintroduced by Europeans and is very successful, but requiresa large outlay of capital. The water is carried for somemiles through iron pipes of about nine inches in diameter,and is forced through a monitor against the hillside, washingdown the stanniferous earth in large quantities and with aminimum of labour. Lode mining for tin and gold has been carried on indifferent parts of the Western States, but not so far withany marked success. Pahang is considered to be the richest of the FederatedMalay States in mineral wealth. Only very small andisolated portions of its area have yet been exploited byminers, but the results obtained have been generallysatisfactory. Up to the present time but little indication has beenfound on the eastern slope of the mountain range of thealluvial tin deposits which are spread so widely over theWestern States. It is being worked only in one or twoplaces close to the range. At the

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