A-erh-t'ai

The real purpose of building this railway on the part of the Japanese imperialists at that time was to spy on the Mongolian People's Republic and to transport the timber produced in the A-erh-t'ai forest zone.[…]The principal cargo consists of cut timber from the A-erh-t'ai-shan, and the cereal products of Wu-lan-hao-t'e.

In the mountain region of A-erh-t'ai Shan and Hsiang-t'ien Shan⁷, if the mean west wind velocity is five meters per second, the high tendency at 700mb on the anterior mountain slope may exceed 40 meters in 12 hours.

Veteran herdsman K'o-k'o-tzu of Teng-t'a commune was famous for his "geographic knowledge; he knows many peaks, wate^([sic]), roads, and prairies in central A-erh-t'ai (Altai) Mountain region.

The O-erh-ch'i-ssu River begins in the southern section of the lofty A-erh-t'ai Mountains of Sinkiang. This river is over 2,900 kilometers long and has a large delta area rich in minerals such as gold, iron, copper, lead, zinc, mercury, mica, crystal and "ping-chou-shih" [3056 3166 4258 possibly cryolite]. At the source of the O-erh-ch'i-ssu River, the A-erh-t'ai Mountains reach more than 3,000 meters above sea level. The peaks of the mountains are covered with snow year-round, and rainfall is heavy in the summer.

You who are going to Peking please remember our words. Chairman Mao's kindness is higher than the A-erh-t'ai Mountain. The Kazakh people wish Chairman Mao a long life!

The A-erh-t'ai Mountains are famous for the production of gold.

While stabilized and semistabilized sand dunes prevail in the desert in the Dzungarian Basin, shifting dunes are the rule in this desert, intermittently distributed along both the south and north banks of the O-erh-ch'i-szu Ho [translating 額爾齊斯河 /额尔齐斯河 (É'ěrqísī)] in the northwestern part of the basin. Lying under these dunes are the sloping diluvial terraces and undulating slopes of the mountain bases. Due to its high elevation and its being situated in the river valley between the Sa-wu-erh and A-erh-t'ai mountain ranges, gale force wind penetrates the region in winter and little snow is accumulated.

This mountain is believed to refer to the present-day mountain range of A-erh-t'ai (BTR) or the Altai Mountains that border between the southwestern Mongolian People's Republic and the northern region of the Autonomous Region[...]

The apparent disjunct distribution may be an artifact of no collections made in northernmost Gansu and the A-erh-t’ai shan (Mongolian and Chinese Altay).