Opening up virgin land proved far harder than he had imagined, transportation was infrequent and costly, and two years later most of his US $ 200,000 was gone. Li Chien just had to abandon his primitive paradise.
然而處女地的開發，卻遠超過李堅所預想的困難，加上交通不便，運輸成本高，兩年內就將廿萬美金花得所剩無幾，李堅只好放棄這個原始的天堂。