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JOHANNESBURG--THE CITY OF GOLD

HOW LONG CAN IT EXIST?

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HOW THE PRECIOUS METAL IS BEING MINED.

In the heart of South Africa, a from all parts of the world to this | hnadsome houses among lovely gar

dusty, stopy and inhospitable deps. There wore attractive parks veld ex trams had to drag in for passing ours, with almost all the wilderness where, over the roadless and a soological garden far sur hundreds of miles all the supplies splendour of African animals well and machinery of a mining

represented.

thousand miles from Cape Town and more than a mile above the ses, stands one of the most interest ing cities in the world. Its sole reason for oxistence is gold, and It 330,000 inhabitanta all get their iring, directly or indirectly, from the mines that underlic its streets or the surrounding country.

Half the world's production of the precious metal comes from the Witwatersrand, of which Johannes burg is the centre.

CATOP.

Ly other countries gold is found shear zones, in quartz veins or bodies, a constant worry to mine usually irregular and uncertain ore managers; but on the Rand the banket ores are actual sheets of rock which can be followed underground for whole equaro miles like a seamȚI of coal, making gold mining a much more stable industry than any. where else in the world. Not all of the banket is of workable

the

area is only just "payable," as mining engineer says in South Africa, while large parts can only be worked at a profit if mining and milling costs are kept at the lowest possible point.

Thus it came about that Johannes- burg was founded on a barran table- in the year 1888. With the opening Iand in the heart of South Africa of mines for sixty miles along the Rand farms that could hardly have been given away two or three years before became immensely valuable and poor men suddenly became rich, Forty-five years ago there was no

It was presently found that the Johannesburg, only a broad and beds of banket containing gold be- Lare stretch veld" divided longed to a great buain which flat Inte Bock forme el out the so however, macha knew dimensions, cach covoring some beside the "waterop mines" worked thousands of acres, where sheep from the surface, the ote continued and cattle managed to find pasture into a spoed row of properties, the enough to live. On this windawopt" deeps," of which nothing could Boi-desert beds of conglomerate be ecco until drill holes or shafts cropped up here and there, very un. were sunk spon them. promising rocks called by the Boers In 1905, the gold camp had become banket because the quarta bustling city, but was distinctly pebbles suggested almonds in uunttractive, rising a troles, whete favourite Dutch cake.

with ugly headgear and shaft bouses A little gold had been found in and pale grey heaps of tailings the region, but its source was un-scattered over the landscape. Al known, and the batten looking ready the land had attracted great quartzite and conglomerates attract mining companies and a crop of cd no attention until & persistent millionaires had begun to grow up prospector named Struben began to as the nines deepened and proper- study them and convinced himself tics rose in value. that the banket was gold bearing.

The Gold Rush.

There has been much discussion as to the origin of these unique geld deponits so different from those of any other mining region, and the general opinion is that they are really anciant placers formed by rivers coming from the north spreading beds of sand and gravel over hundreds of square miks of an old land surface. These early placers mast have been far more artansire and uniform than those Twenty-five Years' Development,

of California or Australia or Klon- Last summer there was another dike, since the Rand has already Al length be induced

fow opportunity to visit dhe Rand dur supplied more gold than all of these The Klondike in ita friends to help him out and actualing a meeting of the Goological put together.

y dug up some very rich specimens, Congress in South Africa, and it

beat year,

some 1900, yielded proving that his theory was right. was evident that the raw, crude £4,500,000, and it would take a President Bruger, of the Transvaal mining camp of a quarter of a hundred Klondikes to equal the Republic, then almost bankrupt, century earlier had developed into output of Johannesburg, in spite of Lastened to proclaim the Rand open a substantial and in many respects the richness of some of the Yukon as gold diggings, and then began beatiful city with well-wooded į placera. the usual rush of gold-hungry men 'suburbs where mining anagustes had (Continued on Page 2.).

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Lecture on The Fourth Karako- iroum Expedition" by Mr. Ph. C.

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