Show 4 DIAMONDS OP OF WORK IN THE KIMBERLEY MINES hot hat ono sesa lie a i jirar from the tb cap cape through the th trenel a lex nils it theatrical it r described to a chi go ro inice mccon reporter a trip to tie ra ul t diamond iia moad fields of africa lie ald 11 I 1 look took a sit mail lall cn nitting nii ting learner steamer mint f tit up to it fort port anital N stal whence I 1 rut ent to b mil rall thora there I 1 niad it pirt 1 of traders and prospect PIS 4 and ulah fill five fie wit without goti each drawn sixteen heid of oxen wo journeyed jour need t no rite of from to ie e milts a dnn for thieu liny until 11 Te aLlitA kimberley wo we lived well the roid two of na had horses or bie use la in little excursions and no a p pirty airty supplied with pime game wo we tra generally tit at night ae as tic he da were hot hat and the cattle would lot f I 1 at night I 1 should eay say we iid 1141 11 a hold heid of 0 cattle to take the blare lace of any that might bleak down an U the trip our wagon wagons aero ucro liko like feinier prairie schooner rall of alenci except that thit thoa tho wre larger it lioio one of them thein we I 1 lived ived rind IQ in this tills abir imell luggage and anti arms were atole I 1 eitai wagon lad had a dutch anier er and it X emr fora looker FI reaching taching kimberley I 1 found a regular mining bunin towo town the hou houses res bein milt built ef of kd canvas or alett iron irmi all the building murrial biad ad to I 1 io aero across the country in agon trains it etwas was nightfall hen I 1 dad t iten my dinner md and smoked llie first lii hl ei ciar ar I 1 had had for a month 1 lien licit I 1 started out to see the big kim ittle Itt lv mine whelp they were working lj 1 l atrio light this tills a aas alue years io iro in lit tho the be livirt of aft ic t kemem ret neni A wire wira rope topped the dav at tit the i id of the main treet street down which A J hid imil in fecat f rent of roe me was a 1 I liik L ux ex pinac piuse dotted here and there ith N 1 Bitt lam lamp 9 and in fn and out of tim lisp ah ado s ill I 1 i ted tz the form of daled L acs it wa was very werd and a lite lib tic e uncanny canny t in the dark place was the pil leu leis or twelve acres in diameter and ahti about feet deep aith ith sloping sides side leading into the great bowl 1 hare ara no sound except the r of i as the cables brought up tip the 1 in I ivy iron buckets from the places where here the men wiro atre working to the hoi hoisting eting hou houses aes on an the edg edga a of the pit the mine was worked b by com some formed as join joint stock concerns ar a co com bilIA of miners all the claims here vre carefully staked out and pro I 1 r arved according to their surface dimensions men illen if a cave in occurred froia from one on elent 11 to another thu the offending 1 li I uni tint it hid A to malc male good the durna damages es when the kaffits had loaded t their heir buckets they placed on each a ticket indicating what was the character of the earth it contained that which was worthless was carted away the diamond bearing soil wae wag put ut hito luto a hopper and worked through s screens over er which water ran the art first screen taking away the large worthless 21 stones tOnes and lind the others gradually separating abating so the pieces likely to contain diamonds the entire process was superintended by white men wen some of them could neither read nor write but every gang of blacks had a white man plan over them whose chief business it was wits to watch that no kaffir stooped down to PILL up anything an thing it if he did ho vas given an emetic the unish ment for stealing a di diamond amons or a of the blu blue e cr chiy ty that usually con aling the finest diamonds is la te twenty nty jears in prison with work on or tho the breakwaters reak waters at the cape capo it means death as surely a as and a little more painfully than being shot it wt jont often that tho thou blacks receive this punishment ish ishi ment nent they are more k raid of a whip whipping and they get it on their bare backi with a pice of rhinoceros hide bide that draws the blood at every lick I 1 saw one mm nt in whipped an ebony statue the blood trickled from debont it hf I v shoulders to his anet the prisca physician who wie ws in charge of tha 11 affair frAir stopped ped the punishment at thirty 17 1 lah lauf s I 1 e said any more at that particular part t time might night kill the kaffir these negroes were a curious eight si bt they used to go about dressed fla a scarlet ec arlet jacket and a breechclout breech clout A kis particularly arti cula y s 2 sell ell fellow might cover his erect locks with an old bat I 1 never saw one with a shirt oo 00 or with trousers rs A red coat wase wa raiment enough apparently 1 I lave have told 1014 you bow how they got the diamond dismond bearing soil into the hoppers A As the gravel fell through the screens it went want into boxes that were locked sunday was wash up days the baxos ll 11 were brought into the office where directors of OF the company were seated I 1 about 1 table covered with zinc an expert called the sorter took a three cornered blade and the gravel out on the table betro him in the pia of iho directors he threw away the worthless stones I 1 though thought t he lle was casting castin alde the finest and richest dia diamonds but they were only crystal crystals that had no value but a few diamonds were fould la 13 the first bodei where the larger were in those that bad had smaller meshes were found more the result of the weeks work was perhaps a quart of the rou is tones stones many of them being black blac diamonds of little value all ri el those aho that bad had been ared saved were abu tb n token taken before another expert ua pread everead thaes all out 00 a Q me perfectly sheet of paper and betito gati to eort sort them to olio alze and ad naulty quality As last as the aw paper became so soiled td ie tore off A it beet sheel lie put tia stones into little pile plies which ho he lifter after ward ul up aud and sealed marking each according to too ita its character and value all ot at tills thi ua n lono done in lit lie the presence of 0 the dinoto it weiwu t fie 1 e paLk packages ages sealed thes not nolo et either her eold sold on ott the field at 01 uit wit to 1011 don 1 cherb o there 14 ia the grf greti tet market IQ in hu the idill ot 14 hi if i tore tilt mine 1 at kim berlee a 1 ot f anon and women koun it aa 1 1 I 11 s which ille ilia gitin itte itu daimond hutfle ahey live off this tills hinline inline nill jc ch ill through the medium of the awra 3 atey hey are co closely I 1 y hatchl 4 b of every 11 ta elioso ht 80 it for tho the 1 I or 1 I it 11 a to prose cute their trado |