Show f I j RAN D 4 x 3 fL rifa a f r ag 1 e x- x 1 c 1 4 r f Id Cade b n 4 lit rig ng n 11 nt t Ig s sa a a ai ad i d Y d dy de 3 e y e ey e eg ek e se s k s y t r fP f C g y yi Y t ts tas as 1 Y s 3 W a r Native DI Digging South African Gold y 1 r t cd by National Unal G l society clety Washington D WU G C Service S f e A 29 20 years search the thea they I a Transvaal South has lias given Iven up what hat Is believed to tobe tobe be the other oilier half of the famous n Cullinan diamond the largest est dia diamond diamond la lamond mond e ever eer er foun found The other half was picked up In two parts one a aWO WO carat diamond of good I an and the other a j G carat car stone Is flawless lese I I the he Trans Transvaal aal rl rightly h has bet been n called the treasure house provInce of South Africa It has bis earned the rIght as well ell to be called a famous treasure region of ot the world for forout forout forout out of ot Its hills and plains ho e come billions of ot doll dollars worth of gold and diamonds s not to mention other valuable minerals The Transvaal aa is b young In hIs hIstory history history tory Its oldest town now an on Important South African educational center will not round out Its first century until 19 9 One has but to glance at Johan Johannesburg Johannesburg Johannesburg the province pro Ince a s l to get the spirit of ot the Trans Transvaal al Strangely Impressive e as one up ap pro ches the city are miles of ot mIne dumps surrounding the ater the mountainous bash bad bone ot of the pros pro province Ince Across the s a ast t plain they stretch like avenues a ot of mammoth monuments as If Ing a climax of ot prehistoric n gran grandeurs deurs 1 les es grandeurs but grandeurs but of what whitland lan land For sometimes they align themselves es In a great wall recall tn In Chwa Chinas s Or again you vou ou catch catchin catchin catchin in their Ita a to Lg Pt s JI pyramids rami or to Iesolo t s Oh yet alain sloping sand hued massifs r b est military fortifications on a ascale ascale ascale scale the world orl has never ne known n The fhe colossal picture tempts one ones incy s Fancy It If the Hand s gold mines crumbled to nothingness leasing lea Ing only the dumps dumpe some writer a m mil millennium hence might ably describe them as those mIghty works rell reared ed perhaps as defenses or patriotic monuments by then the lie n an indents dents of the T Twentieth century If It you ask a local statistician to Jh ghe e vou sou OU some approximate idea ot of the dumps dump tonna tonnage e he may a ask l In turn ouM you prefer It In ocean ls or in Egyptian p pyra ra mods T Twenty enty thousand Maure would about equal l and nd I e would could ouM some somewhat hat exceed the dumps tonnage Or shifting the comparison on that tonnage would be approximated b by bv aligning across the I and lod replicas of the great U Stumbled on Ten Billions Stubbing one ones s toe against n a ten billion dollar gold reef reet Is 11 an e ence riser ved ed to the few It w was as In JS that Gt George orge Wall u cr out for a stroll accidentally kicked Into a agold gold bearing outcrop of ot whet pro ell to be the mal main n reef I of ot the Here Jre like a vast hoI ho I Imbedded ed fact face upward p pard ard was a mile mlle mile stretch of oC gold imp rod rock th thit I t If you iou ou belle believe bellee e In KIsmet had iss 1 awaited lied George s In Intrusive toe tOl over since earls e-arh geologic times And now v upon that treeless un uninhabited unInhabited inhabited no man mans s hn land there fir ap Ip appeared geared a tawdry 0 mining village ot of tents and covered lOvered wagons Tele Tele- Telegraph Telegraph graph wires hummed and the ill 11 huge luge became a raw tin shack hucl town of 1000 people The ng I ngI i r roses lost half the gold goldi I l Yet who ho cared red since the I I l Ine Inexhaustible Sup Sup Sup-re up ru cre teamed from Crom miles mile miles et let et who ho minded fancy fancy s d d as to the water short vii 1 right lets Ills s bring In chum cham Ilius began beg the babyhood of Jo which today though a 8 amere amere In mere re youth In years vears Is a giant In The fhe largest African town south of Cairo and chief corn com mercial plexus of the UnIon Unions s B hinter hinterland land Jo burg has a n municipal area of ot nearly ne Irly 8 82 square miles and ands me pe people pic plc In the Deep Mines The fhe mines whether i er cr at work ork or play piny I resell a unique Here one Is In WOl work k hours descending by skip shIp lift Into luto the Interior of the llie earth at the speed of an un express elevator dig holes u as 1 as Americans sLy sky sky wore snore more grandiosely In fact your point proves pro 5 to tobe tobe tobe be one au and one uric third milts miles below the tH l rrth t s surf ice Ile lour Your Impression of i 1 I this tills subterranean lit electric-lit town ton to n with Its a avenues n and nd cross where thousands of or men Ilien are arc drilling or loading the auriferous crate erate Is one of cleanliness neat neat- neatness neatness ness and than and s to the giant v ventilators en of of a not too warmth You stay long enough h to watch a surface hoist start off with Its Dt 04 ton load oa which It will lift up that mile or more of shaft to the crush crushIng crushIng crushIng Ing and reduction plant In about two minutes Then you regain the skip and ascend once more to what measurIng holes by sh skyscrapers scrapers the cabie operator ml might ht ably announce as Two Two hundredth floor last stop I That whIch winch you have glimpsed Is but a tiny tiry corner of what Is iq In of et feet feet a vast subterranean city whoso whose ads measures 70 miles whose workers number and whose shafts avenues and streets total 4 miles or approximately the length of ot the African continent And the business of this super mole city Is to disgorge 0 over er one half ot of the world worlds s annun annual gold production How flow to handle that grand total of 1 men 00 90 per cent of ot them Bantu antu who eIther cither above e ground or under It work on the Ule Rand nd whether Recreation Recreation whether hether golf tennIs bowls S swimming ImmIng or nath native e dances dances- dances Is universal l el with Ith Inter mine sports ns as a corollary As to health and safety each e man regularly under undergoes undergoes goes medical c examination first aId aIdIs aidis aidIs Is taught to many thousands s while that cheery organ the Reef ads ad you on everything e from keeping ht bt to gh giving Ing accident pre prevention tips to American visitors In what hat Is s thought to be e as thus Say loll foil 3 S were ere right hero here at ata ata n a real slap up gold mine Lady from Memphis please don t eject your gum down the shaft That pellet will sill 1 accomplish a of miles per second and antl gl give e some one a headache Huge Cost of Supplies Whoever hoever presides 0 over er the mInes commIssarIat must at times devel develop op a genuine housewIfe s Headache I et us Imagine a C sin Mr Ir and Mrs Irs Transvaal nal making up their household books at the close of ot W 1928 1023 Hum num I Six Sit SI millions of dollars worth of ot food for our native nathe e bo boys s sIta Ita Rather tiler steep my dear Let me look papa Oh tons of meat melt beans ns and that fish fish accounts for It t Hum I I suppose tons of soap for baths and 3 tons ot of candles are correct Here s OO for the boys clothIng slickers and boots Hum Humi I SprIng that cleaning that that s the paint an and tar hr 1 I ut what s this extra S O for Cor Salt Salt papa Th Tub The bo boys hos 5 love oye theIr pInch of salt and nd and Salt I Just salt I 11 Why v mamma do you vou OU realize that our little IrLUe house household household household hold Is costing us In stoles stoics Si-I Si a icar ear But ut the Transvaal like South In generl general Is 11 as sailed In respect to treasure houses as was ancient Delphi with Its treasur les In the Pretoria re region lon and also near Rustenburg and In the ush eld ed Complex there are apparently unlimited Iron resources whIle the last named region promises to yield one of the greatest t platinum In the world Iho he 1 he Trans Transvaal Transvaal vaal s annual production values In Ingo ingold Ingold go gold silver sll platinum and the base metals total something like 15 SIG Diamonds Play flay Be De Anywhere And then there are the ever crop pink pIn pInup up one diamonds diamonds one might al almost almost most say sa sav those Irrepressible South AfrIcan diamonds one never ne knows vs v where here the will III turn up next nest Here Is the s famous PremIer mire an even larger cra crater ter than Its defunct forerunner at In about a quarter of ot a century the has produced some G Gl tons of diamonds includIng IncludIng Ing the famous Cullman Its Ion long longest est cst dimension was waa 41 4 Inches Its shortest was 2 Inches and It was 0 as cut Into nine large stones stone and ond scores of ot smaller makr ones Blasting hour at the Premier as aJ beheld from rom the crater s B edge Is n a strikIng i i hiL At the late kiven moment a ret red Rag Hag flutters a bell clangs s sand and multitudes multitude of Yo worl men are seen scurrying Ing for ra ensues a n veritable barrage of some somo 2000 dynamite charges chuie hurling successive e masses of ot blue blueearth blueearth blueearth earth In air then the explosions die do down don n the wort orl er ery reappear to load lond the debris i on trucks that as cn cool 1 to the crushing plant and tho day days 8 ll t ig di mond offensive c is 18 os 0 ll Li |