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Show A TiiANsmi JUNE. H, L Webster, Manager of the LaEg-taagte LaEg-taagte Mill. Visiting in Salt Lake. EIO IJEFOSITS OF UNIQUE ORE. Gold Tor.nd in Conglomerate Interstrati-fiod Interstrati-fiod W.'h Far.d5tone-Bongbt a " 120 Stamp MJl in Chicago. "H. L. Webster. Johannisberg. Transvaal," Trans-vaal," was the name that caught the eye of a Ti.mks reporter on the Continental Conti-nental hotel register this morning. Mr. Webster is manager of the Lang-taaglctlold Lang-taaglctlold Mining company, at Lang-tangle. Lang-tangle. iu the South African republic. In conversation with the reporter he said that bis visit to America Amer-ica was for the purpose of purchasing machinery, and that he had iust liought a U'O stamp mill and concentrator from Fracr - Chalmers of Chicago. This out tit will cost tl..i company about l."i0,0(Kl delivered at their mine. The I.nngtnagte is an English company, but Mr. Webster said that the American machinery was superior to anything thev could get in England. The company has now a 70 stBiup mill on the ground and with the new machinery now ordered they will have by far the largest mill in South Africa and one of the largest In the whole world. They now employ 100 white men and from IMK) to 7iH) natives. The Langlaagte niiiin Is in what Is known ns the Witwatersratidl gold field and Is about Hill) miles from Kimbcrly. the famous diamond field, and IHM1 miles from Cape Town. The ledgo was discovered about four years Hgo. . I Mr. Webster said that their gold ore was rather unique. The g'dd Is found in conglomerate. This conglomerate is in the form of rounded quart pebbles, cemented together with Iron. It is interstratilled with sand- stone. The ore is low grade unci average from ll'i to.'0 per ton. but according accord-ing to Mr. Wcb.ler, they have almost al-most an unlimited supply of It. They have what ho calls two reels, averaging from four to ten feet in thick lies. These reef have been proven for a distance of tltt miles along the ridge and have been tested to a depth of (100 feet with the diamond drill. 'This immense bed of ore, said Mr. Webster, is supposed to be the basin of an old lake, that in some earlier tig" was wiped out by an upheaval of the tuirface. of the country. coun-try. They are now working nt the northern end of the lake. The ruining outlook in South Africa, he said, was not at present very bright. The mines have not been paying as big as heretofore, but ho thought that this depression was only temporary. tem-porary. Mr. Webster has been visiting tho mines of Colorado, and was very much impressed by the ninny Improved devices de-vices for saving the precious metal ...t....i. i. ...u. ilitoo He will take no i. i" in solne of the big mine of this section and then go to Montana and back east by the way of Ihe Hlaek Hills. He will remain in this country about a mouth and then return to Africa via Ktigland. |