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Show lHaappointliig' Ciold Fields. The gold, fields of South Africa continue con-tinue to disappoint the investing and financial world. For May the ascertained produce of the Witwatersrand was 38,-844 38,-844 ounces of gold, worth about $150,000, which is only a trifle better than the corresponding cor-responding return for May, 1889, although al-though more and bettor crushing machinery ma-chinery has been set to work. That gold is still obtainable, although not at the fabulously great and increasing rate expected ex-pected iu the times of feverish speculation, specula-tion, is plain nevertheless. Of late investors in-vestors have been tempted to declare that there is neither wit nor water, to say nothing of gold, in the whole area, which is an exaggerated way of putting it. The process known as "picking out the eves" of thft minns wpnt nn mnrA rr j less generally when the public were only too ready to behove in stupendous returns, re-turns, however obtained. The tedious process of systematic development has now to be attended to, and within the year wo may hope to see results more closely iu accordance with the real riches of the Witwatersrand than have yet been i obtained. London News. |