Show I 1 In England there Is a feeling that the I wnr If f not about closed In South 1 rlc has reached n slugs which will enable the owners of the mines ut Johannesburg Jo-hannesburg to commence producing I again This Bradstreets says gives much of the dull strength which thci London market has displaced for the past month I was feared that the mines had been ruined and lhat the machinery had been greatly Injured but an examination has beep made and I I at a comparatively light expense the i whole great row of Rand mines can be set to producing bullion The account ac-count says that tho damage from flooding flood-Ing Is comparatively small i that the I leading mines arc virtually Intact The I I mill machinery has also suffered much II less than was supposed and it is asserted as-serted lust so soon as white and native j tatc II labor can return to the Rand In sum I cent numbers there will be no obstacle to defeat the opening up of the principal princi-pal goldproducing mines of the district within a very short lime I has always al-ways been a wonder to us why those mines were not so disabled by born PauL that it would have required years to set them going again I must cither have been because he had hopes of winning J win-ning and wanted to work the mines himself or that the old man realizing I I that the mines were the property Inmost In-most part private pates thought It I I vtuuiu uu wrong LO 01 uiauy sacrusco I J them We give the old man the credit of generous doubt I |