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Show I Last Year This Region Gave Thirty-Three Per Gent of World Total. 1. MACHINE DRILLS . BEIXG UTILIZED Labor Shortage Raised (he Cost of Operating in Past Season. The reports or the joint, managers of (he golcJj mining compiinics operating: In H the Transvaal, now .-it hand; give an In- Hj icrcstlng- review of I lie affairH of the j sold mining industry in that district for Hj the past year, says Kinnrfclnl America Hj The manager.-!, after rccallins that in 1 their previous report they foreshndowod that tho operations of. (he mines tnlslil be hampered by labor t-horiaxc. stale ihut 1 their forecast has boon borne out bv rc- AjIv. although the supply of labor ln--rcased far mor rapldlv than was gen-erally gen-erally anticipated. The increase in tho labor complements, however, hu only been aitrilned hy nieariK of very heavy J expenditure.1;, competition hain forced j tip the prominmii payable to recruiters. "while in most, cases tho rate of payment j of the natives has boon raised and the mines have generally to bo content with 'esn efficiency on the pari of the laborers than could reasonably be expected and obtained if the supply were more plen-tlful. plen-tlful. Greater use has necessarily been made of machine drills, which m most cases resulted h raising tho cosL of mln-inn. mln-inn. while in sonic pases it has proved difficult to keep the tonnage milled at the figure of the preceding year. Tlje following table shown tho result, obtained under those 'conditions by the Transvaal gold minlnr: industry in ccn-eral, ccn-eral, for the year ended August .11. bus! 190. Changes. Total cold -out- put. fine or. .. 7."t?L"72 Inc. 1.4S7 Ynluo'al .C-i.247. 3 1.209. 120 Inc. Xl.Uir. Tons of ore crushed U1.S37.7S:: Inc. 30r.92( Est. mining- pro- fits from poid. XlI.6lu.0W Dec. J-9S2, 153 J? months end- ' t jup June -Value of Trans- aa.l Imports- -j.. 'M" ." (PM'IUfIvo. SP3- "-Or''- f. 1 ;J .- cie. govern- .','f . t . merit, military V and railway r', iv- BBfl stores and ma- . 1 ' teriaH .CIS. 756.565 Inc. .J11.315 Value of Trans- v-' vaal exports PBfl (exclusive of s--pr.cle and Im-j Im-j ports re-csptd) S:'..Stt2.S?3 Inc. -163,117 C- S. A. Railway revenue 5,670.00D-Inc. 1,132.1171 'Approximate. It la estimated that the white men.cm-ployed men.cm-ployed on all Transvaal sold mines rc-celved rc-celved In salaries durlnc the year ended June wP, 1010. i ho mim of 7.541, 482. u'hlle the native and HiincFO earned 4.7?2.o51 and 01.6F.6 respectively: thus the estimated total sum paid by Trans-vanl Trans-vanl pold mines In' salaries and wafies for the period mentioned amounted to some 12,o9.:i,'-ltl0. or. If coal and, diamond mines and chemical works and kindred Indus-tries Indus-tries ari' included. i:t.7-H,BlS. Gold to the vahift of 31.044.70.". was declared " during the same period, which amount, it 19 entimatcd. was distributed as fol-lows: fol-lows: P.O. To workinp costs 15.550.000 SO.Tn To dividends P.S60.000 P.O. 15 To profits tax O'.G.OOO o.ll To i-rescrve fund. deb. redemption, interest, .-ctc. .-ctc. f 2,t0n.75o 6.99 Total 31,0M,753 100.00 It. will be seen, that the estimated 'cost of recovering the cold namely. IS.350.-000 IS.350.-000 amounts to nearly 60 per cent of its total value, the application of this sum being approximately as follown: P.C. 6,4007000 whites' Kafarles arid wages 21.50 4,000,000 colored - and Chlnebo wnfibp 21.56 7.150.000 .stores 1.000.009 sundries 1.. f-t...9 18,550.000 ', . .. 1f00'00 The followlnt: show ihe sold output of the TranFvaiil, vmpared with the gold output of the world, from which it will be seen how important the Transvaal is as a gold producer and that satisfactory procrress has beon made: Year ended D"camber 31: .World's Transvaal P. C. of , gold output, gold output. Trans. 19H5 77,716.000 20,$5 1,000 26.S 1005 S2.2D1.000 '24.606.O00- 29.0 1307 ., S4.745.000 37,401.000 32.3 100S 01.355.000 29..0S6.000 32.3 . 1000 93.?00,000 31.00C.000 33.0 It will he again obsen'ed that year by year the Transvaal has improved Its po- The output of gold from the mines of the Transvaal 'during October amounted to C53.147 ounces of fine cold, valued at 2.774,390. which compares with G16,SPfl ounces having a value of T 2.747.553 for thfc month of Septenjber. It is interesting interest-ing to note that the Ocrflber output for the last five yearn has been a foljows: 1006. 540.600 ounces, slvin? a dally average aver-age of 74,076: 1007. 553.53 ounces, daily averaKe of 75,816; IPOS. 617.744 ounces, daily average of S4.645: 1000 602.416 ounces, daily average of 82.545. and 1010, 653.147 ounces, . dally average value of S0,406. From thene figures It will be ccn that there has .been, with tlm exception "oflast .year, a progressiva advance, from 540.609 oupces. valued 11 1 2.296:361 for October. 1006. to 653.147 ounces, valued at 2.774.390 for Inst month, or an Increawft over the five years of 112.538 ouncc.s, of a value of 478.029. In spite of the fact that tho output for last month was heavier than that for September, the average' daily production was less, after making allowance for the fact that there was one working day more in -October. The average for Octo- ber was 21.069 ounces and for September 21.663 ouncB. Generally speaking, gold mining condition!? on the Rand aro favorable, fa-vorable, but the native, labor supply is Ketling scarcer again, owing to a Keaiion-able Keaiion-able efflux of Kafflj-5 from tho mines ta their farms for a certain. amount of summer sum-mer work on th.o latter. The total de-crcaw! de-crcaw! of native workers on the Rand during October waa 2945., of which the loss from the gold mines was 2097, the rest being from the diamond and roal mlnea. The fact, however. I hat the total number of natives employed on Ihe pold mines at the present time is 180,103, against 154.071 at the beginning of the year, Is reaEBUring |
