Bingham Bulletin | 1947-07-18 | Page 6 | 25,000 Engaged in 3-Mile Race to Diamond Fields

25,000 Engaged in 3-Mile Race to Diamond Fields Since diamonds were discovered in the Union of South Africa in 1867, the government has opened several potential diamond fields and made the prospectors, in order or-der to stake out a claim, race to the areas from a given point at a given signal. The greatest of these races took place at Lichten-burg Lichten-burg on March 4, 1927, when 25,000 diggers, watched by 100,000 spectators, spec-tators, ran three miles to the new Grosfontein field.