| Show Tip r i RICHEST Alfr 1 eat or of Afla a r least east One Ouo t The only man In in thin t to be worth II i 1 r thousand million j j j deed clEed German i I UreA Dress If IC you OU care to tJ II I w Capo Town lown or South y Mra a l t purl London ill Mr Dolt Bolt la 13 yet an n fitly fifty having been I Isn born In i 2 t sn 1881 and mall h 11 tat far a tune In the last art It Is a all 1 very Cry like Iko II a fl Lay b y tr J to rend read of oC n a man worth i r tb 1 r 1 lions and to 10 know that I hit him so BO rich le Is not nol la lads t p a rz factories or shops ur or w n noil oil fields hut but just g 1 i t The Tho very ory things th a came td Id him In n th ft r t y as a result of oC fiches i 1 II i lie W Alfred t Belt one os n a t chants son Bon In Iamb I 1 r Y YInto Into the Iho where Jl h t h check and sU II t to 10 shipments and r r u r and from Crom the ports of o tt tr t herlt a In f tr old shipping ss o J 4 r family u a taste In in a 1 gard for Cor beer and go ge f t f s J l but WI very little kD an I 11 r But about the time lime h hn has P F ert and giVing up I other delights of stud j J Was n a sudden comma o Ib I a 4 South African li I l k whIch promised as h I d t his Isla firm Orm consider d It 11 i 1 Into tills tats i z m I eJ land to examine and aud ar rf IC t r r of oC the r s country ill it t g the traders In till rill ste 1018 If IC e i machinery Wore were dam f C a Ej I burG merchants wealth In Ill ifs 11 i n tatted form land brt br r f e I I rv Orange fiver country r I It il r r 1870 or possibly II a v 1 t u carne of oC even ell greater 1 i found In Kimberley tF Ij tl th I There wa was a rush t to I h I a aall all over oer South Africa d dull k all ull over oer the flue world but at as n ay I 1875 1176 that the slow 1 Hamburg firm of oC witch which rh il n was n a member felt Celt the t t r petus of oC the tho new nell trade sir lr ngi ngy r i j 0 to Induce them to send lilt at and are c thale That sort of work ork rr I nn r i and health beath and ond and ii the tho enthusiasm oC et n a y r Alfred Belt then r twenty a rr tI ks 1 age Was lall Outfitted t lib crt t rc arms with letters of oC ant Int dUI du T careful Instruction and a la II 1 blessing and set lIet salt fall ff i r Cal Cape Im thence II by bulloCk I bi a 1 for COI t troad II 11 road was not nol yet et Ill d MI u Ak x Colony Colon the tho Free Freo Stat Slats aJ p So fO into Inlo Kimberley y yno no lie found Cound It a city of at madmen jr Thousands ThousAnd had ru 1 li e dr 10 n atM it I 0 r or bought land W erk ai fir Ibe t blue or yellow rellow cia clay 1 find d as l 1 spa r dinG with fruit with the dos dUil rag q r T o 1 re r ALFRED BELT DEtT TIIE itt no IN SOUTH A JU A C r Cr which could bo be cut and ha 11 the jewels for Cor which the world vi us give gho fortunes fortune lie He was coolheaded a man manof If r c 3 business methods b by j he saw that there rould very ery eat Ik too much ot of II a good thin thing eta eTt Li 1 n mends monds lie Ho undertook then n a work to usually attributed whOlly to g who Vho did not go Into muo It it J td until some somo years ru G u work of oC first combining and th trait n r I the diamond lair b r r tr Thill Is not to 10 say ay that q not have hao 4 largo lorge hand In Ih the n 1 u result lie Jle dl did 0 rs young Belt nelt was first In he ded d Ls to realize that diamonds mIght becca b l t tSo so cheap as to be bc pro to Jit c first to begin the quiet burial tp cp d ct to scattered and ond conflicting t tto r to see that there was Wealth ber the dreams of oC a avarice only It If the ht l rs of oC diamonds should De t tic down to the point where they ther C be irely frely absorbed by the al dw tI t told old standard price The result was n a combination J le S II a model of oC its lis kind T e I r la Beers Deers mine has hll for Cor years paId 61 u d el ela a halt per cent on Its bonds and per cent dividends on its III Is s capitalized nt at iw Rhodes dashing rc n along and became the limn a athe the eye ee when 1 eye cre JU 1 ry turned toward South Alma bet u Ways 1111 there them was ns the 1111 1111 firms C Wd C b for the Belt Delt k Co nt at work profit and the tho smallest amount of |
