Show RESOURCES OF THE BOER REPUBLIC CS What the Intrepid Little Littfe African Nations Win Will Have 1 t to Co Draw Upon For Indemnity If They Suffer irrer U Ultimate Defeat at the 1 H of Gr Great at Britain Ji I AR Is nn an expensive poat ime e At WAn soma Borne time or other and b by some someone someone one or other oth r the piper has to be beald paid ald and paid right well Veil Now that the thet t war In South Africa advances more and andI I more toward Its close It la Is beginning to tobe tobe be naked where the necessary lounds I shining aid ard pence will III come tram from to toi i pay for the broken eggs that vent to tomake make the omelet as Napoleon put ut It One path part of the debt It Is II true has al aI already read ready been paid It Is Ie that part which a nation pays pas for by bl the life liCe and blood of et her beet beat sons one Dut that Is A part with lIh which the financier and the poll titian hays have nothing to do It le II the rho cold hard cash that Interests these men There la III a 11 balance to be struck u 11 deficit to be met end somebody must meet It Who Is II that somebody to be Some time ago ngo when Lord Salisbury was as answerIng Lord 1 tion In parliament as to whether or not Great Britain was os bound by secret t treaties with continental powers In con with the outcome and settlement settle settlement ment Qt of the South African war Great prIme minister answering r went out nt If his way to lIB as lIBBert sect Bert that there was neither precedent for tor nor likelihood of any outsIde Inter Interference r ference when It came to a matter of set settling sett t tip up accounts with the South can republics at the end of the To use his own words word no one felt strong enough or bold enough to try to lq rob the victors victor under unctuous pretexts of hu hut I t and mercy of the rights which I Ultimate vIctory would bestow upon his country This lt is both interesting and Important Important tant because of the tho fact that earlier In 11 thu struGgle another parliamentary leader declared that the would In Inthe inthe the end be made to pa pay t to the last pen penny tn ny eer every expense Incurred by I England 1 In her role as aggressor In that heroic t but hopeless lell struggle of the en fl for liberty and Independence So Sono no raw that the ot of the tho great Greut all ab absorbing empire Are closing more tight tightly ly on the two little South AfrIcan states and pow now that the British have Ilae had hod their second SUccess over oer the gallant Boers the tha method of finally settling Up cc AC counts on Do a monetary basis buls Is 1 a very ery Interesting and Important question The war it ft has been saId hu has already cost coat Great Grat Will It Itt t ho ba possIble for the Orange Fr State and the South African Republic to hand handover over un any such gigantic sum as this thill providing England carries out the threat of her het minister on au the one hand and on the other that the apparent un unjustness unjustness justness of such nn an exorbitant demand not provoke the Interference ot of i the great powers of at Europe The is III not a poor country It I Is small In extent but It Is rich fab fabulously rIch In goldIn tact fact It Is the greatest gold producing country on the therace race face of the globe The actual figures In inthis tilt this connection are nothing short of s I startling From the first discovery ot of gold In any quantity In ISSI 1551 up to the end of the year ear 1696 the of the yellow metal amount amounted lIl ed to During Durin the last few years nars this output has hili increased at n a tremendous rate For Por 1696 6 alone the output was almost This great reat gold output Is under the control of some tOO mining companies nearly all which three years eats altO ago had hod a 11 nomInal capital ot of I and an actual Invested capital ot of The total value of dutiable imports Into the Transvaal for this Panic ume year amounted to over oer The revenue for tor 1596 was as and andt t the expenditures The great gred greatt tf t P part art of this revenue of course coune was waa ob f y t tamed from the goldfields In the form torm t t of mIning licenses mining royalties the thel it l dynamite mono monopoly pol and duties dutle on Im 11 torts ports Intended for mining operations to 10 say nothIng of at the not net Important I Item from railway revenue The gold goh C Uj fields at Barberton It is II worth noting are on grounds owned by the govern goern s l meat ment so the returns from these mines are very ery large luge 14 t Up to the time of at the outbreak of at the w nr about of the people of at atthe the ivere ero engaged In stet cultural There Ther ute are about 17 12 I farms In the r republic nearl nearly of which belong to the tho government and andare andare are the tho source MUree ot of considerable stale to tt re rev revenue The newly developed coal coni mines are proving far mono valuable than was over oer tons a 11 year ear being now the average output These lie In the eastern altern part of the republic and lire are capable of at producing a 11 steady output ot of most excellent coal for an In Indefinite indefinite definite length of time Then of course courso there are the national exports ot of ostrich feathers wool cattle hides grain and Ivory hory oath each article on the list brInging In man many 1 a dollar to the and hIs government The Tho to In fact racI has been taught to think In hr big figures This may be evidenced ehI by the tho fact that In the tho 1599 session of the yolks rand a proposal was brought forward to raise a loan of for railways and Irrigation works alone There were no reasons for tM the rejection ot of th the pro proposal beyond the filet fact that already tho promise of war was In the air So Kru KruGer Kruger Ger and his hll fellow tellow legislators laid the tho atter over oel indefinitely though no sur flUr surprise prise was expressed nt at the magnitude of at the pro proposed outlay Although ouch It Is in true that the financial r r South Republic contain 3 oo OCO OO worth of the tho precious metal while ever every month reef reet after reef reet of new deposits Is being brought alight Perhaps a gentle hint as to the faith of at the burgher himself In his country and Its future Is II to be found In the fact that precIsely lit at the time when the financial crisis was at Its heIght the increased the salaries ot of Its 6 a 11 year fear There was a 11 time when the lowest dividend paid by a Transvaal mining company was 16 per cent There Will was also a time when ns as much as Gili per percent percent cent was handed over oer to London stock stockholders I holders hOlder as dividend on eel every ot of otI I stock In tact fact for many a year rear n now w ri It great golden stream of wealth has hils flaw flawed ed 00 from Johannesburg and Pretoria up across the equator Into England Engl n Be n foru fora the wet war eH every mall steamer that out from under the tho of Table mountain carried with It halt 1 n of at gold old dust to be minted brIght glitterIng English sovereigns The wonderful gold bearing quartz of the mines fornis a In Ingle gle reef about 30 miles In length so faras far farliS liS as known et at present and runs slant slantWise Wise down Into the earth for It Is bo be hewed b by experts nn an Indefinite m her ber of at miles On the very er fringe p yellow rellow nuggets and grains to 10 be found there thue Sometimes hI he even g goes ell over halt a mile mila down beyond the reach of sunlight and there are n a few shafts that reach reath t the mile limit though naturally not very ery many There Is lit littin tin Uti flow lIow on the Rand so 0 one great and inconvenience Is ob obviated The Boers have never neer been great grent gold se kers so 0 ail 1111 or practically all RII the companIes operating on the Rand Dand are English or at least controlled by English capital The thoro thorough gh and businesslike prInciples upon wl which ch there bl big English concerns have under undertaken t taken their gigantic ruining minIng operations are wonderful to behold With them money has hal been no object and when once a 11 good vein eln le Is located the scale Ecale on which the business Is carried on Is n a truly magnificent one Nothing could be farther from the tho old fashioned Cal Californian 1 gold Kold hunter of According to the mining la laws Va of the Transvaal an Individual or company cnn can hold only vertical rights nn an an any Is to ray a the gold bearing rock dIps III ht a southerly direction tion nt at about nn an angle of 4 13 degrees degree the miner has not the right of the tho lat lateral latoral oral eral development of his r reef f For this I I I I k w oi I 9 I i f Ill C i I Ih h ett r r MA Kj j f A G j t to c cI I I I t I w 1 t lib J t V L FARM OF BOER LIFE and commercial crisis In Johannesburg aggravated by the revolt at atthe atthe the beginning of It 1696 1596 was more formIdable In the following year yearby e tr by 1 a marked decline In mining shares In the tho market rebellion and t together could not long depress the financial activities of such uch a wealthy and energetic litre republic The prImary mary cause caule ot of thIs temporary collapse was overtrading and overstocking and the person responsible for It was the gentle It on the other hand the gentle genUt who perhaps not altogether unjustly mot most when the crash cruh came The excessive competition ot of Importers encouraged b by the granting of credit resulted la In n a panic that involved the banks banI and mercantile houses D of Cape COIO Colony Colon and Natal and through them thena different banking and mIning concerns In London This check glen given to minIng activities and Importations affected the of the government to such luch a degree lIB as to CAUse their cur lur plus to disappear tAr Then rome come the rin whIch killed off nR the oxen and hit the burghers them themselves Ie Ins and the two together necessitated recourse to temporary loans Dut such a con condition conn could not be permanent republic was 18 a territorial with only a 11 penny enn In It its I pocket but butI with millions In Its banks banka Jt It has been bren I estimated that Ue the de depOlitI deposits posits of gold already ad discovered In the I reef of gold stand tM the smokestacks of at Johannesburg and along It are scatter ratter scattered ed I the works or of the CO 60 different mInes operated there thereA A view or of tills this minIng district Is im It if not inspiring for lI its unique ugliness In all directions one seas nothing but the same dull scene and the tall block smokestack with colored bands band about It Il like an ocean liners funnel ridiculously i louly elongated belching Its Ila black blaek bituminous mass mus and standing out sentinel a bod body ot of scaffolding and machine shops of corrugAted Iron I Nearby are great desolate I heaps ot of gray quartz and the huge hug vets the tailings undergo lire cyanide process ct cf extraction The town Itself i has Ins plenty of brick and stone bIg bull builds inns enough and palatial hom homes 5 In an any number but after all Johannesburg elty 1 is only oily the co counting room of ef the mines Plain and unprepossessing III as IS the tho town It Itself elt It has lais or r at least hod up to the time of the war outbreak en an anaIr enair aIr of If prosperity And general business rush about aboul It All 11 thIs enormous busy fleas nUl or of gold producing concentrated d liS as liSIt asit It Is II In such Ruch 1 a circumscribed area has Given facilities for the perfecting of f the different ot of extraction un unknown unknown known elsewhere In tine the world The miner lies no equal lie thinks nothInG of delving and drilling a quarter ot of a mile below the surface of the earth In his learch for the little tittle reason n a claim Is very ery rarely worked It is II far too I small mall to be profit profitably aliI ably exploited under such dream circum stances so PO what Are commonly known knon u as outcrop companIes are formed and these thue together exploit n a block of contiguous claims ThIs explains wily whY the small Individual miner as known In Inthe the today Is scarcely ever heard of In the Transvaal It Is always the big company In competition with whIch the solitary sold gold seeker has ver very little chance of success Native labor laboris is III employed and can be secured for about 50 0 cents per do day The Hand mints mines when In full operation employ about laborers Every I Cry plant has hasIt It its I one or more costly steam stamps for tor crushing the ore are or OIl as the Dutch call It the banket It Is III really tine the Doer Boer name for nut cake and as the ore are of the Band greatly resembles that de delectable product of the hoer haws haus fOUS kit kitchen then the word soon Boon passed Into general usage The geological term for such formation is II conglomerate signifying as It does n a hardened mix turo of sand and pebbles with tin tiny bits of at the yellow ellew metal fixed In the harden hardened ed cd nass It II s that th reef reet of 1 the Rand Hand Will was once thousands and thousands of years ears ago the beach of some long lost sea no Small streams car sled groins of gold down to the beach and there deposited them In the sand Pressure and action In time solidified the mass Into solid rock This ThIll rock today le Is very ery low pay ore and If It were ere not hot for tor tM the big plant and the cyanide process Its extraction would not bo be profitable 1 fly means of the cy cyanide anide Cyanide protest the can now be betaken betaken taken out at II a cost of at only 6 per ton ot of ore handled lint Dut although this con conglomerate conglomerate I is not very ery the yel yellow el ellow low metal It is fa practically Inexhaustible and of an even cen richness throughout Ten million tOils toile of this thie were crushed with prom profit In ms 1895 The ore oro Is secured by drilling and blasting and otter after being hoisted to the surface In steel t eI elevators II put through the huge steam crushers This reduces the rock to pieces about the size she or of hens eggs gs after whIch It Is put through the with Villa streams ot of water running through It Uy the time the stomping stamping Is finished the oro Is reduced to a powder about alOne as fine fineas as al cornmeal and this powder Is run over oer copper plates which are covered with mercury Mercury having a strong affinity for gold causes the tho little particles of yellow metal to adhere to the plates I lOnt those It lIre is re removed moved from time to time The tailings are aro then taken and treated In immense vats cyanide of potassium There e V 11 Is a somewhat newer process however called chlorination which hu has grad gradually b been en taking the place of the e cy ankle process with many mony of the larger concerns ot of the Hand HandOn On the whole It Il InO may be said that gold mining on the toda today Is Ismore ismore more of the nature of a manufacturIng business than mining In th the popular ac acceptance acceptance of t the word Immense plants of If workmen involved proc processes eues esses and great capital me are necessary nut this gold manufacturing business promises to be n a bu business that will last for tor many a long year The supply of metal Is practically unlimited and I when the mines lire are operated under more favorable circumstances than they have hao beep of late theIr returns will be even nen greater In the future futuro than th they have hae been In the pest past So It It comes to a ma matter tier of Pay Paypay pa pay pay paI with Oom Pauls people the will be found to bl be a Yer very good debtor It would take man many years ears of course to pay ort oft the d doue demands that England It If victory ous and unhampered by foreign rela relations relations would Impose on her little enemy The Tho finances of 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