Show TRAM TRAN I 4 TREASUR S ae A f a ao o E Er ati r reo r y eo eoR R t St Staw aw r 3 M v R x t t bs ti s r y o n K KF t tr F t 11 A k r r s J A 4 fl 4 South African Gold Native Digging Prep bv IC Society w ai ington D C the 29 20 s search I Lit LII yetis yell All Trans ani South has bas L beL I Ithe given gh en up what is belIe ed to be bethe the other half of the famous Cullinan diamond the largest diamond ever e found The other half was picked ed up in tn two 0 parts one n a of good quality and carat carlt diamond good carat stone slone whIch is the other a fIn flawless less The 7 1 rIghtly has been beeD house pro province of called the h treasure South A Africa It has earned the right as well to be called a famous trens treas treasure ure region ot of the world for out ot of its bills and plains have ha come billions of dollars s worth orth of gold and diamonds not to mention other mm eras The Transvaal aal Is young In history Its oldest town now nn an Important South African center will not round out its first century until 1939 HI One iris but to glance at Johannes Johannesburg burg the provinces province's capital to get the spirit of the TI Transvaal ans Ill Strangely im impI impressive pI essi e as one approaches the city me are miles of mine dumps surrounding the Wit the mountainous backbone b ot of the province pi Across the vast ast plain the then stretch like R avenues of mammoth monuments as if promis promising I Ing a climax of prehistoric grandeurs Yes hut grandeurs of what hat land sometimes they align alln themselves es In a great wall Ill recalling Chinas China's Or again von ou catch In th their ir vista Ish n a resemblance to Egypt's pyramids or orto orto to Me ziggurats Or yet again their sloping sand hued mis sits sug suggest est military fortifications on ona ona a scale the would mId his ne never neer er known l The colos colossal ll picture tempts ones one's fancy If the Rand s gold mmes mines crum crumbled Crumbled bled to nothingness lea leasing Ing only the dumps some writer riter n a millennium hence might conceivably ably describe them themas themas as those works reared per hips as defenses or patriotic moan monuments ments by the anCIents of the Tn en c century If you ask asla a local to gh give e you some approximate idea of the dumps tonnage he may ask ash In turn w von vou prefer It in ocean greyhounds or In Egyptian pyramids Twenty thousand l would about equal and 1 Leviathans Le would some somewhat exceed e the dumps tonnage e Or shifting the comparison that tonnage would be approximated b aligning across the rep of the great p py Stumbled on Ten Billions Stubbing one s toe against a ten billion gold reef reet is an peri e once ence reserved resen cd to the few fe feIt It was as In that Geor George e Walker er out for a stroll accIdentally kicked ed into a gold bearing op op of w hut proved to be bethe bethe the main reef of the Here shaped like e a cast ast bowl Imbed Imbedded imbedded ded face upward was nas n a 70 mule nule st stretch etch of gold old Impregnated rock that If y ou belles o In Kismet had awaited Gor George e intrusive toe eser er since early geologic times And now upon that s no mans man's land there appeared n a tawdry tl mining village of tents and CO covered ered wagons Telegraph wires hummed and the village became a araw raw tin shack town of people The pi prevailing e crude process lost half the gold worked 01 hed Yet who cared since the reef reet seemed lne Sup Supplies plies were ere teamed from miles a awny Yet who ho minded fancy prices s And as to o the water wlter shortage All right let lets let's s bring in I thus began beg the bab babyhood hood of Johan Johannesburg which toda today though a mere youth In years e Irs Is a grant In c meat ment The largest African town south of Cairo 0 and thief chief commercial plexus us of the Union Unions Union's Jo burg has a municipal area of nearly 82 square miles and some OO peoPle peoPle- people In the Deep Mines The mines whether at work ork or play pIty present a unique sight lIel e is In one work orl hours de descending by b skip 11 lift Into the In tenor of the earth em th at 1110 lie speed of an press express ele elevator ator dig hOles as grandi as rear skyscrapers more i In fact for your our point Iro es to be one and third d miles below the earths earth's sur face surface Your our Impression of this r mean electric lit town with Ith Its a ave e- e and cross streets thou sands ands thousands of men are dl dialling illIng or loding dInn the auriferous ous ato Is one of cleanliness neatness s and thanks to the giant of a not t too 00 1 uncomfortable warmth You stay May long enough to watch I surface hoist start oft off with a its OIl OIlton ton lord which it t will lift up th that t mile or wore more or of shaft to the crush ing and reductIOn plant In about tWO and minutes Then Sou u regain the skip ascend once more to what measurIng holes by skyscrapers the cable oper- oper operator operator conceivably announce as ator might last stop I I Two T 0 hundredth floor have glimpsed Is That which sou ou but a tiny corner of what Is In effect ef- ef effect n a vast subterranean cIty whose n l acts measures 70 miles whoso whose work work- workers ers number IDO and whose hose shafts a venues avenues and streets total miles or approximately the length of the African continent And the business of this super mole city Is to disgorge worlds words annual 0 oser er one half baIt ot of the gold production How Ilow to handle that grand total of men DO 90 per cent ot of them themI Bantu who ho eIther abose aboe abo e ground or orI I I under it work worl- on the Rand whether Recreation hether golf tennis bo bowls boIs Is s swimming or native dances dances- dances Is 1101 ersal with inter mine sports as a corollary As to health and safe safe- safety safety ty each man regularly undergoes med med- medIcal medical Ical e first md aid Is taught to many thousands while hile that cheery organ the reef nd advises you on ever ever- thing from keeping fit to giving ac- ac acci ci ent pre prevention tips to American vis- vis visItors visitors In what is thought to be Amer- Amer as thus Say Say folks were wele right here at a areal areal real slap up gold mine Lady from Memphis please dont don't eject your gum down the shaft That pellet will nc- nc accomplish a velocity of miles per second and gise 0 some one a head headache headache ache Huge Cost of SupplIes Whoever presides over 0 er the mines commissariat must at times develop a genuine house housew Ife s Let us imagine a symbolic Mr and Mrs 1 rans aal mal making up their household books s at the close of ID 19 8 Hum I SIX millions of dollars worth of food for our native bo boss s Rather steep my dear I r I et me look papa Oh 23 tons ot of meat beans and that fish ac- ac accounts accounts counts for It Hum I 1 I suppose tons ot of soap for baths and tons of can can- candIes candies dIes are lre correct Heres Here's OO for tor the boss bos clothing slickers ers and boots Hum I Spring cleanIng that's the paint and tar But what's hl this extra O fot fOl Salt papa The rhe boys love theIr pinch of salt and I Just salt I Why mamma do you realize that our lIttle household household Is costIng us in stores 74 OO a year As to recreation the boss bos week week- weekly weekly ly war dance danco rl lIs als a circus a rodeo rodeo and a football match combined Here is a native natI compound disgorging Its thou thousands ands ot of black who are lre welcoming othet othel thousands ot of black M chop chopis Is the former tribe s In- In Invited invited gue guests ts Intriguing too are such borro borrowings of white mans man's medicine as armlets of fled Hed Cross buttons fountain pens thrust through ear lobes and medical charts stuck still on like mustard plasters But the Transvaal like South Africa Africa ca In general Is as in re respect to treasure ure houses as was ancIent Del Delphi pIli with its treasuries In the region and also near Rusten- Rusten burg Rustenburg and in the I Complex there are apparently unlimited Iron resources while hIle the tho last named regIon promIses to one of the gl platinum deposits In tho world The annual production values In gold old silver 11 er platinum and the tho base metals total something lIke Diamonds May Be Anywhere And then there are 0 the e eer er crop cropping ping up ono diamonds might almost say those irrepressible South African diamonds Really one never knows where they will turn up ne next t lIel Hete e Is the aal's famous Premier mine nn an even larger crater than its defunct forerunner at Kim Kim- berle Kimberley Kimberle berley In about a 11 of a cert cen tury the PI Premier has produced some sorno 0 i tons of diamonds including tho famous Cullinan Its longest sion ion was as 4 Niches Inches its shortest was 2 inches and It was cut Into nine stones and scores of smaller ones Blasting hour at the tho Premier as beheld from the craters crater's is edge is a striking sight At the gig en moment mo ent a red ared flag Huttel s bell a clangs and e multitudes of workmen are seen scurrying ing for shelter There ensues a barrage of 2000 d charges Some hurling suc e masses of blue earth i in air then the e die dio do down don n th the corkers to load the debu debris on trucks or that ascend to tho crush crush- crushIng In Ing plant and the offensive big birr d diamond lamon d is over |