Show TROLLEY TROLL V INTO DIAMOND MINE MINK Visitors Carried in Cages Over Immense Immense Immense Im Im- mense Excavations It Is quite the thing in visiting the gold mines of the West to don suitable clothes for the trip and go into the mines Many notable persons have done that and there is in existence a photograph photograph photograph pho pho- of Gen Grant and arid some mem mem- ii bers of his family who made such an excursion Visiting a diamond mine minea a person receives much the same sensation sen for in the depths one realizes that he is probably surrounded by untold un un- told wealth The diamond mines nines of Kimberley where this this this- picture was taken are the largest in the world and the company that operates them practically controls the worlds world's out out- put Diggings are of two kinds wet and dry At the river diamonds are found along the bank The soil soH is dug up and carried earned in ducts in the stream tream and they are washed in boxes of zinc pierced with holes In tl the e open mines which are the are the most important you look down through an excavation several several sev sev- eral hundred feet deep The trolley cages which take up the soil are rolled on wire cables a sloping distance of one thousand feet and a perpendicular depth of five hundred feet New New York Herald |