Show TROLLEY INTO DIAMOND MINE visitors carried in cage if mense I 1 it Is quite the thing in vis aag the gold mines of the west to don suitable clothes tor the trip and to into the mines many notable persons have done that and there Is in existence a pho of gen grant and some mem bers 0 his who made such an excursion visiting a diamond mine a person receives much the same sen bation for in the depths one realizes that he is probably surrounded by un told wealth the diamond mines ot kimberley where this picture was taken are the largest in the world and the company that operates them practically controls the world s out put diggings ara of two kinds wet and dry at the river diamonds are found along the bank the soil Is dug up and carried in ducts in the stream and they are washed in boxes of zinc pierced w ith holes in the open mines ar the most important you look down through an excavation 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 ot five hundred feet new york herald |