| Show news Is read and enjoyed fourteen thousand miles from panguitch transvaal conference ference july 2723 27 23 W J peters dear friend bill just a line of appreciation to you and all d family for the news yes it lias has reached this remote corner of the earth a distance of nearly fourteen thousand miles from where it was printed it lias has been nearly a year since I 1 got the first garfield county news and I 1 have received one nearly every week since it always brings cheer and satisfaction satis action to one so far from home 1 I am now laboring in the gold fields of the transvaal famous for their large gold productions production I 1 have been informed that they produce over half of the worlds world supply of go gold most of the mining is done by colored labor with white overseers so if a white man is not established on oil the mine works lie bee stands little chance of obtaining employment here lit at present johannesberg the alie largest city in south africa is headquarters from from which we work a few districts near by including the south american capitol pretoria the population of johannesburg is very cosmopolitan predominate ing nationalities being english dutch and jews there being about fifty thou thousand gand of the latter the cites population is sonic some hundred and fifty thousand white and about the same number of black the transvaal al was formerly a dutch republic but was taken by the english during the boer war it has in its it boundaries much wealth contained in its gold and diamond mines it holds the biggest diamond mine in the world known as the premier the premier is the place where the famous cullman diamond was found it was the worlds largest diamond which when found was 34 3 4 karats and later was cut into eight stones and presented to george V of england tile the stone was so large they were unable to value it well bill I 1 guess you will be tired of reading these lines by now so will close for the time being c with sincere wishes for your success I 1 am as ever your friend ELDER WENDELL C SEVY |
