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Show m lfM r LH I r ) 1 1 ' ' s The Rand mines are yielding now about two- H j : J 1 i thirds the amount that they did prior to the Boer- B uLl'll English war. The yield in August was 72,000 B lRhli i ounces, or about $1,400,000, or nearly $18,000,000 iflf I I'll por annum' By anotner year, when all the mines H r t r II 1 1 are benig worked, the old figures will probably be ifl, 'fllll f1' reached, but it will require a generation to get B j, I 1 1 back what tho war cost in money, to say nothing K ; ,t If; 1 ! of the lives that went out in the struggle. |