| Show n GOh GOES TO O CO I Noted Hn Engineer lo to Explore New v Fields for rOl linin Mining John Hays Hammond one of or the greatest mining en engineers in the en entire en- en tire e world wo will trill lea leave for COt the Con Congo Conga o Free State Slate In a short horl time Iliac to take talce charge I of Thomas Fortune Ryan's Ryans s concession says as a's the thc Financial Bulle tin Mr It Ryan nan huts has obtained absolute control o of thousands o of square miles of if territory in the tho heart o of Africa Only the thC surface of or the he co country has been scratched by hy far prospectors so and It Is impossible to tell lull the full extent ex ex- tent of the tiit minerals beneath Its Us surface sur stir face Gold Cold copper anti and Iron run arc aLe now V I known to exist diamonds may be he found among the tho hidden wealth nl also o malachite and ru rubles rubies le leJohn John Un Hays Hammond is one of the I hl highest salaried 1 p ft men in iu inthe inthe th the world worl III In one ill ear he drew drW just OO II Four m mi 1 g companies paid apIece for ot his advice Others paid lesser sr amounts In 1903 1913 he ie signed an l with ho IH The life Ufo of Hammond ha has hins been veritably ver vei that of a st lee of fortune Again Agahi and amid 3 again aln has ha- haI I ho lie risked his life In explorations Onet- Onet 11 ho lie wa was condemned to loath death As one t I ef f the thc leaders s 's of the atthe at tl the Invitation of if whom honi Jameson 11 v v 15 as ss asto to make c his rush on sh Johannesburg Mr dr 01 Hammond wt was Jrr tell tutu sti tW- tW t to be bc executed If It Joseph JO Chamberlain had not nol promptly s nt lIt nta a n. tl telegram lam to President Kru Kruger holdIng holding hold hold- Ing Kruger l' l personally accountable forthe forthe for the lentIls doth of the four leaders r soni other man than Hammond would 1 he hethe the worlds world loading mining engineer ti today iti a y ton cn Hammond was wasa a hi big man hiah in the tho United Slates but hut It was not until he went emit to Africa and 1101 became Cecil Rhodes Rhodes' rl right hl hand man mew thirst that h he hc World 11 nhu Hammond Ham mond was in lii the thin Transvaal oal in private and Independent mt i Interests 11 Jots when hi en Cecil decided that thal hero here was a a. aman man ne necessary to his business ss J Mr Rhodes then engaged him hint at nt a Cl s. lar salary of a year Hammond's Hammonds yes o and no flO dictated the theof outlay of the millions poured into the South African gold fiel field Hammond Is Isa Isa isa a comparatively cl young oun man having been horn born In Situ San Francisco In 1855 1865 |
