Logan Republican | 1903-04-24 | Page 2 | How He Missed $35,000,000

a, ' ' HOW HE MI88ED S3S,00(M00. H1 H i Five Mrnutea Earlier and He Would 'j Have Owned De Beers. Hi V. V7. Balxman, tho oldest South H. . African colonist, mlsied by about flvo HB. j minutes tho acquisition of a fortuno Hv of over 8G,000,000 tho great Do l( ' ltccra diamond flcldn, now ono of tho HB richest mlnoB In tho world. H, Ho wai surveying arlqualand when Hi tho original ownor of tho famous Ht farm, W. Vo Doors, hold It. It was ! ' J then about as barren and hopolcss looking a tract as any lu Africa, and , i ' Do llccrs, with endless hard work HH j from morning till night, and very lit- HBI I tlo help, had nil ho could do to scrapo HB ' a living out of tho place. HH . Thero wan hardly nny wator, and Bii grass was ncarco and poor; tho total HH' profits only nmountod to a pound or HH two per month. When Mr. Sal-man HH: I I had complirtod his survey Do Uecrs B I tlrrd of profitless toll on his patch of V j I Bimburnt desert, offered to lot him HH i have tho farm In oxchango for a waist- HHJ j HHjj Mr. Salzniau rcfusad at first, and B 1 then said he would think about It. Ho 'i! t went to Capo Town later on, whoro 1 ho heard strnngo rumors of lucky BB finds In tho district he had left. Hjl Tho noxt time ho trekked that way J ho wont sixty miles out of his road HHVi to sco Do Doers and clinch tho bar- R gain ofrorcd. Ho found a stranger's Kf t wagon nnd oxen "outspanncd" at tho Hjt farm when ho arrived. BBVyj Its owner had coma only a fow mln- w ., utcs boforo nnd had already niado an Hf , offer for tho farm, which was accept- H it "' ' cd. Stray Storios.