Show FROM TRANSVAAL A californian gives his views engineer wiltse tells about J hayes hammond and president kraeer new york feb 24 E F wiltse of california la registered at hotel he was assistant engineer of the famous may consolidated and other mines in africa of which john hayes hammond now under arrest was the chief mr wiltse is thoroughly posted in transvaal affairs having lived several years in and around johannesburg and his sympathies are all with the ditland ers 1 I presume said mr wiltse last night that what you more particularly want to know is about the american element in the transvaal well the americans are not numerous but they are influential and I 1 may add popular with the boers while the english naturally enough are hated and here I 1 may remark that though many of tha raiders might have entertained annexation ideas when they followed dr jameson the american element did not and I 1 believe in tact I 1 know that the movement wa one in the direction of reform I 1 left the country before the raid but I 1 as everyone else knew that trouble of some bind was brewing for the reason that the state of things was growing more and more intolerable to the Uit landers or foreigners As for my friend john hayes hammond he is an american heart and soul and would never think of having to do with a bovent looking to the overthrow of even an olig crahal republic he is of the same calibre as dr jameson and the men generally who are making out of the one of the richest and most prosperous regions on earths surface with a splendid future I 1 could speak more especially of matters in the transvaal from inside knowledge 1 possess but predence compels me to silence the concession lately granted by the boer government to three companies go to show were they inquired into that this innocent administration of paul krueger hag an eye to the main chance and is not lucking in sordid in conclusion I 1 may say that the american element in south africa is ore of beneficence it takes in the most influential and progressive of the population and has in an engineering denae control of the rand mines which mines are the richest in the whole gerld why they are not half developed nor will they be until the transvaal has a more liberal govern meet As for the future no man knows what it will bring forth though we can all glees that there will be vast changes is certain |