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Show " ".aYiONDS IN CITY bi " j Much VTtaltb Recovered in Process ol "Washing" Dust ol Soulh African J City el Kimberley. ! before the consolidation of these lotncs Inlo one vast concern tflere wtre scores of small miners who had 1t the necessary capital to enable fiem to do more than scratch at tho Siirtnro of tho earth, says a KHn'ierly correspondent of the Pull Mull Civile. Arrived at a certain depth the wind fell In upon them, anil work't g lie-came lie-came an Impossibility. Then was that a powerful company wlt onllm-Ited onllm-Ited capital became a neees'Ty. and tho Do Peers coriipnny absvTiod all these small concerns. Now, ft aelen- title menns. mining Is cartel on to deplha of over 2.(i)ti feet rom the earth'a surfnee. and tho diamonds are sorted out by mechanical means In a systematic manner, which was before Impossible, since Do Peers took the matter In hand, they have applied their methods to the debris left behind be-hind aa worthless by the earlier workers, work-ers, and In It they hnie found more dlninoiula than bad previously been taken out. On the strength of Ihla applications have been made, and the rights grant- ed, for Individuals to "wash" the atreeta of Kiniberley. for much of the dfeheta In question had been used In repairing and making the roads. This washing Is going en now wllh most evcellent results, whleh prove that litis city Is literally p.ived with la- monds. Klmberley, whleh haa In the space of thirty yeors evolved IDielf out of a mining rump. Is now, ss compared with other places, sn oasis c In the desert of Soulh African discomfort; discom-fort; a pluee whe:o the cost of living , la hlrh. as It Is elsewhere Just now, f but where, at all events, somo sort of i return tor our money in the wsy of r rrrnturo comforts Is obtainable. This S Is very rare In South Africa to-day. i" I It Is Interesting to nolo how ths f "bloated rnpllallsl" In question sweats his rmplotea. ss Is so often averred. At the company's mines work goes on for twenty four hours a 1 day In three shlft.i. White men who I go below make anything from 13 still- lings lo 12 a day. and the black "boy" Is paid 6 shillings per day. lie Is allotted a certain task, and when this Is done he Is tree. In practice It Is found that ho can do this In from thren to live hours, so that out of the twenty four he has from nineteen to twenty one hours to himself. |