E/MJ : engineering and mining journal . aterial from its Tocayos mine to theMapimi smelter. Mexico In the state of Mexico in the Zacual-pan district, the Cia. Minera Chontal-pan y Anexas, S. A., is again at workafter a labor strike, which nearly New Project to Supply Waterto Mining Towns on Rand Vaal River Barrage Near Vereenigingto Furnish 20,000,000 Gal. Daily BY M. EDWARD One of the largest engineeringschemes ever undertaken in SouthAfrica is now being carried out to sup-ply Johannesburg and the mining townson the Rands seventy-mile strip ofgold-bearing reef with water. By thisproje
E/MJ : engineering and mining journal . aterial from its Tocayos mine to theMapimi smelter. Mexico In the state of Mexico in the Zacual-pan district, the Cia. Minera Chontal-pan y Anexas, S. A., is again at workafter a labor strike, which nearly New Project to Supply Waterto Mining Towns on Rand Vaal River Barrage Near Vereenigingto Furnish 20,000,000 Gal. Daily BY M. EDWARD One of the largest engineeringschemes ever undertaken in SouthAfrica is now being carried out to sup-ply Johannesburg and the mining townson the Rands seventy-mile strip ofgold-bearing reef with water. By thisproject 20,000,000 gal. will be supplieddaily by pumping through a forty-milepipe line. It was decided that the present sys-tem of suppljing the Witwatersrandwith water, was inadequate, and ascheme for damming the waters of theVaal River about forty miles away, wassanctioned by the government, with theIesult that the work was begun abouta year ago. The Vaal River barrageis twenty-four miles down stream fromVereeniging, a spot famous for the. ,,1;AL view of vaal river barrage, south AFRICA. FROM ORANGESTATE BANK TAKEN LAST AUGUST. PIERS IN FOREGROUND 6 FT. HIGHALL PIERS 12 FT. HIGH OR HIGHER ON OCT. 3, 1919 a month. This company operates aconcentrator and cyanide mill, shippingits product to Toluca by pack Canario Copper Co., operatingnear Nacozari, whose stock is largelyheld in New York and the East, de-cided to increase its capital from $2,-000,000 to $20,000,000, at a recentmeeting held in New York. This wasdone by increasing the par value ofshares from $1 to $10. James P. Har-vey, president and general manager,vho attended the meeting, counselledagainst entering the producing field atthe present time, preferring to continuedevelopment until sufficient tonnagehad been developed to warrant installa-tion of a large concentrator. The com-pany was reincorporated under the lawsof Delaware. signing of peace at the cessation efthe Anglo-Boer war. Great progresshas been
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