and engineering journal . ff. The elite had green baizelinings and a canvas fly which kept off heat and rain. Thesanitary arrangements were as Adams, and yet the campwas clean and only soiled by red dust, which a cloth dis-pelled. Wagons from Natal, Port Elizabeth and Queens-town brought great loads of provisions and goods, and astime went on the inevitable corrugated iron. Then the earlywhite softness gave way to metallic corrugations, the sur-veyor made straight lines, streets eventuated out of tortuouslabyrinths, and gradually we became extremely rigid. Eachdiggers claim was 31 fe
and engineering journal . ff. The elite had green baizelinings and a canvas fly which kept off heat and rain. Thesanitary arrangements were as Adams, and yet the campwas clean and only soiled by red dust, which a cloth dis-pelled. Wagons from Natal, Port Elizabeth and Queens-town brought great loads of provisions and goods, and astime went on the inevitable corrugated iron. Then the earlywhite softness gave way to metallic corrugations, the sur-veyor made straight lines, streets eventuated out of tortuouslabyrinths, and gradually we became extremely rigid. Eachdiggers claim was 31 feet square, and these were cut up intoquarters, eighths and sixteenths. I have known men secureall they desired and return to their homes from the returnsof a l-32nd of a claim. The ground my father and I madeabout £200 a month out of in No. G South, when the minewas discovered, was 8 ft. wide and 10 ft. long. We workedit for quite a time with four Kafirs. I think the whole minewas 440 claims. To-day it is a terribly deep, trumpet-. Kimberley Camp, 1872. then. The Grays, Ghisling, Roos, Lings, Edwards, Stan-fords, Zheasbys, were all names I remember. TheDiamond Fields Advertiser, through the efforts of Beet and Mr. R. H. Giddy, gives a list of the firstmen whose finds are recorded, and there are such names asThackeray, Maeder, Battenhaussen, Fleet, Cuming,Kuillen, Battleden, and others. I dare say I could enlargeon it in time, but these are some of the names of men whofiftj years ago found and gave to the world the wonderfulmine that once and for all settled the destinies of a countrythat was mar starvation. Midway between Kimberley andDe Beers a little mud room was built. It was clothed withreeds and plastered with red mud. A board announced thaii( was the Claim Registry Office and gave the hours of busi-On entering one saw a handsome tall man with a greatblonde beard, our first Claim Inspector, Mr. Ortlepp—thefather of Lady Lionel Phillips—who settled disputes a
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