From 1800 to 1900The wonderful story of the century; its progress and achievements .. . E cU-. PAUL KRUGER AND THE STRUGGLE IN SOUTH AFRICA 303 in a conglomerate rock, whose beds extend over an ana of seventy by fortymiles, and through a depth of from two to twenty feet ; but years passedbefore the richness in metal of these rocks was discovered, The Gold Di?-and it was not until after the Boer war that mining fairly gingsofthebegan. No one in his wildest dreams foresaw that these ransvaabanket beds would in time yield gold to the value of more than $80,000,-000 a year. The yield of the diamon
From 1800 to 1900The wonderful story of the century; its progress and achievements .. . E cU-. PAUL KRUGER AND THE STRUGGLE IN SOUTH AFRICA 303 in a conglomerate rock, whose beds extend over an ana of seventy by fortymiles, and through a depth of from two to twenty feet ; but years passedbefore the richness in metal of these rocks was discovered, The Gold Di?-and it was not until after the Boer war that mining fairly gingsofthebegan. No one in his wildest dreams foresaw that these ransvaabanket beds would in time yield gold to the value of more than $80,000,-000 a year. The yield of the diamond mines was also enormous, and thesetwo incitements brought a steady stream of new settlers to that region,destined before many years greatly to outnumber the sturdy farmers andherders of Dutch descent. In the vicinity of the gold mines, not far from Pretoria, the Boer capi-tal, rose the mining city of Johannesburg, which now has a population ofmore than 100,000 souls, of whom half are European miners and nearly allthe remainder are natives. The great event in the historv of thediamond m
Size: 1944px × 1285px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectnineteenthcentury
