. Factory and industrial management. i89 igo THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE. proposed by the late government. Lydenburg is the centre of an im-portant gold-bearing region, being the second in point of output inthe Transvaal. Undoubtedly the mining prospects are good—per-haps better than those of any other outside district in the new THE OLD PARK STATION, JOHANNESBURG, NOW A THING OF THE for the visit of Sir Hercules Robinson. Some time before the war commenced the government of the SouthAfrican Republic granted a concession to a private company for a linefrom Ermelo to Machadod
. Factory and industrial management. i89 igo THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE. proposed by the late government. Lydenburg is the centre of an im-portant gold-bearing region, being the second in point of output inthe Transvaal. Undoubtedly the mining prospects are good—per-haps better than those of any other outside district in the new THE OLD PARK STATION, JOHANNESBURG, NOW A THING OF THE for the visit of Sir Hercules Robinson. Some time before the war commenced the government of the SouthAfrican Republic granted a concession to a private company for a linefrom Ermelo to Machadodorp on the Delagoa Bay line, a distance ofsome 65 miles. En route this line would open up important coal fieldsin the district of Carolina. It has hitherto been impossible to exploitthis coal field remuneratively owing to the absence of railway facili-ties. That there is a future before it is unquestionable, as the coal inparts is considered superior to the product of the Middelburg minesgenerally conceded to be the best coal used in the country. With itsterminus at Ermelo the utility of the projected line is not great. Itwould be of marked advantage to continue the line southward for 60miles or so in order to form a junction with the Johannesburg-Charles-ton (Natal) line somewhere between Standerton and Volksrust. Be-sides giv
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