. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . TION FROM MAY. 1887. TO DECEMBER. 1909. Year. Fine Gold. Value. Ozs. £ 1887 ... .. 1888 .. 729,715 1889 ... .. 1890 ... .. 1891 .. 1892 .. ,610 1893 .. 1894 .. 1895 .. 1896 ,422 .. 1897 . * ... 2, .. 1898 .. 1899 .. *1900 (see below) 1901 .. 1902 .. 1903 ..
. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . TION FROM MAY. 1887. TO DECEMBER. 1909. Year. Fine Gold. Value. Ozs. £ 1887 ... .. 1888 .. 729,715 1889 ... .. 1890 ... .. 1891 .. 1892 .. ,610 1893 .. 1894 .. 1895 .. 1896 ,422 .. 1897 . * ... 2, .. 1898 .. 1899 .. *1900 (see below) 1901 .. 1902 .. 1903 .. 1904 .. 1905 .. 1906 .. 1907 .. 1908 .. 1909 .. Totals ... Add : Estimated unrecorded output for 1887 to 1889 inclusive ... *Undeclared output 1899. to May. 1900. inclusive .. Amount won 1904 but undeclared 4,447 .. Gran d Tot ALS 57, .. 245,624,659 216. Market Square, Johannesburg The total output of gold from the combined mines of the Transvaal for1898 was valued at £16,240,630, and in 1908, £29,986,469: employing in 1908,18,434 white men, 150,317 natives, and 21,027 Chinese. The population of Johannesburg just prior to the War was set downvariously at between 100,000 and 120,000, and to-day there are nearly 200,000,including Europeans and natives. It is difficult to make a correct estimate,as the floating element is great, but the population is made up principally ofwhites, and possesses amongst its numbers some of the smartest businessmen in the world. The cost of living in Johannesburg, at one time monstrous, is nowreduced to more reasonable limits, although house rents are still high. The town was once, before the introduction of any system of sanitation,unhealthy in the extreme, but more modern methods have remedied this evil,and Johannesburg is now far healthier t
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