KIMBERLEY.
If Kimberley itself it a surprise, ■till more to are the mines, o which the place owns its existence. The mines themselves may be only the four holes of which we are accustomed to speak, but the machinery of a single company will represent m expenditure ef £100,000, and there
are many companies. We speak of | j " depositing floors" thinking that • < they are only a few hundred feet , square in extent. Oae depositing floor alone of the Baltfontein Mining Company is 134 acres in extent and traversed by trucks drawn by the company's own locomotives, each one j of which cost £1,200. The central j company have to run their trucks on ! blue ground for a mile and a half, all j through their own ground, before j they reach their washing floor. This i will give some faint idea of what i mining at KimNu-ley means. It is ; a vast industry, concentrating in on. j little spot as much intelligence, capi- ! tal a;id well paid labor as is spread j over hundreds of square miles in other ! portions tf the colony. j
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Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1545, 8 May 1885, Page 2
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184KIMBERLEY. Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1545, 8 May 1885, Page 2
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