Prospects of the Transvaal.
The extraordinary wealth- of the Transvaal as a gold producing country seems to defy description, and from various quarters we are receiving information sbfowing that the richness of the gold ere is unparalleled m any other part of the globe. Erom a leading official of the Standard Bank of South Africa we hear that fo*r some years past gold to the value of many thousand pounds has passed through the branches of that bank m South Alrica. This gold has been sent m a rpgular but quiet an ostentatious manner : the whole of it being the produce of a few miners work > ing without machinery, m the Transvaal, and principally m the Lydenburg district. The gold production m the State bids fair to completely eclipse the value of the diamonds produced by the Kimberly diamond mines. All that is want. Ed is organised mining with modern appliances, when the refuse stone packed up as- useless by the Kaffirs and otber miners is expected to yield as valuable results as the best "stufi" m many a Califomian and Australian mine. What the rich ground contains seems beyond belief.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 210, 10 August 1883, Page 3
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191Prospects of the Transvaal. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 210, 10 August 1883, Page 3
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