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Title: South Africa and the Transvaal War
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Creswicke, Louis
Subjects: South African War, 1899-1902
Publisher: Edinburgh T.C. & E.C. Jack
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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t into the energy thatcharacterised the Companys proceedings :— In the space of threemonths, a road 400 miles in length was cut through jungle andswamp, and a series of forts was erected and garrisoned by theCompanys forces. After the Matabele war, which occupied theclosing months of 1893, the prospecting and mining for gold wascommenced in Matabele, as well as in Mashonaland, and at thepresent time Buluwayo, Lobengulas kraal, has become the chiefcentre of the industry. These operations were checked by therevolt of the Matabele and Mashona in 1896, but since that periodgold mining has been steadily progressing. The Buluwayo yield forDecember 1898 amounted to 6258 oz. : while that of the four lastmonths—September to December—of the same year was 18,084 oz.,of the value of about ^70,000 ! The other fields which yield gold are the Transvaal, Lydenberg,.and De Kaap fields, and the Klerksdorp and Potchefstrom fields.The output of these fields continues to grow apace, but how much 128
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A MATABELE RAID IN MASHONALAND.Drawn by W. Small, from Sketches by A. R. Colquhoun, First Administrator of Mashonaland. Gold longer the growth will be maintained is uncertain. The opinion ofMr. Hamilton Smith, who wrote to the Times on the subject in 1895,is worth consideration. He says, In 1894 the value of the Randtgold bullion was ,£7,000,000, and this without any increase from thenew deep-level mines ; these latter will become fairly productive in1897, so for that year a produce of fully ^10,000,000 can be fairlyexpected. Judging from present appearances, the maximum productof the Randt will be reached about the end of the present century,when it will probably exceed £12,500,000 per annum. It is interesting to find that Mr. Smiths maximum figure wasalready exceeded in the year 1898, when the total yield of gold was4,295,602 oz., valued at ,£15,250,000! The following table, based on Mr. H. Smiths and Dr. Soetbeersestimates, affords us an opportunity for comparing the South Afric

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