The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-19
LIFE AT JOHANNESBURG.

AaHs ~ S
in Very Glowing COLON.
Officer Pickle Inns received q letter from
Patrick =. TrigRs, a former resident of
this city whom everybody will remember,
letter il dated Roodeport, TransvaaI.
South Africa, December =, 1889, and the
following extracts of general interests are
made:
.There are many things that would be
of interest to You to- which 1 could not do
Justice by writing of them. I am not so
far north as ] intended to 20. hut I will
moi, go any t sr , Tor cr ~. present, @s
the natives very hostile. Am about 1000
miles from Cape Town. the nearest rail-
and the east coast. DalaRo Hay, Trans
vaal, is about 10000 square miles, about
the size Of Ariaons ,srsi.ory. IL
the English and Beers war of ~, South
Africa has had many drawbacks and
of south Africa since first Inhabited has
been a starving country, and i'm parts IL is
so at the present day. l can see by most
some part of the country. And I might
here state there has been for a while back
4 big famine scare here on the Rand"
almost everything has 70 he imported
s sSSo mi, saH by S sSSr ieam.. e" c~ou.e %aenSSr .se
food supply has run short and reached
fabulous prices, which left poor people
unaDle tD DuTNuaSe. Il ue government Wa
appealed to and took the case in hand to
supply the town Johannesburg. Several
thousand pounds were donated, and pray
throughout south Africa one Sunday last
month for rain. The rain came and the
trough, is now broken up. This like all
no~ begun. !oSanne-Ssrs is the
altitude is about the highest i'm the
Transvaal, $500 feet. Ii is situated midi
way i'm a mineral belt running east and
west. about rs miles due south of Pretoria.
the capital. Johannesburg is young but
has grown RAPIDLY. Its inhabitants are
d EnGi,~ff; r S.o'f hr;; dsS~' i MrGs-' MHSSiia as3a en-
mixed. or Irish there are few, and of
herc about the time I talked of coming
here. About "a year ago things were very
lively here and remained SO until about
have been going from bad to worse until
at present they arr. very ull. There have
been SO many mining frauds here that the
has found an opportunity To- drop a lot of
her wealth right here. 1 will say that one
than all the America rs combined in Mon.
tana. never knew what real gall was
until I left the land of my BIRTH. Kafiirs
do all the laboring work of all kinds and
mining (having white hos ses or herd rs.)
They get from 10 to 10 shillinRs per week.
b bafs i in a I inrr. Kettle Thew eat by the ard
of sticks when il is too hot to dig ont with
their fingers. There, ar. eight different
tribes around here all of whom talk differ
ent ongues. They are in their crude
state. Most of them wear no clothing.
Some of them wear n blanket thrown
over their shoulders, more q fAthem n sack
with arm-hOles i'm IL. You see everything
but mechanical work is done by Kaffirs,
and always will he i'm Africa. As you
know Africa has always been a great fever
country. The death rate last winter i'm
Johannesburg was considered second and
nothing only to Panama. l had two at
tacks myself, one i'm July and one in Sep
tember. There are . few things worth
remembering, Mitch. A man should not
leave America to work for wages without
"a position before he leaves. He should
thing "a good bank account of his own. If
he hasn't these he had better remain i'm
America. the best land i'm the world.