The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1894-02-22
FROM 8OUYHA AFRIGA
Our Regular Correspondents
Newsy Letter.
WILL PUT UP A 0NE-sqAMP MILL
He Has Narrow Vein OF 5000 Gold
Ore-M eets Thomas Kerrigap, For,
merly OF the Bi-NIetnlllc Mill,
i'm BarbertOn--CarleIOn Work
ing in johannesburg, s. A.
WILL PUT UP A ONE-S4AMP MILL

BARBERToN, Transvaal, s. A. r., Jan
1O.-I received your letter, dated Sep
tember %, last night; and was glad t
get it. / do not receive The MAIL reg
ularly and had not heard from any d
you for nearly two months, and begar
to believe that you had thrown off Oh
me entirely. I will have been working
for wages two months on next Saturday
| then I will quit and 60 to work on The
prospect with a one-stamp mill.
Joe Carleton is working in Johannes.
burg. I received letter from him the
other day.. VI
/ When I went to work I was broke
lust had sixpence and owed E5. Pretty
good for new country.
Well, this is midsummer; had some
fearful rains, but the weather IS fine
now. The nights are cool, but the days
get pretty warm. There is. lots Of fruit
some very nice and pineapples and ba.
nanas are cheaper than potatoes. 4.
Talk about tariff in the United States!
just look at this country! Wheat is not
raised in the Transvaal and there is a
duty on flour OF fifteen shlllings ($3.75)
per sack. It costs lots to live with such
prices.
r I was surprised yesterday to see Mr..
Thomas Kerr1gan, from the Bi-Metallic
mill at Philipsburg. He is. going to re-
main with this company for short
time. | think he will run the new mill.
The war with Matabeleland is still IN a
good, healthy state. The reports have
Fbeen that it was all over ever since it
started; but now it looks as though it
was just getting started. The reports Of
the Chartered company are not to be re-
he'd upon. ! think Matabeleland is a
Egood country, and if don't do any good
here I will most likely try it next win
/ ter. Il. TX a@, ss
4 received aletter a few days ago from
Ia Mr.. Carruthers, Of Washington, max
ing n. inquiries about this country. I told
him that If l was in the United States
and knew as much about Africa az ! g 90
now, | would not come here; and Mr..
Kerrigan says the United States will
have to get pretty tough to get as bad as
| this country There is lots Of gold here,
but there are also lots Of drawbacks, and
| the worst of all is the fever. It is not
bad yet, but will be when the seeds on
the grass and weeds are ripe.
I The Sheba company, with 60-stamp
mill and a MacArthur- Forrest process
on the tailings, took out last month
5000 ounces Of gold. That is pretty
good. The cyanide plant only ran four
teen days.
Barberton will soon have railroad,
| but / am afraid it will not help much.
1t will benefit large companies in land
ing machinery and supplies, but the ne
cessaries Of life will be just as high. 1t
takes forever to get machinery here.
Charles q Templeton, the firm I have
been working for, sent to the states for
q Pelton water wheel the first Of last
August and it has just arrived; but it
took more time to come from Cape Town
here than from New York to Cape Town.
| There are great many new arrivals
here from the states, and they are all of
the same opinion as I at first, but when
one gets little used to the coantry it is
not quite SO bad. If one sees q little
gold it blinds him and he is more con-
tented. II I get to taking out a little
money am liable to write that this is a
fine country, but no one should believe
me, for it is not so. .4,S
4 Twill be able to write more the next
time. / have no opportunity to gather
news, as l have been in one place for two
months.
will up the one-stamp mill on the
prospect. The ore will work is not the
same as I sent you. It is some I found
after I sent that. The chute is small
but one can see gold in almost every
p1ece that comes out. pounded up, ten
pounds in mortar and worked it and
got one pennyweight Of gold-very near
ten cents per pound or 5000 per ton; but
it is only about three inches wide and
not oyer six feet long. The chute is
about twenty feet long, but the rest of 1T
is not SO rich. Well. the next time /
write I will know more about it.
Now, you don't want to let the thief
of time bother you again, but you must
wri Q, as it is lonesome here with no one
to talk to but the Kaffirs. Mr.. Kerrigan
says I talk Kaffr as we'll as if I.had al
ways known how to speak 1T. I have
learned It quickly.
The people have been working for
have made me promise that [ would
come back and work for them if don't
make the propect pay. ! guess they are
stuck on me. They paid me EGO per
month and told me that if I would stay
another month they would make it EOS
for all the time I had been here, so I
would get 935 for one month if j would
stay; but I told them that perhaps I
was a millionaire and I wanted to find
out. .s
Times were pretty tough with me for a
short time. could not pay my license
one month, but I went up and relocated
the ground. was afraid some one
would get onto it, but people don't pros
pect much in the summer here.
| Mr.. Kerrigan and I send regards to all
JACK HARTwELL.
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