The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-15
HOTEL AND CORRIDOR.

Manager S. Edkins, of the Consoli-
dated Investment company, of Jo-
hannesburg, South African Republic,
was seen at the Knutsford
last evening in company with
J. C. Phillips, of the same place.
The party is composed of the two gen.
tlemen named above and their wives,
all being on an American pleasure trip.
Mr.. Philip acted as American consul
at Port Elizabeth twelve years ago and
is a very important man in South
Africa. Mr.. Edkins said 1.-The output
of gold from the Transvaal this coming
year will far surpass the American.
Had it not been for the Macarthur or
rest cyanide process of dealing with
ores the output would amount TO little,
but it has been the very salvation OF
the country. Refractory ore is treated
in that way, and the expense is below
any system we've ever tried. The ex-
traction cost is going down steadily
and all expenses in the mines are being
lesSened every year. AS for the cost
OF ore treatment. it varies. AT first the
cost of transportation was enormous.
but it has been so reduced that it seems
impossible to further cheaper it.
THE Rand is full of dykes and
broken reefs, making the cost wary; but
20 shillings per ton will usually cover
the cost of treatment, and from eight
to ten pennyweights are usually OBJ
tanned from a ton of ore. The internal
dissensions wrought things up SO last
year that the output of the mines
which are the richest in the world
could not possibly go ahead of America.
1.-THE richest mines run directly
through johannesburg, being situated
on a reef forty miles in length. There
seems to be a, never-ending supply of
ore; it is just as good at the bottom
as anywhere, and some of the shafts
have been sunk to over a mile.
Sixty years from now. Whsn other
fields have almost been forgotten, these
mines will still be booming, for the
reefs run at an angle, the main reef
being about twelve feet wide.
THE richest reef is known as the
south one, and runs parallel to the
main vein.
Rather a low grade of ore is found
in the smaller reef, which also runs the
same length as the long one, but is only
two feet wide.
There are a large number of Cor
nishmen in the mines, and four COM
panies alone employ 10000 men, natives
and white.
THE companies are as follows: The
Robinson, having an output of $4,000
ounces a month. the Primrose, Crown
Reef and Landlaagte estate. all with an
output of 10000 a. month each. The
property of these famous companies
are all ON the mother vein.
A dividend of shillings on stool,
at Fl par was divided by the Landlaagte
estate last February. and a few months
back the stcick brought II shillings
above Far. Americans seem to be a little
afraid of the Transvaal. little Amect-
can capital being invested there. We
get American news constantly but we
Know too little about your people.
Mr Edk'ns is mining broker. be.
sides and Mr.. Philip is of the mercan-
me nrm OF Philip, Tudhop & Co., All
Port Elizabeth.
me party has not time to visit Mer.
cue, being merely on a pleasure trip.
We'll you pirate - hello. old chan
pie = by all the gods, where's old
jack rang through the quiet sane
tum of The Herald last evening. as a
game sport from the capital, with
flowing locks and ingalls, tie and his
Immortal cigar. dashed into the midst
OF the pencil pushers.
IrWby Nicholson. you old sport
nome at last-Did the president send
me any message and such expressions
echoed back from the horse editor. the
railroad liar, and others of the press
gang Sure enough it was old
-Trilby," who came in Yesterday ;af-
ternoon on special train. with
srreamers on the sides. and a, brass
! band in the caboose.
His friends will be glad to know that
he has reformed to a certain extent
but that he still entertains the pie
eeian rabble, showing them how to in.
hale the perfume of a Havana filler
"Trilby" will be with lis again until
! the moon of leaves is over. and ther
will either seek his den in the bliss,
full shadow of. the capitol or devote
his philanthropic attention to the ma.
tives of Zanzibar.
Jolly Jim Shields had a few words tc
say in the Knutsford last evening
about as follows: You may say thai
all of the boys are out. in more WAYS
than one, perhaps, as / heard one OF
my commercial friends today say thao
he sold bill of sS,000 1 asked hin
| whether 1t was nit. or net, and he
didn't say the last one. / think tina
this year with the travellers will bs
rather dull, as all presidential elec
ton years are. but by the end of The
year it will turn out about as well az
usual. There are no brilliant indica,
tons at present, bull Immediately after
the conventions get through things will
pick up
Mr.. and Mrs. Theron Geddes re
turned from the east yesterday, bring
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Katie, who has just graduated from
| st. Mary's in New York They viii
reside as formerly in Walker terrace
Hotel arrivals yesterday were:
Knutsford: G. W. Cunningfon
Utica; A. r. Grant, Henry Doyle, D
w. Wynbook, New York; Franl
Boskowitz. San Francisco; Mrs. E. ]
Dorring, Chicago; S. Wolfenstein. Mis-
Wolfenstein Cleveland; P Verplanch
New York; Mrs. Palmer, Mrs. t
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