The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-17
A JOURNEY OF 40,000 MILES
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 goods is 20 per cent. ad valorem and that about all the wooden ware used is imported from the United States.
 He visited Kimberley and the great diamond mines there and gives a very Interesting account of the process of picking the diamonds from the hard blue clay, almost stone, in which they are found. One mine is a huge hole dug in the ground, about 500 feet in diam- eter, with perpendicular sides and about 800 feet deep, although he says they are now beginning to sink shafts and tunnel, as is done in coal mines. The clay is blasted out and when first taken out is nearly as hard as stone. At each mine there is plot of ground of ten or fifteen acres and over this the clay as it is taken out is spread and allowed to remain for several months in order that the action of the rain sun and atmosphere may soften it.. When it has become sufficiently softened it is taken to the place where the diamonds are picked out. This is a building of five or six stories and the clay is taken to the top floor, where 1t is placed upon a crusher and water is turned upon it. u IS then put upOu d large EeNUlNlIS disk with water continually flowing through it and her the first picking out of diamonds takes place. After going through the first picking the clay is taken to the floor below where it again is put through a picking process on a revolving disk and so on down through the other floors of the building, on each of which 1t Is picked over. After this it is spread out and is looked over for the final examination. The diamonds range from the size of a pea or smaller to about the size of a chestnut, with once in a while a larger one. All diamonds that will cut to the size of pin head are saved The diamonds in the rough would not be recognized by one not fla miliar in the business and are of a rusty appearance.
 Leaving South Africa, MT. and Mrs. Sargent went to Tasmania and visited there Hobart, formerly British penal settlement, and Launceston, where there are valuable tin mines and some gold mines. MT. Sargent says that the island is a fine fruit raising and pas toral country. From Tasmania they went to Australia, spending a month in Melbourne and month in New South Wales, visiting the larger towns and making short trips into the interior. They then went to New Zealand, five days voyage from Australia, and re- mained there month. Mir Sargent de- scribes New Zealand as very demo- cratic country, where the government owns the railroads, tramways, tele- phone and telegraph lines, gas and water works, etc. He says that gov ernment ownership of these has been found to operate very successfully there and the system meets with universal approval
 From New Zealand they took a three weeks voyage around Cape Horn to Montevideo in Uruguay. After visiting Buenos Ayres and Argentina they jour- neyed over the Andes to Chili, making the journey from Buenos Ayres to the foot of the mountains by rail, then up the mountains a short distance by a mountain railway and from the ter minus of this by mules across the mountains and through a pass 13,00O feet above tn sea level. The mule paths are winding and circuitous, the route being wherever a footing can be gained through the rocks and preci- pices. In many places the narrow goad extends along the edges of preci-