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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-01-17
MERE.MENTIlN.

The fighting strength Of the Beers,
originally $4,000 men, is now estimated
at 100000 with 200 guns. Lady
Methuen denies that her husband, the
general, has become insane or that he
is i'll. ......."The total bank clearings in
the United States last week amounted
to 81 1853, 300, 1886. .'..'.'"A Washington
correspondent of The News and Cou.
rier says the Republicans are showing
indications of weakness in the matter
of gold standard, and that they will not
dare incorporate gold standard decla-
ration in their platform. '''''''' The gold
medal provided by the ladies of South
Carolina was presented to Victor Blue
in New York last Saturday by ex-
Governor Hugh S. Thompson. ''.''''''
Hon. w. J. Bryan and other prominent
Democratic leaders are to speak in
Boston on January 30.'''''''The British
parliament will assemble on January
80, and one of the first acts of the
government will be to ask for further
credit of S1OO,O00,000 for the prosecu'
ton of the war. .....'''''The American
goods recently seized by British
warship on a Dutch vessel have been
released. .''..''''The Italian government
is asking for the punishment of the
persons who lynched the five Italians
in Talulah, La, last spring. '''''Carter
Harrison, mayor of Chicago, has de-
clined the Democratic nomination for
the governship of Illinois and it is
understood that the nomination will
he rendered to ex-Vice President Ste
venson. ......The First Baptist church OF
Augusta, has extended call to DIR. Z.
A. Stakeley, Of Washington, ID. C.""'''
General George Henry Sharpe, former
ly a member of General Grants stall
and the officer who received the parole
of the army of Northern Virginia,
died at his home in Kingston, n. y,
last Sunday.
LAST YEARS PENsIoNs.-.The comp
troller general, on Friday, submitted
to the state printer his report of the
a. ~
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DIR. w. M. WALKER.

DR.. William M. Walker, one Of the
oldest and best known citizens of
Yorkville has passed away. After a
long and tedious illness, occasioned
principally by the general breaking
down incident to old age, rather than
by any organic trouble, he breathed
his last on Monday afternoon at 8
o'clock. He was aged Is years, 9
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-01-17

Back pensions to the amount Of
81, ,24S.65 and Sc to pensions boards for
1898 were paid out of the 1899 appro-
prialion, and $l,2lS.lO was paid the
boards for services in 1899, making a
total expenditure of $lOl ,366.97.
There was $2lS.42 left over from
1895.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-01-17

LAST YEARS PENSIoNS.-The comp
troller general, on Friday, submitted
to the state printer his report of the
expenditures for the pension depart
ment. Following is Il recapitulation
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-10-07

Persons Of Sound Substance and Good
standing
read THE SUS. You may reach them through tho
hdvsttsing columns Desirable asSociationN with
pleasing. results have been formed IhiS"~1 uAs ~
dium.-AdH
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5 IS Jack Point -, Sc.
5 so Golden Prince 81,
10 SIS Concentration Al.

Thus leaving the unfinished series for Nor
rs Park, the system netted at this meeting
$7+2 on, g, maximum capital called for OF 3ii0.
is made on the place and third money, and
that the percentage oi actual winners Is not
larger than that " the newspaper tipster,
Godfrey. 80 10 /, came AZ times when the SMALL
est bes were made. and did. not 40 materially
6eneft ne .enc a. they, would have done With
Ing Is extraordinarily good, and will so con-
unue until tho close Of the Bennlnss meeting.
has paid well during the season, and conists
OF keeping tab Of the boys race By race. play
lns the one with the highest percentages for
twice In succession, and whore he IL ind Gated
twice, the next on the list Is taken. The bet
Is straight ana ,5 place, accepting a. low as
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-10-07
only three wins in thirty-nine mounts placing
him well In front. The record Is as follows:

McCue rodo thirty-two races without n win
nor. MedderStiaUd rode tventy-SiN loscrr in
succession, O'Counor rode twenty-oighf COM
s%eCutive losers. lIttlcneld rode ten losers With
out q win following ten other LOSERS NJ Shceus-
hcad meeting or twenty in all. and tho thrne
most consistent boys with short runs of losers
have been Sponocr, Turner and shaw. tho first
and the third named showing the best.
The average Odds against trc fnvorita show
n distinct gain. h"ing within q shade of ? to /:
Last wear the average was 2 20 =. and In 1905 n
WINS 7 10 There Is also n decided Increase in
the average number 81 horses 10 start In q race.
Tn to the last three days IL was AWAY above tho
records, and oven with tho small fields of tho
closing days II gives an average Of moro than
e!sht and a halt horses 70 the race "a against
not quito eight last year.
Morris Park CLOSES ne season at the big
tracks, and II will probably show n good record.
The outlook Is for plenty - favoriIas,
possibly - rnr cent, Int there Is 20 10 cN-
pectcd q Wonlt sfOt about the tho 'Nird and no
sixth DAYS. 1hN chart t. ~ follows for tho Pcdd.
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Look out for tho last day. II IL generally
weak In vi ming favo ties and has been snown
TO lose tho season without q winner.
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tTsS ss46
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The increased winnings by this method 81
betting ARE due 10 NCylIe's win on Big Gun Rt
and to the many place bets which were
won when the straight failed to connect. The
greatest amount II Oapit9l in the hands OF
the bookmakers at one time was small.
There has been another shake up In the
the remarkable squirt OF Henry from
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

| is a somewhat newer process, however,
| called "chlorination," which has grad
ually been taking the place of the cy
anide process with many of the larger
concerns of the Rand.
On the whole, it may be said that gold
mining on the Witwatersrand today is
more of the nature of manufacturing
business than mining in the popular ac-
ceptance of the word. Immense plants,
thousands of workmen, involved proc
esses and great capital are necessary.
But this gold manufacturing business
promises to be a business that win last
for many a long year, The supply of
metal is practically unlimited. and
when the mines are operated under
more favorable circumstances than
they have been of late their returns
will be even greater in the future than
they have been in the past.
SO If it comes to a matter of PAY,
pay, pay." with Dom Paufs people the
| Transvaal will be found to be very
good debtor. 1t would take many
years. of course, to pay off the tremen
dous demands that England, if vietori
Gus and unhampered by foreign rela-
lions. would impose on her little enemy.
The finances of the Orange Free
State are by no means so rosy as those
of the Transvaal. That little sister re-
public, it must be remembered, has less
ludH lUD,UOU Whites III ali us POpQ1dIlOtts
and it's revenue has never reached over
G400, 900 for any single year 1t is true
that there are 5000 farms in the state
averaging about 1000 acres each, but it
must also be borne in mind that only
250, 600 acres are under cultivation. The
Free Staters have very little gold in
their country. though they have dia-
mond mines that are of considerable
value and promise to increase in wealth
as more thorough exploitation takes
place. The diamond output of the Free
State amounts to about $2O00,000
year. The Free States exports amount
to almost $4,000 600 per year. a sum
which, when the smallness of the coun-
try and the thinness of population are
considered. shows that the republic is a
very prosperous little country. The
railways of the Orange Free State are
among the most profitable concerns
within it's borders, and as these rail-
ways act as feeders to the TransvaaI
and as the people north of the Vaal
must always look to the Cape for a
large proportion of their supplies, the
activity of the different roads through
the Free State is assured for all time.
But. rich are these two South Az
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What the Intrepid Little South African Nations WIFI Have
TO Draw Upon For Indemnity If They Should
Suffer Ultimate Defeat al the
Hands Of Great Britain

war about one-third of the people Of
the Transvaal We're engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits. There are about r.
500 farms in the republic. nearly 1000
of which belong to the government and
are the source of considerable state rev.
enue The newly developed coal mines
are proving far more valuable than was
ever anticipated, 100000 tons a year
being now the average output. These
lie in the eastern part of the republic
and are capable of producing a steady
output of most excellent coal for an in
definite length of time. Then, of course,
there are the national exports of ostrich
feathers, wool, cattle, hides, grain and
ivory, each article on the list bringing
in many a dollar to the Transvaaler
and his government. The Transvaaler,
in fact, has been taught to think in big
figures. This may be evidenced by the
fact that in the 1898 session of the volks-
raad a proposal was brought forward
to raise loan of $50, O0O 900 for railways
and irrigation works alone. There were
no reasons for the rejection of the pro-
posal beyond the fact that already the
promise of war was in the air. So Kru-
ger and his fellow legislators laid the
matter over indefinitely. though no sur
prise was expressed at the magnitude
of the proposed outlay.
Although it is true that the financial
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-xzss = During the night q sailor
y 81 ~. ouN - rolled inside through
fright of the
garrison at seeing the grim earl before
their gates that they capitulated and
marched out of the town.
Another strange capture of a fort
was accomplished by an intoxicated
sailor during the war in India. The
British army had been all day besieg-
ing a very strong fort on the river
Hooghly, and they would have had to
spend many more days before they
managed to take it, as the inhabitants
had plenty of food and ammunition
During the night a sailor named Stra-
han sfrayed from the British camp up
to its walls unperceived and rolled in
side through a breach. On seeing the
enemy he became suddenly sober and
shouted for his comrades. The British
sentries gave the alarm, and his COM
rades rushed the garrison.
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and commercial crisis in Johannesburg,
aggravated by the uitlander revolt at
the beginning of 1896, was rendered
more formidable in the following year
by marked decline in mining shares
in the market, rebellion and rinderpest
together could not long depress the
financial activities of such a wealthy
aad energetic little republic. The pri-
mary cause of this temporary collapse
was overtrading and overstocking, and
the person responsible for it was the
gentle uitlander. 1t was, on the other
hand, the gentle uitlander who, perhaps
not altogether unjustly, most suffered
when the crash came. The excessive
competition of importers, encouraged
by the unrestrained granting of credit,
resulted in a panic that involved the
banks and mercantile houses of Cape
Colony and Natal, and through them
different banking and mining concerns
in London. This check given to mining
activities and importations affected the
finances of the Transvaal government
to such a degree as to cause their sur
plus to disappear. Then came the rim
derpest, which killed off the oxen and
hit the burghers themselves; and the
two together necessitated recourse to
temporary loans. But such a con-
dition could not be permanent. The
republic was a territorial Rothschild,
with only a penny in its pocket, but
with millions in it's banks. 1t has been
conservatively estimated that the de-
posits of gold already discovered in the
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rock today is very low pay ore. and if
it were not for the big plant and the
cyanide process it's extraction would
not be profitable. BY means of the cy-
anide process the gold can now be
taken out at a cost of only Sc per ton of
ore handled. But although this con-
glomerate is not very rich in the yell
low metal it is practically inexhaustible
and of an even richness throughout.
Ten million tons of this conglomerate
were crushed with profit in 1898.
The ore is secured by drilling and
blasting, and, after being hoisted to the
surface in steel elevators, is, put
through the huge steam crushers. This
reduces the rock to pieces about the
size of hens eggs, after which it is put
through the stamps, with streams of
water running constantly through it.
By the time the stamping is finished the
ore is reduced to a powder about as, fine
as cornmeal, and this powder is run
over copper plates which are covered
with mercury. Mercury. having a
strong affinity for gold, causes. the little
particles of yellow metal to adhere to
the plates. From these plates it is re-
moved from time to time. The tailings
are then taken and treated in immense
watts with cyanide of potassium. There
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yellow nuggets and grains to be found
there. Sometimes he even goes over
half mile down beyond the reach of
sunlight and there are a few shafts
that reach almost the mile limit, though
naturally not very many. There is lit
tie water flow on the Rand, so one
great expense and inconvenience is OBJ
waited. The Beers have never been
great gold seekers, so all, or practically
all, the companies operating on the
Rand are English, or at least controlled
by English capital. The thorough and
businesslike principles upon which
these big English concerns have under
taken their gigantic mining operations
are wonderful to behold. With them
money has been no object, and when
once a good vein is located the scale on
which the business is carried on is
truly magnificent one. Nothing could
be farther from the old fashioned Cal
ifornian gold hunter of forty nine"
According to the mining laws of the
Transvaal, an individual or company
can hold only vertical rights on any
claim-that is to say, although the gold
bearing rock dips in a southerly direc-
ton at about an angle of As degrees,
the miner has not the right of the lat
eral development of his reef. For this
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South African Republic contain $780,
100000 worth of the precious metal.
while every month reef after reef of
new deposits is being brought to light
Perhaps a gentle hint as to the faith
of the burgher himself in his country
and it's future is to be found in the fact
that precisely at the time when the
financial crisis was at it's height the
volksraad increased the salaries of its
members $500 a year.
There was a time when the lowest
dividend paid by Transvaal mining
company was IS per cent. There was
also a time when as much as 675 per
cent was handed over to London stock
holders as dividend on every share of
stock. In fact for many a year now a
great golden stream of wealth has flow
ed from johannesburg and Pretoria up
across the equator into England. Be
fore the war every mail steamer that
started out from under the shadow of
Table mountain carried with it half a
million of gold dust to be minted into
bright, glittering English sovereigns.
The wonderful gold bearing quartz of
the Witwatersrand mines forms a sin
gle reef about 80 miles in length, so far
as known at present, and runs slant
wise down into the earth for, it is be-
.lieved by experts, an indefinite num-
Der of miles. On the very fringe of this
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your fix the general quickly replied
and. turning to his quartermaster, said,
Give him a gun
When Jackson was introduced to
Major Lewis of Franklin, the major,
addressing the great warrierN said:
q General Jackson 1 have all my life
been writing against you.
And T., was the response he re-
ceived, have been, fighting the battles
of my country in order that you might
enjoy that privilege
Just previous to the battle of the
Horseshoe, when Jackson had his men
drawn up in line of battle preparatory
to an attack on the works of the Indian
fort. strapping big soldier who stood
just in front of the line cried out:
j" oh, General Jackson, what shall I
do? 1 have no gum
jackson eyed the questioner a mo-
ment and replied:
8 BY the great hornspoon, my fell
low, try it fist and skuH!' The whole
army line was forced to smile as it com
menced the charge upon the works in
'front.'
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G11MpsEs OF BoER LIFE.

reef of gold stand the 'snokestacks of
johannesburg, and along it are. scatter
ed the works of the 60 different mines
operated there.
view of this mining district is i'm
pressive, if not inspiring, for its unique
ugliness. In all directions one sees
nothing but the same dull scene repro
duced and repeated-the tall, black
smokestack, with coIored bands about
it like an ocean liners funnel, ridicu-
lousy elongated, belching it's black,
bituminous mass and standing out,
sentinel like. above body of scaffolding
and machine shops of corrugated iron.
Nearby are always great. desolate
where the tailings undergo the cyanide
process of extraction. The town itself
has plenty of brick and stone, big build
ings enough and palatial homes in any
number, but, after all, johannesburg
city is only the counting room of the
mines. Plain and unprepossessing as is
the town itself, it has. or at least had
up to the time of the war outbreak, an
air of prosperity and general business
rush about it. All this enormous BUSH
ness of gold producing, concentrated as
It is in such a circumscribed area, has
given facilities for the perfecting of the
different processes of extraction IN
known elsewhere in the world.
The Rand miner has no equal. He
thinks nothing of delving and drilling
a quarter of a mile below the surface
of the earth in his search for the little
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ANDREW JACKsoN,s NERVE.

Here is an occurrence which viii IL
lustrate General Andrew .Jackson's in
domitable courage. At Glover Bend a
mob got after Patton Anderson, who
was a warm friend of the general, and
was intent upon taking his life. An
derson had retreated and entered a
yard, with the mob in close pursuit
Jackson intercepted the angry horde
and, with an exclamation of warning.
threw his hand to his hip pocket and,
withdrawing a spectacle case. opened it
with a snap which could be distinctly
heard some distance.
by the eternal he shouted. "the
first man that puts his foot on this step
is a dead mani"
This effectually checked the mob
Il had no pistol said Jackson after
ward, "but the snap of the spectacle
case deceived them
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-EAR is an expensive pastime. At
wv some time or other, and by some
one or other, the piper has to be
paid. and paid right well. Now that the
war in South Africa advances more and
more toward its close it is beginning TO
be asked where the necessary pounds,
shillings and pence win come from to
pay for the broken eggs that went to
make the omelet. as Napoleon put it.
One part of the debt, it is true, has al
ready been paid. 1t is that part which
a nation pays for by the life and blood
of her best sons. But that is a part
with which the hnancier and the poll
tician have nothing to do. 1t is the
cold, hard cash that interests these
men There is a balance to be struck,
a deficit to be met and somebody must
meet it. Who is that somebody to be?
Some time ago, when Lord Salisbury
was answering Lord Teynham'S ques
ton in parliament as to whether or not
Great Britain was bound by secret
treaties with continental powers in con-
nection with the outcome and settle
ment of the South African war, Great
Britains prime minister, answering
negatively, went out of his way to as
sert that there was neither precedent
for nor likelihood of any outside inter-
ference when it came to matter of set
Ting up accounts with the South Afri-
can republics at the end of the war To
use his own words, no one felt strong
enough or bold enough to try to rob the
Victors under unctuous pretexts of hu-
mainly and mercy" Of the rights which
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reason a single claim is very rarely
worked. 1t is far too small to he profit
ably exploited under such Circum-
stances, so what are commonly known
as "outcrop companies are formed,
and these together exploit a block of
contiguous claims. This explains why
the small individual miner, as known in
the Klondike today, is Scarcely ever
heard of in the Transvaal It is always
the big company in competition with
which the solitary gold seeker has very
little chance of success. Native labor
is employed and can be secured for
about SO cents per day. The Rand
mines, when in full operation, employ
about $4,000 laborers. Every plant has
its one or more cosby steam stamps for
crushing the ore, or. as the Dutch call
it, the blanket" Blanket is really the
Boer name for nut cake, and as the ore
of the Rand greatly resembles that de-
lectable product of the Boer haus-
vrouw's kitchen, the word soon passed
into general usage. The geological term
for such formation is ''conglomerate,
signifying as it does, a hardened mix
ture of sand and pebbles, with tiny bits
of the yellow metal fixed in the harden
ed mass. 1t is believed that the reef of
the Rand was once, thousands and
thousands of years ago, the beach of
some long lost sea. Small streams car
ried grains of gold down to the beach
and there depositeds them in the sand.
Pressure and chemical action in time
soIidified the mass into solid rock This
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rican republics. it is doubtful If Great
Britain, even though circumstances are
such that John Bull shall be able to
squeeze out of them every pound, shil-
ling and penny his rapaeity may die
tate him to claim. viii ever be able to
find compensation for the losses the
land of the Union Jack has sustained
through rushing into this present war
England has spilled much of her best
blood, she has lost many OF her best
sons and she has suffered defeats that
even later successes can never quite
wipe. out. So whatever the final out
come, it is no wonder that many sub
ject of the gray widow at Windsor is
asking, Does it all pay?
WILLIAM J. RUDOLPH.