The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-12
ZHE SALT LAKE HERALD: SUNDAY. AUGUST 1a 1900

adds a new wreath, but the most con-
spicuous of all these days is one from
which floats a red and white and blue
ribbon bearing the words: In honor
of Villebois- Maremil, the Lafayette of
South Africa. From some Americans,
July 4. 1907 The Frenchman's por-
trait probably hangs on the wall of
hundreds of such farmhouses in the
Transvaal.
The Gold Mining Exhibit.
The most practical and conspicuous
Of all the South. African exhibits are
those devoted 20 an exposition Of the
methods of gold mining in that distant
land On one side you see the towering
nose of a derrick; nearby, the massive
frame of the Ore-cruShing machine. and
elsewhere the high turbine wheel used
for washing the metal. Over there is a.
pulley at the mouth of the shaft. and
Just beyond that the smoke arises from
the tall chimney of the laboratory and
smelling works. You hear the noise of
the running machinery, and every little
while a car :ushes by you loaded with
chunks of stone or diScharging its
dumpings of slime. Activity bristles
whereabouts, and the visitor needs no
stretch Of imagination to realize he is
thick in the midst of a gold mining
camp. He is there, literally, for the ex-
hibit is no make believe, but the genu-
inc thing Vast loads of bearing
quartz have been shipped to Paris. and
right there on the grounds the varied
operations of the science are performed
under the eyes of the visitors. When
the stranger has acquainted himself
with the way gold is obtained from the
rough rock and is fashioned into the
shiny bricks he sees produced from the
smelling furnace, he walks across the
grounds and stands wonderingly before
a yellow metal pyramid fifty feet in
height. tapering from base seven feet
N width. On the face of the column he
reads:
Pyramid representing the total val
Ne of gold produced in the South Afri-
can republic from 1884 20 1897
This" says the contempIatiye OBJ
server, "is what, next to the bravery
of her people, has made that little cor
ner of the universe SO famous through
out the woodland so popular in Eng
and
So much for the things "above
ground" The actual exhibit space be-
low the surface far surpasses in meas
urement, and equals in interest, the va
ried display in the six buildings over
head. A wide passage leads from the
open air into the subterranean regions.
ere a couple of miles of galleries. wall
ed in rocks imported from South Afri-
ca, represent the various peculiarities
of a Transvaal gold mine. Working
miners, each with a lantern in his
| hand. pass you instantly in the sombeF
stretches, and all along the route you
see white and black men, with pick or
other implements in hand. hard at
work breaking precious blocks from the
rock. Though the miners who salute
you in the galleries are living crea-
lures, the other men who seem so busy
hereabouts are not. They are lay fig
ures, COPIED to the life from Boer min
ers and Kaffir servants, and sent TO
Paris to perform their part in the Won
ierful Transvaal exhibition. Wonderful
it really is. and, as has been said, more
mirutely typical and Characteristic Of
the land it represents than almost any
other national exhibit at Paris.
Y. GRTBAYEDOFF.