New-York tribune., 1902-05-11

BEGUN.

attached to buckets in which the miners -. :.
precious dirt containing diamonds 10 he $50 SEQ tne
That crater bottom was simply honsvror,t.s =.
Iais s3ch one or which was owned by serar.l l.l
Individual Some Of the claims were ,ri,S Ss,parate
ieet square, and the deeper they went fbe s"ehty
Upel9sS the mess became The earth was perp9re ere
ally sliding from one claim another and e1Pg7e
c US ssoh ana frictlon IN consequence ensued VS.
M sam some rant l1ea OF what il must have 49,
IKE IKE when tel you that no less depth man s-snl
and now they have gone fully ffrcep sSssassr.
The Consolidated De Beers mines Orisi19 1II tese ~
the others were gradually absorbed eitbeS b out an
chase or lease. until to-day only one coruany ee
ITols and mines the Kimberley diamond sSidl 49,
wisely the output is restricted that The u1srit
closing down certain of the claims sIfoSt 0ue oy
owners OF the shut down claims receive di5dao5e ne
IN the same ratio do the Stockholders ~ nus nus
claims that worked The general scheme % tS tSs
Ii CIpiIls9udatlon which sui prevails. THAI one
onethrd should be paid out as divdends and Hdg ans
third should go 10 the mines shut down 7
1t is oat of this great consolidation that tba
Ia9ulous Ia2 resources CT the great firm Of Wene-
Belt * Co have come in large part. Twenty-avss
years or so ago Alfred Belt. a $50 year clsrk IL
Lhe mouse OF Porses, IN London was sent our -
While WeBer has freS,nl IjsI5 81 tl SAM same house,
he has never remained there for anv length %
time. and has more 70 Go with the London part 80
the vast business leaving Belt the south 4frcSS1
end. don't know how Belt got into the consoBSsIl
tion originally. bur lei II suffice THAI ne gof A.
that to-day believe the house Of Wener 4 say
with which Cecil Rhodes was associated. is the
rlchest nrm IN the world and that their resources
are in the hundreds of millions. Personally Beit i
small unlTnpreSS1Ve ana QIrnQenU
unless he is talking business and then it's who'll;
another story. and he is totally different NAV
and dignfed He is approachine sixtv in acs hi1 ne
Belt IS little If any, over fortyfve. Both are nfa
governors of the De Beers company.
''Of them all. however. Barney Barnato was The
most attractive. AT extremely able business mar
Barnato was the most versatile and amusing ~
human creatures socially. In fact he may be saiS
to have been \ genius in every direction DR.
Jameson, who by the is of the hest %
English surgeons. is physically a medium sized
man, not over five feet seven, should say A
good hOrseman and very nervy and fearless he Is
also born leader of men, He is exceedingly good
company and more like American in his tastes
and ways than any other Englishman I ever met
NO, / haven't any opinion about his famous
raid-at least any opinion that to express
yes, think the BOer war Is approaching a
climax. First, because my advices from there are
to that effect but principally because the present
government in England is acting as though 1t had
something up its sleeve This government seems
not to fear to tax the people in any sort OF wav
matter how disagreeable or contrary to precs-
dent. This government, too, does not seem 10 fear
the opposition and its searching questions about
the non-termInation Of the war and the Constant