The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-22
SAYS AMERICAN
MINERS LEAD ALL
South African Engineer Praises
the Advances Made Along
Scientific Lines.
TO STUDY NEW METHODS.
SAYS ASSOCIATES WILL CARRY
ON WORK UNINTERRUPTED.

James Llddle, consulting engineer for
the DeBeers Consolidated Mines COM
pany Kimberly, South Africa, was a
guest at the Kenyon hotel yesterday,
and spent the day seeing the sights in
and about the city, under the guidance
or f. j. Chisholm and O. 5. Jackson.
Mr.. Llddle is making tour of the en-
tire United States for the purpose of
studying mining and milling conditions
and TO investigate the practical appli-
cation of recently invented and ap-
proved mining and milling machinery
TO everyday use. Nearly all of the
great mining camps of the country have
been visited, and careful study has been
given by this expert of the classes of
machinery that may be utilized by the
nected.
The development of the mining in
dustry in the United States is wonder
full he said last evening. And at the
same time, the industry will be enOr-
mousy greater a few years hence.
THE ingenuity of the miners of this
country is remarkable. They seem 10
leave no loophole for the loss Of the
smallest profits. The study # saving
every penny's worth of values seems TO
have been carried 10 more exact sci
ence in America than in any other coun-
try in the world. The mines of America
are a source of never-endlng interest.
The study of the local conditions. which
are different in every section, and the
adaptation of the mining men 10 these
local conditions in botn mining and
milling operations, is remarkable. The
miners OF America are among the most
progressive and daring in the world.
and their methods are most instructive.
The study of mining machinery and its
application to all conditions has brought
me to this country, in order that the
most advanced and scientific methods
,-of securing and handling the ores may
be utilized by the company with which
] am connected.
Great Future Ahead.
The mining industry in this country
. is i'm its infancy. it has Il wonderful. d
marvellous future ahead of il. The de-
velopment during the last decade has
caused the admirati ton aud wonder of
the whole mining world, but froir. what
| have seen | think that the devel-
opment in the coming ten years Will be
far greater than has ever been dreamed
of.
THE industry in Africa? Well as IN
this country, the industry is Still in its
infancy. There we have enormous
areas to be explored, and 1t seems GER
tain that these great areas, when they
have been explored win show even
greater wealth than those that have
been opened
I'VE have been troubled with labor
difficulties in other years. but these are
being done away with. The Kaffirs are
supplanting the Chinese, and as a re-
suit conditions are becoming more set
tied. The Kaffir, when properly han
died, is good Iaborer, and is capable
of development and expansion of ideas.
Mentally they may not be as acute as
the Chinese, but they are reliable when
properly controlled.
THE mining industry in South Africa
has made wonderful advances in the
last few years, and the zone of explored
country is gradually widening from
the mining centers. The new country
offers many surprises TO the practical
miners, and great things may well be
expected in the future. New and mod
ern machinery and methods are sup
planting the old, in both mining and
milling and many Of the old dumps are
being worked over, as in this country,
for metals that were not formerly
saved. or that were but crudely- eX-
tracted i'm the past.
Comments on Belt.
THE death of Alfred Belt came, not
as a surprise. but as a shock to the
mining men of South Africa. His Geath
had been long expected, but neverthe-
less il caused pain among his old asso-
ciates when the end came. The death
OF this master mind has not affected the
South African mining interests in any
extent, as the actual business that he
formerly handled in person had been
given into the hands of others during
his illness. The men who took these
burdens from his shoulders were trained
under his personal supervision, to his
own methods, and the business was,
therefore continued without a break or
interruption.
Belt was power in African affairs
until he was last stricken, and his in
fIuence had a great deal 10 do with
progress and development in the mining
business of the country"
Mr.. Liddle is delighted with Salt Lake
and the many attractions to be found
here.
From Salt Lake Mr.. Liddle will go to
Colorado Springs and Denver: thence
10 Niagara Fails and Seneca Falls. N.
Y, to study modern electrical machin-
cry. He will spend some days in New
York. and viii then return to Kimberly
by way of London.