River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-08


the famous BOer guerilla general, a
British premier and feted in London;
the Transvaal, after three years Of
warfare and five Of military rule, once
more a self-governing colony under
Boer control-how strangely events
reverse themselvesi And yet Jo-
hannesburg, which created the Trans
vaal and is nine-tenths of it, goes on
serenely, pouring forth gold in con-
tinuous stream, unmindful of political
change, and will continue doubtless,
to do so, till the last paying particle
of the auriferous metal has been ex-
tracted. Then the mines will close
down forever, the houses tumble to
decay, and the myriads of migrating
springboI will once more wander over
the site Of the great mining city.
Dumped down in the middle of a
vast, rolling sea of barren uplands,
crowned with strong granite hills,
joined to the southern coasts, over a
thousand miles away, by only two
slender railway lines, Johannesburg
is emphatically dependent for it's eX-
istence on the gold output. Just one
and-tWenty years ago a party of pros
pectors made a discovery of gold
upon the farm of an ignorant BOer
named Johann, who resided far from
civilization in a desolate region where
it had been stated officially that gold
could not possibly be found. They
offered him price which seemed
enormous for the sale of this property.
The old man pocketed the money,
packed his wife, children and house
hold utensils inside his ponderous
wagon, inspanned his oxen and
trekked away northward into the will
derness. To-day his farm is valued in
billions; and now, where once the
weld was blackened with antelope
herds, stalked by the lion and leopard
and a few adventurous frontiersmen
there stands a city of 10000 souls
white, black, yellow and brown, known
as Johannesburg.
The City To-Day.
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succession of mining villages, amalga-
mating into a fine town toward the
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