Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-12
AMERICAN MACHINERY.

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find American machinery used in
| nearly all the South African mines
wtn-WestinghoGse electric loco
1 motives drag the blue ground contain
| ing the diamonds out of the great pipes
| at Kimberley. and American pumps
keep the mines dry While walking
| through the works one Of the Ameri-
| can managers showed me an engine
used for pumping which had geared
| wheel 80 feet in diameter
i That engine said he, has the
biggest wheel Of tile kind IN tho world
| II was designed by II We'll known Amer
| can engineer named Seymour, wile,, he
was in Africa. and the plans and speri-
| hcat!ons were sent to simpson & Co.
| the celebrated engine builders of Eng
land They thought the job $40 big
| TOR them. and we then forwarded the
| lans to Frazer, & Chalmers OF the
| United states. They made the wheel
| iol#us and it works like n charm
In the Transvanl gold mines Il great
! partAof the machinery comes from the
| United States The Rand bought sl5.-
otu,bOu worth of new engines, drills and
| other machines III 1905. and great tcal
of 1t was sent from New York to South
anpton :l5d thence down to Cape
Town. All of the diamond drills used
are made in America. No mine is
'N'ii 'S'i ulltIl LiiS SIuuilu ILLS Dpel test
ed by Il "bore-hole" drilled through a
thousand feet or more Of rock. This
drilling is done with Il disk studded
With rough diamonds which cuts its
way downward with q rotary notion
carrying the core in its interior. The
drill Is raised from time to time and
the core is examined for indications
of gold. So far there are no British
drills at work on the Rand ana these
drills which each cost from $1,000
10 $4,000, are all bought from us.
II used to be that we sold great guam
titles Of picks. shorels and underground
rails to the miners. This market has
h&cn largely captured by Sheffield and
birmingham, rs has also that of the
compressed air drills used to make
holes for the blasting.
of late years the Germans have been
gradually working their mining ma
chlnery into the Rand. They have their
agents at Johannesburg, and they are
even investing in mining stock. hop
ing to be able to influence the various
companies IN favor of German machn-
cry. We still have the lead in rock
drills and rock breakers. and as a rule
our engines seom best fitted to get out
the gold
RAILROAD MATERIALS.
WITHIN the next lew years therc
promises to be II big opening here for
railroad materials. New lines have been
projected and are building in many
parts of the continent. The Cape to
Cairo road, which has already been ex-
tended to more than 1000 miles norta
+ OF Cape Town, is now TO be pushed
on to the copper mines OF the Belgian
kongo and another branch will soon
be built to Lake Tanganyika. The To-
bito Bay road which is building from
Angola, on the Atlantic, to the Kongo
Free State, will be about 1900 miles
long, and so far only about 200 miles
of it have been completed. There is Il
new road building in Nyassaland, and
the Germans are extending their trunk
line from Oar es Salaam toward Lake
Tanganyilla. sa
Bridges arc needed for all these roads
and the United States ought to furnish
them. During my stay in Uganda
went over the q big viaducts which,
we shipped there and put up. They
are as solid as when they We're built,
and American railroad material and
bridges have thereby acquired good
reputation. In the Sudan l saw Bald
win locomotives carrying the traffic on
the new road from the Red sea to the
Sudan Ind there are some American
cars in use in South Africa. the pre-
iudice is strongly in favor of English
built locomotives, but the quickness with