Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-14
HOW THE EXPULSION OF TIE CELEsTlALS
WILL AFFECT THE WORLDS GREATEST
GOLD MINES.

The men sleep In hunks IN rooms
about 10 feet square and ~ ieet illEn'
with nothing but n lilac roof overhead
ei,ch n room Is supposed to accommo-
date 60 chinese, although 1T has seldom
more than As
DAILY LIFE OF a CHINESE MINER
Tho daily lilo of one of these Chinese
may interest you. He wakes about
o'clock IN the morning al the sound OF
the huglc. and takes his pae" IN u gnhs
OF 80, which is In charge OF u poss
how. who loads them into the dining
hall for breakfast.
He ents under the electric igh', s,'-
tiup at II table. AT the close of the
meal a huglo again sounds ana thn
men march out gang By gang, Ehe ron
IL then called and 1t Is ascertatned 1uSt
exactly what coolies are worklns. qua
the reason for the absence OF those VINO
ar& not In the gang. Then tins pusi ~
blows again and the Ghihese move VI
10 the shafts and go down underground.
Each takes half loaf of white preaa
nlonp for his luncheon ut midday
As to the time the men stay IN the
mine this depends ON their Skin and on
tho Jobs on which they are Woth,lis'
If ON piccework they can depart Wien
they have done "A certain amount OF
instance, the hammer boys. VINO cru.
hnles for the hpsting, are supposed
To make two feet IN q day but " they
can drill that in three or four hours
thcv are AT liberty to return to the
silrfarc or they can stay aud work on
mt tht. rate of | cent per inch Tor an
above that. The most ever made ny
any one in a day Is as inches ana one
of the Chinese gangs here has an aver
age of 81 inches per man. which means
| that they mako about Of cents per ia!
| IN addition to their board and lodging.
A. a rule the men work on until D
| o,c,ock. when they march back 10 the
compound for dinner. thus closing the
| day
THE NEW LABOR SUPPLY.
The question MS to how the loss OF the
| Chinese Is to be repaired Is discusseo
everywhere In the Transvnal. a. pres.
ent there are in the mines apout ls,vVo
whites, 9S 900 natives and In the neigh
| forhood of sc, 900 Chinese. The number
| of mining companies employing Chinese
| Is over 30, and these companies pro-
| duced In 1906 more than $50, 000, 900 worth
| az gold. They paid out In wages anu
salaries something like s25, 00o,0O0, and
! in addition considerable In the way OF
| food supplies and other stores. Their
dividends We're between *hooo'ooo ana
$4,000. 900.
| When the Chinese have gone 1t Is
supposed that their places VIII have
been filled by natives. There is great
! prejudice here against the Hindoo, and
it is hardly probable that he VIII be
imported.
i AS to the negro labor supply, a large
1 part of that now in the mines is from
Portuguese East Africa. II was brought
here by contractors, who pay the Pnr-
tuguese government S4.25 per head and
agree to give the natives good wages
and good trea tment, Indeed. 1t is said
that before the Chinese came more than
so per cent of the colored labor was
brought in from outside the Transvaal.
On my way down the coast met the
agent of labor organization who had
been drumming British Central Africa
for labor. He had contracted for q
large number of negroes of various
tribes whom he marched down to the
port of Chinde and there loaded them
on the steamers. Central Africa is not
thickly populated. but am told here
that about 10000 natives can he annu.
ally brought from there to the Rand Il