The diamond mines of South Africa Volume 1 - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...rigorously enforced. The Austra"Si v"'""'£3'5 F""5"' lian gold fields had furnished some highly significant object lessons enforcing this certainty, but the little Boer Republics were not disposed to learn any lesson from the experience of English Colonies. The South African Republic claimed the diamond placer border north and west of the Vaal as part of its territory, but it was content, at first, with the bare assumption that the diggers on the northern and western bank were within the confines of its domain, without caring to assert its right of control by any marked interference with the free proceedings of the diggers. It did not regard the upturning of gravel on its border line as any menace of serious intrusion within its territory, and the ' " Among the Diamonds," 1870-1871. 2 " South African Diamond Fields," Morton, 1877. neighboring Boer farmers were generally well pleased with the opening of ready markets for their produce. Representatives of the Republic were recognized as oflicers of the law at Hebron, but there was little attempt to impress any recognition of its authority on the camps farther down the Vaal.' So the miners at Klip-drift went on digging and scraping the gravel, under their own simple regulations, month after month, until their busy camp burst suddenly into an uproar, when the news came in that President Pretorius and the Executive Council of the Transvaal Republic had granted to a firm of three privileged persons the exclusive right to search for diamonds in the territory of the Republic for a term of twenty years from June 22, 1870, subject to a royalty of six per cent upon the value of all diamonds discovered.' There were some old Au...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1236456726
- ISBN 13 9781236456724
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages90
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