THE WITWATERSRAND AGAIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11853, 3 January 1902, Page 4

THE WITWATERSRAND AGAIN.

After two years of prorogation the Transvaal Chamber of Mines is again in evidence. We have just received from that body its "monthly analysis of gold production in the Transvaal''' for October, 1901. Though still shorn of its ancient splendour the. Witwatersrand has again taken its place as one - of the great reefing fields of the world, for. the month's output totals the very respectable amount of 33,393 ounces of fine gold, valued at j £141,848 sterling. > This is equal to | an annual production, valued at over ! £1,700,000,, an amount considerably in .excess of our annual New Zealand gold-winnings. From the table furnished only eight mines were at work in October, all on the Witwatersrand, their stamping power ranging from the forty stamps of the well-known Bonanza, i which put out gold to the. value of £20,699, to the sixty-five stamps of the Geidenhuis Deep, with its output of £16,103. The biggest output was £27,614, from the 5 sixty stamps of the Robinson, and the smallest, £9575, from the fifty stamps of the Meyer and Charlton. The other four working mines were :; the City and Suburban, £19,857, with fiftyfive .stamps ; the May Consolidated, £16,532, with fifty-five stamps the Treasury, £16,538, with fifty-five stamps; and the Weramei', £14,930,with sixty stamps; All concentrates were stored for future treatment, and only the Bonanza and; Guidenhuis treated their slimes. As this really marvellous : field is- now being steadily reopened, a great increase' will certainly be Vwitnessed:; from j month to month, and the go- j

vernment of the Transvaal Colony be soon made self-support-" ■ ing.. As one of the firsl signs of the restoration of normal conj ditions this formal report is disj tinctly encouraging and should be i the harbinger of the speeds' - paciI fication of the country and of the i re-establishment of .industry in ! every branch of production.