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Range (Small tract of land extending)

a small tract of land, extending 25 miles either side of Johannesburg, South Africa, and famous for its mineral wealth. Discovered in 1885. The reefs are accessible and rather easily worked.

The deposits are unique in their unparalleled persistence of ore, which is interspersed in the quartz and sandstone. It RANDALL RANDOLPH is not of very high quality, yielding about of Emmanuel Church, Baltimore, Md., $10 per ton. There are about 10,000 stamps in the district, which can crush 7,000,000 tons a year. The Boer War passed over Johannesburg without doing any vital damage to the plants. Just before the war it was yielding at the rate of $100,000,000 a year, or one-third of the world's production. The reefs are over a mile deep, and conditions favor deep mining. The deposits are not, as asserted, practically unlimited.

South Africa rivals the United States in disrespect for tradition. In fact, its brightest pioneers are Americans, and the leading figure among Johannesburg engineers is Hennan Jennings, a Harvard graduate. There are many problems ahead of the Rand, the chief being that of power. There are no navigable rivers, and practically no waterfalls.

The Kaffir, of whom there are 100,000 in the Rand, is lazy and dissolute, and the Boer War made him worse and scarcer; while the climate makes white menial labor impossible.