History, Productions, And Resources of the Cape of Good Hope: Official Handbook
History, Productions, And Resources of the Cape of Good Hope: Official Handbook
Cape of Good Hope South Africa
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By law no individual could hold more than two claims, and the* " blocking " of claims was also prohibited, so that although there were only about 500 claims in the mine, the number of holders was more than threefold, or about 1,600. Many diggers who had only paid the customary license of 10s. per month for their claim, disposed of it for over £100, and the value went on increasing from month to month, till ten years later claims changed hands at £10,000 to £15,000 each. But this is anticipating... the chronological order of events. It has been said that the roctdways facilitated the working of the Mine. They were 14 or 15 in number, numbered from east ta west, and the names of them still survive for convenience of describing spots in the mine, or on the plans, though every vestige of them has long since disappeared. As early as the beginning Digitized by VjOOQ IC 1«6 THE "ROADWAYS," 1871-1872. of 1872 they began to be unsafe ; the working down of the claims on either side in perpendicular walls left precipitous caverns on both sides of the roads, and many were the accidents both to the workers below and to the carts and passengers along the roads before the latter began to cave in.
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