Identifier: ourholidayinafri01whee (find matches)
Title: Our holiday in Africa
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Wheeler, W. W. (William Webb), b. 1854
Subjects: Wheeler, W. W. (William Webb), b. 1854
Publisher: (St. Joseph, MO : Press of Combe Printing)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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t profusion. Cosmos growwild and were everywhere in the fields. Dahlias and chrys-anthemums were glorious, beside scarlet sage and many others. We went to one of the show nurseries. It w^as certainlya lovely place with all kinds of fruits and flowers. We alsowere taken to the Country Club. It was most beautifullylandscaped. There was an eighteen-hole golf links, eighteentennis courts, swimming pools and many other sports. TheCountry Club has fifteen hundred members. The city isonly twenty-eight years old and has immense business blocks,really looks much like Kansas City, Missouri, being situatedso high, it gets more rain than the surrounding country. Thiskeeps the vegetation very thick and green. Wliile we werethere the rain fell nearly every afternoon. Still it was verydusty in the morning, as the w^nd blow^s the sand from themines, making it very disagreeable. A sign frequently seenin the shop windows reads as follows: Closed on account ofthe dust; come in. 115 OUR HOLIDAY IN AFRICA
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JOHANNESBURG The Premier Diamond Mine is situated thirty miles eastof Pretoria. It is one of the largest in the world. We couldnot leave this part of Africa without seeing it and made aspecial trip there one day, going through the whole place. Thediamond Pipe is four hundred and fifty feet across oneway, and nine hundred feet the other way, being oval in shape,and goes straight down into the earth beyond the knowledgeof the local engineers. This mine has always been workedfrom the surface and it is an interesting sight to stand on thebank and see the army of mules and iron dump cars at workin the pit, five hundred feet below. All the blue rock hereis taken directly to the stamp mills and is ground and washed.The process is similar to that described in the Kimberly Mines,except that they do not spread the blue on the floors to be-come weather slacked. All the blast holes are loaded withdynamite and fuse and-.are fired at noon, while the miners areat lunch. We perched ourselves on an el

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