272 -Men, Mines, and Animals in South Africa. 



expectation that a gold mine would be discovered 

 in Grosvenor Square. I may, however, quaUfy the 

 unfavourable opinion of the gold-producing capacity 

 of this district expressed above, by the mention of 

 the fact that I have, in conjunction with ]\Ir. Alfred 

 Beit, pui'chased half the property in one of the 



At Hartley Hill. Panning for gold at Mr. Borrow's hut. 



mines belonging to Messrs. Johnson, Heaney, and 

 BorroAv. The pm-chase-money is to be expended 

 on the immediate development of the reef on 

 which, up to now, little or no work liJis been done. 

 If the reef is fomid on examination to go down, 

 some hundred feet or so — to be three or four feet 

 wide at thai depth, and to }-ield at that depth the 



