A Thousand Miles in a Machilla 



has grown up of recent years and appears to be 

 successful, as there is very little outlay. The 

 Chartered Company give these tributors every 

 encouragement. Owners charge them a royalty of 

 five to twenty per cent, on the output. 



A prospector's licence costs ^i, and a prospector 

 should make himself acquainted with the mining 

 laws in force, and it might be well for him to 

 provide himself with the Miners and Settlers 

 Guide, published in Johannesburg, from which most 

 of the information in regard to mines has been 

 taken. 



A genuine prospector who is prepared to work 

 hard has every chance in Rhodesia. Up till now 

 most mining operations have been carried on where 

 ancient workings are known to be, and the virgin 

 reefs have hardly been tested. It is, however, 

 considered unlikely that the ancients discovered 

 even as much as half the gold-bearing reefs that 

 exist, so that there is a good chance for anyone 

 systematically prospecting some of the unexplored 

 districts. 



On the other hand, the Mining Guide says : — 

 *' If the proposition, that because there is a payable 

 gold in one particular block of claims there must be 

 gold in the adjacent ground is true in other parts of 

 the world, it is certainly not true of Southern 

 Rhodesia, and any phenomenal activity engineered 

 on such a basis cannot fail to re-act seriously on the 

 country." 



Thirty thousand natives are employed in mines 

 in Rhodesia. They are well cared for ; regulations 



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