TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION F. 485 
from which, it was submitted, are applicable to the problems as they state 
themselves in South Africa. 
These conclusions are :— 
(a) That to give the native political power is premature. 
(6) That the tendency of race feeling is towards segregation. 
(c) That the greatest benefit each race can confer upon the other is to cease 
to form part of the other’s social system—that is, not to become politically inde- 
pendent, but to become socially independent. 
(d) That the evidence points to a wise use of the reserve system as the means 
best adapted to attain this end, and that scattering natives promiscuously among 
a white population will not conduce thereto. 
(e) That satisfactory results can only be attained by keeping the best of the 
natives in touch with the best of the whites, and that this involves governing 
them on what may be called paternal lines. 
(f) That powers of self-government should be -granted to a limited extent, 
varying with the circumstances of each particular tribe or district, and confined 
to native affairs. 
2. Some Statistics of the Mineral Industry of the Transvaal. 
By A. C. SurwEerpann, M.A. 
The following statistics dealing with the mineral industry of the Transvaal 
are based upon official figures appearing in reports of the Government Mining 
Engineer. In them the term ‘oz.’ is used as meaning a ‘fine oz.’ (valued in the 
case of gold at 4'24773/.), the term‘ton’ as meaning 2,000 lb., and the term 
‘works’ as meaning any metallurgical, chemical], brickmaking, pottery, or lime 
works, or places where machinery is erected. 
Output.—The mineral output of the Transvaal during 1904 consisted of gold, 
diamonds, coal, silver, chemicals, manures, paints, disinfectants, and a small 
quantity of metals other than gold produced at metallurgical and chemical works, 
stone, lime, bricks, pottery, &c., the total value being 18,428,210/., of which gold, 
diamonds and coal accounted for 98:02 per cent., and gold alone for 86:98 per cent. 
The output of gold was 3,773,517 oz., valued at 16,628,883/., of which 62:77 per 
cent. was recovered from mills, 35°96 per cent. from chemical treatment on 
crushing mines, 1-11 per cent. from metallurgical and chemical works, 0:10 per 
cent. from tailings syndicates and non-crushing mines, 0:02 per cent. from alluvial 
workings, and 0:04 per cent. from other sources. The total tonnage of ore milled was 
8,409,447, and the yield per ton milled, based on the officially declared output, 
which does not include gold contained in by-products not treated at the mines, 
was 8861 dwt., of which 5634 dwt. was obtained from mills and 3:227 dwt. 
from chemical treatment on the crushing mines. Including the gold estimated to 
be contained in products sold, the total yield per ton milled was 8-965 dwt. 
The number of producing mines increased during the year from 68 to 81 and 
from 56 to 66 in the Transvaal and in the Witwatersrand area respectively. 
The number of stamps running increased during the year from 4,705 in January 
to 5,850 in December, and was theoretically equivalent to 4,757 stamps running 
without cessation throughout the whole year. The average number of tons 
crushed per stamp per day was 4:83. The number of stamps erected on June 30, 
1904, was 8,856. During 1903 the Transyaal’s output of gold was 2,972,897 oz., 
amounting to 18:7 per cent. of the output of the world. 
The output of diamonds amounted to 884,331 carats, valued at 1,150,873/., of 
which value the stones found at the Premier diamond mine accounted for 95°60 
r cent. 
a 2,409,008 tons of coal were sold by collieries, with a value at the pit’s mouth 
of 883,8917.; 46:39 per cent. of this coal was mined in the Springs-Brakpan area, 
45:06 per cent. in the Middelburg-area, and 8°55 per cent. in the remainder of the 
Transvaal. 
All the silver was contained in the gold bullion, and was estimated to amount 
