Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1893 — Californian Miners for Africa. [ARTICLE]

Californian Miners for Africa.

Some practical gold miners of Sonoma county, Cal., are preparing to move in a body upon the gold fields of Africa. The party will consist of twenty-five persons, all practical miners. Nobody has been enlisted who cannot wield the pick, put in a blast, and do all the other work that is required of a skillful gold-seeker. The expense of reaching Africa is estimated at from #4OO to #SOO for each man. Plans to organize an expedition were begun on the receipt of some rather sensational news from one Sam Connors, who was formerly an engineer on the Comstock and is now the general manager of a rich gold mine in the Johannesburg district. He wrote home to his old friends of tho California placers that the prospective wealth of the African fields was almost fabulous, and he promised them employmen* if they would join him. Practical California miners who are willing to work are sure of a comfortable subsistence, he says, and many of them should be able to amass large fortunes. Connors adds that he is now preparing to erect the largest quartz mill in the world, and that the mines have a rich outcropping for twenty miles in ail directions. [Picayune.