Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1910 — GEM FIELDS PROVE WEALTHY [ARTICLE]

GEM FIELDS PROVE WEALTHY

Germans Discover They Have Bonanza in Southwest Africa—Government Gets Half. Berlin.—Since the resignation of Colonial Secretary Demburg, one line of his policy has been justified by remarkable statistics published concerning the diamond fields of Luderitz Bay In German Southwest Africa, in the current year diamonds worth $5,000,000 have been turned out, and half of that, according to the contract framed by Herr Demburg, goes to the government of the colony. All told, these German diamohd fields are' proving far more valuable than was expected. At first the entire value of the fields was set down at $50,000,000, but now one claim alone has been proved to be worth more than that.