of
wind-swept dust as gray as the iron dwelling places which alone seemed
to convert the desert into a town. This was the period preceding the
introduction of an abundant and pure water-supply that wrought such a
transformation in the appearÂance of the city. Now the upspringing of
flowers of varied hue, and green thickets and vines and trees in the
gardens that now surround nearly every house in town outside the
business quarter, has made during many months of the year a beautiful
country town of the old and barren Kimberley.
In spite of the visible yield of the mines and the consequent prosperity of the town there was, for many years, a prevailing 1 Christmas number, D. F. Advertiser, 1898.
