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Ch. 19: An Uplifting Power

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196 THE DIAMOND MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA
graziers trekked to new pasture grounds with their flocks and herds. Abandoned farms were reoccupied and virgin soil upturned for crops. Manufactures of various kinds began to spring up and multiply. Not only Cape Town but little coast ports were thick set with steamers busily discharging cargoes on piers or in lighters and bidding for exports at rates highly stimulating to the products of the Colonies.
The march of development was signally marked in the con-
struction of railways to meet the pressing demands for inland communication and transportation, and especially the imperative call of the Diamond Fields. The progress of mining was greatly handicapped from the start by the heavy cost of drag­ging supplies in lumbering ox-wagons for hundreds of miles from the coast ports, and the patent impossibility of moving any large plant in this way for mine opening or diamond win­ning. The pioneer railway from Cape Town to Wellington barely covered a twelfth of the stretch from the coast to the
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