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Ch. 19: An Uplifting Power

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AN UPLIFTING POWER
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mines, and the little lines from Salt River to Wynberg, and from Port Elizabeth to Uitenhage were of no service in the advance of transportation.
However, capital was wary and loath to invest in any of the projects for railway building into the heart of South Africa, until the continued working of the Diamond Fields for three years convinced investors that rich diamond deposits were indeed
open, whose continuance in depth might reasonably be antici­pated. When the export of diamonds in 1872 amounted to over ^1,000,000, the Cape Government authorized the pur­chase of the sixty miles of railway then in place in the colony and sanctioned the extension of the existing line and the con­struction of railways from Port Elizabeth and East London. It was a heavy strain to raise capital for the extension of all simultaneously; so the advances were groping and slow. At
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