tained
concert of views and means — could not be prosecuted efficiently and
prudently within the small area of a diamond-mine crater. Unluckily for
the advance of diamond mining and the fortune of many struggling
claim-holders, this irresistible conclusion was not made clear to the
mass of miners until it was demonstrated after long years of costly
fumbling in the diamond-bearing funnels.
In
view of the subdivision of ownership, the incoherence of the mining
operations, and the lack of essential funds, the Mining Board can
hardly be charged with a great part of the
