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Star of South Africa Diamonds Stir Global Mining Interest
Report on the South African diamond finds, the Star of South Africa weighing 186 grains, and the rush to diggings with miners and families at the Colesburg field. Includes a firsthand California miner’s letters, numbers of diamonds from several camps, and prices and values in pounds. Also notes an Anglo-Maxon policy on Apache scalps in Sonora and political commentary on tariff reform and Chicago Tribune editorials.
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South Africa
Calfornia
Australia
Cape of Good Hope
Star of
Sinbad
California
Alta California
Colesburg
Diamond Field
Transvala Republic
Orange Free States
Cape Colony
Natal
King Williamstown
Natab
Ares
Sonora
Mexico
Don Ignacio Pesqueirs
Chicago Tribune
Democracy
Tribune
New York Post
Revenue Reformers
House
Democratic Party
the Tribune
The
Pittsburg
Republican Party
Democratic
Chicago
Mary Buckley
David Buckley
David
Rogers
N. Y. Tribune