The same day saw the opening of the display of the processes of diamond mining, washing, and cutting, in the Mines building, inthe exhibit from Kimberley. Three Zulus marched from the ore yard, and took their station at the South African section. Jim Camel, the leader, wore his full warrior's regalia, and carried a club and an assegai, watch, and kept the crowd moving. At ten o'clock Chief Skiff of the Mines department, came from his office, and at the word from Commissioner Wiener of Cape Town started the machinery that is to show visitors to the Fair how the precious stones: are separated from the blue earth, and turned out xs finished gems. When the pulleys began to whirl, a sack of earth was thrown into the hopper, run through the separator, passed into sieves that awaited the pulverized material, and thrown upon arable. Five bright stones showed thei glitter in the mass of wet earth before the chief, and he picked them out with a steel trowel, very gingerly. It was his first experience as a diamond miner.
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