+----------+----------------+----------+---------------------------------+ | |Year Ending | Number of| | | | | Loads | DIVIDENDS PAID. | | | |of Blue on| | | | | Floors at+------------------+--------------+ | | | Close of | | | | | | Year, | Amount. | Equal to | | | | exclusive| | | | | | of Lumps | | | +----------+----------------+----------+------------------+--------------+ | {|March 31, 1889, | | | | | {|prior to | | L s. d.| | | {|consolidation | 476,403 | 188,329 10 0| 5 per cent. | |De Beers {|March 31, 1890 |1,576,821 | 789,682 0 0| 20 " | |and {|March 31, 1891 |1,525,386 | 789,791 0 0| 20 " | |Kimberley{|[A]June 30, 1892|1,624,805 | 1,382,134 5 0| 35 " | |Mines {|June 30, 1893 |2,606,362 | 987,238 15 0| 25 " | | {|June 30, 1894 |3,028,333 | 987,238 15 0| 25 " | | {|June 30, 1895 |2,699,233 | 987,238 15 0| 25 " | | {|June 30, 1896 |2,800,316 | 1,579,582 0 0| 40 " | | {|June 30, 1897 |2,304,917 | 1,579,582 0 0| 40 " | | | | | | | |Premier | | | | | |Mine |June 30, 1897 | 271,777 | ... | ... | | | | | | | |De Beers | | | | | |and | | | | | |Kimberley | | | | | |Mines |June 30, 1898 |2,377,913 |} | | | | | |} | | |Premier | | |} 1,579,582 0 0| 40 per cent. | |Mine |June 30, 1898 | 727,039 |} | | +----------+----------------+----------+------------------+--------------+ [A] These figures are for a period of fifteen months. Add 10 per cent. for other products. CHAPTER VI THE TRANSVAAL OF TO-DAY We have dealt with the exodus of the trekkers, and with the land that subsequently became the Transvaal. It behoves us now to discuss the difference between that primitive pastoral region of the early century and the busy country that may, for distinction sake, be styled the Transvaal of to-day.