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BOKSBURG

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 158 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BOKSBURG , a

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TOWN

town of the

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TRANSVAAL

Transvaal; 14 M . E. of Johannes-

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BURG

burg by

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RAIL

rail . Pop. of the

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MUNICIPALITY

municipality (1904) 14, 757, of whom 4175 were whites . It is the headquarters of the Witwatersrand

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COAL

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MINING

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INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry . The collieries extend from Boksburg

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ward to Springs, 11 m. distant . Brakpan, the largest colliery in

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Africa, lies midway between the places named .

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