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KLERKSDORP

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 846 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KLERKSDORP  , a

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town of the
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Transvaal, 118 In . S.W. of
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Johannesburg and 192 M . N.E. of
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Kimberley by
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rail . Pop . (1904), 4276 of whom 2203 were whites . The town, built on the
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banks of the Schoonspruit 10 m. above its junction with the
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Vaal, possesses several
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fine public buildings . In the neighbourhood are
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gold-mines, the
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reef appearing to
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form the western boundary of the Witwatersrand
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basin . Diamonds (
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green in
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colour) and
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coal are also found in the
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district . Klerksdorp was one of the villages founded by the first Boers who crossed the Vaal, dating from 1838 . The
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modern town, which is on the
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side of the spruit opposite the old
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village, was founded in r888 .

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