Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-08-16
The Future Great Gold Fields.

The new world in these DAYS is no
longer America but Africa. Our geo.
graphical knowledge of that vast conti-
nent is increasing at present with great
rapidIty, and the impetus given TO its
exploration " the lsbors of Livingstone,
Stanley, Baker and Cameron will before
long be the cause OF a wonderful emf
grafton to the great Southern continent.
Should the proposed inundation of Sa-
bara from the Atlantic ever be carried
out land 1t is most seriously consid-
ered) water path will be made to the
center Of the peninsula, which will i'm
mediately throw it open to the trade of
the whole world.
From what is already known OF the re-
sources Of Africa, there is no doubt that
i. is extremely rich in gold. The coast
OF Guinea has been known as the gold
coast for centuries, and it was from there
that much of the treasures of early times
came. The country not far north from
the Cape OF Good Hope is already among
the prominent bullion producing dis
tricts of the world; and for hundreds Of
years a considerable quantity of the yell
low metal has annually come from Ably
slnia and Mozambique. As Stanley and
Cameron progress in their explorations
of Central Africa, We hear frequent re-
ports of the presence of gold, it being
found profusely among the tribes of saw
ages who know but little of its value, and
who only prize it for its native beauty.
The Commercial Bulletin refers as fol-
lows to the new FL Dorado:
Lieutenant Cameron of the British
navy, who recently returned from a two
years exploration of Central Africa, re-
ports the discovery of something more
valuable than big monkeys and little
"niggers." He found the portion of
Africa west OF Lake Tanganyika to be
one of the richest countries in the world,
and more salubrious than India. Ivory
is there found in greater abundance than
anywhere else. At Nyangwe, the Arabs
trading among themselves give 35 pounds
of ivory for IA pounds OF beads or 5 Z
pounds of cowries, and very often they
are able to buy tusk irrespective of
size, which may weigh from 100 to $50
pounds, by the present OF copper
bracelet or any worn ont useless thing
which may take the fancy of the native.
Lieutenant Cameron says he has
walked along for fifty or sixty yards
under grove of nutmeg trees, with the
whole ground coverd with nutmegs, and
no one knew what they were worth.
Besides. that there are many other vege-
table products in abundance, many diff
ierent species of cotton and oil.produc-
ing palms. Up the valley of the Congo
to the hight of 2,6G0 feet above the level
of the sea, the country is crowded with
oil-palm, and hereafter that trade alone,
leaving the question of ivory altogether
on one side, would be sufficient to repay
any enterprising merchants who embark
in 1t.
a"God is also found, and Mr.. Cameron
saw an Arab who showed him a caIubash
full of nuggets, which we're all procured
in one evening in clearing out an old
water course. Iron, copper, silver and
tin are abundant. All this, the Lieu.
tenant thinks, may easily be reached by
the great Congo and Zambesi rivers and
their tributaries, two of the most mag.
nificrnt systems of water communion
ton in the world. A little canaline
seems to be all that is needed to form a
water communication between the east
and west coasts of Africa, and 30 make
all her rich resources available fol
trade. - Mining Review.