Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-05

| bury, containing the greatest bodies of
I that metal known to the world. A lit
| Tie farther east are the immense sill
| Yer deposits of cobalt, the meta! lying
! In veins on the Very top of the rocks
! and so close 10 the surface that you
| can polish IT with your heel as YOU
| walk over IL Below on both sides of
Lake Superior are the enormous de-
postts of Iron belonging to our steel
truss. and also the famous Calumet
and Hecia copper Mines which were
for (, long TING the richest of their
kind in the world.
~ similar WeAlth of minerals exists
mn This great ridge of South Africa
Northern Rhodesia Is peppered Win
copper and iron. Here at Broken Fill
are hills OF lead and zinc which
describe further on III this letter, ana
the syndicate which owns them has
found 5000 different deposits Of vatlu@
able minerals in this colony. The ore
seems TO grow rtChersand more abund-
ant near the top of the ridge, and over in
the kongo possessions the whole coun-
Try nenr the border. is highly mineral
ICED | ann told tha. the natives there
have been mining copper for genera
tons past. They have snelted The
ore and have wrought from II their
hoes, spears and axes. Some of their
implements made by the natives are
shown here. Both handles and blades
copper axe before me as write, and
a copper hoe stands by my side
on the kongo watershed the copper
lies right on the top of the ground. The
mines can be worked like quarries. and
they VIII probably be handled with
steam sltoNeis When the railroad from
Portuguese West Africa is flushed.
The ore used by the natives comes
from little holes which have been dug
in the mountains. They have their
own furnaces and do much of their
smelling with charcoal One of the
chiefs has large number of men and
women at work, and is producing
number of tons of copper year.
Speaking OF the copper being on the
height of land while I was at Khar-
tun I'm the Egyptian Sudan | learned
that there are rich mineral deposits on
tho ridge which forms the watershed
OF the Kongo and the Nile. and i. may
be that q wealth of copper and iron
exists there.
COPPER. GOLD. TIN AND IRON.
SO far the minerals found on the
.Hnnbasi- konso ridge are copper, gold,
tin and iron There are large deposits
of stream and quartz tin At Bula
Wayo | was shown tin nuggets the size
Of walnuts which came from the Kon-
30 Free state, and also bars Of pure
tim which had been smelted there. At |
the present time only the smallest Of |
furnaces can be used, as the only inu-
tive power is men, and The pieces OF |
machinery must be regulated by what !
Two men can carry. t will be im-
possible to do much with the mines be-
fore the railroads are constructed. The |
most of the gold which has so far been |
taken out comes from placer deposits. |
The grains range from dust to nuggets |
the size of ones finger, and they are
absolutely pure, Something like three |
hundred thousand dollars worth has
been washed out.
AS 10 the copper. it is OF Il high ,
grade. The average Is from 13 to IL |
per cent pure, and there is one place at
lSatanga whore the ore runs as high
as 35 per cent copper. and there Is
said to be any amount Of ii which runs
20 per cent,
The ore at tho Rio Tinto mine,
which is the richest in Europecontains
only about 3 per cent of copper: and
it Is said that this African ore, even
If 1t ran as low as 6 per cent, would, |