The copper era and Morenci leader., 1913-10-31
FORMER RESIDENT OF THIS SECTION
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MT. Jacob Green, Formerly a resident of Clifton, Returns After Resi- dence of Ten Years In South
 Africa; Gives interesting
 Facts of That Country.

Facts of That Country.
 MT. Jacob Green, who left Clifton
 and this section more than ten years
 ago after residence here of a num-
 Der of years, this week returned from
 an absence of ten years in various
 sections, including Rhodesia, South
 Africa.
 MT. Green has many friends re-
 maining in this section who are glad
 to meet with him and to know that
 he will probably permanently remain. During his former residence in Cliff ton, he was employed as locomotive engineer on the Coronado railway, and has devoted many ears of his life to that line of work, having spent years in that service in many. parts of the world, including Mexico
 For the past ten years he has been engaged in engineering and mining work in South Africa, and speaks in terestingly concerning conditions of life of that country. For some time he was engaged in mining develop ment work in the state of Rhodesia, with headquarters at the town with the African name of Bullayo, the center of a great mining and agri- that the richest gold mine in the known world is in this region, the name of the mine being the Queque, and the richness of the ores being such that a thirty stamp mill has a production of more than S200,000 values in gold per month. This mine is about five thousand feet hundred miles from Cape Town, the southernmost point of Africa.
 The mines in this section were worked thousands of years ago, the Venetians, with other peoples of Flu rope, extracting gold there. About two thousand native Africans, of the Kafir race are employed in the Que que mine, and about one hundred whites are employed in places Of re- sponsibiIity. These ! whites repre- sent every country of the globe, goodly number hailing from Arizona, in which state they followed mining work before taking their way to Af- rica Also in the Rand district, adjoin- ing the Rhodesia country, are gold mines of enormous value, the ore be- ing in lodges of hard rock that ex- tend for hundreds of miles. It is probable that the most modern methods of ore reduction the world offers are employed in the Rand mines, aS in many other mineral dis tricts of the dark continent. The Rand ores are low in percentage, but their extent is so vast that a hand some profit is secured by the reduc- tion, on a vast scale, and by the most modern processes. MT. Green states that the Rhodesia fields, while very rich in percentage, are not of the great extent that they were original ly supposed to be, and that the fu- ture mineral yield of Africa will, in all probability, come from the enor- nous mines of the Rand. The Rho desia mines are not of sufficient depth to insure a profitable working in all instances, although the ore ex- tracted is of the greatest richness . MT. Green states that conditions for capable white miners, in Africa are not, materially different from those obtaining on the American con tinent. Wages there are slightly lower than here, while living ex- penses are slightly less. Native la frs working in the mines and also as domestics, for their keep and about $500 per month.
 MT. Green is not very optimistic concerning the agricultural future of Africa. Vast stock ranges are there, with an abundance of grass, yet the rainfall is not always of the same NOluAC, SISdl TdnCAcS anu at times of drought are subjected to great loss. The growing of cattle, and other kinds of livestock, is hin dered by the presence of an insect known as the tetze fly, and he bite of which is certain death to livestock of all kinds. This fly inhabits cer- tain zones, and in those regions no livestock can cross, although man is immune from its poison.
 In the Rhodesia section can be found some of the largest game in Africa, these regions being the Mecca of sportsmen whose quest is big game. White not a hunter, MT. Green encountered a number of ad- ventures in this direction, having to his credit one of the largest of Afri- can lions, these animals being so plentiful in some sections that they constitute menace to the inhabi- tants. MT. Green talks interesting ly of the many settlements occasion ed by adventures of big game hunt ing in the African wildS.
 MT. Green left Cape Town on Au- gust 27, of this year, coming by way of London, England, where he spent several days, then to New York City, and from there to Clifton. He is greatly impressed with the improve ments of Clifton, and stated that the town is altered to the extent that is difficult to realize.
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