Bisbee daily review., 1918-03-24
katanga---A Coming Country


 trol it's foreign relations) almost in dependent. The Barberton people found the Rand which is now produc ing l50 million dollars worth of goll every year but were not too success full at mining gold at a profit. The Kimberly people, who were making so much money cut of diamonds bought several claims from the Barber ton pioneers of she Rand and floated companies in London. The Rand sue ceeded beyond tLeir widest dreams. Cecil Rhodes wls one of the Kimberly millionaires He did not go into the Rand mining business but put his mon ey and the money of his friends into developments north. He was the founder of Rhodesia. Rhodesia ma, fairly be described as the small mans gold mining country, for the big com panies have failed while the small holders have succeeded
 New follow me by railway north from Cape Town. We get into the high country in the Exc River mountains. One railway goes to Johannesburg, the other goes north to Kimberly. The next place after Kimberly of import ance is BUlawayo. the capital of south ern Rhodesia. Then the railway goes north to the Wanllie coal fields and then to the Victoria Falls, where the Zambezi, Q mile and half wide, falls over an escarpment of 800 feet into a gorge only 70 yards wire at the bot tom. Here is the town of Livingstone, the capital of northern Rhodesia. From Livingstone it is a two and a half days run 10 the Congo border.
 The star of the Congo mine IS reached after a hundred and seventy eight mile run westward and for an other 1S0 miles we go through coun- try that is described as the Katanga Belt. How can describe the country? It is mostly open forest. It varies Tn height from $500 feet to 6400 feet The higher the country the more open it is and the highest country is prairie. The dry season, the African five months during which 65 inches fall. temper the summer heat. As to the minerals intheso uth are a range of iron hills. mountains of pure halmatite just as the country starts to break down to the copper belt Sandstone impregnat- ed with carbonate of copper) and in the low country which is far from healthy is a tin belt described as the richest country in base minerals in the world with every obstacle against it.
 The English pioneered the country The Belgians made a mess Of it and now an American engineer has got things going so that directly the war f- he. I bito, just north of Benguella in Portu- gese Angola, to Katanga along the Congo. Eambezi water shed. It is this water shed-a great unbrokeu water shed stretching 1700 miles across Africa from east to west-that offers chances. It is high. healthy country west of the source of the Con go Uualaba) River and entirely free from tche fly. This is one of the last great grazing areas of the world not yet taken up and would support under present conditions at least 90 million head of cattle Already 160 South Af- rican Dutch families are settled along this prospective railway route and a sprinkling of Englishmen as well. And as Africa now that the Germans are out of it. has become entirely a ques- ton for France and her nationals and England and her subjects we may look for an extensive settlement on the COngo-Zambezi water shed tfor Por- tngese misrule and Belginf jnoDmps- tence can no longer he toleritsk) and Katanga as the center of enterprise in the up-building of the highlands of south central Africa into the home of a white race. a work that calls for the cooperation of adventurers. capital. ists and politicians alike