The Katanga 



modern luxury. The Vice-Governor's palace is a really 

 beautiful building, reminding one of some villa on the 

 Riviera. 



The town stands on the headwaters of the Lufubu River, 

 an affluent of the Luapula. Good big game shooting is 

 to be had in the vicinity and good motor roads run out in 

 all directions. Lake Mweru can be reached by motor cai 

 or by cycle in one day and the lake is likely to become an 

 attraction to visitors in the near future. 



Likasi, on the northern slope of the Lufira Valley, one 

 of the copper mines to be opened up within the last three 

 years, has now become a net-work of railways and sidings 

 — a branch from the main line to the new township having 

 been completed in the latter part of 1918. A large con- 

 centrating plant was in course of erection when I left and 

 a mountain of copper and another of limestone flux were 

 being blasted away. Smelters will come later, then the 

 copper ore from the mines to the north will be treated at 

 this new centre instead of at Elisabethville, as at 

 present. 



The climate of the Katanga highlands, which have a 

 mean elevation of about 3,800 feet above sea level, is perhaps 

 unsurpassable. The country is splendidly wooded and well 

 watered, and the absence of agricultural enterprise is there- 

 fore striking. There are not a dozen farms in the neigh- 

 bourhood of any importance and yet there is an unlimited 

 market for every description of produce. Certainly the 

 soil is heavy clay for the most part but very rich when 

 properly " worked." The Government will be well advised 

 if they encourage agriculture and stock raising in all its 

 branches and so keep in the country the very large sums 



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