Our Last "Safari" 



Vice-Gouvemeur Moulaert, who is carrying out much-needed 

 reforms and supervising the erection of up-to-date machinery 

 for the working of the reef. Metalled roads connecting 

 the mines with Lake Albert on the east and with Rcdjaf 

 and the Nile to the north, at which the Belgians have been 

 working for several years now, have been pushed forward 

 and are in a fair way to reaching their goal. 



The mines yield at present about three thousand kilograms 

 yearly, but this output will be greatly added to when the 

 new machinery comes into operation. The reef yields about 

 fourteen grammes to the ton, the alluvial deposit three 

 grammes. 



All the creeks and gullies in the Kilo mountains yield 

 gold, and as prospecting is active, new deposits are continually 

 being found. There is another promising mine on the lower 

 Ituri River at a place called Senguli which we shall no doubt 

 hear more of later ; it is being worked by the Forminiere 

 Company who are also importing machinery to increase 

 its production. Then farther again to the south, there is 

 a rich reef running, it is supposed, along the marginal 

 mountains west of the Semliki and Lake Edward, but as 

 yet undiscovered and only known to exist through the alluvial 

 wash brought down by the Ibima and Lindi Rivers and their 

 affluents. 



It is worthy of note that most of the great divides of 

 Africa hold mineral riches, and it has always been a source 

 of astonishment to me that so little attention was ever paid 

 to prospecting on the Anglo-Belgian frontier at the southern 

 extremity of what was known as the Lado enclave. This 

 is the more to be wondered at when the significant fact of 

 the proximity of the Moto mine to this divide is so evident. 



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