Show AFRICAN CONGO fabulously RICH IN COPPER AND OTHER METALS E G sullivan mining engineer and former superintendent of the boston consolidated now a par part t of the utah copper company and who is now mines supe superintendent rin tor for the union an english 6 and belgian company operating in the district of katanga on the congo river is here with his family spending a three months vacation with mr and mrs david mcdonald mrs sullivans parents 1456 edison street after three thre e years in central africa mr sullivan van convinced that the world will see a rev revolution elution in the mini Is industry as soon as transportation facil facilities itie s are est establish ablis mining ed in his section of the african continent according to a interview accorded a local daily paper on the first of th the month there the english b financier robert willia williams nis u goll spending unceasing b efforts in building 9 a railroad which lie e 1 began at lobita bay in east africa before the baranj war ani expects to complete it at Kan tanga only the difficulty difficult yo oi transporting ores now holds back the tremendous poten of that part of the world mr sullivan declares tu owns greatest copper belt in world COT cor the union which owns the greatest copper belt i in the world is now developing b twelve mines and four of them with the second largest copper reserve in ali t 1 n world mr sullivan said this firm has still pr e to open K the best radium is found in this section mr sullivan sulliva said and the companies there brought the price of radium badiu I 1 y down f from rom a b gram ram to a gram which h hai 0 made it possible for its use in schools and hospitals T were not able to buy it with the price so high n with much difficulty the copper mined by the union io be on the congo is transported to the port of biberaj Biera ii east africa this is 1700 miles from elizabethville Elizabeth ville t A is capital of fatanka Ka tanka where the smelters shelters sm elters are located T thodi railroad now under construction has yet to be laid over er stretch of miles to enter the copper belt this will rna inah h is a difference over the present transportation conditions 01 0 miles by rail and 2500 miles by water to the europea Euro peat I 1 r markets mr sullivan said his company would be working a hydroelectric hydro electric plant in the next four or five years with a 2 capacity of handling from to tons 0 ot ore a year heavy production of rich ore the capacity of the african mines on the congo is is I 1 proximately tons a week of ore which runs more th atia 20 per cent compared with the utah copper company P output of tons a day of 1 per cent ore mr air dechard sulli bu ard iva stated there is no finer ore in the world than this he herecla rid the district of katanga is a belgian possession and a country said mr sullivan the completion of the transport causell I 1 tion system to central africa is going to further the ca cal agriculture in great proportions especially tobacco sugar suga bratlien Br otlien coffee ca f fee and many other tropical products the lever pall of england the worlds largest soap producers bai ha hagelar velar large ils av groves in that country from which abich high 6 grade soap 0 produced teed mr sullivan said also in although subject to tropical diseases the section he lives is under strict sant iary enforcement said mr al broili malacia and durin during 6 the time lie he has been there 1 no deaths iro of the mos among among b the white people have occurred speaking speake na quito evil he said inos 0 blis h a 1 I see that salt lake county is trying to esta wont talk quito abatement district to abolish mosquitos but ta to IN orl it in africa we get rid of the mosquitos by gett ge inor sent tal t our sanitary enforcement is strict and this department depar as dry 0 care of the mosquitoes we cut the grass keep possible and leave absolutely no filth or garbage october e P g mr sullivan will return to africa about another her ti thre will not return to the united states for at least an cation ey g years as his company permits a six months va a three years |