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Show Central Africa Held World's r-Ore Storehouse Former Utah Copper Engineer Declares Better Transport!- ' tion Will Open Fields of Richest Ore Ever Mined Central AfrUa' minora! reojrcea ra tramandotta and tha world a fin-eat fin-eat ore are tfepoajted there, accord-; accord-; Inc to R O. Hull! van, mining anl-ntar anl-ntar aya for mar au partHan dent of ' tha Boat on ConaolUUtad for Aha Utah Coppar eoeritvany, who is now 1 mtnea auperin tender for tha Unlon- Mlnlera, an Enffllah and Belgian company oparatlnff In tha Belgium dlatrlct of Katanita, on tha Conjco rJvar. Mr. Sullivan and hla family ara apendlna; a three montba vacation vaca-tion with Mra. Hulllvan'a pa rant a. Mr. and Mra. Darld McXonalo, lib Kdlaon atraat. . After three yaara In central Africa, Af-rica, Mr. Sullivan la convinced that tha world wlH aa a revalatlon In tha mining Indtiatfy ' aa eoon aa tranaportatlon facllltl ara eatab-llahed eatab-llahed in hie aactlon of tha African continent. There tha KnffUah financier. finan-cier. Kobart WIIHama, la apandlnff uncaaainf vfrnrta In buildfna: a railroad rail-road which ha began at Load a bay. In Ha at Africa, befora tha wr, and ex pact a to complete 'It at Katanga. Only tha difficulty In transporting ores now holds heck the tremendous potentlalltiea of that rt of . the world, Mr. Sullivan declares. TWILVt MINES OPENED. Th Unlon-Mlnlera, which owns th greatest copper belt In the world. Is now developing twelve mines and working four of, them, with th second la r seat copper re-aerv re-aerv In the world. Mr. Bulllvan said. Thl firm as still ! properties to open. - ... Th beet radium Is found In thla aactlon. Mr. Sullivan aald, and the companiea there brought the price of radium down from 1110.000 a gram to 7.o a gram, which haa mad It possible for Its us In schools and hospitals which war not able to btf It with th prlc so high.' With much dnfleslty ths copper mined by the Unlon-Mlnler on th Congo I transported to th Port of Bier, In East Africa. Thl I 1700 mile from Eliaabethvtlle. the capital cap-ital of Katanga, -where th entailers ar located. Th railroad now under un-der construction haa yet to be laid over a at retch of 0 mile to enter the copper belt. Thl. will make a difference, over tha present tranaportatlon trana-portatlon condition, of 0 milea by rail and J 600 mile by water to th European marketa . - ' Mr. SulUvae aald hla company would! be working a hydroelectrto plant In th relet four or five year with a capacity of handling from i.ooo.ooe t t.00,000 pounds of ore a year. HIOH PER CENT ORE. Tha capacity of the African mine on th Congo Is approximately 00 tens a week of or which run more than M per cent, compared with th Utah Coppar company output ot 11.000 tons a day of I per cent ore, Mr. Bullivsn stated. There I n finer or tn th wotldythan thla, he declared. The dletrtct of Katanga Is a Bel-gtsn Bel-gtsn possession and a rich country, said Mr. Sullivan. Ths completion of ths transportation system to Central Africa la going to further the cauaa ot agriculture la great proportions, especially tobacco, sugar cane, coffee and many othar tropical products. Ths Lever Brothers Bro-thers of England, th world's largest larg-est soap producers, have large palm groves la that country, from which high grade soap oils are procured, Mr. Sullivan said also. Although aubject to tropical dla-eaaes. dla-eaaes. the section In which he lives Is under strict sanitary enforcement enforce-ment said Mr. Bulllvan, and during th time he haa been trees no death, from malaria among the whlfo peopls hav occurred. Speaking Speak-ing f th mosquito evil, he aald: "I eee that Salt Lake county la trying to eetabllsh a mosquito abatement dletrtct to abolish moe-qultoa, moe-qultoa, but talk won't do It. In Africa w get rid of the enoequltoa by getting to work. Our eanitsry enforcement Is strict and this department de-partment takes csrs of ths mosquito. mos-quito. We cut the grass, keep as dry as possible snd leave absolutely absolute-ly no filth or garbage exposed." Mr. Sullivan will return to Africa about October 1. He will not return re-turn to the United State tor at leaet another three years, as his company permits a six months' vacation va-cation every three years. |