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Show AFRICAN GOLD MINES. Speaking of the ancient gold mines of Nubia and that region between the Nile and the Red Sea, we should say it would be a good country to prospect in, because the chances are a hundred to one that the quartz mines were not exhausted by primitive miners, and if the placers were pretty well cleaned up, they had no steam dredges and the field would be inviting. Then it would be good to get in with old man Menelek and to obtain ob-tain his consent to explore the mountains of Abyssinia. The chances would be good to find deposits that would make Cripple Creek look like thirty cents, and Goldfield and Tonopah barren ground. A discovery in Northern Africa will be due about 1909. California in '49, the Comstock in '59, White Pine and Pioche in '69, the Rand in '79, West Australia in '89, Tonopah in '99, and North Africa in 1909. Who knows? |
