Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-02 | Page 13 | Think Twice before You Join African Gold Rush

It i j THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU JOIN AFRICAN GOLD RUSH j. . o- , Map of African "El Domdo" and Sketch of Pro-ieotors wltl their portUTS By EDWARD M. THIi KIIV (WTio, ns Oorrcapoiulpnt fr ?.T Service Ser-vice with the smitiiMiiiian 'African Expedition,' i9ia-ioi:o, Travcleil in the Belgian Conyo,) NEW YORK Will there be a great gold rush to the Belgian Congo on '49? The secret has leaked out that nine man, members of a syndicate organized organiz-ed in the suburb of Katonah, N. V., are on the way to Congo to find a nugget-paved stream Julius J Dolgos claims to have discovered while serving serv-ing in the colonial campaign against th.- Gorman general. on L'-t'ow 'or-beck 'or-beck in 1917. Capitalists are said to be behind the expi dltlon, guided by Dolgos, and led by Edward P Barrett, lawyer and town supervisor of Bedford, N V Eighty thousand people rushed to California, following the original discovery dis-covery by John Marshall of small bits oi koiu in a miu race near Loioma pre iocs handful How many will go to the Congo ?j Dolgos' accidental find a handful of nuggets picked out of a spring brought him 51 GOO. after he reached civilization, according to reports. Travelers in the Congo knew the dif-1 ficultles of mineral prospecting there-,' These are tropical fever, wilderness travel, and laws restricting mining and prospecting. Scarcely any white man in tho Con-j go escapes fever; many succumb to its most dread form. blackwater,' Quinine is takrm daily with a liberal dose of whisky! as a preventive. 1 I Gold has been discovered in several parts of the Congo, notably, in the wildest part In the northeast. Also diamonds, tin, copper Some of the; richest copper mines In the world are located in the southern tip. FOl'ND WHILE LOCT Dolgos says he found tho nuggets' When he got lost from a cavalry column col-umn that later took part in the cap- ture of Tabora. German East Africa, (now Tanganyika Territory This in-: dlcates the find may have been some-1 w here between Albertvllle, on Lake I Tanganyika, and Stanleyville. Only short stretches of railroad ex-1 1st In the Congo. The easiest approach ap-proach would be by steamer to Dar- es-Sala&m on the east coast, by rail-) road to Kabalo which takes a fullj bertvllle, thenco by a 100-mllc rail-i road to Kabalo which tokes a full day' and thence up tho Congo river riv-er i Another route would be from Cape Town by railroad to Buna ma and thence 400 miles by river an uncomfortable uncom-fortable seven day trip to Kabalo. To reach the district from Boma, by way of the Congo river, would take, five weeks The upper east and northwest part; of the Congo, probable location of ihe supposed El Dorado is closo to the tse-tse fly country. The tse-tse fly is the greatest deal.i earner in tho Afrl- an tropics. Belgian-British companies operating the copper mines and other mineral workings possess iron clad concession--, making the prospectors' p;uh difficult