Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-16 | Page 24 | Gold and Diamond Mining Increase

GOLD AND DIAMOND MINING INCREASE LEOPOLDVILLl"!. Belgian Congo, July 15. Gold and diamend iniiiinar has greatly increased in the Belgian Congo since he Armistice, and in .i i j 1922 it reached the hies p i,,t ever known in the history of Che ei If ony. The Steamer Anversvllle lefl foi Antwerp recentlj carrying 1100 pounds of gold bullion and si oral or-al million francs worfn of diamonds. Cotton growing for the current year haB been so sucessful thai two new mechanical sheiiinpr shops have been installed The necessary mat b-Inery b-Inery was bought in Worchester Mass. Commerce In general has profited greatly by the reduction In wngeg Owing to the economic crisi. which workers are now accepting a diminution diminu-tion of 25 to 33 per cent from the i'. ages which were paid them dunn:; the war and In 1 f J ! and l'."2ft.