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Show IMPORTANT .DISCOVERY. Consul" Solomon' Berliner' of Tcne-rlffe Tcne-rlffe forwards an extract from the African Af-rican World, which' gives an Interview with the chairman of the Nigeria Bitumen Bitu-men corporation on the importance of the oil discoveries In Nigeria, West Africa, from which the following Is taken: J ' ' '. '. ' f The manager of the Nigeria Bitumen Bitu-men corporation cables as follows: At 633 ' feet struck heavy oir without gas; oil rises within ninety-eight feet of surface; baled four days, no decrease. de-crease. We propose to shut off oil iu order to deepen 'well. The chairman chair-man declared his conviction, based on his long and varied experience, that a veritable oil field has been discovered. If this be so, the event' may be described de-scribed as one of historical Importance.- -' -' The importance of the finding of oil in Wost Africa lies not only in' its value, as .fuel for the-gold mining Industry, In-dustry, but ai an insurance of health. "X supply of petroleum In -sufficient quantities," said Mr. Berghelm, "would turn the 'white man's grave,' as tho country - has been called, into jx healthy climate." Nearly all the physical phys-ical ills to which the people of that country are particularly heir, as he explained, come from the flies tho mosquitoes particularly. .These Insects breed In stagnant water; but It there Is a slight 'suspicion of petroleum in the water tho fileseven the tsetse -ftywiH-not go-near-it, "-and -so, given a supply of oil, It would be the easiest matter possible speedily, 'to get ld of the mosquitoes and such like; fever-carrying fever-carrying insects. - - - |