MINING DEVELOPMENT IN RHODEISIA.
The Otiipe Times jauiblishes' nia, ai'tiole describing railway and mining developanient in; -N'ortliei'n Rhodesiai- It dwells; on thiei energj r with which the Oa-pe to Cairo line is being pushed fonrai'd to-Binokem Hill- The bridge over the Kafuc, the biggest riven* in S-outhi Aifrica:, was erected witihini thie spates of six anontlis. The- pLateia.u of North! Kafuie is ■describeid' as <a, wonderfully rich agricultural .country of great mineral wealth,- THiiei lead and zino mimes are already being worked, and are expected to produce 500 tons of ore dalily- The copper nianes fur-' thier north will soon; b© reiaqhed, as the survey is mow in progress- Th,e Rhodesian naiilways- evidently meanto oapturo the traffib in comneotion with, the copper fieild's of the Conlgo Free -.Stiaite- The article doe® not an.tioi'p'aite that' -a> railway fromi Loibito Bay to thesei fields will bo l.iuiilt, owing to thie enormous length of the line iindl the dost of thie work. A grenit developmemit of (Northiemi Rhotlesiai is expected to result- froni: tHue liailwny extension-
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Thames Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 10591, 8 September 1906, Page 2
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173MINING DEVELOPMENT IN RHODEISIA. Thames Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 10591, 8 September 1906, Page 2
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