. Factory and industrial management. WORKSHOP DESTROYED BY A FALLEN TREE. and never thoroughly mastered, the natives dislike more than any-thing else transfer from one authority to another, and the annualsaving in passage money disbursed on account of reliefs would go fartoward providing funds for improvements calculated to diminish thepresent almost continuous journeyings to and fro. Surtout point de IVEST AFRICAN GOLD MINING. 683 zele; West Africa is not a country for work at high pressure, and themanager inclined to forget this should be promptly restrained ratherthan encouraged. Although t
. Factory and industrial management. WORKSHOP DESTROYED BY A FALLEN TREE. and never thoroughly mastered, the natives dislike more than any-thing else transfer from one authority to another, and the annualsaving in passage money disbursed on account of reliefs would go fartoward providing funds for improvements calculated to diminish thepresent almost continuous journeyings to and fro. Surtout point de IVEST AFRICAN GOLD MINING. 683 zele; West Africa is not a country for work at high pressure, and themanager inclined to forget this should be promptly restrained ratherthan encouraged. Although the Gold Coast Colony and Ashanti have been particu-larly referred to, it is very probable that other parts of the coast may. FOUNDATIONS FOR A TR.\DING STORE, GOLD-COAST AMALGAMATED MINES, ADJA BIPPO. soon claim attention as gold producers. Thanks to the cloud whichat present overhangs the Jungle, much interest is temporarily de-voted to the Ivory Coast, and not a few British companies, whichso far have done little or nothing in the way of practical mining, aresaid to contemplate active intervention in the latest boomlet. There hasalso been much mysterious talk about the doings and hopes of certainsyndicates formed for the purpose of prospecting the hinterland ofLagos, long regarded as a future Eldorado, but the reports of theexperts who have examined the various concessions appear to beunanimous in declaring that, whatever advantages the country maypossess, gold is not among them. A few final words concerning the photographs with which this article is illustrated. Forthose descriptive of the country where are found most of the mines associated with thebanket formation, I am indebted to the camera which, in
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