Word: benguella
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Transportation facilities are rapidly being created in the "Dark Continent." The Cape-to-Cairo route of about 5,000 miles by rail and water lacks only 300 miles of railway line. Also, the Benguella railway line from the Katanga copper fields to the African west coast is largely completed, and the unfinished portion is being steadily lessened. Altogether there are 23,000 miles of existing railway mileage in Africa, which provide freight as well as passenger facilities. More and more African railways are used for commerce; in the beginning they were patronized mainly by travelers...
...chief drawbacks to the rapid development of the Katanga properties consist in transportation and labor. A labor shortage in Central Africa is slowing up the completion of the Benguella R. R., the future outlet for the mines to the seacoast...
...mines are situated in the district of Katanga, in the Belgian Congo, 1,700 miles from a sea port. Shipments are made via the Benguella Railway and Lobito Bay to Europe. Already a concentrator and electrolytic refinery and a battery of coke-ovens have been provided to work the ores extracted; while a hydro-electric plant and a leaching plant are shortly to be added...
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