Nigeria and its tin fieldsCalvert, Albert Frederick
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Nigeria and its tin fields
Calvert, Albert Frederick
Tin mines and mining -- Nigeria
_Directors._—Assheton Leaver (Chairman), Cyril D’Arcy Leaver,
James Ramsay Parsons, Franklin Stokes Saunders, Lewis Norman
Way.
_Secretary._—Henry Thomas Miller.
_Offices._—St. Bartholomew House, 58 West Smithfield, E.C.
This company owns two alluvial tin properties of about one square mile
each, and when the company was formed they had a further option for an
area of about 1,920 acres, which option has since been exercised, and the
property referred to in it floated as a subsidiary company called the Jos
Tin Area (Nigeria) Limited.
For the purpose of identification the two properties owned by the company
were described as Jos No. 2 and the Fusa property.
Mr. Malcolm has been appointed manager of the properties, and on behalf
of the company has applied for and secured permission to take up a
further area on the Fefan River.
Mr. S. W. Carpenter, who was in the employ of the Niger Company for
five years, has been appointed engineer. Mr. A. Higgins, who has also
joined this company, was formerly in the Public Works Department of
Nigeria, and has been in the country for the past ten years. He will make
his headquarters at Lokoja, in which place the company has contracted
to acquire a site and buildings to be used for trading, with a steam
launch and two barges on the river. In connection with this trading and
transport work, the company have acquired properties in Nigeria belonging
to the firm of Messrs. Siegler & Co., and their place in Lokoja occupies
the best river site there.
This company promoted its first subsidiary company in May 1910, and was
called the Jos Tin Area (Nigeria) Limited. The property was a producing
one.
ANGLO-CONTINENTAL MINES CO., LTD.
_Capital._—£200,000 in 400,000 10s. shares, of which 300,000
are issued and fully paid.
_Directors._—Messrs. W. F. Turner (Chairman), Edmund Davis, J.
Schaar, and H. White.
_Secretary._—Mr. A. W. Berry.
_Offices._—22 Austin Friars, E.C.
This company, in addition to having interests in various West African and
South African concerns, is interested in the Nigerian Tin Fields, and
in addition to holding share interest in various companies, they have a
prospecting right over an area of 50 square miles in the Bauchi district
to the west of the Naraguta area, and to the north and adjoining the area
of the Northern Nigeria (Bauchi) Tin Mines, Limited.
JOS TIN AREA (NIGERIA), LTD.
_Capital._—£110,000 in 440,000 shares of 5s. each.
_Directors._—Assheton Leaver (Chairman), C. D’Arcy Leaver, H.
T. Miller, J. R. Parsons, F. S. Saunders, A. T. Schmidt, L. N.
Way.
_Offices._—58 West Smithfield, E.C.
The company acquired from the Tin Areas of Nigeria Limited, an area of
1,920 acres which were originally held by the Niger Company. Mr. Charles
Scott has been engaged as mine manager, and is now on the property, from
which about 20 tons of black tin were won during May, June, and July.
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