88 No. 99 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ( Zinc has been found in the Ituri region.

(6) Output The following table gives the approximate figures for the output from the principal mining centres : Copper Diamonds Gold Year. (Katanga) . (Kasai) . (Kilo and Moto ).

Metric tons. Carats. Ounces . 1913 7,400 15,000 43,600 1914 10,700 39,000 55,000 1915 14,200 49,000 82,800 1916 22,200 54,000 95,200 The copper output for 1916 amounted in value to 66,000,000 francs (from Katanga ), the gold output for the same year to 9,000,000 francs, the diamond output to 1,000,000 francs. The estimated output of diamonds 1 for 1917 was 87,000 carats. In 1914 the average price of diamonds on the Antwerp market was £l per carat . In 1916 the price of copper in Europe reached £120 per ton.

(5) MANUFACTURES The native manufactures of the Colony, as of other undeveloped African protectorates, are of small economic importance, since they are usually produced by the individual for his own use, and at best subserve a limited barter trade.

They include roughly fashioned products of native craft such as huts, canoes, pottery, mats, baskets and woven fabrics, fish -traps, iron -bladed implements, The only manufacture of first- class importance was introduced by Messrs. Lever, whose firm, the Société des Huileries du Congo Belge, has several factories on the Kwilu , Kwengo, and Koo rivers, at Alberta near Bumba, and at Elisabetha above Barumbu. The firm employs 140 Europeans, and up and weapons .