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.