| Show F EXPANDING AFRICA w i When France does anything it does it thoroughly I Just no now she is making arrangement arrangements arrangement to irrig irrigate te f. f 1 a acres res of the Sahara des desert r t from the great supply of Nile water stored up by the Ba- Ba rage This estate is bounded on the west by the J Nile Nil and on the east by the great desert The east i bank of the Nile at is too high to allow t i i the land being irrigated at flood time in the usua usual f I manner and great pumps have been installed to lift lift- the water into a reservoir and that reservoir is connected connected connected con con- with the pumps by steel stee mains T This is makes necessary between the reservoir and the pumps a aT T great canal This canal is built of steel it is nearly r I r i semicircular semicircular in form it measures 19 feet 8 inches tin in n diameter and has a total length o of feet From this the water is distributed through mains upon the the I land nd Provision is mn made e to to the thee expansion and contraction by heat and cold upon a great steel tube tubo Seven hundred men mn including ing eight Englishmen and th the tho rest Arabs and a fe v Greeks and Italians were working night and a day y for five ive months in completing this work There is a good goo deal leal of trouble because th the Arabs do not like to work vork at night because of the scorpions in the sand they hey had another weakness which made some trouble trouble trou- trou ble le they were exceedingly fond of drinking ma machine hine oil and anointing their bodies with it That African country cou fry is coming to the front Afew Afew A few ew months ago a few v head of or the fine sheep of Australia were introduced on the high plateau of the he British East Africa ca protectorate The experiment experiment ment promises to be a complete success The elevation eleva- eleva ion tion is about feet above the tho sea The advancement advancement advance advance- ment of ofAf Africa ica is going on in giant strides An offer offers is s soon to be made to the poor people in Europe to settle ettle in various p parts of that country They will be beaken betaken betaken taken aken care of the first year or so until they can begin begin begin be be- gin to earn a liv living ng In many places th the natives are doing great work Hundreds of thousands of them are now in the service ervice of of- the whites they are doing the rough work o of building the roads and railways stringing the telegraph wires manning maiming the steamboat burning the lime inie and making the brick putting up the houses and nd constructing the furniture from hard hardwoods wo woods ds which they make into lumb lumber r.- r. Hundreds of trade schools maintained by the Government and missionary mission- mission ary ry societies are scattered from the from the he Atlantic to to the th Indian ocean and are turning out effective skilled laborers Hundreds of native women whose fathers were vere cannibals are are busy with sewing machines turning turning turn- turn ing ng out clothing for tJ the e earm arm army of laborers Behind all this there is a great incentive to carry carryon on the work which h is th the mineral we wealth New fields are re being constantly discovered there are vast coal coalfields coalfields fields ields not ot yet reached reache l by transportation German East Africa lis is filled with gold In the Congo State there here are gold and ind vast copper resources iron is as generally distributed as in any of the other continents continents conti conti- and is still melted and wr wrought u ht out by th the naive native native na na- na- na tive ive smith The Ger Germans ans are extending their railroad tracks at t the rate of h half a mile milt a day from and he tIe Congo State has alre already dy two thousand d miles of new track under construction The Cape to Cairo line ine is operating perating for two thou thousand miles north of Capetown and will reach Congo State next year The redemption of f Africa Afric is under full headway y |
