| Show I II l r rI I w w J I Irk r d dJ UNCLE SAM S A Aw i l f I r t I I s o i I I I 1 I T I I I 1 JL j A F R I C A A BE BIG J MARKET CiN GOODS GOO W W 1 IT J DS H I T AMERI AME I t tW t 1 1 if W ro j ti n r Special t Correspondence 1 x G A OX Union Line I neEn En C aM PO Town lawn to ton tor s r Soul r n 1 butt t p t o oil n Tho h 1 l a r Stales t tali D u n gie acs b his has h r 1 refused I G to 10 tou nh u n l 1 h litre lit from fl Il n l New t 3 01 ll Ic to Papa tl Town Undo Stun Sam Sal sterns CJ alsee I lo iu I thit thO l cs ot rl tragic tt tr l h During ItI rg tho punt t tID ID 1 been lieen tai ht II fi hf tJ R ll 11 t Jt peo u ull plo ll e ii hor loathe h yo ol orI American l goods gogUs l A g 1 C has hu been libelled a n I few Il hammer blows will y ll split plit our oU way av Into into this th H part IJU t tur of ur the continent row Fats Fo people o tin till enormous OUS wealth w n a I jIlch is Is Ls bottled J up U I rn Lu ill the th rm a laid anil n Co jl s I I l I on hl J am g going ng front from ls I of or t L Lal t apo to ty I one ile ton V ami fIR it s tu to a it fleet if C r JO 20 o ol ot or l ro ire rac lure Gel CON i lines which l eh tend 1 f ors ers around n mil tm n i there arc riu many rull S and null Et which ply r up ind ut Hi 1 h hea tast ea cat l and vve lt t I n ho siMin Is s one nn pt ot tile the fast fist mill ships and unU It is JK now note lo load with ith tre treav iM uras s Dov 0 rh h n In ht Its ItH there thore aio UIO tut packages paCI q o rough 1 I It s 3 and nil grott jollow gold golI J vL value tle Is ht I 2 OO and unI mere mOio In Iii hold hole thoi thore arc UI o fi feathers marked mn liell for foi London w t Ot 01 orth th ov oyet cr 1 1000 tie we have In addition a II Cargo calO c ir o of oC ool l Ang l mohair and great grout biles hj les o i i and goatskins SOUTH A I LU AN BIG 1 But this is only out one ship and others are tow COI Buys dus duj s The rho ex cx exports exIl ports Il ot of 0 South Africa die aio ir now no running ati ut at a 11 uv and the thc Imports Import UK arc our 2 total tl currying ratio of ot more thew 0 All ot of tills this goes oe In hl es nod lint tilt the greater pint part ot or tiro tho freight Is to 10 the tho Germans and and h The goods r mo arc sent to tc ind am arr thOU then trans transshipped shipped to lo thi United Stales Vc Ve e ate arc tlc tile best hosl h customers for tor tin the and nd tho ostrich o feathers feather c and many ot the thi skins find 1101 their thelt Vay WU to tu om par t tall rn lIerle a AN NEEDED Wc should hiM have and ban banks Us or Of par till un n through to t do du out our hll H paying toll to Lon London London don Jam As It Is I i o jw the 1110 hanks or of South t Africa ate aro operated with ith British capi capital tal tat and an l they the are aio all biK b divi md dividends i The of oC Southa pays pay 17 pr p r cent and tho the Natal IJan ide a J cleat clear ot or last lart la t tar ar n a IL ol or 2 About hout the lowest loest interest st in Joh is 11 isS it iti I S 9 per 1 ion cent c and nId 4 h of u t 1 l pel P c i eat cent c I rind and more moie Is I on nu r t ablO d Three ute are Ovoid thousand i American Am rl citizens living JIving mid and ane doh hu h In South Africa and nil 1 I A American bank hank of with t I capital ought to 10 bo ho ablo ahlo to toI I pay a dividend dIvidend thed joni yau I r WITH 1111 SOUTH AFRICA A AI I Tf 11 oui tr trade South Africa could bo be greatly increased At th time of oC tho tiro tl o war Wn it ran up as nn high H li i t OO per annum and mill Is now note like more inure In 1 OG it was as almost and und there thoro It Is II IV Jl 1 t of a considerable Il J Ih country Is now mm havIng hainK hard halll times hut hid there aro signs o of Improvement and at Present tho the various colonies are ale purchasing worth of oC for fm goods good every year ear The Transvaal is taking almost Natal bu huys h s hr r colonies 18 I and Cape Cupe Colony and andi i more American A goods aro popular in South I Africa Our Om foodstuffs are arc found every o r rI I A where hero I saw California fruit Alaska salmon and I Ohio oatmeal on on o 1 sale bale In InI I Salisbury Rhodesia Rh I ate ale Chicago pan can panned canI ned tied boot beer at III Victoria Falls on the Zam I best besl and rode In n an au American buggy hugg bu figs about During DurIn my stay sta at the thc diamond mines mites I Mr MI Alph u uhe s Williams i tho 1110 manager m go r u o of f the t he De Do i IS a syndicate shored sh e rno me m J a telegram t l stating that tI at l 1 O 0 brood broo 1 mares maies 1 Or and fohr to rs aS niao cs Q had hlll Just been l e n l l Ho t him front the the United U States Stater Stu teli Il n ho Say s Saylie tJ he lie e Ani An American 6 1 it mule lis ds Is l used III South u Africa and anil that h ho U hay h now no about 1 2000 of tf them Lw m which c emic 10 from Ci I l lII r II i c Iu 1 Od In tl mines n nes Amor A n t Ican mules l Ul f are aio u used used In Johannesburg Joll J cl I saw fiat 1 them in hi md they the aie tu e ili g lh tr va a Into de li A many ian ero brought nl the time ot the war yari and they pi overt overto IfO o good god that moio n are tiro wanted i it 1 M 11 Williams t to tn b I mules hales on ha U l the thi diamond CofI IY farm near l her he 9 His Ills aj a es bv hV J Lb the thc time tinip thy UI arrive at Cap Town will pill cost him 1000 apiece and amI tho CO GO O brood unarms will JI cot cost t altogether about O O I CI lIXEY I I find American u used ed tl n 11 all the tle South h African l mines ns Ile dUJ the blue ground gr und contain lag ing thin the th diamonds l lM tt out Jilt of the gnat pipes it 1 Klir KhI arid American lenn pumps P l 1 Uio tho div lh dry hll through th 10 git I the winks Q i tin 11 of lire ho Ih fin cm an managers showed IH Itlo rile 1110 an in engine Used users Cot foi which hod hlll It a i glared aged wheal 30 feat in lu din motel meter Thal I hat i aid Wahl he I tile the bluest t ol of the thi kind hind in lit tho the I si Jt das designed lt IJ by n n IL tech known r t in ill engineer g Be he hp hev hen v n 14 l In lu A Ail fl I c i t md aulI tire tho plans lIld tVete eie 1 sent to A cd the tb U engine angina n builders ol of Rug Choy thought the Iho II 0 joh jolt too lad iCH big for COI then and wr 0 then th 1 u d the thu plans to rin l M t 0 of the thc United Stales made tin tilt wheel tin fur us u and ami It worlds Ilka Ilko u a fit lir the tho he gold mints mincH Ill a It grout great put part ot Ul Ilia tho machinery come from Crom 1011 the tho United cd Stile States The I he Hand HamI bought 1 13 worth 1 h ot or veto new dulls drills mil and other m In I O and a great groat ic deal il ilot of ot It Wits was w seat nt It front from New Net York to South Southampton ampton a a d 1 theme down VII ty tO quill futon lonn All 11 nt i f Uio Uto diamond drills used are m rde in fu America No mine Is 15 started stalled until tho the ground has been test tested ed ClI hj hy n a i lc drill d through tit rough a thousand feet 01 or more ot of rock Tills This drilling is done dune with a It disk studded with rough diamonds which Guts cuts W WU uny U downward with lL a i rotary lutUI motion notion aiming tho corn care irr In its interior Interim Tho The drill Is raised lII cd fromn tinge to time limo find nod tiro th coo corci is examined for 01 Indications ons of gold old So far fai there are arc no British drills drill at u work on 01 I lh he Kind Hanel and urd these which mch cost frunt flom to lo afro aro all nil bought from Crum us Wj It t used to be he tint that we soul sold great quan quantities of oC shovels hovels and rolls rail to the this liiK markt has hils haston J ton on largely d th bv by h Sheffield and luul ni as a is lutar o that of oC the tho thol computed l VII lIlt air hi drills mod to holers h l for the tho blasting Ot Or lf late Into years tho thet hive heave lIen been Iy mining nn nta y Into the Rant Rand Tho have hav thou agents ag at nt Johannesburg and they the aio ato even oven 1 n Investing In hit stock hop hoping ing III to bo he heable able ablo to Influence the thc various arlous I companies In favor of oC German Genat ory fr Ve still have havo tho the teed lead In rock lock drills and awl reek lock anti and as lis a Tale rule oar seem scam best hell fitted to get gel out the gold l tho the not host few rew yeas jens eals there thero to be he a II big opening her for fOl railroad materials New lines have been projected and ar aln art building in many tunny parts ot of tho continent cm The Cape to Cairo road load which has ah already early been extended ex extended tended to h more moro that than 2000 miles t Capo To Town ou smi is now nol to ti hi pushed u li n non on to lo tho copper mines of the Belgian Kongo tied And a another brunch branch will till sutra Boon t be built to Lake The Lo Lu bilu Buy Bay road load which is building from Angola on the tho Atlantic to the Kongo Tree Flee F ee State Stale will be ho about 1200 miles long and ani so 10 fill far only about miles of It havo huyo heel been completed There IB he a anew new nl road load building in N and find the Germans GermanI arc extending their trunk tunk line lino front Dar e es cs 5 Salaam toward Like Lake Tanganyika Bridges are aro needed for all al these roads and anti tho the United States ought to furnish them During rny slay in ht Uganda Ug I went trent over the 27 big viaducts which we wo shipped there anti and put up The They aTC aio as solid as when whet the 1110 were to ero re built hullt and American railroad material and and bridges have havo thereby acquired a good reputation In III the Sue Sudan in I 1 saw Bald Baldwin win locomotives the u on the new road from Crom the Red Hed s ea sen sea to thin the Sudan and thero hero t aro ara some somo American cars in 1 use Ie in n South Africa A II 1 The Tho pre plO prejudice judice is strongly in favor faor ot of built thc with 1 I The Tb e r Foreign Foren o eign Trade Tr T de Over c Six I Hundred Jc I Millions H American meric n Machinery M I In Tn the Gold G o t ld and an Diamond errand Demand for Bicycles T and Auto Automobiles II II mobiles 10 i Yes Ne w E le t tr I c alLIne l T t i s and an Their Possibilities P l American merican A I Meats and How Ho The They are ar Slandered Forty Million Dollars for tor 1 Foodstuffs II Q biM X 4 X X V V V V V Vj j j y yv a y j v I j i t f t tt I X t X XI Y I tOY v vy V ma vA s sV sis A f y yrs rs z A 1 r rr rr y y yX X r X r n y y yI Sj V Vt t t q a a 1 d t 4 j I Photographed for Cor the tho Wl by bv Frank G Carpenter A GROWING MARKET FOR AMERICAN N FOODSTUFFS HU which It supplies S can he bC f in d front from fro the tho Is K a n great pull point in ht favor of Amur linn orders As A G to tu r lumber r for the tho roads road In lit the lIw wa tt nt I t tics lieH Ole etc much oC of tha l h not 1111 shipped from the tho In hl and ind about the time Klux Kim Kimb berley b Ile mine theta there are lire miles of Hid laid w with Ith American Amedean rills nils LlIs and amid t the theties tits ties are aie ol or California redwood end ind e ex cx from San an Irane u A grout great Kal of Oregon pine comes to South Africa cn and all ill the water wili r used in C Cape CapeTown CapeTown Town Toun Hows flOK through pipes S made in tho the United Baited States UNCLE S1 bur tt ON 0 THE rums FARMS 1 I Hurt hind Undo Sam In hi evidence on tho the African farms r His implements implements 1 from flout the tho Kambe i to ments men ure nrC In and amid his ills farm wagons wagon fane Cape of oC a tub are to be seen e n on Oil ill the lire British East and Uganda The rho Theair J he that Into air tint int t wagons acre elo brought n fr om ee ls on ln bv h an all 1 mr t can iM 1 C on w who ho hUll hind hada airo name ranch lanch tWill near Nairobi The inci They a It older othel Planters plantel to so O well tell 11 that thai imported them and they nu lire now that pan pall tho must most common v wagon ot of h r tho thc world i plows arc aie a C Jn At n Rhodesia many used aced mid and In 11 Capo Cape Colons Colon 1 1 st SatY Il our threshing machInes and amid mower and amid reaper The Canadians sue ace to tc harvesting machinery with witha us 15 1 as 1 stud and small send turn faun toi tank ls arc aio 3 O bring now shipped l to South Africa from Crom lm Eng England land and amI Germany German The Tho American windmill Is in ht u use o Q al almost almost almost most Tho Iho Ito most mORt of ol south southern em orn Africa is high and do dry and pumps other for foi irrigation and lire are needed need cd things Many of oC the tho mills cone come from Chicago but some ore IU from front Indiana and and elsewhere is rapid becoming mn a Gape Capo Co ny country and 17 It needs machinery for Cor spraying and handling its crops Some o of the orchards are arc large enough to have hae nai row gage electric lines hues In them and on many man the tho th fruit is Js moved noved to the stations by 1 means of caa en cal drawn by bv mules mule BICYCLES AND AUTOMOBILES South Africa is a land o of the bicycle It is fast Cast becoming a land of au automobiles automobiles automobiles Ev Every pry ton town n of Rhodesia and andI central gentral Africa which I hue havo visited I has lUl its bicycle riders I saw women on N cle in Victoria VictorIaN N tilt tho goye clerks ls use them in Nairobi and amid the are arc to be bo boMen seen Men 01 oe ci m whelo here In lit and about anti and Dar Dai Cs Thorp are bicycles lie leB In and several times titles that number in ht II Jinny ol or the no nrC leau They rhey soil sell 11 fur for about the stone same prier pilco a us is in ht the United States with the freight and end dilly duls Iut added As to tu automobiles there ire and aro quite a number In Kimberley Jo Johannesburg Durham Cape Town and Mar TIme rIfe French have hase imported them mu to rai till ind a tillou you jou ou cwt can got get public automobiles there thereto to taK take you vou tho 1110 now Hew roads lords which havo have bum been rut cut ut through into the Interior there is I a gle t demand for COI tin them m in inand Inand and about The rhe gold Kold mines run for far about W 00 i miles tiles cast cist and sr r of that t h t t t and lid the t h r ors need nC l ears carM to it gnu 0 Ia iriel s to the various va dou properties the t ma mn machines a chines used no ate some seine from England France and amid Hals and a It Yen very few CC from Crom the that United States Thin The most common l automobile is a i runabout sui suitable tub Ie for fot climbing heavy hills The roads loads are aro rough r but few fete fc ears car aro alO used med The Th prices average like 2000 ranging from 1600 upward I Jam am ant told that the fe are about cars cais in ht and amid about Johannesburg and amid that something like I Ia a i million dollars doilois worth of oC automobiles auton Ies I arc are operated In tho the city alone There i arc are 01 over u cats cars ca in Capo Cape Town Tou tl The governor ot of Cape Colony Colons owns a White steamer and a nd several se nal light makes maltes of oC American cars eais arc aro well troll known There are aio many English and und French machines s sin in use I found a public car age at Bul awo 1110 which was Mas equipped with French vehicles and l m my tour torn through Algeria was able ablo to hire such automo automobiles biles for Cor all ali sorts of oC excursions The rhe average price POI per day dav offered of red was 3 but bat 1 found Coun that the rate could be greatly matly reduced by b judicious bargain bargaining ing lug AMERICAS AMERICAN ELECTRICAL GOODS WANTED One Ou of the big dem mils 1 her hero o in lu the tho near future Is to be he in electrical ima The Zam Palls fails with lih Its horsepower is to be utilized i n and the London syndicate foi fainted mod to take talt the tho POCI to the tho Hand has Ins limned enough stock to lo Ue he work rork ork Within a It short t time there thero will b ti 1320 10 O miles mile of oC |
