| Show r rH M H s j ITI r ri ES A L ABOUT BOUT TB THE NEW MINES S RAILROADS A AND i il l lf f I I p I 1 I HI I L i iI I f I r J i I I j I I i I GOTTEN PLANTATIONS OF WESTERN AFRICA f fJ fi i h i 1 i I r IS f ASIn d N 1 n Doc De 15 i W 11 I Uncle Sani l lS 00 as to the tho do lo loI I J ll 1011 In tj I I ot world If I I 16 II us liS and still Us lis j 4 I I is growing gro like a lL green teon buy bu tree All along the tho cost c l from S ne Africa tt railroads ld to to Gorman aro building experimental exp plantations I are nr being g sot out and 1 here mill and there lh ro minus of f various kinds t Have IhlO boon been ls covered Away Il down wn near nea tho cape in the elerman possessions there thero Is a place pICO called call ll where valuable dc J ro lt ot qC copper are l n lJ rig ore hi In sight Is suld ml to lo bo tons n It IL hi cl il th t it Il can cnn ba h ii d s iI Tt ful 10 ii iii iiiI t II g s c I l ii f C p pp r salt p m hilll lU IV I k hi sl II tb 1 In OC tho lt KIn l old of con a I j e v i 1 Is f connection c Ith thi tl i W i en tl i Sl Kongo lil ni ilI IL l J O through Portuguese esc e tf II t tl Kongo Free FI State Jt Will up t lI larger copper deposits iU than ui any an f discovered l d and vill Hood world w tm that metal t l and n tl with tin Un Th a l il g of f hills 1 O miles long the copper moun 1 un r something som MO miles il length An I extension of the Ithe Capo Ca o to ro d has h l st ibe n l to this gre region and within a short o It It will probably bo abec n JeO I I lustri i Thoro aro ar valuable in thu th thI I north or Kongo Ii Free Slate Slat anil the French h Kongo contains co Hold gold HoldI I copper arid al ll iron Gold Gohl has hIlS been been re re rei i fou d Kil belong belonging ing to ith the Germans G which lion He Just to tu ilio tho north lo th d Ii illo beyond that thatIs Is I the thi fal a Gold G li Coast on tho Gulf of Guinea Gul from Which tho English got the tho name n ln of C their l pieces The Ii a hIL be n worked forgen for gen genI I and l they are still turning out o t considerable The output Is n w thing thin lUte OO av a year y which is if 40 0 times s the t of oC 1901 In 1903 of taken out t tI I and thero has hus been a steady loi i Increase Iner i s si i In r mote than lly y s sI I At present both ing is going on und and crushing mills ha o installed WEST NEW RAILROADS ADS J As to railroad development it ItI I embraces tho whole coast pC lr the tho eon e n nI The Jho have several I large pr j li w southwest Africa a They Thoy h vo already builta bunt I line lilli 37 l ll tl Cn their lr bay to an forn ninos to d fo und the copper mines This Toad road will I probably day bo be connected conri with tho pot running north orth l 1 l m Cape CUpe Town low sl case caso It rt lt tho 1 distance nc Bula Bulaw w s sj j Bay s already boom constructed fora for hu 1 miles or from the tho Atlantic Atla tlc and un there th ro are arc now several thousand labor working upon it This road ro will willbo bo ho over 1000 miles long JOl and an it will willbo bo be after South Is three hi h cs 8 and andi the rails ralls elgh 65 pounds to the u Tho lies steel I on a of ans 1 1st NIL e 0 p each AU aro st anti tho rolling roiling ston ls tho same as that u used e In Rhodesia Rhode ti omo being built in England but the tho are ure to f q supplied by the tho l J I I Ii i BJ this reaches the I copper I mines the Cape po td to Call C I ex extensions x tensions will bo rou G o South th Africa will probably as asfar far c F as lS fast crist Is l Ills s J J will lie taken to t Tobito bay bayland Ja land will g go by hy j rail to the ho hon Transvaal n especially to l nil of will probably be bo tan l r to 16 Lake Lailo and all allI I yo e Hi fr s tho tI e south torn lorn part Jart of is no doubt of the completion l 1 of the l i Lob Lo LoIto Ho Ito bay lm ro t The rhe company compau which lil h Jis lif li J In 1 it Il is the tl Vino juo which ts tho copper co nih and there aVe tens l t of C millions dC of dollars I say s of f dollars d ll of minerals avalt awall hiS its i s n OF Ol THE lU KONGO IO GO ih J Bil will he r till f ll i or n j Fj Stale an il inv 1 h 1 M Wo lit ck ln 1 popper c PP I n arid e o j In the tJ if lIm It will Ill o tc 1 with Ith lo I will Lb lo Ihu Ih navigable h or of tho l loi g arid will form C m a t i way y i system stem jv has hns been lI JIl cled t tCo for Co I that country Few people J relIe what whai is on mi lo In the Kongo Free Stille ri Itou liv I Iii HI HII I Ilg i 1 ho ll Nh to ai Fr t o f aro each ch almost st as ail long ling as as from fr the of or tho th Hudson Hh M to the Salt LakO The I nu water waterways ways of C the U i system if lr d jn II ono one lino would reach IC ach froin New York Y to Singapore r oY fit half way vii around tho l tl o are s many th t thero th ro roIs Is not riota a the tho bas basin in 1 1 which wl isSO hi SO J I aJ 0 w iI I The Jw biggest steamers now igO g tip II tho mile from Its tel I il l L th l point there Is a n railroad 0 miles mile long which past tho rl pl il 9 tl h i been In for a a Second gap on river has haft been r d by bj building hull ing a lino lin just j st above Sta 11 00 mlles long and a third i line above I that TI III Gate cat cataract arl ct arid m d between Sen we and an Bull I thel railway rallI led which will vIII j cross the lower ver to the copper copper mines and ld others lh to c m tie the the through the French lIn s for fo tho desert and with the Sudan I system iy Jy from UIO river to the tl o ilc MOrOn FOU FOn Speaking of tho lh region this is Isn in n tho northern thoL y Sp ilp the tho Nile arid un until til r c all tn n thoro has been bo n by Jy porters past ear earl l o tho government making roads roi and on ot 1 1 l Y and traction etl n engines encI There hero is hi to be one road from ngo t Nile will bo bi GOO i and cars carS built especially e for fOl It II arc ure liow being constructed at Liege addition a to abl traction engines each cach holding several tons of goods have beon Jeon those these will bo ho used use for heavy freight Tho Belgians are also als training the African elephants as lis a 11 beast qt ot burden They first tried tho U think thinking ing tho African Intractable The Tho Asiatic elephants died dlo and about thres years yet rs ago ag the tho work vork of OC training the African elephant was begun bogun Twenty Tw do domesticated and u they are now bricks and I THE HIJ GUDEA COAST COA 1 li ms Going llo along tho gulf of hc de i Copper i h pillions iii o s arid trie he British God G c New Rail Railroads R il f I toads roads Ai Along Atlantic hc Bay Trunk Line Linc arid and Its Connections 1 Wie iNcy Nigerian J and ani die of the Kon oA Across ro s the Desert Dc ert to Lake Lak and Tin bu t Governments Are Educating Ed cating the People Gofton Fields of the th Guinea Gulf and Something About Rubber arid and Ma I 1 n II I I Photographed for the News by Frank G Carpenter NATIVE RAILWAY PASSENGERS Guinea a number of other important I railways s have havo been Jeen projected and soma are arc already alread under construction In the Kamerun tho Victoria road has hus been extended exten ed as far as Hoppo a 1 distance dl tanco of 22 miles milos and another mothel rail rall railway wily way is building Tn In also be belonging b longing to the Germans there is ono one miles long extending from Lome L me to Popo and In French Fr Guinea n a II whIch Is to run run from Konakry on the Niger has hilS been opened as ail far Cal as I This Is l about miles inland Tho road oad will meet the Niger at and Hn will have havo a IL big traffic The French have havo also built two important railways In Dahomey one Of which is miles long Another goes goos along the Lagos frontier They are extending both lines They ThO also pro Dose 0 to construct a track Inland from tho Ivory coast and they have import important tint ant railways s In operation In Senegal TO 10 OPEN UP UP NIGERIA IG nIA Tho jho English HlO railroads in their colonies s upon tho Gulf of Guinea There is II one J 24 miles long which goes from Lagos Lugo to has luu just been heun extended to which Is s to 6 miles farther and amI It Will be he built buill on ill from there Into northern Nigeria to con can II with no of oC the tho most Important Toads 1018 In Africa a which Is Iii now being constructed C Northern Nigeria Is a al must l nEt largo as Texas and It Il has more than A greit real part parl nt lIt It Il Is high and am healthy und and It to lu be he one uno of uC tho richest lands land of west WestA Africa A Hs inhabitants lI tIll tho Egyptians gg or 01 Algerians than LID thi gulf el They are aro lire arc for their thelt thrift in ill Jn the past these people Pl have hayo been bLin supplied almost entirely by J th caravans which cross tho IhO Sahara Their chief chlof town Is Kanu tho terminus o oC the tho trade trado routes from rom Tripoli und un th Upper which In olden had caravan connection ellon with tho th ocean with tho Mediterranean and with tho ta lied pea Fell This road Which is now will make is Iii possible t te take talo goods IO 11 Lo Kanu by steam It Is hi to begin at tho town ol of Baro Haro the highest navigable le point on the tho Niger and to extend JOO miles to Kano When this road is I built all 1111 tho sup piles for fOI northern nor oll Nigeria will bo he sent Hent to the Gulf d of Guinea a up tho Niger Igel und and inland by hy rail and an the tho caravan trade will l 1 o 1 destroyed ns s Cm us crossing the tho Sahara Is Iii concern II This will be bo a II groat blow to tho countries alongside along the tho Mediterranean I Il l A loan Joan for fOt this Nigerian railway rn 11 WILY has hm already been authorized by hy tho tl o British h government and I understand that tho line IIno Is to 10 be pushed with nil all possible speed The he truck is to 10 bo of ofa a fortY gage guge and Is to be he com completed within four fout years The rho cost coat coatIs Is 10 estimated at about aboul or 01 and It will be he met by h bonds raised on southern Nigeria thu tho interest of which will bo bl guaranteed by ly the tho government As s to dividends tho road roa will hardly pay PH much for fot some timo to 10 come It will greatly greally develop the tho country however and It Is advocated by hy tho authorities as asa a Do military necessity A DIG BIG CA LT K These rich lands of oj Nigeria form an nn important linkIn In another big lg scheme which Is to 10 join tho Mediterranean Countries with both East Easl anil West Africa rica This is to combine a tL railroad across the tho Sahara to bo bc built hullt by b the French J with ono one to lo he lie made mado by hy tin lh Gorman Germans gong going through h tho I to the Gulf oC Guinea and ranch branch lines extending enl cast antI and west wesl from these two The French part of the road may bo bull built southward to or 01 what is moro more probable go 10 goto to thu tho southeast antI and strike Kano KUllo I went over Oot the th JOO miles or 01 so of or this road roa It now extends from Crom Oran the border between Morocco and Algeria to In Inthe the tho heart of oC the tho desert dot ell I also aL o saw thy railway which lends from eastern Algeria gorla down Wll to Biskra in the Sahara It la l mor probable that tho latter altel load will bo extended than tho for former formel mel mer and I understand tho survey Biskra to Lao Lako Child Chad hUH has made The road loatI will so go to tho of dl and thence up the tho gar iq valley Jt will cross the 00 I of oC mountains at an altitude that of the tho and will make mako Its Iii way to Kulm on Jake Chad Tho he cost cos of construction lion tion is jf estimated at about H OO per I kilometer t From Kuka Kulm the tho Germans expected to tako tho road through gl the th to t the tho Atlantic rind there will probably bo an cx tin westward v to Kano to too connect cOl n o with the Nigerian lino above of mid and also other branches j hl h might connect with the tho roa ol or tho wo Congo Cong TO O TIMBUCTOO BV BY STEAM I haa hils always ono of the most inaccessible parts o of tho world It will surprise many to know lw w that lItal It can now liP be hecl by h steam Tho French have built hullt a u railway from Kayes Ka s to the tho Niger a II distance of or miles arid u they have also a road roa con St Louis Lollis and IW Dakar One can cun cango cung go g by steamer from Crom St Louis JAuis to Kayo Kayes and on the vessels of or the from there thero to within a few miles of too Tho rho time Is comparatively short und and tho expense Inconsiderable itself has dwindled It t used to t bo be ono one of tho chief trading sta stations statIons on the tho southern side of 01 tho u Sa Sahara Sahara hara ana caravans of or thousand o or camels from Morocco and Algiers caino camo hIt hens every er year Cu Today most of till the goods go by hy this steam route and tho thu trade amounts to but little Tim is now not even een a t mission con can contor canter tor ter and tILe tho ole old song has lost Its moan moaning moanIng ing You may ml remember it Jt itI II I would I r were wre n cassowary ca In the wilds wll s of I cat a missionary Skin and bones and IlU hymn book Jook too loo EDUCATING G THE TH NATIVES On the tho other hand mission lon work worl 1 J Increasing InOca in West eilt Africa The he church churches es cO were never so strong nor nOl the con oon converts verts more numerous num rous The Tho various governments have assumed their part of f white mans burden hUlden and are eh tit nt tho principal conture con ten It Is five years since silica tho French adopted n uniform of oC education for West est African colonies s and they tIC now have native children who are ml receiving elementary Instruction tion and ami of these ares girls Their on n nero negro education e last year wa wm i a quarter of a million dollars They havo schools at all the towns of Senegal nt at Dakar thoro thero i jJ j a n technical school 5 hool and an at St Louis there is a normal training college where Interpreters and minor aro uro Thor There aro also schools in Da Dl Dahomey homey and French Guinea The rho Germans are beginning to edu educate educate cate the natives at and thoy havo established a II government school or 01 so In lu the tho Tholo aro children In tho mission schools of tho th latter country and In tho mission schools of or German Southwest t Africa Ilca As to tho Kongo Free State it has hn now 1 00 mission stations with a It under BOO missionaries of whom 11 aiO a o Catholics and tho remainder Prot Protestants The missionaries cooperate with the government as liS fur fill as lil education tion is concerned and tho latter In has h formed three agricultural colonies where negro children aro taught In n Ute the Portuguese possessions o not nM notwithstanding withstanding the Have been cen perpetrated on the native In the WILY of slavery and forced labor thoro lher aro B 5 government t schools and also alsom municipal m and allt private schools with about pupils SOME BIG POSSIBILITIES l Im All of oC these West African colonies have big bl possibilities and tho Euro European nations to whom they thoy belong aro Investigating thom them In nearly nearl every ono one cotton colton is 15 being heins planted and In III sonic the tho experiments aro successful Nigeria for Cor instance expects to bo h shipping hales bales to 10 Europe by 1010 and so fOr far the growth of or the tho cotton colton crop has been aft aEl rapid thel thelis is it was at the start in the United Stales I f understand un that It took our cotton bolt belt 10 years first crop oro was ivus planed to reach a product of 01 bales and that was only attained at the tho end ond of 3 a I If ears Cotton C was IM first planted in Ni 11 gele In 1301 1901 I l l li ro h o l r 1 nied rJ each ach since s then it I is recently that Il riy Jat l i L Has a been be n made to raise It Jt in northern s Mn I Vow now J l ltd there and I steam l Il w arc am to t bo be introduced Int d This move J |
