Show Builders May y Yet Find Splendid Opportunity In Africa rank Prank G. G Carpenter Carpener a Q famous travel travel- or er pr and correspondent writing from Khartum Africa speaks s of Sir Francis Franch Reginald Ins Wingate thu tho sirdar of the Iho Egyptian army and the governor go genera general gen Ken era eral of the Sudan a n country one-fourth one a as large e a as aR all Europe and four times the tho size Ize of or any principality in it except except- log InK Russia The sirdar ha has hal more power flower than the Czar and he can do 10 almost 1 v anything as ns to his country countr and people One o of th the tho chief officers In the wars f with the l and the Khalifa he won i decoration decoration for his Cry bravery and military services and was In command of the which r re resulted re- re d In the Uw death of or the Khalifa In InI I 1899 It It- wa was In that year that li ho hJ took look possession of ut this lIll country as sirdar ami amir r p governor general und and since thon he lie has haM ln Ien fn n bringing order out nut of the tho chaos of or orthis this part of or Africa I Ho lie e has pacified the i J warring warring- tribes has han turned their lances and guns Into plow shares and shop shop- t herds herds' I crooks crook and anI Is now cr creating civil civil- Izod conditions where have always been helm barbarism Injustice slavery 1 anti and andy y v. v war An explorer of note nOle before he hl became governor general he has haR now j i 11 i- i his prospectors traveling through every o t. part of or this vast region anti and Is IR laying t out nut anti and startIng starling the tho railroad canal ir- ir nUon and oth other r movements which will It and anti make It of or the op open n up one Jr 1 live parts of or the world r The he sIlar Is now In his ills prime Ho lie Il has v seen f cn perhaps 50 fil years cars or of hard working ft t hut but ho he do lees does s not nol look over o 45 46 antI and andi j i wore It not 1101 that his hair hall anti mu mustache i are mixed with sliver silver one ono would think 1 I Mm much youn younger er Ills 1115 face faco Is free frN 7 t from wrinkles wrinkle and his lila complexion ro rosy hl his eyes are full o of lI light highL h t and his hits whole V k U- U X f appearance Indicates health and md I H f rT strength A great part lIart of his car career er v Of y 4 has hns spent In the lie saddle He lie has riot nol on only I traveled tra over the tho most t of or I V Egypt and the Sudan lindan but hUI hUM has missions to 10 AbI J on en diplomatic Abyssinia I and anel now V holds close lose personal relations with King lIng and his leading lending oft of- of t The Jut sirdar spends a n part OC-I OC of or 1 I every year traveling tra l b by boat or on ott cam cam- lf els through the tho several eral of his faraway faraway far far- I ar-I away provinces pro and he lie has lias just ro- ro cf returned from a long trip in I Ij j t f iJ He HI talks freely frely about hl his bis I country and ho lie knows It so well that what he says ays Is interesting t An t n Ii olo il I During my conversation with his ex- ex V j. I asked him something as LA to th the tho po of the Sudan 2 saying p. p that lint most mOlt p people ople 1001 11 upon It as aR nothing nothIng- else than titan a 0 vast ast desert lie He lieI I replied That idea comes largely eh from rota th the tho bleak benk and barren sands through which the railroad l takes lakes travelers on their Va way to Khartum The They have hn also atso road of the Immense e swamps of the Upper Nile Ile and putting the tho two together the they look upon the country countr as nM only swamp and d desert sert The Tho truth Is the tho Sudan Sudan Sudan Su- Su dan is In an undeveloped lIndo empire as to It its material resources It ia Is a 0 land of ot many climates and o of ot all sorts of soils The de desert ert stops not far ar from Khartum Khar tum turn and beyond boyon that Is a region whore shere tile tho rainfall Is sufficient for tor regular crops Still SUH further south couth the cOlin country tn t- t has han more rain than Is needed nn and In the west are arc great arian areas Jilted for tor c Take fur for or Instance the country i Mio rho border onci that which lie lies b between tween the White am and flue lue Nibs Those regions have o boon built LII 1111 ij in Iii the thc saino manner us UK Is nud auth d they contain all the rich fertilizing fertilizing- Inn materials which l made the tho Lower Lowel Otis one of or the granaries s of or tho the world The Tho only difference Is 18 that the I Key Egyptian pt Inn soil iO 11 by the cultivation I and waterIng of or of or years I has hns beon belli lear hell of Its best heRt fertilizing i olem elements while the lie soil of or Ih the as aM the region 1 I referred to Is IsI called has bus hardly been l touched In In- In deed deell the tho plain b between cen the White and antl I Blue Nibs is so rich that I If water Is put upon It It It will produce four CaUl CaUlI or live JIve crops every year eu and that for forman man many years yent'S in succession lun Wo We 0 have I millions of acres of such Ruch soil soli and they only await the lie hand of or man ritan to bring them Into tho ho worlds world's markets market as 11 0 comm commercial factors What kind of ot crops can cnn be e raised in 1 that t. t country your excellency I ar asked Almost u. anything that is now pro pro- in Egypt was the reply The Is already alread growing a great reat deal of or durra lurra a a. millet whoso whose seed forms the chief food of 0 the natives it 11 produces produces pro pro- duces an excellent hard wheat and also maize As AN It Is now that plain Is la the tho chief granary o of this part of or the world It raises so much that when the season Is good oo the tho crops are arc more moie than the tho people consume and nt at such times limes the grain Is stored away awny In great groat pits I have seen en durra pits 40 foot feet deep cep and 31 about 50 feet In diameter They are c af to be bo found foun almost every cr village and at ordinary times are arc kept full till of or grain g for or fear of ot a famine While the ruled his soldiers robbed lobbed the tho durra pits and the tho result was wa that whole communities were wiped l out by starvation But If the tho l. l bad d years eat up tho ho hogood good ones where is Iii the Sudan to get It Its grain for or export I asked i That will como come by Irrigation atlon and better transportation As It Is now the tho people rely upon th the rainfall which Is not sure In iho he future that country countr can c-an bo ho Irrigated by the tho two Nile Niles and that without diminishing the thc supply of ot water required for tor Egypt rhen Then the theland theland theland land will haw hav wat water lall all the tho year ear round I Improved methods method of cultivation will enormously h Increase tho the crops At present pros pres ent tho the native o merely walks over the ground after a rain anti and stirs It up with a stick lIck while his wife and child come com behind dropping the tho seeds and covering them with their feeL eeL After planting nothing Is done dono until two months later when tho the crop Is ready for or reaping As Ai to 10 transportation everything Is brought to the river on donkeys or camels which eat their heads oft off on onlie the lie way anti and It has como to-como down the Nile on boats at high freight Wo We 0 hope to soon build a railroad Into tho lie reh rohi which will give gl It an outlet to the tho lied sea and there thre will be bo other roads branching tiff off front from that furnishing furnishing- transportation facilities J for the whole countr country But Is the tho region between the WhIte hila and Blue Nibs M the only country cO you 1 0 have where shere grain g can cali be he raised By lly 11 no ito moans Wo Ye din cart raise grain In nearly every province There are grain areas In III the south Routh and In the west Th The Balir el Ghazal an Immense country countr on the Ito northern edge of or the Congo watershed ralso o grain and thoro are man many regions Ion along the tho rivet rivers In the tho north which will produce enormous enor enor- i I molts mou crops ops when the water vater la In put upon them m. m bere rt Cotton May In Flo Do King How about cotton I 1 see teO no reason why the tho Sudan should not hot eventually bo be one ono of the lie chief cotton colton countries of or the globe g Weare Wo We are experimenting with It in all thi the provinces pro and are meeting with gr- gr rat grat at success The Tho land between the White and Blue lIeM might he bo made malIc ono one great cotton plantation and the tho quality of or the crop op would be excellent As It ItIs ItIs itIs Is now we are raising excellent cotton on Iho tho Ito Roth Red sea soa near Sual lm There arc are about O acres planted there thore and the crop Is s a a. one Can Caucasians live e thero thero I Not oot as al day laborers laborer to work workout out o of oC doors summer and winter The They might 1 net act a as overseers o und and In positions whore where they the will viii not have to endure tho the heat of ot the the sun There are some tome places where thc they seem to thrive Here Hore In InI I Khartum hartum we havo ha had 1 many Italians at work and they do not seem to tobo be an any the worse for Cor It IL The Italians serve VC as mechanics The Tho chief labor will probably always be he furnished by bythe bythe bythe the Africans The Tue March of Civilization Do you s to 1 xo many changes In the thc of the natives since Ince tho the British Brit Brit- I ish mb occupation Yes Yea The They are doing far bell better r than In tho the past Th They y wear moro more clothing they thoy have havo moro more wants and und aro arc V working to supply them Formerly many nany went naked and anti as there thero was no security of ot property and few wants they had no Incentive to save s When f it wo o came here hero lie tho taxes were levied J nt at the Iho will o of the tho rulers and the rich native was suro sure to be persecuted No Now liow J taxes arc fairly levied und and tho the natives aro are learning that their savings will t iC ho o respected They rhey ar 01 are coming to have faith In us Our first bu business I Iwas was to make thorn them realize that wo we In Intended Intended intended In- In tended to treat them fairly and anti honestly honestly hon hon- estly and I 1 bell vo we have succeeded V Wo had hod also to organize ors th tho country so that it might bo be abl able to pay tho tue ex- ex V. V s of ot Its It government s We Ye are fast I reaching that stage T TA A s rent Farm Parm 1 t V VIs tuIs Is uIs 15 your native nathe population increasIng as- as J i Ing I Vcr Very rapidly replied tho the I 0 C Cant am ant surprised at the tha largo large Q number oC of children who havo have been een born since wo we wot t took ok possession udon of ot the Sudan Tho The provinces pro fairly swarm with little ones under tinder seven n years of age e. During my 01 recent trip through h I carried I a lot of small coin with mo rae to give o to tho the children The Tho news of this thin tray trav- I clod oled ahead and aN as soon Mon as we approached ap- ap n a village we would would-bo bo be m met t h by the lie babies In force Nearl Nearly every ery peasant woman camo came forward with a n. half dozen or moro more little naked blacks and anti browns han hanging about her and I Ithe the children ran out of or such tents as wo we passed on the way a The Sudanese are arc naturally fond of children ron an and especially so when times are good and antI conditions settled a as the they are ore now tf- tf v The They want as aM many children and grandchIldren grandchildren grand grand- children as al the tho Lord will give 1 them lir r. r anti and as most of the men have two or three wives It is la not an uncommon V I thing for a fattier father to have havo several se addi- addi p to his lila fatally family per por year eRr What Is IR your our present population antI and 1 Its possible future Wo have today tollay I should sa say at J least cast two millions In the Sudan As AR Asto f 1 to the lie future I cannot prophecy that v vt with any uny degree of or accuracy although Vr I can safely say that tho the Sudan could support ort tens lens of or millions If t. t Its lands i w wore vere re properly used I r Havo have you ou much to hope for In tho the t futuro trade of the Sudan I asked d' d Why not r replied the Wo We 0 4 9 arc using man many things s that thal the United States makes and are glad to welcome American goods and American traders American cottons are arc popular with the tha and I do not seo see why they might ht not compote compete with those of ot Manchester Man Man- Ian Ian- chester cheater In tho the Sudan In our OUT development develop develop- mont ment we shall need railroad material materia and i If It Irrigation wOrks are arc undertaken as they be wo we e shall shaH require drills fo for wells wens engines pumps and other machinery of that nature By our new road to the Red lIed sea loa ships from rom your country can land laud their goods goads at Port Sudan within a n. abort railway haul of or Khartum an and from fram hero hare they can cnn be bo sent almost t to ta oC of Central Central Cen Cen- trai Africa by river |