Show A 1 I 1 4 I 1 P wi wit T FL t LU W til I 1 va FAW r wil 1 U BE AND I 1 swig GREATE R nr OF BE U TO IM A COIN C 8 COPPER GINS cecil rhodes had a notion thit some day long afar hp be had gono gone to hia me rent rest beneath the bowl bo ders on the I 1 hills south africa would rise UT up to compete with ith the united states juit just as a the united states baa has risen to make europe turtle whether or not that dream wan was too big for ite its foundation of fact facts it ta 1 certain that one branch of its support la to about to be erected asid that the results are going to be ot at far reaching interest and importance it will not be permissible to ti call africa the dirk continent when it certain to be on the exact line lines tit of that used at magara niagara anil and will probably come from america naturally the exploiter exploiters of the vie vic torta talla falls will wort along the lines which havo have been fol followed loed at niagara and in other parts of the united states and their plans for the future are being based chiefly on the of Arnt rican experiment experiments th ai ire to believe that la in tine time they will be able to transmit electric ity economically to a distance of ra mile it supply supplying eup plying tg power to the got goll I 1 fields of mazoe hartley and lo 10 ilag but after all the immediate rossi of the N victoria falls in south africa count for little in comparison with the remoter future in which rhodesia may at step ep forward as the great country of at the world orld that la is my dream raid said mr air and it seems to roe me not at all an absurd on one in the first place it Ls Is the richest gold country in the world one third of the world a most precious metal within eleven square miles the r heet best diamond country with seven elgitha of the worlds most precious gems the whole land Is a mass of coal the copper mines may be expected to make an immerse olf 1 l the country Is well ell watered all kinde kinds of cattle nourish flourish and cereal cereals of mery ference in tie the world a copper trade sort do well I 1 there la Is any amount of 0 cheap labor the jamrs aid unlike the red indians indiana chev multiply white control IN hito hite children in the country for we e are from 4 to 5 feet above the sea level with a ornate mate much like that of at califor GERMAN F AFRICA N Q FREE ST AT 9 r DANG 0 Q 16 to to 14 0 00 1 I 1 c 0 C 0 06 0 E 4 tan L V COAL AK I 1 riglos alo 4 1111 ra 8 E C H U A N A L A N 01 KUT E CT 0 R AT F 0 I 1 T N VAA C I 1 NOW ov 0 0 I 1 W 7 1 MM A 0 A ra a ri IVE golotty E TE OF SOUTH ARICA THAT CAN BE READ anth electricity FROM MM FALLS haa has a tremendous electric light in tin tho middle ot at it set et tuat wit la is what it Is I 1 sofas to hare bare the plan la Is not merely a dream for within a few weeks an in expedition nets sets out from london to make an actual beginning on the work of establishing at victoria falls on the river an electric power that will in time put to blush the famous turbines at niagara falls juit just as victoria falls themselves thema elres great ly exceed in height width and grand sur ur those at niagara it was prof pro george forbes an american engineer who had bad taen a prominent part in the harnessing of the niagara falls who first suggested that the millions of horsepower horse power which had been going to waste in the heart of africa should be put to practical uie use A commission of electrical engin aers which may include two or three americans Is BOW now preparing to leave england to tu make all the arrangements for putting in the plant as socci as the Ehl nery can reach the falls that will be anen rhodes cape tu cairo calru railway over bleb which the material will have to be seat sent Is built up to the great cataract the men who are to build the power plant at the victoria falls probably will have as many alose calls from wild beasts as those who hao bavo been working on the cape to cairo railroad and telegraph line hare have done but they are not likely to hare have any trouble with the native natives some time ago they elected to come tinder under the protection of tha chartered company and one of its adminis tra tors lives among them in peaking speaking to the writer the other day W A IV IN lulls the secretary of the syndicate which Is going to bar ne neis is the victoria falls said that they expected to be b supplying power wholesale in about fifteen years from now nothing definite deficits has been decided yet about the machinery that will be used for the elect Is almost aunda as well as to the towns of Bulu ayo salisbury and gawelo power for electric lighting telegraphs and telephone telephones and the other up to date conveniences that make such a startling contrast to the hippopotami and lions nia nis in time Ith odeala will be the one on place in the world for a young maa mati to go to in fifty years we will have a population there aud what part the Nic victor torl falls may play then la ia a subject that Is too big even for rry imagination ra 07 tim 31 As i vr ns a axa cm vica AS R SIGH AS |