Round-Up | 1897-10-01 | Page 3 | Electric Power in Africa

alf atrie power in africa attention was recently called in this column to the proposed use of the cataracts of the nile for the generation of electric power at a meeting of the institution oi of civil engineers in london a short time ago professor forbes reported that lie he had been consulted about another similar enterprise in the dark continent this was wag a proposition to employ the victoria falls of the river in supplying electric power to the gold mines in matabele land and the thought tho light the scheme was not so chimerical as it had at first appeared to him in his opinion the distance over which power might be profitably transmitted by electricity was not far short of 1000 miles