The Press., 1890-01-30
Sunday Tribunc.) YOUNG MAN. GO TO AFRICA!

Taking down map of equatorial Africa and spreading h across hls knees, Coilis P. Huntington laid his foretipger on csr- tain spot and remarked:
 Ii l were young man with O,OOO or -$l00, 900, I'd go there and make millions. The spot he touched was the town of ULoto, on the River Congo, near the north ern boundary of the Congo Free State, distant about 7O0 miles from the Guinea coast.
 ''W hat would you do there, Mir. Hunt lington ?" inquired the reporter to whom his remark was addressed.
 l Trade" was the brief answer.
 | ''Ivory, skins, precious stones ="
 "kubber. You can buy rubber there to-day at penny apound. Ayoune man might go there and pay five pence DO lud for It and make for5une.
 1 Would you advise a young man to go there with less than $lOU. .0O0, or less thau E$1O, ,0O0?"
 Well, it would depend un the young man. l went to California ln 49 with s party of young fellows from my native state, Connecticut, and when We reached Sacramento the first thing they did was tc go to the hote4 and spend $l piece fol ldlnner. My dinner Cost me less than ( sixteenth of that sum. It was always my rule to live within" my income. Any young man who does that will get along.
 "Could young man live ill the Congo Free State long enough to make for tune?"
 "Oh, the climate Is excellent after you get back hundred milts or so from the coast. There IS no fever on the upiands.
 How is he to get his rubber to market?
 "At present most of it is carried on tht backs of natives, and the lack Of transporta tion facilities accounts for its cheapness II the interior. But you know the Congo Il navigable for nHny miles, from kinchassa i'll fact, to Stanley Falls, and by and by Vt shall have a railroad down there whlcl will make travel easy all the way to thu coast. l have recently put $50, ,OOO in thu road, and may put little more after 1 while. When in Europe last fall receiv cd note from Klng Leopold asking m' to call on him when arrived at Brussels I dld so, ald We talked ove4 tn situation m Africa. l pretty soon discovered tha Leopold didn't know quite as much abou building as l dld, so I gave him fev points. lam going into the railroad busi ness M Africa simply because l want t' break up the slave trade. lhave been op posed to slavery all my life, and gave good deal toward abollehing it in th lcountry. Down there in the heart of Ali rica IS the beginning and the end of slav trade, and the time is not far off when VI will wipe it from the face of the earth. have also invested $50,0 ,000 ill the pro posed Bel lber-Suakim railway and $50, ,OO
 more in the British East African railroad Thus have $150, 900 in the three roads don's look for any IF lifts, but if an should come they will be invested in Afr lca."
 The price of, rubber in Para, Brazil ranges from 60 cents to $1 pound. If young man could only get hold of BIO, ,OoG if he could only buy rubber in the Cong Free State at penny pound, if he coul only get 1t down to the coast for fe, pence more pound, if he could only ge lit to Havre or New York for still fe' pence more pound-if he co uld do :. this he would make tremendous profit I'Then, if he could live within his iLcomt he would certainly grow rich. The prit cipal thing with most young men is tn $l0, ,000, or rather the want of it. Ther fare plenty of lusty young white slaves be hind the counters in thls city who woul like to be emancipated. And lots of ther would go foa Africa on much less capits than SIG, 900. In the present state of tn market so pfincely sum as that woul purchase gross of North American Cong Free Statesmen.