New-York tribune., 1890-01-12
YOUNG MAN, GO TO AFRICA!
WHAT COILS p. HUNTINGTON WOULD DO
IF HE WERE YOUNG AGAIN

Taking down a map of equatorial Africa and
spreading it across his knees Coils T. huntington
laid his forefnger on a certain spot and remarked :
IF l were young man with Sloooo or
100000, I'd 80 there and make millions
The spot be touched was the town OF Upoto' on
the River Congo. near the northern boundary OF
the Congo Free State. distant about 700 miles from
the Guinea coast.
What would you do there, Mr. Huntington P'
inquired the reporter 10 whom his remark was
addessed
Trade, was the brief answer.
"Ivory, skins, precious stones--
Rubber You can buy rubber there TO-DAY at
a penny pound. a young man might go there
and pay five pence a pound for IL and make for
tune"
Would YOU advise a young man to 20 there
with less than 500. 900. or less than SloooOY'
well it would depend on the young man !
went 10 California in 40 with party OF young
fellows from my native State, Connecticut an"
when we reached Sacfamento the first thing they
did was 10 90 TO the hotel and spend 81 apiece
for dinner. Ny dinner cost me less than SIN
tecnth of that SUN. II was always my RUE 10
live within my income. Any young man VINO does
that will set along
Could n young man live in the Congo Free
State long enough to make fortune?'
"Oh, the climate is excellent after you get back
a hundred miles or SO from the coast. There IA
no fever or Tie upands'
" How is lie TO get lis rubber to market -
At present most Of il is carried on the bacKS
OF natives and the lack OF transportation lacl'll'S
accounts for its chcapncss IN the interior buU
You know the Congo is nayisablc for many miles
from Kinchassa, in fact, to Stanley faI'S'
end by and by we snail nav
"a railroad down there which will make u"''l
easy all tie WY To- thc coast. have Te'cn''
put S5o.ooo lu tire road aud may put III 'I1
more after while Wuc1 ln t"I9e "s' '"i 'n
/ received q note from Ming Leopold "sA'"i tJ
90 cal ou Alm wien arrived al ~ '9'r'7' ,t-'.,
,o .uI .yc talked over tie s.iu' .,E il o.. 49,
ufr,fy soon discovered that Leopold "ldh AI""
ouIrc as much about rW.r AL bullIin- ~ ! utu,
STD ] l.tc Aiui icv points ai" r'''~ ''' 80
D.. .lr.ad hHsUc., lu Airca sl"PH
.ppo~c.l to slavery 800 my life. aud gave foou
dell toward .h sllu- li 40 tlis ''u 'N. l""
there lu ire ics.t Dl africa d., tine beginning "nr
fi. er.I ol Slave trade. and tic time is not i1r
oh wtca vc viii wipe II from 'n' l'c "' 'l.'
c.rtu hlHc also invested so "u " J." d li' P'o
posed ,cIhrr N.ak.m l. i.way ana, f'"''op h'I =
I'm f.r British last African Railway mus !
law, 81 -..uDu d.. tHc three rotas. don't iook
lot au, profits. tut lf amy should come they VIII
1l-n nl.c .ot i.il,r iu Para, Brazil ranges from
oo cc .t. =" 50 t..nd. II a l,'.T ','M COW .,
tY.... Il l. r...I o,.', -rt 30 Gown 20 tar coast
f.r. ...r u,r.. ....r t pound. % lc could onIF
-ef u 20 % .rc o. Ncvloty tor ,'Ill o 'c" pence
r.., OIL Uouu.- lf be- could do I'D THIS nr "'p!i
r. 'r rrcncr .uls profit Then D. Ac could
.i.. Within i.> INCOME hc would certainly crow
f... IT,. principal ''L,, ~it- m'-t Young m'n
.. r.r -Iu. .D.N. off rather tLc want of -. neg"
.f. r'...,, Of ir>fr ,D.u, white slave, behind ii'
.urrtcr, ir tU., cft ~hp WDu.d like - nr
,.i......u.tr. tll lYfs %: rc'u wp''d 30 u"
Nl.., ga rrueh 'r-> capital t.au = 1000. Ia
fl. present ,f.fc OF fhc fl.ritct pr.n.rlr sum
as that u,ul. purchase -ross 90 NoriA American
CONGO Free Statesmen.