Iron County register., 1890-02-13
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What Coils p. Huntington Would Do II
He We're Young Amin.

| What Coils =. Huntington Would Do II
| He Were Young Again.
| Taking down a map of Equatorial
| Africa and spreading it across his knees,
| Coils p. Huntington laid his forefnger
on certain spot and remarked:
''If l were a young man with $4,000
or 500, 900, I'd go there and make mill
| ions.''
The spot he 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.. Hun
| tington?" inquired the reporter to whom
his remark was addressed.
Trade" was the brief answer.
Ivory, skins, precious stones"
Rubber. You can buy rubber there
to-day at penny pound. a young
man might go there and pay five pence
| a pound for it and make fortune"
'Would you advise a young man to go
there with less than 100000, or less
| than S1O,OOO?"
We'll, it would depend on the young
man. l went to California in 40 with a
party of young fellows from my native
State, Connecticut, and when we reached
Sacramento the first thing they did was
to go to the hotel and spend 81 apiece
for dinner. My dinner cost me less than
sixteenth of that sum. 1t was always
my rule to live within my income. Any
young man who does that will get
along"
Gould a young man live in the Congo
E'ron
fortune?"
''Oh. the climate is excellent after you
get back hundred miles or so from the
coast. There is no fever on the up
lands"
How is he to get his rubber to mar
ket?"
AT present most of it is carried on
the backs of natives, and the lack of
transportation facilities accounts for its
cheapness in the interior But you
know the Congo is nayigable for many
miles, from kinchass2- III fact, 10 STAN
ley Falls, and by and by we shall! have
a railroad down there which will make
travel easy all the way to the coast.
L have recently put $4,000 in
the road and may put little
more after a awhile. When in Europe
last fall l received note from King
Leopold asking me to call on him when
| arrived at Brussels. l did so and we
talked over the situation in Africa. l
pretty soon discovered that Leopold
didn't know quite as much about rail
road building as | did, so | gave him
a few points am going into the rail-
road business in Africa simply because
l want to break up the slave trade. I
have been opposed to slavely all my
life, and gave a good deal toward abol'
ishing it in this country. Down there
in the heart of Africa is the beginning
and the end of slavery trade, and the
time is not far off when we will wipe
it from the face of the earth. l have
also Invested $4,000 in the pro-
posed Berbcr-Suakim railway and So,
900 more in the British East African
railway. Thus L have s15O,O00 in the
three roads. l don't look for any profits,
but if any should come they will be re-
invested in Africa
The price of rubber in Para. Brazil,
ranges from 90 cents to 81 pound. If
a young man could only get hold of So,
900; if he could only buy rubber in the
Congo Free State at penny pOund5
if he could only get it down 80 the coast
for few pence more pound; if he
could only get it to Havre or New York
for still few pence more pOund-if
he could do all this he would
make a tremendous profit. Then, if he
could live within his income, he would
certainly grow rich. Tho principal
thing with most young men is the S10.-
+bor n of II 'Thnrn n ~.
plenty of lusty young white slaves be-
hind the counters in this city who would
like to be emancipated. And lots of
them would go to Africa on much less
capital than $4,000. In the present
state of the market SO princely sum as
that would purchase gross of North
American Congo Free Statesmen. Y.
Tribune.