Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-10-11
JOHN BULL IN AFRICA.

Tie Has Picked up I.4Oo. 900 square Miles
of Terr't3ry.
The latest acquisition Of African ter
ritory gives Great Britain an unbroH-
en- line across the length OF Africa
from the Mediterranean and the Nile
to the extreme point of the continent.
In all this territory. held In various
ways. from Cape Colony up to tho "oc'
rupation' of Egypt. is In extent about
.40O.O 600 square miles, and has pop
ulation of 3OOOO.0O0. In the Nile val
ley IL includes incomparably the best
Of North Africa. In Uganda IT holds
the key TO the lakes of Central Africa.
nearly as large as our own lake system.
The new treaty gives 1t the high land
west of Lake Tanganyika, consider
ably higher and healthier than the
eastern, in German hands. The new
conduests Of the British South africa
company add the great table lands or
the interior of sub-tropical Africa. in
much of which white men live. Last
" there is Cape Colony. the only vital
European settlement in all Africa. As
1t stands this great highway holds
two-thirds of oil of Africa In which
Europeans can live and carry on effi-
clent administration. 1t has the most
fertile tract in the continent in EGYPT,
lis nGdltultsl Is ShPC 1o"h IL - 6AN~i
est gold mines and the only region
from which tropical Africa can be con-
trolied. Still more important is Its re-
la;:on to African water courses. A
steamer can start at Alexandra and
run. when the Mahdrs successor is
cleared away, to a point on Albert Ed
ward Nyanza, 125 miles from Lake
Tanganyika. This runs to within
seventy miles of Lake Nyassa- From
this lake the Shire river, broken at
s:urchison Falls, descends to the Fam
besi and the Indian ocean. From a
uavicable point on the Congo 1t Is less
than 100 miles to Lake Tansanyika-
The ArlI-ini runs as near the Nile.
1t is possible to start at the mouth OF
the Gambesi and reach the mouth OF
the Congo or Nile with less than 200
miles of land travel. and the key and
center to this great system Is now In
English haqds--Omaha Bee.
Co -operation on Government WORM In
New Zealand.
The United States consul at Auck-
land. New Zealand, states that Auck-
all the public work under construction
In the colony Is done under the prin-
ciples of cooperation. A government
engineer makes an estimate of the
cost of construction Of a piece Of rail-
way; bids are advertised for and the
work is let out to gangs Of laborers,
vino have banded themselves together
for this purpose. Thus, instead Of
giving the work to contractor 1t is
given to the working men Of the col
0ny. they receiving the same rate per
yard for earth or rock as II the work
was given to q contractor. This sys-
tenn is working admirably and Is CIV
ing every satisfaction to all concerned.
The men are making good wages, and
are quite enthusiastic in their work,
knowing that the harder they work the
more money they will have at the end
of the month. This cooperative sys-
TEN seems to imbue them with spirit
of self-reliance and independents hith-
erto comparatively unknown among
workmen here. The government Ii to
be commended for the, in many in.
stances, unique and thoroughly practi.
cal movements for the prevention Of
distress and for the amelioration and
elevation of the working classes gen.
orally. To its efforts, which have been
blessed with the most signal success
may be attributed the conspicuous ab-
sence of pauperism and yagrancy, un.
fortunately 20 prevalent In other lands
to-day.