The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-06-03
CHANCES FOR TRADING
WHEN WAR Is OVER.
.,,ruICANs MAY Make MONEY IN
SOUTH AFRICA III THEY EN-
BRACE OPPORTUNITIES.

oose- Manufactures From the
rnited states stand High Through
out the COuntry-PrRctical Infor-
,,,tion as to the Things Likely
IA BE Most in Demand and SO on.
No one should Venture to South
Africa without Capital.
nrap, York. June America will event
,,ouv prefit most by the war in South
AFRICA. if she VIII take advantage of her
OPPORTUNITIES. No matter what the result,
england will not be able to trade extern
sivelv in the Transvaal. nor will she be
abIe to control the trade in her own
nrovinces since at least rs per cent. of
tbe people, even in TIE British colonies.
are anti-British in sentiment Nor will
France. Holland, Belgium or even Ger
many play more than a small part in the
con mere al expansion of the land of dia-
monds and gold. But America, friendly
with both Briton and Boer, may reap a
harvest if she chooses to-
In 1898 South Africa, including the Boer
republic and all the British provinces,
imported goods worth $4,000 OOO the
twelve months after peace shall have been
t
one-third. Unless the American merchant
and manufacturer have lost their push
and energy. American commerce will be
2 eatly benefited by the trade with Cape
Town and through it with the interior.
And what is even more important, the
American workman will have just that
much more work to do
American goods have always been ia
vorit S in South Africa. The first specta-
Gle that greeted the writer's sight on ar
ri ing in Kimberley was a mule propelled
car, running along Dutoitspan road. la
beled broadway, from Central Park TO
Pattery"-a relic of the days of horse
cars on Broadway. Then, too, American
liquors, American hardware, American
mining machinery, American agricultur-
al implements and American goods of all
kinds have been and will be in demand.
Americans have always been we'll treat
ed in South Africa. An American was
state mining engineer in the Transvaal;
another was executive head of the famous
De Beers Consolidated Diamond mines;
and nearly two-ihirds of the heads of
the mines in the Transvaal are Americans
by birth and experience. America has
played and will again play a large part
in the commercial affairs of South Africa.
south African Development.
The country has developed wonderfully
in the last ten years. Old-fashioned Boer
methods have given way to up-to-date
ways Where formerly the rolling veldt
stretched from sunrise to sunset-where
solitude reigned supreme-where the aas-
VOgel and Springbok and the busy ant
owned all they surveyed-there human en-
terprise and human habitations now pre-
vail. In 1887 the johannesburg of to-
day inhabited by 100000 Just before the
war; was fertile farm, owned by one
Bezuidenhout. Even Cape Town, the
older settlement in that part of the world,
is being modernized. Not long ago mer-
chants and other business men were con-
tent with low, one-story adobe houses,
baked to the consistency of granite by
the sun. Now magnificence has taken
the place of Boer simplicity. South At
RIGA is awakening
But if America would take advantage
Of the awakening she, must not
seek to unload old stock or damaged
goods upon the Afrikander, for the Ger
man trader is close az hand, eager to
take advantage of any slip we may make.
South Africa wants the best goods in
every line. That is why practically all
the mining machinery at the diamond
mines are American; that is why the
South African farmer uses American
pows and American hoes.
in order more fully to understand the
Possibilities of South African trade it will
VII be necessary 10 give attention to
few statistics. There are 7S0.595 whites and
about 6OO0,Oo0 natives south of the Fam
best river. OF the former 200 coo live in
The Cape Colony, Ma. al, the Orange Free
state and the Transvaal The remainder
are rowing traders, prospectors and mem
bers of military Organizations, doing gar
ris duty in outlying districts.
IN 1888 the Cape Colony imported goods
worth SS0,0N,0O9 $4,000 00) of this amount
coming from British ports and being in
greater part British made. Itemized, the
account reads Wearing apparel, 7,000, 600:
arms, $1,000,0O0; books, $3.50, 900; carriages,
100000; cycles $500, Oo0; coal, $3.50 900; cot
Ions, 81 100000; furniture, $4,000; hard
wfre' $3.50, 0OOi leather, $2250,0oO; machin-
cry, $3.50 600; iron and STEEL s. 600, 900; pa
per $3.50 600; pickles and preserves. $3.50, 900;
APP $685., 900; spirits, 100000; stationary,
100000; woolens. $4,000; balance, miscel-
laneous
During the same period Natal imported
@Ho0OCO0 of goods, $15CO)OOO pass
ing through British hands. The Trans
vaal imported $j75O9,O90 and the Orange
Free State $1,000 600.
some of the Cape Colony duties on these
imports are: Agricultural implements, 10
Per cent. ad valorem; -four 81. 25 per hun
9rsd pounds; cotton manufactures and
pruss u per cent; crockery and furni-
lure IL per cent; iron, 10 per cent; hard
ware u per cent; machinery, leather and
Hheh goods, u per cent; canned meats, 4
cents pound; furniture, 6
gents per cubic foot; woolens,
per cent. in Natal agricuI-
.ural implements are free; cotton pays 5
pr cent; machinery is free; woolens, S
per cent Before the outbreak of hostil-
Hies machinery had to pay IL
b er cent ad valorem to be imported
INTO the Transvaal After the declaration
" peace 1t is probable that a uniform
Afih will be instituted
What South Africa Wants.
south Africa needs the very seif-same
srhgs that we need. The idea that it Is
sn vedlt and kopjes, with heaps of dia-
a. s.o,lus or gold scattered here and there
80 irregular intervals, is erroneous. Much
81 the territory is fertile farming land.
SSUu.h Africans wear clothes. as we do;
hey even indulge In collars; the ladies
lave 1--we strong predictions for pretty bon
tv. n fact, almost anything manufac-
e. ~ IN the United States will be salable
r. south Africa. Light weight men
Sa,s are In great demand. American
"atches bring fancy prices being better