The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-06

mia redwood, with locomotives that came from the United States. It has a dynamite plant with an American man. ager. and the diamond mines, themselves are in charge of an American.
 The same is true of the gold mines. The Rand is not unlike parts of Nevada and the prospecting is done with Amer ican diamond drills, which the miners say are lighter than the English drills and more easily worked. Much of the ore is dug down with American picks, loaded upon cars with American shovels, and carried through the tunnels over American rails. The timbering is done w-.h carpenter tools from New England, the American saw and the American ax being everywhere found.
 Our Trade Increasing.
 What troubles the English and Ger mans is the steady gain in American trade. We ara increasing our exports at the rate of 30 per cent and upward year. In one year we gained $200.000 in machinery and typewriters $l10,0CO in household goods, and more than a half million dollars in iron. We are now ship ping more flour than ever. sending 1t di- rect from New York and San Francisco to Cape Town and Durban. The flour goes in large bags of POO pounds or bar rels of 1S6 pounds. but bags are pre- ferred.
 We sell patent medicines in South AlI- rlca. Any drug store there will give you our liver pills, favorite soaps, reIined castor oils and our best known patent medicines. We sell electrical goods. type writers, cash registers and musical in- struments. such as photograph and graphophone. There IS a big demand for wire fencing and for galvanized iron sheets for roofing and building. This material is used all over South Africa and is now supplied chiefly by the Bel gians and the English
 New African Railroads.
 The new railroads of Africa are taking more or less American materials. Lines are being built here and there all over tiIe continent, and We are selling them locomotives. bridges and heavy machin- cry. The South African states would rather patronize the English. but they are opening up new countries and they want their orders filled immediately. The American can do this in one-third the time proposed by the British contractors and generally at a much lower rate This was the case with the Uganda rail- way. which runs from Mombasa, on the coast a little bit above Zanzibar. into the interior as far as Lake Victoria Nyanza That road is now completed, and 1t has twenty-seven American bridges upon it. It took the British contractors two years to put up eight bridges. and the company was in despair as to the twenty-seven remaining. They asked the American o. Idge Company to bid upon 1t. It did so, offering to complete the whole with in seven months after the foundations were ready. The contract was accepted and the job was done on time. The bridges were built In PhiladelpnAa and shipped in tramp steamers to Mombasa American engineers superintended the work and East Indian coolies performed the hard labor. The Uganda railroad is partially operated by American locomo- tves.
 The Soudan Railroads.
 A number of railroadI are to be built in the Soudan, that wide strip of country which runs across Africa between the Sahara and the Congo Valley. The Egyptian railway is to be extended south from KhartOum, and English and Amer ican capitalists are now having a rail- way surveyed from Khartoum to Adls Ababa, the capital of Abyssinia. If this is built 1t will be followed by road con meeting it with the French line at Harar making a continuous road from Khar- toum to Jibouti on the Red sea. Other sections have been planned along the