The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-26

The tremendous cataract will attract
travel from all countries. It Is one
Of the wonders of the world, and will
be one of the most valuable assets of
Rhodesia. Then; from the unitarian
point of view, there is the mechanical
possibility. They will have an electric
plant there, as at Niagara. They can
carry the current easily to the coal
fields and to the deposits of iron and
copper. Sir Charles proposes to roll
steel rails for Africa in electrically
driven mills. Given one sort of manu-
facture, others will follow. They will
be encouraged.
Where the Ground Is Fertile.
AS for agriculture, they can grow
anything that we can grow in the
United States, including cotton. There
Is a. native Rhodesian cotton which
they claim Is superior to American.
Last autumn they sent a few bales to
Liverpool and sold them at an ap-
probable advance over the prices for
the American product Obviously this
winters high prices for American cot
ton are stimulating the growers on
Rhodesia's fields. Before long our
southern states will find a serious rival
there.
Sir Charles visited the United States,
going as far south as Alabama and as
far west as Cripple Creek. He in
spected railway systems and mining
plants, irrigation methods, agriculture,
primary education, and technical
schools. He visited steel mills, cleo
trio power plants, and industrial es-
Establishments of various kinds, and his
questions were always to the point.
and, in short, looked into everything
that would contribute information
likely to be suggestive in the work of
developing Rhodesia on the lines that
have been laid down there.
He found some features Of our new
regions more mushrOomy than his
newer ones. Out there in the dark
continent that is now becoming light
out there In Rhodesia, at all events
the railway work is more substantial
than ours in our sparsely settled dis
tricts. The bridges are stone and
steel; the stations, even the little ones
are brick. They have no wooden
shanties nor wood structures Of any
kind. They use either brick or CORFU
gated iron. Some sections Of the line
have metal ties for protection against
insects which destroy wood.
Not q Burden to England.
When the charter expires, man.
years hence no doubt, Rhodesia will
Ue ldlueu over 10 the Imperial gov.
/ eminent Of Greater Britain. And i
was Rhodes desire that when thi!
| transfer should occur the British tax
payers might find that the countr,
had not cost them a. penny. Rhode
slams are imbued with this spirit. The!
have faith in this new country.
Bulawayo is and probably will con
tinue to be the principal town. It i
already the junction for all the rail
ways. And a remarkable place it |
when we consider that a decade ag,
the savage was lord there. A copy o
the Christmas number Of the Bula
wayo Chronicle reached me the othe
day-a publication of nearly ninet,
pages, Astounding in half-tone picture
and respondent in colored covers
Think Of that-shades of David Liv
| ingstone and 10 Bengula!
Rhodesian coal is now being car
ried by rail to Kimberley and Johan
nesburg. It has also been supple,
to naval vessels at Cape Town, Del
agoa Bay, and Beira. Tobacco an,
rubber are native products. The cul