Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-09-24

there are enormous fields outside Of
Europe which the American manufac.
turer and exporter have as yet left
practically untouched,
NORTHERN AFRICA.
Taking up the continent OF Africa
secy LOOMS says our trade With Al
gerla ana Tunls Is increasing. These
countries belong 70 France, and by rap
I'd steamship connection are now closely
associated With that country. Il Is only
I "a hours from Marsellea TO Alglers and
the trade with Europe Is steadily grow
ing. Many American goods are now
helng used in Algeria. We are sending
something like Sl,0OO00O worth there
everyy ear, aud much Of this Is In ma
chinery and farm tools The French are
opening up the grain lands and Ameri-
can haryesters are employed 10 gather
the crops. American sewing machines
are to be found IN the Algerian ana
Tunisan bazaars, and the chief light
I used throughout the country Is from
American petroleum. The trade OF Ale
gerla now amounts 10 about S5000O,OO0
& year, and that OF Tunisia Is large
and Increasing, We are annually send
Ing several hundred thousand dollars
worth OF goods to Tuns, and OF this
( si25,O 00 is I'm agricultural machinery"
our trade with Morocco Secy, LOOMS
B tells me, IL small, but IN the closer as
sccation OF that country with France
and the better industrial protection
which VIII he afforded thereby It Is
sure 20 Increase.
We have also some trade with Trip0ll,
sending S200000 worth OF goods there
every year. and our trade with Egypt
Is large and steadily growing. Much
OF our Egyptian goods go through Eng
Hand, but some, especially machinery,
are now shipped direct Several hun-
bred American cars were put on the
new Egyptian railroad only u year or
/ ~ ago, and other kinds Of American
rolling stock and railroad materials are
being used. The English are pushing
/ their railroads farther north and cot
ton fields are being developed along the
! Nile and IN Egyptian Soudan, Ameri-
y cans are interested IN some OF these
now developments, and the prospect Is
that there will b. an increased sale OF
American goods.
OUR TRADE WITH UGANDA,
IN connection W in thls part OF Africa
4 ] asked Secy. LOOMS as 20 our trade
J with Uganda. the great British province
above Lake Victoria, ~ the source Of
4 the Nile
I 1--WE are doing very little there az
yeti was the reply British east
7 Africa. OF which Uganda is a part Is
but slightly developed in the way of
foreign commerce. ia 1902 il took only
81 100000 worth Of foreign goods, of
which little more than Si23.0OO was
American Uganda is however, "a
country with a future, II IS a very
rich region which until now has not
been accessible TO the sedcoast except
by caravans Of porters Within the
past year or 50 railroad has been built
inland from Mombasa 10 Lake Victoria.
Momhasa Is seaport not very far
above Zanzibar Il Is q little island ly-
ing NO close 10 the shore that a bridge
has been made across to the mainland,
and on this bridge the railroad cars
80. The railroad Is almost Goo miles
long, and IL takes passengers and goods
as far into the interior OF Africa as
Cleveland Is distant from New York.
II opens up an the vast territory about
lake Victoria, for the steamers on that
lake connect the whole region with It.