Holbrook argus., 1905-10-21
CAPITALS MADE TO ORDER
Now Cities to Be Built In Remote In.
 terior of Australia and Brazil.

 you will soon. In a year or two the name of this city that is to be will be as familiar as is London or Paris or New York. For Dalgety has just been selected as the federal capital of the new Australian commonwealth. To-day 1t is but tiny township, 300 miles south of Sydney, on the Snowy River, with population all told of less than 300 souls. Tomorrow 1t will take rank as one of the worlds great cities, the social, legislative and business centers of country as big as the United States and only about one-lfth smaller than all Europe,
 Brazil Is about to build for itself a brand new capital, and this, too, must of necessity become one of the cities the world will presently be talking about Just now, of course, BraziPs capital Is Rio de Janelro. But an article recently Incorporated in the constitu- ton decrees that another shall be built on the lofty central plateau. It is to be called Gorgaz, after the name of the state in which 1t will be situated, and, almost directly under the equator, 1t will enjoy, owing to its altitude, de- lightfully cool and wholesome climate. Brltons, in particular, are likely to hear good deal In the not distant future of Murghab, the great fortress city which Russia Is about to build on the northern frontier of Afghanistan and which will form the southern ter minus of the Merv-Murghab railway, now practically completed. Murghab will be within easy striking distance of Herat, the traditional "key of In dia," and there can be only one reason for bnilding such city and construct. ing such a railway.
 It is agreed on all hands that where Is now Victoria Falls station, on the Cape to Cairo Railway, there will arise in due course the Chicago of South Africa"
 That is to say, the site Is designed by nature, as was the site upon which Chicago stands, for great commercial distributing center via rail, road, river and lake. But this is not all. The mighty waterfall, twice as broad as Niagara and more than twice as high, is able to furnish energy equal to 30,- 100000 horse power. It follows, there fore, that the banks of the Zambesi hereabouts are bound to be lined soon- CT or later with factories and work shops. In other words, the coming metropolis of South Africa will not only be Chicago, but Plttsburg, Manchester and a Sheffield into the bargain.
 Farther south, in Mashonaland, there is already rising from the midst another African city of which the world will soon be talking. Its name Is doubtful. At present 1t is known as Havilah. But Ophir has been suggest ed, and sheba. The natives call 1t Zimbahwe.
 | Three thousand years ago there was city there which must have rivaled in extent and magniflcence the glor1es of Babylon and Nineveh. And-for there Is much gold there-the twenti- eth century is setting itself, with stout heart, the task of resuscitating these ancient glories.
 To Canadians first, and afterward to educated people the world over, the name of the little village of Monckton, in New Brunswick, will shortly be as familiar as Is that of Quebec or Mont. real. For 1t has been selected to be the Atlantic terminus of the great trancontinental railway which the Ca madam government is building from Ontario, through Manitoba and the Northwest Territories, to British Co., lumbia and the far-away Pacific. Also, on the shores of the last named ocean, l %bo uyil1 urica in dI1o noI1rco on ao