The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1905-09-29
CAPITALS MADE TO ORDER


terror Of Australia and Brazil.
Ever heard Of Dalgety7 MOI Well
you will soon. In 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 a tiny township, 800 miles
south Of Sydney, on the Snowy River,
with population all told Of less than
800 souls. Tomorrow it will take rank
as one of the worlds great cities, the
social, legislative and business centers
Of a country as big as the United
States and only about one-f1fth smaller
than all Europe.
Brazil is about to build fer itself q
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 Janeiro. But an article
recently incorporated in the constitu-
ton DEGREES that another shall be built
on the lofty central plateau. 1t Is to be
called GorgaZ, after the name Of the
state in which it will be situated, and
almost directly under the equator, 1t
will enjoy, owing to its altitude, de-
lightfully cool and wholesome climate.
Britons, in particular, are likely to
hear a good deal in the not distant
future Of Murghab, the great fortress
city which Russia Is about to build Cd
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 bntlding such city and construct
ing such a railway.
1t 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"
i 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 go
100000 horse power. 1t follows, there
fore, that the banks Of the Zambesf
hereabouts are bound to be lined SOON
err or later with factories and work
shops. In other words, the coming.
metropolis Of South Africa will not,
only be a Chicago, but a Pittsburg,
Manchester and a Sheffield into the.
bargain.
Farther south, in Mashonalandt
there Is already rising from the midst
of wilderness Of prehistoric ruins.
another African city Of which the
world will soon be talking. Its name,
Is doubtful At present it Is known as.
Havilah. But Ophir has been suggest
ed, and Sheba. The natives call 1t
Zimbahwe.
Three thousand years ago there was
a city there which must have rivaled
in extent and magnificence the glories
Of Babylon and Nineveh And--for'
there Is much gold there-the twenti-
eth century is setting itself, with u
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 it 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 PARKWAY Pacific. Also,
on the shores of the last named ocean,
there will arise in due course an as
yet unnamed city, which, as the
western terminus of the new line, will
presently be rival to Vancouver, and
; as we'll acknowledgements Weekly.
Jerry" Simpsons Spats.