The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-09-30

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British experiments in cotton growing
In southern Nigev,s are only Ava years
Old, and the annual output IL thus far
insignificant, the quantity grown In
Lagos having merely increased from Jo
bales IN 1903 To o.. an IN 1871 ". how
ever. the crop should expand ~ the sans
'wcnty-four fold ate during the next
i've vesrs " would amount in 1879 ~
,ss oco bales. and II the rate NJ progress
should continue until 1917 II would then
reach the portentous Hgure ~ nearly
seven million bales What thu would
mean will he appreciated when We recall
that the total actual supply % the world
in igps-O6 was but is.072, O0o. ~ which
the United States furnished no, far from
twelve millions. ~ course The main
tenance ~ geometric progression seems
on the face Of things improbable, vet
something like IL occurred in our South
ern States for a time after the cotton
industry was first started there.
The projected railway to Northern Nj
geris is to begin at a place called Baro on
the Niger. seventy miles from lis mouth.
II il intended to give. by means Of jet
ties modelled on those constructed at the
mouth Of the Mississippi, q minimum
depth to the lower reaches OF the Niger,
which will render the river n~avigable
AZ far as Baro throughout the year.
From Baro the road will run to kano,
the capital Of H~ausaland. where il il ex-
pected to connect with other roads now
building or projected. To the first Of
these points the road should be COM
pleted in 1909. TO the second in 1910 and
to the last in 1911. The total length will
be about 500 miles.
II may as well be taken for granted
by our cotton growers that they may
not be able forever to possess a monop-
oily Of the worlds cotton markets, even
80 far as the short fibre il concerned.
The purveyance Of the long Sea Island
fibre has long since been transferred
from the United States 10 Egypt. IL
Great Britain is really disposed to apply
the tremendous u Of her Treas
ury 10 the development OF tho cotton
industry ia a promising and extensive
region, there is no doubt that she might
in time become q formidable competitor.
That Northern Nigeria il such a region
seems o 10 have beer demonstrated.