The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-11
AFRICA FIFTY YEARS HENCE.
Some Things Which Will B Done in
the Future.

Samuel P. Werner, managing direct
or of the great concessions recently
obtained by Americans in Central Al
RIGA, tries in an Eastern magazine to
predict the development of Africa
within the next fifty years. Here are
some of the things which he believes
will come to pass:
Africa will have two great trans
continental railways from north to
south and five crossing the continen.
from east to west There will be over
1000 steamboats, on the rivers, 10000
miles of telegraph and telephone
wires, 10000 miles of automobile
roads, and 10000 miles of railway.
Cape Town will have a population
of 100000 whites and 100000 blacks
Kimberly, johannesburg, and Bulu-
wayo will be as large as Birmingham,
Sheffield, and Leeds are now At Vic
toria Falls there will be another Buff
falo. Near the south end of Lake
Tanganyika will be city as large as
Detroit On the shores of Lake Al
bert there will be an African Cleve-
land. In the Abyssinian highlands
will have arisen the African Pittsburs
Stanleyville, on the Congo, will be
black ST. Louis, and somewhere about
the lower Niger there will be black
New Orleans.
The annual production of rubber
will be s1O0,00O,OOO. The Niger val
ley will be growing 100000 bales OF
cotton year The cataracts of the
Nile will spin and weave 100000
bales annually At Stanley Pool a
great dam will give the Congo fifteen
feet of water for thousand miles and
supply power for hundreds of miles
about. The annual production of pig
iron will exceed 100000 900. The
Victoria Falls will light Buluwayo
and supply power to the upper Zam
best valley. Over 100000 square miles
will be in cultivation, chiefly by
steam motor plows.
There will be a white population
of 1000, 900 about the great lakes and
another 100000 in the hinterland oil
Angola The white inhabitants of
North Africa will exceed 100000
and more than 100000 white people
will dwell south of the Zambesi
The continent will be ruled as a
whole by white men, but black COM
munities will have local self-govern-
ment, and Liberia and the adjacent
regions will be ruled as we'll as pop
luated by negroes.
At least 2O,0OO,O0o of he blacks will
be allie to read and write There will
be great university at Khartoum
in which English will be the language
and probably another at Stanleyville
at which French will prevail. Cape
Town will have scientific institutions
which will do more for the southern
hemisphere than has been done as yc:
in London for the northern.
These may seem wild dreams, bat
Africa has the resources out OF which
to make them come true. Among
them are 100000 square miles of
productive land, beyond the needs in
that time of the natives, of which not
more than 100000 are really unfav
orable to white men,
Then there are known gold deposits
capable of producing $500, 100000 an
nually for years to come; 100000
square miles of coal beds; copper de
posts believed to equal those of
North America and Europe combined:
iron ore beds probably FIVE times
greater than those known in North
America; visible timber supply of al
least 1000, o00, 100000 cubic feet; 40.
900 miles of river and lake naviga-
ton; water powers-neglecting all
under 10000 horse power each-equa'
to at least ninety times the power o.
Niagara; an available labor force OF
at least 100000 able-bodied men