The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-23
HOMES OF NAB0BS
IN AFRICAN VV|LDS
Palatial Estates Created by Pro-
gressivc Americans in the
Dark Continent.
ALL MODERN CoNvENIENCEs
Farm of 10000 Acres swartning
with Zebras. Antelopes
and Gnus.
BY FRANK G. CARPENTER.

British East Africa has an American
Aladdin. He comes from ST. Louis, and
like his prototype of Bagdad, in the
days of Haroun Al Raschid, he has
created a great estate in night. He
had rubbed the golden lamp Of his for
tune. and the genii who serve 1t have
chopped down the Jungle and fenced in
the wilds. A year ago all was Will
derness. Now 10000 acres are under
his pastoral or agricultural control, and
many milessof wire fences have gone
up about II. He has erected tables
for hundreds of horses and ponies, has
a dairy supplied by over one hundred
cows, and a magnificent bungalow
home. with electric lights. e-making
machines and the other comforts which
the nabobs of ST. Louis most love. All
this is in one of the widest parts of
the black continent. where antelopes
are as thick as sheep in Ohio. where
there are more Zebras than there arc
COWS in Kentucky, where the gnus are
more numerous than horses in Vir-
ginia. and where the lion still roars
night after night and the leopard lies
In wait for his prey. The estate itself
teens with wild animals; and it is one
of the great private game preserves of
the world.
A Pike County AIillionnirc.
The man I refer to is Mr.. William
N. MacMillen, Of Missouri. I have call
ed him Pike county millionaire, al
though I am not sure that he comes
from Pike. Like all Aissourians he
usually registers from ST. Louis. He
is about thirty-three years old; is dark
compleXioned. tall, straight and fine
looking, and he weighs, judge, about
40 pounds. He is man Of culture
No.. 10
prise, and he Is also evidently a man
of great wealth He has already spent
a fortune on his African estate, and ]
am told that he Is now putting out
from $4,000 and 100000 a year in
improvements. He is supposed by the
citizens here to he worth some tens
of millions of dollars and to have an
income running into the hundreds Of
thousands year.
AS to these things. however. 7 know
only from hearsay. Mr., Macmillan is
a modest man, and when took tea
with him at his city home here in
Nairobi the other day did not feel at
liberty to ask him persona, questions
Indeed. a large part of the tnforma-
ttion which I give in this letter con-
corning his farm and his operations
comes from other sources, although
ipiC l'lpPpSlh. aSA'S ~ ~ 49,
about farming, land-holding and big
game hunting on this great African
plateau.
The Jujn Ranch.
The name Of Mr.. MacMillan's big
ranch is tho Juja farm. I see post
ing notice concerning 1t III the Nalro.
bi Globe Trotter of this week, stating
that It's boundaries arc unmlstakable
that shooting Is absolutely prohibited
and that trespassers will be prosecnt,
ed, The farm lies right In the hear
of the big game country. 1t Is OF
the Athi plains more than a ,mlleabov,
the sea. In n region Which Is high ant
healthy
The Julia ranch is BOUNDED by thrc,
rivors. and Is now surrounded by /
wire fence. inside the fence aroit
sands or antelopes, great droves o.
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