The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-03
GREAT R|PON FALLS
At HEAD OF NILE
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from IlfSt FaSe.)
OF the Nile away up here at It's source
The British are surveying 1t and are
estimating its value as to the indus
trial development Of the country. An
English syndicate has concession for
the little island just under the falls
and 1t expects to invest 100000 irf
establishing a cotton factory here.
plotting the forests on both sides OF
the Nile. who want power and / am
told that other parties are after con-
cessions. The government is averse to
proper, as II may be necessary to build
n dam here to regulate the outflow OF
the Nile. They do not object, however,
to works bordering the rapids below
tions might be made. thirty or forty
miles long, which could do all the man
nfacturing for this part of Africa. AS
it is now, the government has reserved
side of this part of the Upper Nile,
but concessions might possibly be had
for turbines along the rapids. and the
power could easily be conveyed across
this strip by wire.
Indeed. the electrical possibilities of
the Nile in connection with Uganda are
enormous. and the manufacturing pos
sibilities are equally great. The coun-
try has plenty of iron ore, and it may
some time be the Pennsylvania of AZ
RIGA. The British officials say that it
can raise as good cotton as that grown
in our Southern States. and they pre-
dict that there will eventually be cot
ton plantations all the way from Lake
Victoria to Lake Albert with ginning
plants and cotton mills at Murchison
Falls and along the Upper Nile. The
whole of Lake Victoria, which is larger
than Lake Superior. is tributary to this
region, and the vast population which
surrounds it could be supplied with
cotton woven at these factories.
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In getting the natives to raise cotton
Is that of transportation. 1t is now
carried into kampala on the heads
OF porters, and the long march eats
plants along the Nile much of the cot
ton VIII go TO them in boats, and more
Will be carried across country on the
excellent roads which the British are
inducing rhe natives to build.
There IRE already hundreds of miles
of road in Uganda. which could be
used by an automobile, ard one can
travel thousands of miles on bicy-
Gle.
Lake Victoria MS n Nile Reservoir.
this part of the world is as to whether
the flow of the Nile cannot be regu-
lated from Lake Victoria. have told
you about the Assouan dam. which has
Some of the best of the worlds civil
engineers look upon Lake Victoria as
the great possible reservoir of the
river Nile. Sir William Garstin, the
chief engineer of the Egyptian public
works, sayS that "a regulator could be
put in at ElponrFalls and the water
let OUT through sluices into the
Nile. That river is, as I have said,
the only outlet for Lake Victoria. and
n slight dam at its source would pro-
duce enough water to irrigate a large
part of the Sudan and to add nil
lions of acres TO Egypt. AS it is now
The lake is estimated to have l3S,0O0,-
100000 tons Of new water every
year. The most Of this is lost by
evaporation and only $4,000 900 900 tons
go into the Nile. The present daily
discharge of the Nile Is less than So
100000 tons. so that Lake Victoria
could double its discharge and not feel
1t. Indeed, If all the water which is |
carried down by the Nile during one
year We're poured into Lake Victoria
1t would not raise the level of that
lake one foot. and it would
take all the Nile flow for more