The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19

bring in $15, ,000,00O and this new money will probably make the syndicate pay big dividends.
 Talk With the Governor General.
 I am writing this letter at Salisbury, which is the capital of Rhodesia and where are also the chief administration offices of the British South Africa conI- pany. During my stay here I have had talk with Sir William H. Milton, the governor of the colony. He is one of the chief officials of the syndicate and has been connected with the company from it's beginning. He was the private secre- tary of Cecil Rhodes at the time the com pany was formed, and 1t is now eight years since he was sent here as the chief secretary and secretary for native af- fairs. He has been connected with the administration of Rheodsia since lS97 and he knows, like a book, the country and everything connected with 1t.
 met Sir William Milton at the gov ernment house. a beautiful one-story bungalow, which lies about two miles from the business part of Salisbury. The house is surrounded by well kept grounds filled with flowers and tropical plants. It is beautifully furnished, and the ad- ministrator lives quite as comfortably here as he could in England. Said Sir William H. Milton:
 You ask me to give you a bird s-eye view of Rhodesia. It would take strong bird to fly over it in short time and one with sharp eyes to see it all. South ern Rhodesia alone is an empire In It. self It is more than one-sxth larger than Great Britain and Ireland, and It has great areas of good farming lands It Is full of minerals. Within the past few years a number of small gold mines have been opened and the output from these is steadily increasing both in quan- tty and quality. Gold mining In the Transvaal requires an enormous capital Here 1t can be done upon small scaie and we are finding good paying propo- stions scattered over the country. Ihose already discovered cover more than 50oo square miles, and we now have several hundred companies and syndicates at work We have already taken out some thing like 9,00O000 or 10,0O0,O00 pounds worth of gold, and we know that we have silver, copper, diamonds and lead. We have good coal mines at Wankle, about 200 miles northwest of Bulawayo, and we are producing something like l0O,- 900 tons of coal every year
 Farming In Rhodesa.
 "How about your agricultural possi- bilities?' asked l.
 s.We think them very great replied the governor. Much of the country Is better fitted for stock raising than grain farming, but we take large areas which will produce corn and tobacco and some which we think will raise cotton. There is no reason why South ern Rhodesia sh ould not produce maize equal to that of your great corn belt. The grain is grown by the natives, ana we have white farmers who now crop thousands of bushels of this cereal. We have some farmers who sell 10000 bushels a year, and that at consi5- erable profit. We have lands which will yield 50 bushels and more to the acre, although the average Is less than that.
 AS to tobacco, Rh hodesan cigarettes are sold everywhere throughout South Africa Our pipe mixtures are in high favor and our cigars are popular. We are not trying to export any tobacco as yet, for this continent takes all that we can produce We expect to in crease our yield from now on, and the time will come when we shall ship tobacco to Europe and, 1t may be, to the United States'
 A Great Stock Country. HOW about cattle?"
 It IS in stock raising that the chief possibilities of Rhodesia lie. This is d