The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-09

more thckly clustered. Below this again was layer
Of scrub and bushes and under, around and among
crceper, Through all this fourfold veil the sunlight
struggled down every twenty yards SO in cleaning
chcquerS Of green and gold.
On the way the method Of fuelcuttng is explained,
so far as the ahorer is concerned it is elaborate
system of piece work, very accurately aud fairly ad-
]usted and as is so often the case whore the white
p"arcS 70 be no care re nns S ms mSn ] nSFS
natives.
But they are a plagucy company Few will stay
for more than month or two, however satisfied they
may be with their work and its rewards. and Just
cultivate their gardens and their families promising
10 come back another year. after the harvest at
some other remote aud indefinite date. And mean
while the railway must have its fuel every day aud
day after day with the remorseless monotony of the
industrial machine.
But what way to cut fuel! \ floating population
of clumsy barbarians peckng at the trees with native
their loads when completed quarter of a mile on
their heads to the woostack while the forest laughs
l calculation. Each of the 900 natives em-
ployed costs on the whole $50 year The price of
plee IS about $500 The interest and sinking fund
1es qn tins sapa R on re- od the the of If ouT "
petent white engineer. equal to the wage of forty
roughly estimated wage of twenty natives more
IN ma an the wage OF sixty five natives Such plant
or five minutes, to cut timber well as fuel, to saw
u, into the proper lengths for every purpose with the
loads when sawn the railway siding, would accom-
plish a weeks work of the sixty-Gve natives it re
plication of power.
It is good trying to lay hold of tropical Africa
with naked fingers Civilization be armed with
machinery if she is to subduc these wild regions her
authority; tireess engines, not weary men; cheap
power, not cheap labor; steam and skill not sweat and
fumblng; there lies the only way to the jungle
iunglcs than one. On this talked-or at least
] talked-while scrambled the stumps of
fallen trees and wadcd In emerald twilight from
sunbeam to another across the creeper Hood.
Strange Creatures Of the Forest.
Presently guide began to tell of the strange
creatures who live in the forest, and sometimes
quite close by the fuel-cutters-very ante
ope, enormous bufaloes and astonishing birds and but
ter1ies beyond imagination.
He had managed to make friends with the Waudo-
robo--a tribe of forest-dwelng natives who live
plunged in these impenetrabo shades-who shy
that, if stranger does but eye upon their village
forthwith they abandon it; yet who are at the
time teascd by curiosity that they resist
pcepng, peering nearer and nearer to the fuel
cutters Until one day commercial relations estab
lished the basis of sugar for skins. | Just
becoming interested these wood squirrels when
broke into the hot blaze of the MONDAY beating
down tho polished railway track, and had to climb
up onto cowcatcher in order to hurry to
real steam mill ten miles farther up the line.
As the journey advances, the train mounts steadily
higher and the aspect Of the country changes. The
forest, which has hitherto Tapped the line closely
side, makes fair division with rolling hills
Of grass. And there is this extraordinary feature
about lt-wheTe the forest end they end abrupt
grown; transition, Smooth slopes Of grass up