UGANDA'S FUTURE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1362, 13 February 1912, Page 3

UGANDA'S FUTURE.

SETTLEES ANXIOUS TO TAKE UP _ PLANTATIONS. Certain finns that are interested in the. development bf Uganda sen-t repretentatiyes recently to Great Britain to discuss with merchants and dealers in various commodities the prospects of the products of Uganda in the. English markets. One of those gentlemen, \>;ho is an official in Iliis pint of Ec|iiatorial Africa, disciissiii" (he pnarat position in Uganda with a j/ondon pressman, stated:— "Wo are receiving a large number of Jtritish H'ttlors who ure anxious to take up plantations, and though wo aro right on tlic Kipinlor wo find that tho clearing up mill dmelopmont of these plantations i.H iiK'kiiif; for lioultli. Even I, whoso nn'ssinii il. is In Irovcl nil over tho country, have only liwn down with malaria eight timi'H in Iho pn.st (lino yrnrs. "('.'ollon has clono well, and will do much boiler. \V« hnyo n miiflnificent crop this vear, mm»« of it nf most excellent fiunlity. Tho ("<ovi>rnincnt regulations, making it an offourn to mix together the various Rrndf* of cotton, will to productivo of miiflli goiid. "As with ration, so with coffee, which, has proved 10 Im most suitable for cultivation in Ucnmln, Itubhor is still an indctcrmiimtn i|ii[ilil.y, hut the prospects liero aro v<>ry {iiicoiiraKin.';. The rubber from some of I.lm trocs first planted will be in London shortly, and we shall know what tho maniiffintiirors think of it. Cocoa will do as well as col Too, and I am convinced Mint .13 the ycimi go on Uganda will bo known ns (he country of plantations. "Tho railway to Jinjn, which English people appear to have forgotten, will bo opened very shortly. Moreover, the Government aro going to spend .£50,000 on new roads, and liiu-n iilm> promised that two more steamers shall be put on Lake Victoria, which practically means a doubling of the present, service. Gradually, on the plantations and elsewhere, wo are giving the blacks something of civilisation, and with that little they aro corning to m'npt tlio while man's \ray of looking at things."