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THP TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [June a, 1890, 
himself by growing and selling vegetables till these 
come into bearing. On ten acres there wonld be about 
2,500 of these. These would yield about £30 a year. 
The returns on a larger capital show very well. Of 
course the small capitalist would "work out," and a 
white man can do muoh outdoor work. Cacao is not the 
only industry. There are many other things grown. 
Altogether, the picture drawn by Mr. Eulkeley is very 
rosy ^Spectator. 
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A EE ACTION IN QUININE IN AMERICA. 
For some weeks past the quinine market has been 
in a depressed condition and it has seemed to be only 
a question of time when the price would once more 
settle down to the twenty-five cent basis. The heavy 
receipts at this port from the beginning of the year 
to date, amounting to an aggregate of over a million 
ounces, have had anything but a re-assuring effect upon 
speculative operators. If any disposition was shown 
to buy in a large way, say in lots of ten thousand 
ounces and upward, the intending buyer's limit was 
invaribly half a cent or a cent below the price the 
lowest seller cared to accept, and as in the majority 
of cases the lowest quotations were made by those who 
were the most anxious to buy there was little chance 
for business. 
In some quarters it is confidently believed that the 
market will soon go to thirty cents. This confidence 
is born of the belief that a reaction has set in the 
bark market, the small offerings at the last London 
auction and the withdrawal of a part of the stocks 
from the Amsterdam sale being interpreted to 
mean that the bark men have imbibed more ex- 
alted deas of the future of that commodity from the 
strong showing made by the statistics, and are deter- 
mined to get better prices. It is probable also, that the 
recent bears finding the market going against them will 
reverse their tactics in the hope of urging the price up 
to or beyond thirtjtwo and a half cents and we may 
therefore look for some strong bullish statements con- 
cerning the position of quinine during the next week or 
two. The bulk of the surplus stock which existed in 
London before the epidemic seems to have been trans- 
ferred to this market, and if the position of bark remains 
as strong aB at present the upward movement in the 
price of quinine in London will no doubt continue. In 
that event and provided the stock here is as well con- 
trolled as it is said to be, it will be comparatively easy 
for operators in this market to establish a higher range 
of values. — Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter, for April. 

HOW TO GET RICH: 
Rubber in Africa. 
Taking down a map of equatorial Africa and spread- 
ing it across his knees, the gentleman from Africa 
laid his forefinger on a certain spot and remarked : — 
"If I were a young man with £2,500 or £25,000, 
I'd go there and make millions." 
The spot he touched was the town of Upoto, oh 
the River Congo, near the northern boundary of the 
Congo Free State, distant about 700 miles from the 
Guinea Coast. 
"What would you do there ?" inquired the reporter. 
"Trade," was the brief answer. 
" Ivory, skins, precious stones ■" 
" Rubber. You can buy rubber there today at a 
penny a pound. A young man might go there and 
pay fivepence a pound for it and make a fortune." 
" Would you advise a young man to go there with 
more than £25,000, or less than £2,500 ?" 
"Well, it would depend on the young man. The 
climate is excellent after you get back a hundred 
mikis or so from the coast. There is no fever on the 
uplands." 
" How is he to get his rubber to market ?" 
" At present most of it is carried on the backs of 
} atives, and the lack of transportation facilities ac- 
< omits for its cheapness in the interior. But you 
know the Congo is navigable for many miles — from 
Kinchassa, in fact, to Stanley Falls — and by-and-byo 
wo shall have a railroad down there which will make 
travel easy all the way to the coast. I have recently 
put £12,500 in the road, and may put a little mora 
after a while. I received a note from King Leopold ask- 
ing me to call on him when I arrived at Brussels. I did 
so, and we talked over the situation in Afrioa. Leopold 
didn't know quite as much about railroad building as 
I did, so I gave him a few points. I am going into the 
railroad business in Africa simply because I want to 
break up the slave trade, I have been opposed to 
slavery all my life, and gave a good deal towards aboU 
ishing it. Down there in the heart of Africa is the be- 
ginning and the end of slave trade, and the time is not 
far off when we will wipe it from the face of the earth. 
I have also invested £12,500 in the proposed Berber- 
Buakim Railway, and £12,500 more in the British E*st 
African Railway. Thus I have £37,500 in the three 
roads. I don't look for any profits, but if any should 
come they will be reinvested in Africa." 
The price of rubber in Para, Brazil, ranges up to 4s. 
a pound. If a young man could only get hold of 
£2,500, if he could only buy rubber in the Congo Free 
State at a penny a pound, if he could only get it down 
to the coast for a few pence more a pound, if he could 
only get it to Havre or New York for still a few pence 
more a pound — if he could do all this he would make 
a tremendous profit. Then if he could live within bis 
income he would certainly grow rich. The principal 
thing with most young men is the £2,500, or rather the 
want of it. There are plenty of lusty young white 
slaves behind the counttrs who would like to be emanci- 
pated. And lots of them would go to Africa on much 
less capital than £2,500. In the present state of the 
market so princely a sum as that would purchase a 
gross of Congo Free Statesmen. — The. Star. 
♦ 
CHINA TEA TRADE IN 1889. 
How the demand for China tea in Great Britain 
is falling off is an old story, but those who ought 
in China to be most concerned at this have paid le<s 
attention to it than it deserves, because they have 
comforted themselves with the notion that Russia, 
the United States and Australia are still faithful to 
their old love, and have not baen seduced by the 
younger charms of India and Ceylon, and that their 
continued adhesion compensates for the fickleness 
of the British tea-drinker. Even as late of last year, 
however, Great Britain took one-third of the whole ex- 
port to foreign countries, so that China cannot yet 
afford to treat lightly the prospective loss of that 
market. The total export of tea of all kinds, black, 
green, leaf, dust, brick, and tablet, last year wag, in 
round numbers, 1,800,000 piculs, which was brought 
up to nearly 1,900,000 piculs by the addition of the 
quantity sent overland from Hankow to Siberia and 
Mongolia, and by junk to Hongkong and Macao, In 
1888 the total export was 2,170,000 piculs, and in 1886 
the largest on record, 2,200,000 piculs. For the 
present purposes, however, we omit the Hankow 
overland and the junk export, and the 1,800,000 
piculs remaining were divided as follows among the 
principal kinds: — 
Black tea 1,300,000 piculs. 
Green „ 200,000 „ 
Brick „ 300,000 „ 
1,800,000 piculs ; 
while the quantities taken by the principal consuming 
countries were as under : — 
Great Britain 600,000 piculs. 
Russia 500,000 „ 
United States 300,000 „ 
Australia 150,000 „ 
Hongkong, and other British 
dependencies 190,000 ,, 
Leaving for the rest of the 
world only 60,000 „ 
1,800,000 piculs; 
The export to Russia, it will be understood, includes 
nearly the whole of the brick tea ; so that of the total 
quantity of leaf tea bought from China, Great Britain 
