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THE 'TipPICAL 
AGRICULTURIST. [ArRiL ], 1901. 
The election of the l.oOU feet of pipe and the 
1,500 feet of spouting in the watercourse as 
well as the Peltons was slow and expensive 
and was done by Mr Keinlo's brother. The 
country is very rugged, and deadly unhealthy, 
and the spouting as well as much of the pipe 
had to be cairied on iron supports and tliere were 
two bridges made for the spouting, one 80 feet long. 
The Kopewire is f inch diameter best plow 
steel and was brought out in eight pieces, eicli 
8,000 to 4,( 00 feet long, wound on a ilrum. These 
were all bored for the same axle and the rolls 
of wire hauled along the track by block and 
tackle till they came into the Kopeway line where 
the wheels were fixed and the r(jpe hauled out, the 
drum revolving on the axle. This was a very neat 
locally designed arrangement, niide at home, and 
worked perfectly. 
^ Everything comtsto him v ho waits and; after 
much sickness and great trouble, we got the rope 
up and splices all completed and 
PREPARED TO MAKE A START 
when the starting resistance sent spec- 
ially by the providers of the dynamo fused 
and we had a grand example of pantomime 
magnesium lights. Part of the current went 
through Mr Keuilo's thumb and the place smelt 
of beefsteaks, while the natives went over that 
ghaut like anotlier flash. 
Mr. Kemlo designed and made with native car- 
penters a salt and water resistance Box which 
is working very well and cost a few rupees and 
that dirtieulty was got over and the rope started. 
You can imagine our disgust and atmoyauce 
when we found the rope grips suiiplied from home 
so badly made that they would not work, and 
we had to have new j xws made locally in brass 
which although not sutHciently strong have worked 
well and now new javvs of annealed steel are be- 
ing put in and are working very perfectly. 
These jaws, which are the secret of the Rope's 
success, i will describe later when a patent has been 
granted. Suffice it to say that theyautoinatically 
grip the rope at any point desired, go up to 
the top, and automatically leave tiie rope and run 
on to the rail. The pulleys on the standard heads 
have such deep grooves tliat the rope cannot get 
off by any chance and the result of this com- 
bination of essential points is that the life of 
the Rope itself is greatly prolonsied and prob- 
ably more than doubled, wiiile accidents have been 
reduced till, I believe, 8,000 loads passed over 
the rope before the last accident, due to a de- 
fective pulley and not; in any way connected with 
the grips, and it really did not do any damage 
to speak of. 
The Ropeway running at half speed two miles 
an hour is fully loaded with 66 grips which 
with loss of time loading and unloading do three 
rounds a day. Each load should be two cwts. 
and this equals 40 tons of out and in tralfic a 
day and assuming that it worked only 250 days 
in the year this equals 10,000 tons o£ traffic which 
is far more than sufficient lor present purposes. 
When it is worked up to 10,000 tons it will 
certainly show a profit of £10,000 as com- 
pared with what it would have cost to move 
this weight up and down tiie ghaut by cattle 
and ponies and donkeys of which we had about 
3,00'» at work, when tlie writer came out three 
yesirs ago. So I think the most captious critic 
will admit that it is a magnilicent success. The 
greatest credit is due to Mr W Kemlo whq 
has designed and had constructed every detail 
of it from beginning to finish and to his Assistant. 
The automatic working of the Ropeway is 
very attractive and everyone who has seen it 
says he or she would not have missed the sight 
for a good deal. L. DAVIDSON. 
ABYSSINIAN COFFEE. 
A British consnlar report from Harrar, printed 
in the London Grocer, says : " The Harrac coffee is 
of a very good quality, known in the London market 
as ' M ika long berry,' where it is preferred to the 
real Moka. Occasionally its price in London is 
higher than that of Moka. Plantations of cofiee are 
increasing slowly, because the natives prefer to cul- 
tivate the Kiatt {Celastrus edulis) as more lucrative, 
one pound of leaves of which are soli for $1 and 
sometimes $2 ; the natives, as in Arabia, eating 
these leaves. Nevertheless, more than 150,000 coffee 
trees have recently been planted, especially in the 
districts of Ohercher and Itto. The Abyssinian coffee 
is wild and grows in Kaffa (whence the name), 
Limmu, Gimma, Gumma, Ohera, Eunarea, and Hdiu. 
It has a very good aroma, and if cultivated it would 
be a very keen competitor of the real Moka. Mon- 
seigneur Massaya (afterwards Cardinal), when Bishop 
of the Gallas some fortj-ftve years ago, cultivated 
in Banarea 3,000 trees and obtained a quality much 
superior to the real Moka, both in flaTour and aroma. 
This coffee used to be imported here from the above 
countries via AAdis Abiba, and exported to Europe 
after being cleaned in Aden. In the Europeaa 
market it is known as Abyssinian coffee, but, on 
account of the present low prices of American 
coffee, the export of this coffee is decreasing. 
Most of the iajport is stocked in Harrar, and now 
the imports from the interior are next to nothing, 
the price, $4 per farasla, not covering the expenses 
of transport from the above-named countries. Should 
the American crop fail, the increase of export of 
Abyssmian coffee would recommence. On represen- 
tations made by the merchants of Harrar, the Em- 
peror Menelik has abolished the export duty of 8 per 
cent on Abyssinian coffee this year. — Bio News, 
Feb. 5. 
PLANTING NOTES. 
Coffee in Venezuela. — Coffee planters in Vene- 
zuela are lamenting the condition of the coffee trade. 
In a memorial from the Caracas Chamber of Com- 
merce to the President of Venezuela, the text of 
which has been brought by the mail, it is urged 
that the condition of the coffee trade has been for 
some time lamentable, owing to the steady fall in 
price, through well-known causes, and that the 
measures whick the present Government have just 
taken have aggravated this position, by putting on 
the highest tariff, which will cause the trade to lose 
the French market, where hitherto the greater part 
of the Venezuelan crop has been sold. The aboli- 
tion of the Venezuelan export duty on coffee is recom- 
mended. The duty amounts to 3 bolivars 22 centimes 
per quintal. — Home and Colonial Mail, M.a,ich 8. 
NiLGiRis Game and Pish Preservation 
Society. —Further interesting particulars of the 
workof this active society, in which Ceylon Pish- 
ing Club and Game Protection members will 
doubtless be interested, appear elsewhere. 
But the reference to Ceylon, as being troubled 
with rabbits, shows curious ignorance. There 
is an agitation, we see, for an increased gun 
license. Elsewhere we have also quoted Mr. 
F L Mitchell's most recent letter (from Sin- 
gapore) regarding the introduction of trout 
into Kashmir. 
