South Africa’s Rising Empire
By Bishop Hartzell
IN South Africa there is a country larger than all of the United States east of the Missouri River, in which a new Anglo-Saxon empire is developing. Already there are 700,000 white people, about equally divided between the English and their descendants and the Holland Dutch and their descendants. In this section there are now more than 6,000 miles of railroad. Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban, in the far south and southeast, are splendid cities, while 650 miles north of Cape Town lies Kimberley, with its 20,000 people, the greatest diamond center in the world, from which $15,000,000 worth of diamonds are shipped every year. Farther north lies Johannesburg, the great gold center. South Africa leads all other nations in the world in its gold output.—Bishop Hartzell.