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Identifier: africaoftoday00good
Title: Africa of to-day
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Goodrich, Joseph King, 1876-1948
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Publisher: Chicago, A.C. McClurg co.
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lar industry; of these no account is taken here.The principal (trunk) lines of the standard South Africangauge all converge at Johannesburg. The followingtable gives the distances from that city to other placesin South Africa (for projected routes, shortening thejourney between Europe and Johannesburg, see theGeographical Journal, December, 1910). INLAND CENTRES SEAPORTS Miles Miles To Pretoria 46 To Cape Town (via Kimberley) 957 Kimberley 310 (via Bloemfontein)… 1013 Bloemfontein 263 Port Elizabeth 714 Bulawayo (via Fourteen Streams) 979 East London 665 Salisbury ( ) 1279 Durban 483 Lourengo Marques (via Pretoria) 396 Other important lines are: east via Pretoria-DelagoaBay railway; from Witbank to Brakpan; Krugersdorp toZeerust; Pretoria to Rustenberg; Pretoria to Pietersburg;the Selati railway from Komati Poort to Leydsdorpand on to the Limpopo River; Belfast to Lydenburg;Potchefstroom to Lichtenburg. Telegraph lines are com mn H ZO H ? CO oc H ac 2oz O or
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SOUTH AFRICA 205 extended all over the province and are connected withocean cables at one or the other of several seaports.Inland communication is had with British CentralAfrica and Ujiji, on Lake Tanganyika, through Rhodesia.This gives access to German East Africa and its principalport of entry, Dar es-Salaam. The postal service is well organised and in someparts of the Pietersburg district zebras are hitchedinto mailcarts for rural delivery. The mineral re-sources of the province would demand several longchapters for themselves if they were discussedthoroughly. The famous Rand Reefs, along theWitwatersrand, are known in every stock exchange ofthe world. Diamonds, coal and other minerals, ironand copper ores—all these are important. Agricultureyields precedence to mining, although the developmentin farming and stock-raising is rapidly pushing theseindustries to the front. Fruit growing is a thrivingoccupation, for the climate.and soil in many places areadmirably suited for this pur
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