New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-10-01
RAILROADS IN AFRICA.
PROPOSED THROUGH LINE FROM THE
CAPE TO CAIRO.
TWENTY. FIVE HUNDRED MILES ALREADY COM
PLETED-ANOTUEE PROPOSED TRANS
CONTINENTAL LINE To OPEN


WASHINGTON sept go CspeciaD- Railroads +"
Africa are discussed ~ considerable length in
monograph entitled commercial Africa IN ~"
lust prepared by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics
n shows that ihe railways now in operation "'
under actual construction arc nearly ten Thousand
miles I'm extent that about two-ifihs OF inc as
lance from Cane to Cairo mas "H''"N "'''
Slammed by railway lines which are being 'N''no-
90 from the northern and southern oNir'mi''7 OF
rho continent toward the equator. where they aI"
expected 10 meet carly i'm the twentieth century
Already railroads run norhwardly from cape
Co.onv about fourteen hundred miles ana south
rard from Cair, about eleven hundred miles. thus
making Twenty-Five hundred miles or the tape L"
Cairo railroad complete. the intermediate distance
hoinr about three thousand miles. Mr. Rhodes.
whose recent visit % England and Germany ia the
interest o. tho proposed through line rom the
cane 10 cairo As matter of record. ana "h"9'
visit 10 Germany was made necessary 10y tho fact
that I'm order 90 pass from the southern 'ha'h "i
British territory TO the northern chain he must
cross German or Bcleian territory. is reported as
confident that the through line viii ID" competed
by the year 1910. II may reasonably hc assumed
that a continuous railway line from tho southern
n tho northern end OF Africa viii boz I'D operation
I'm tho early wears o. the twentieth century. Tow
ard this line present and prospective. which IS TO
stretch through the eastern part of the continent
lateral lines from either coast arc beginning 10
make their way 4 line has already '''h '"H-
strlcted from Natal. ON the southeast coast ah-
other from Iourcnzo Marquee. I'm Portuguese ter
ritory and the gold and diamond fields another
from Bcra also m Portuguese territory. but con-
sidorably further north and destined 10 extend
70 Salisbury I'm Rholosa where n Will form juno
fion with Tho Cape to cairo road. still another s
projected from Zanzibar 20 Lake Victoria Nyanz'.
~ connect probably. a. Tahora with ih' trans
continental limo another line is under actual cone
structlon westward from Paneaui JUST north of
1f noi ID
Africa. another line ie holnG constructed 900 .tI-
vcstwardiy from Momhasa. in British territory.
toward Lake Victoria Nyanza. and i- completed
more than half the distance. while AZ the entrance
10 tho Rcd Sea ii road is projected w'st""rily ht"
Abyssina and is expected TO pass further north
toward the west and connect with tho main line.
TO PENETRATE THE INTERIOR
At Suakim fronting on Tho Red Sea a road IS
projected 10 Beraer. the present terminus OF the
line running southwardly from Cairo ON the west
~ Africa lines have begun 20 penetrate inward
short line IN the French Soudan running from the
head Of navigation The Niger with the ultimate
purpose 90 connecting navigation ON these two
streams I'm the Congo Free State 70 railway con-
meets the Upper Congo with the Lower Congo
around Livingston Falls. I'm Portuguese Angola
road extends eastwardiy from 1oauda the capital.
n considerable distance and others are projected
from Bcnqucala and Mps=amcdes. with 'he ultimate
purpose of connecting with the cape to cairo
road and joining with the lines from Portuguese
East Africa which also touch that road. thus
making a transcontincntal line from east 10 west.
with Portuguese territory al either terminus. Fun
thcr south on the western coast the Germans have
projected road from Walhsh Bay to Windho,h.
Will probah bly, D." extended eastward until IL con-
meets with the great transcontnental line from
nave centric " fh, l,.fom 70 be- contru,Sd To-
either coast Another magnificent ralwa project.