Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-19
9 supplied by The swiss ana the GER

be supplied by the Swiss and the Ger
mans.
BY the time this road reaches the
copper mines the Cape to Cnit ex-
South Africa will probably change. as
+ far as fast travel is concerned. Pas
sengers will be taken 10 Lobito bay,
and will thence go by rail to the
|. Transvaal and especially to all parts
of Rhodesia. There will probably be
an extension to Lake Tanganyika, ana
we shall have a line across the south
sern part of the continent. There is 10
doubt of the completion of the Lob,
ito bay road. The company which
Is Interested in it is the one which
owns the copper mines: and there are
tens of millions of dolars--I might say
billions OF dollars--of minerals await
ing its traffic possibilities
THE RAILROADS OF THE IloNGo.
The I4obito Bay railroad will be
largely controlled by the Kongo Free
state. The king of Belgium and his
associates own ;lmajority of the stock
lin the great copper concession. and
fthey will see that it is operated In the
Interests OF Relgiums colony. 1t Will.
probably be connected with other roads
which will open TO trade The navigable,
tributaries Of the upper i>oneo, and
swill form n part of The extensive rail-
Way system which has been projected
for that country.
Few people re;.liae what is going on
MS to railroad building in the Kongo
Free State. The Sougo river Is as
long as the distance from New York
to San Francisco. and two of it's tri-
butaries are each almost as long as
from the mouth OF the Hudson to the
Great Salt Lake. The navigable water
ways of the system If stretched in one
Il
Singapore. or half way around the
globe. and they are so many that there
is not a spot in the whole Kongo bas-
in, which is so miles distant from nav
igable Waterways.
The biggest European steamers now
go up the Kongo 100 miles from its
mouth to Matad. At that point there
climbs past the rapids to Stanleypool.
This road has been in operation for q
number Of years. Within short time
second gap on the river has been
remeded by building a line just above
Stanleypool 90 miles long, and q third
line is projected of 200 miles far above
that. This line Is near Hells Gate cat
aract and between Sendwe and Bull.
Another railway Is projected which will
cross the lower Kongo to the copper
mines, and others are to connect the
Kongo with the Mediterranean through
the French lines proposed for the
Sahara desert, and with the Sudan
system by a railway from the Ucllc
river TO the Nile.
MOTOR CARS FOR MID-AFRICA
Speaking of the Uelle region, this is
in the northern part OF the country dp-
preaching the Nile watershed, and un-
til recently all transportation there has
been by porters. Within the past year
or so the government has been making
roads and putting on motor cars and
traction engines. There is to be one
road from the Kongo to the Nile, which
will be 600 miles long, and motor cars
built especially for 1t are now being
constructed at Liege. In addition to
them very serviceabe traction engines
carrying cars each holding several tons
of goods have been made, and these
will be used for heavy freight. The
Belgians are also training the African
elephants as beast OF burden They
first tried the Asiatic elephants, think
ing the African beasts intractable. The
Asiatic elephants died, and about thres
years ago the work of training the
African elephant was begun Twenty
eight elephants have already been do
and they are now carrying
bricks and timber for railway construc-
ton.
THE GUINEA COAST, ROADS.
Going northward along the gulf Of