| Show A RAILWAY TO THE HEART OF AFRICA More than 1000 black men In o oot ot of engineers ers have been en engaged engaged for tor more than n a year In the roadbed laying the track and doing nil tho rough work lork on the now that has hns Just been opened along th upper Congo road between Stan and n 73 miles dr cis limo Iho stretch ot of rapids Thai forms the first Impediment to tion on the upper river The line was va opened l a few tew weeks ago and It Is the tho railway In tropical Cel Cerra ral Africa In straight lines line its terminus nt at limo tho head of at time rapids Is 1 1070 miles from Zanzibar anti and jiO miles from the Congo mouth It has bEen Interesting to watch tit the progress ot of this enterprise Few mil resit ways have hae been built with labor so ao far from tho sources of at nil nl supplies The step was the build buildIng big Ing or of two largo storehouses lit at and 1233 mlle miles apart tel tol lowing the Congo channel to house tho at its to landing place In ht Africo all and 1 at the starting point of the Iho rail railway Wl way Locomotives cars and bridge carried up the tho Congo In pIeces nud put together the they were needed on tho lino line Ilse As there thero WI was S de delay delay lay In the ho delivery dellery ot of same ot of the th bridges temporary wooden construe lions very rough but strong were wert thrown over sonic ot of the tho small Congo tributaries so O that work traIns carry rolls rails ahead to the roadbed pro pre prepared pared for tor them Some Home ot of the gauge angs ot of laborers were superintended b byoung by young natives who halt had been trained for tor years In the tho Industrial schools o othe 01 the government ot of tM the missionary so societies Here nil as elsewhere In hm that cots con the supplied tho brawn wn and muscle ns no well as al some elementary ry supervision In carrying forward the tho vast wont worl of at progress In Africa The Tho extent or of navigation for tor steamers on the Congo Is now well mown and the purpose Is III to 10 carry mrry railways around the test e parts paris of time th river which are obstructed by rapids mo eta 11 to extend unbroken steam T to the tho end ot of the tho farthest navigable leach ot of the tho stream ny fly building this new railroad the Congo State Stale has han 61 miles ot of steam transportation to the tho 1113 miles already In operation between the tho Cosign and falls Navigation Is again impeded 1 at t miles above the terminus ot of the new r railway and Ild sic to begin at once time the building ot of the third and anel last stretch ot of railway along th the river from to Bull about miles above which there thero Is Interrupted navigation for tor small steamers far tor 12 miles where the importance ot of the river for tor large lantI commercii purposes practically ends The total of et along tM Con Q when time last mile ot of Pane Is III laid will be 2111 miles of jf which 1518 1118 miles will be by niH and miles by land and aM the end ot of this bug route slit III be In touch w with Ith the tho great Ireat mining region re on ot of I Ku tangs which Is Ia said ald to 1 be as rIch melt nI as Rhodesia la In Rold Roid whit while the No prospects ot of copper production nr are perhaps Un to III nn nay other othel part ot of tine thE world The of at extending tatton to this region Is lating the rend of the nago govern 1 east 1111 It remains J lea he br whether Ih the Conan and water rend cach this pout southeast heRS or of th the elate before Ih the branch or of the ape Carla railroad arrives nt at the same fRIlle des Una York Sun r t |
