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Show New Zambesi Bridge to Be Single Span Johannesburg, South Africa. Skyscrapers Sky-scrapers towering out of the wildest Rhodesian bush will be the landmarks land-marks by which travelers in two years' time will recognize the most spectacular structure of its kind in southern Africa, the new bridge across the Zambesi river. First definite particulars can now be given about the huge project, which is being financed by the Beit Railway trust, . founded by Alfred Beit, partner of Cecil John Rhodes. It is to link Salisbury, capital of Southern Rhodesia, with Lusaka, capital of Northern Rhodesia. Unlike the famous Victoria Falls arch, erected in 1904, the one which will be flung across the Chirundu gorge further upstream will be a suspension bridge, carried by cables suspended from towers 120 feet in height. One single span, a fifth of a mile long, 1,050 feet to be exact, will carry the roadway over the abyss. Together with its approach spans, of which there are to be four on the Southern Rhodesian side, the bridge will measure nearly a quarter quar-ter of a mile from end to end, making mak-ing it twice as long as the Victoria I Falls structure. |