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Show I As soon as the Soudan government' railway administration is able to utll-, Ize this temporary bridge for the passage pass-age of Its goods trains It Intends to make a start with the southward ex tensions of Its system and rail headquarters head-quarters will be established , at Seu-nar, Seu-nar, a city of the eastern Soudan on tho Blue Nile, 160 miles south-southeast of Khartoum. From Seunar it Is also intended to construct a branch lino In a westerly direction, doubling I back at almost a right angle to El Obeld, the capital of Kordofan. This railway will cross the White Nile near the village of Goz Albu Guma, about 192 miles south of Khartoum, and the contract for the construction of the road and rail bridge at this point has been awarded to the same firm which built the viaduct over the Zambesi at Victoria Falls, the Clevo land Bridge & Engineering company. It Is a curious coincidence that these distant but connecting links are being built by the same firm of British contractors and tne erection supervised super-vised and carried out by the same resident engineer." This road will skirt the great lakes of Cenlral Africa, the most scenic part of the world, and further south will touch the west boundary of Uganda whero Roosevelt is now hunting. hunt-ing. This recording of what Is actually occurring in Africa In the conquest of the wild country of tho interior recalls re-calls how not many years ago Livingstone Living-stone and Stanley gained great fame by their travels in Africa and that not until Stanley entered the lake regions reg-ions did the outside world connect the great lakes with the source of the Nile. A ride by rail from Cairo to Cape Town would be the most interesting of all trips in strangely new lands. HOW A DREAM IS BEING REALIZED. What seemed to be the dream of a visionary Is being realized in Africa. Some one predicted a few years ago that eventually a railroad would be built from Cape Town at the southern tip of South Africa, north to Cairo, on tbe Mediterranean.' People generally laughed at the idea because Africa had j not quite emerged from the darkness which veiled nine tenths of that vast area described in the earlier geographies geogra-phies as an unknown land. Cecil Rhodes, acting on the suggestion, started the Cape to-Cairo railroad, and, from our consular reporls. we learn that tho construction goes steadily on, although the originator has been dead several years, and now the dream of long 'ago is about to be realized. A Cape Town paper 'pays "It is announced that this month, raiding & Co. will start work on the construction of a 100-mile extension northward from Broken Hill. At the other end of the 'gap' is Halfaya, l.'.'AQ miles south of Cairo and only separated from Khartoum by the Blue N'lle. across which a new railway and road bridge Is now in course of con-si con-si ruction by the Soudan government. |