A CONTINENTAL WORK.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 542, 24 June 1909, Page 7

A CONTINENTAL WORK.

CAPE-TO-CAIRO RAILWAY. /.(By. Telegraphi—Press AssodaUon'.—Copyright.)''. Cairo,' Jnno 22. .Tho, building of the Cairo-Cape; railway/ is advancing at the rate' ; of ,teA inilcs weekly/,- .. Tho lino has reached forty-seven - miles soutli of Khartoum. I 1 ' PROGRESS IN THE SOUTH. > The: construction' work' J of the Capo to .Cairo, railway is; now. ,47;; miles. south-ot 'Khartum. ; i 10 '•-ffift,'-' r ?ilway' and.i road '.bridge over ; the glue \Nile,' .whieli', is : to ; carry, the railway' into •JOiartum;-:- was begun; last year by the Clove-' land Bridge . Company*• , V . : VAMhe .south' end; the ..railway ihas been .laid • i. • wh'icli.' placo • is about ,80 miles south, as tliccrow flies, -of the extreme •«•. south-eastern '■ boundary - of. the Delgian. Congo;As--■ the- Belgian Congo.: at this point abounds; in .mineral,: especially, copper,: there _hiu been much negotiation between the .British: bouth, Africa Company/and the'; Belgian mining ahd development countries, with'aview to Ibrmging the. radway up to the Congo;: This' would connect the Belgian territory and-'Rho-desia, bringing, it; is; believed, a large traffic to. the Bptish South African railway; system, ' an ° thcr link ' ia .- th ° Africa Company found- a ■h™ m finanoln S the original. proposals, inirwln>K "l^ecmen:t was arrived-at concern- *?£ w J»cH f* London paper Th« Rri. 'Africa (Chartered) -| Company has l?,S n ? 1 - mpo ¥ ' to ' raiso the money for the extension from .Broken . Hill,' as it W Mnhi' ; ,¥.' Kul;/wa to'.-tho Congo 'at nf n' • length - 11 w the intention 1 ?f j^ 6 -F ni ?? Mmiere also to bommence siinultaneously- tho - laying of a'iraiW' from th« boundary to the Star of the .Congo, - tHo Kam Ruwe mines, (in Congo territory) i 4§p®s»iai , s4l' enablo; the Chartered Company, to nush fh« Capcrto-Caxro lino Dp :;to li^^^yiki.^ 0