THE UGANDA RAILWAY.
OPENING UP NEW COUNTRY. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright [United Press Association.] London, September 12. The romance of the Uganda Railway promises to he equalled by the construction of a great artery of 550 miles from the newly-discovered phrtjnamed after Lord Harcourt, upon a branch of the Bonny River, Nigeria, to the Kaduna River, where it joins the Kamo Railway. The cost of the new line, which the Government has just sanctioned, is £3,000,000. The line will traverse a mysterious and almost unknown land, where Juju worship rules, tapping the richest palm oil belt' in the world, and a coalfield of a thousand square miles, of 75 per cent, value of the best Welsh coal.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11, 13 September 1913, Page 6
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116THE UGANDA RAILWAY. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11, 13 September 1913, Page 6
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