Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1912 — Railway Projects in Africa. [ARTICLE]

Railway Projects in Africa.

Five vast railway projects for the opening up of Africa are at present either in progress or seriously considered. First, there is the great Cape to Cairo railway, whose northern and: southern sections are pushing slowly to an ultimate junction in mid-Africa. Then there is the French TransSaharan, and the further scheme of that nation to join the valley of the Niger and Lake Tchad with the Atlantic coast by means of the TransSudanese railway. Germany also has planfied the Trans-Equatorial road, her first important railroad development in Africa. The fifth enterprise contemplates building a line from the Straits of Gibraltar southerly along the Atlantic coast by way of Casablanca and Agadir to Dagar, which is an important point of shipment for West Africa, where France has lately built an important naval station. —Scientific American.