Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1912 — NEWEST AFRICAN RAILROAD LINE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEWEST AFRICAN RAILROAD LINE

The Only Railroad as Yet'Constructed In the Uganda Protectorate The Newly Opened Busoga Line.

The Busoga railroad, recently opened by Goveipor Jackson, is the first built actually in Uganda, for the Uganda railroad in British East Africa, from Mombass to Port Florence on Lake Victoria Nyanza, does not come within the protectorate after which it is named. The Busoga line, which cost $900,000, follows the course of the Nile from the Ripon Falls, and connects Lake Victoria Nyanza with Lake Chioga, a distance of 61 miles. It will greatly assist the cotton industry.