Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1912 — May Build Line Acress Sahara. [ARTICLE]

May Build Line Acress Sahara.

The dormant project of a railway across the Sahara has been actively revived. A French commission charged with the task of ascertaining the most favorable route landed at Algiers and proceeded to the southern ten minus of the present South Oran railroad, Colomb-Bechar, whence a march across the desert was to be undertaken. The party Is led by Captain Nl> ger sit the colonial infantry.