FROM CAPE TO CAIRO.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 108, 8 May 1909, Page 13

FROM CAPE TO CAIRO.

"We learn," says the Transvaal Leader, "that the contract for the extension of the railway from the present .terminus of the Rhodesia railways, at Broken Hill, to the Star of the Congo Mine, in the copper belt, of the Tanganyika Concessions, has now been signed. The expenditure involved will run into something like £200,000, and the work is to be undertaken by Messrs. George Pauling and Co., who have carried out a huge mileage of railway construction in South Africa. . "The Tanganyika Concessions Company has enteied into a contract with the British South Africa Company to form a company for the construction of the Rhodesian section, and to find the capital. The distance from Beira by the" existing routes to the Star of the Congo Mine is little short of 1600 miles. There is a project to build a line from the Ayrshire Mine to the main line, functioning some miles south of Broken Hill. This would reduce the dictance by nearly 500 miles, bringing Broken Hill within 825 miles of the port of Beira. As nearly the whole of the mileage to the Star of the Congo is northwards, the next step in the Cape-to-Cairo route will presumably be from the end of the extension straight into British territory, again in a northeast direction, and on to the shore of Lake Tanganyika."

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