. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. THE ECONOMIC CONQUESI' oi' AI'MtICA l!V TilK liAl LIJOADS. 727 task of keeping in i-miniiiii- oi'dci' scnch (liUcicnt tyjx's of locc^inotives, ganuMvd by the luililary aiithorilics in llu-ir liaslo (o open the road. The ^veekIy sclu'dulc at jjrcscnt inchidcs (wo express ti'ains, ad- mirably e<iui[)[)ed with parlor, bullet, and sleeping ears. Besides these a mixed freight and passenger ti'ain starts daily from each end of the line. The sh
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. THE ECONOMIC CONQUESI' oi' AI'MtICA l!V TilK liAl LIJOADS. 727 task of keeping in i-miniiiii- oi'dci' scnch (liUcicnt tyjx's of locc^inotives, ganuMvd by the luililary aiithorilics in llu-ir liaslo (o open the road. The ^veekIy sclu'dulc at jjrcscnt inchidcs (wo express ti'ains, ad- mirably e<iui[)[)ed with parlor, bullet, and sleeping ears. Besides these a mixed freight and passenger ti'ain starts daily from each end of the line. The shipments to the south consist of military stoiH's and construction materials, while the noi'thern freights are made uj) of rubber, ivory, ostrich plumes, and grain. As the list indicates, the tonnage is still of very modest dimensions, yet it is sufficient to pay a good share of the expenses of oj^ CJi'-U' <.l^ fh''€7lj- ejcploiUUuiiv a_ ;^ := I OH, projctes » FiCi. 4.—South African system. The extension to I^ake Albert of the northern section of the i)ro- posed transcontinental road between Cairo and the Cape is postponed for the present. Instead the English have decided to undertake the construction of a road from the Nile to the Red Sea. The attempt to join Berber and Suakin was abandoned in 1881, after an inmiense amount of money had been spent on some 20 miles of road; but the project has been revived, and to-day work is being done on both ends of a road between Suakin and Khartoum by way of Kassala. From Kassala it is planned to run a great southern line through Abyssinia to Lake Rudolph, and thus connect the Egyptian system with that of eastern Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents; United States Nati
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