ABSTRACT
This chapter provides information on the Right Railway System and the Best Outlets for Nigeria. A subject of such vast and vital import as this in its bearing to West African Empire is bound to prove of the deepest and most essential interest to all readers. To grasp and digest the printed matter contained in the Blue Book, which is divided and sub-divided into a great number and variety of despatches, reports, minutes, maps, estimates, tables and plans – documents, in fact, representative of varying interests, views and opinions – is in itself no easy matter. But human nature, as thinkers of old have pointed out, is fearfully and wonderfully constructed: it is so intricately variable in fact, as to defy analysis. For some four or five years prior to the beginning of this correspondence in 1900, a railway from Lagos into the interior had been started, the terminus of which at the time had arrived at Ibadan.
