| 1905. | 1904. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I.—Loans not yet wholly expended. | ||||
| £E. | £E. | £E. | £E. | |
| Loan for the development of the SudanRailway | 55,000 | |||
| Loan for the purchase of iron basesfor Telegraph poles | 18,500 | |||
| Loan for improving the Sudan Railway andpurchasing Rolling Stock | 528,000 | 528,000 | ||
| Advance for special survey, Suakin-Berberprojected Railway | 10,000 | 10,000 | ||
| Advance for the construction of theSuakin Port | 30,985 | 30,985 | ||
| Advance for the construction ofLight-houses at Suakin | 15,800 | 15,800 | ||
| Advance for the excavation of a cuttingand for improving and digging wells on the Suakin-Atbara line | 16,000 | 16,000 | ||
| 600,785 | 674,285 | |||
| II.—Credits not yet wholly expended. | ||||
| Credit from Wakfs Administration forbuilding mosques | 5,000 | 10,000 | ||
| Credits from the EgyptianGovernment:— | ||||
| 1. Relief of poor Refugees | 4,000 | 4,000 | ||
| 2. Extension of Telegraph line to theBahr-el Ghazal Province | 12,150 | |||
| 3. Partial cost of a steamer fordevelopment of trade on the Upper Nile (total cost being£E.4,000) | 2,850 | |||
| Credits sanctioned against the surplusesof the years 1902 and 1903 | 68,200 | |||
| 92,200 | 14,000 | |||
| III.—Services outside the Budget. | ||||
| Gordon Memorial College | 3,590 | 3,590 | ||
| 3,590 | 3,590 | |||
| Grand Total | 696,575 | 691,875 | ||
TABLE SHOWING THE SUDAN GOVERNMENT BUDGET FOR THE YEARS 1904-5.
| RECEIPTS | EXPENDITURE | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1905. | 1904. | 1905. | 1904. | ||||||
| £E. | £E. | £E. | £E. | £E. | £E. | £E. | £E. | ||
| Khartoum | 10,657 | 9,660 | Khartoum | 16,952 | 14,862 | ||||
| Gezira (Blue Nile) | 18,049 | 25,000 | Gezira (Blue Nile) | 16,796 | 18,220 | ||||
| Sennar | 22,489 | 22,126 | Sennar | 28,383 | 21,647 | ||||
| White Nile | 27,833 | White Nile | 13,495 | ||||||
| Kordofan | 43,122 | 55,390 | Kordofan | 25,352 | 24,557 | ||||
| Upper Nile | 7,700 | 8,300 | Upper Nile | 18,853 | 12,617 | ||||
| Bahr-el-Ghazal | 5,990 | 5,500 | Bahr-el-Ghazal | 25,503 | 19,117 | ||||
| Kassala | 10,425 | 8,310 | Kassala | 16,937 | 14,615 | ||||
| Berber | 18,820 | 18,000 | Berber | 20,180 | 17,909 | ||||
| Dongola | 32,900 | 30,900 | Dongola | 19,350 | 18,045 | ||||
| Halfa | 12,730 | 11,300 | Halfa | 9,210 | 6,279 | ||||
| Suakin | 10,845 | 16,000 | Suakin | 16,092 | 14,364 | ||||
| 221,560 | 210,486 | 227,103 | 182,232 | ||||||
| Central Administration | 47,187 | ||||||||
| Governor General’s Office | 5,808 | ||||||||
| Secretary General’s Department (StoresSection) | 800 | Inspector General’s Office | 2,723 | ||||||
| Secretary General’s Department | 33,358 | ||||||||
| Finance Department | 17,681 | ||||||||
| Legal Department | 4,000 | 3,000 | Legal Department | 18,630 | 15,760 | ||||
| Controller of Stores’ Department | 1,000 | Controller of Stores’ Department | 16,680 | ||||||
| Education Department | 250 | Education Department | 12,806 | 8,552 | |||||
| Forestry Department | 15,602 | 14,289 | |||||||
| Agriculture and Lands Department | 1,550 | Agriculture and Lands Department | 4,639 | ||||||
| Game Preservation Department | 1,200 | Game Preservation Department | 1,051 | 840 | |||||
| Prisons Department | 12,568 | ||||||||
| Customs | 12,000 | Customs | 6,237 | ||||||
| Hospitals | 795 | 600 | Hospitals | 13,584 | 10,523 | ||||
| Cattle Plague | 1,670 | 1,622 | |||||||
| Survey Department | 7,909 | 5,045 | |||||||
| Khartoum Town | 8,055 | 6,000 | Khartoum Town | 16,002 | 10,385 | ||||
| General Central Receipts | 8,700 | 9,090 | General Central Expenditure | 38,259 | 29,407 | ||||
| Public Works | 47,314 | 47,245 | |||||||
| Steamers and Boats | 97,031 | 75,554 | Steamers and Boats | 92,975 | 90,864 | ||||
| Posts and Telegraphs | 25,771 | 22,155 | Posts and Telegraphs | 32,260 | 31,508 | ||||
| Railways | 154,171 | 141,237 | Railways | 133,278 | 140,478 | ||||
| 314,323 | 258,636 | 501,786 | 482,953 | ||||||
| 535,883 | 469,122 | 728,889 | 665,185 | ||||||
| Contribution by Egyptian Government | 379,763 | 379,763 | Egyptian War Department for maintenance ofArmy in the Sudan | 186,757 | 183,700 | ||||
| Total | 915,646 | 848,885 | Total | 915,646 | 848,885 | ||||
COMMUNICATIONS.
(See [Chapter X] for details.)
Communication in the Sudan is maintained by:—(I) Railways; (II) River; (III) Roads.
(I) The Railway.—The Sudan Government Railway, a single line completed on the last day of 1899, runs from Halfa, crossing the Nubian desert, to Abu Hamed along the Nile bank to Khartoum North on the right bank of the Blue Nile opposite Khartoum (575 miles).
Another branch, also single, 203 miles, runs from Halfa to Kerma (35 miles north of Dongola) following the Nile. This is to be abandoned after the 31st December, 1904.
A line of railway joining Suakin on the Red Sea to the Nile near the mouth of the Atbara is now under construction; it will be of the greatest benefit to the trade and development of the Sudan. Other railway projects at present under consideration are:—Abu Hamed to Merowe, Thamiam (near Suakin) to Kassala, and Omdurman to El Obeid.
The distance between Halfa and Aswan forms the only break in the railway communication between Khartoum and the Mediterranean Sea; a service of Sudan steamers plies on this reach.