Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1914 — Enormous Irrigation Profits. [ARTICLE]

Enormous Irrigation Profits.

The Assouan dam and other irrigation works in Egypt have cost about 153,000,000; but the increase in value of land in middle and lower Egypt and the Fayoum provinces has been from $955,000,000 to >2,440,000,000. The total rent of this land has risen from $82,000,000 to

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