Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1916 — Irrigation In Egypt. [ARTICLE]

Irrigation In Egypt.

The Egyptian ministry of public works, which has been experimenting' In cotton raising during the past ten years in the Gezia region in the' Sudan, has issued an optimistic report to the effect that It will be possible to do better than double the yield of cotton in the Nile Delta by means of a system of dams for Irrigation in connection with the White Nile and the Blue Nile. Vast quantities of water have been stored already, and during the past 30 years nearly a million acres of entirely new land have been added to the taxable soil of the country. It is estimated that In this newly explored region about 2,500,000 acres of land could be mhde capable of growing cotton. This, as a matter of fact, would give more land than is now planted with cotton in Egypt. Irrigation works are now being constructed, and a plot of 150,000 acres is being treated.