Show 1IJNJt O TIn NILM Considerable Interest fins bn shown lately In the doings of Great BrItAin In Egypt more particularly In regard to the utilizing of tho vemrabli river Nile for agricultural and other purposes pur-poses Irof Forbes ling recently comiil ted his surveys of the cataracts for the purpose of ascertaining whether they tan be used for driving power for the benefit of the Hgjptlana Ot the labors of the professor the London Stand rd says Prut Torbcs made 11 survey of the Nile from Asi ouan the alto of the first cataract to a point not Car from Abu Ilamed nt hlcli the fourth coIn rllctlo situated Tile country between the fifth cataract which occur 1e ween Abu lIamd and Berber and the sixth and last ot the famous cataracts was left alone for the ent nt nil even I d though It Is I hell leved that scientific Irrigation wquld make II some of the rlcht country In the world being formed ut ulcnt Nile mad The river between the third and fourth cataracts wn8 merly fee ersrd or roughly ueed rho real II ly erlou and IF Otwitt I I Invostlga tlon were inade tit the first second and third cataret The ouoUon which had got I to be nettled Was whether It would be possible to Ule the force ot the waterfall at those three points for driving power Fire I from a 1lrtule ot this famous river from halt a mile to a mile Wide flowing through n country mostly mountainous mterile and sandy on both banks beyond the narrow strip of a fw hundred yatilsOn either bank which Is I cultivated It was thou ht 80 w e understand that while thy were about to construct tho reerolr for supplying the cultivators with n constant supply ot writer for their cropnllr cotton rice corn and RO nIt might not be unwise at the same time to Pro If some cheaper man ot pumping could not bu devised than by tpm Power So It the scherne to t adopted the waterfall will gnerato the electrIcity which will lie Produced In the usual wny and supplied to pumlnll engines factories work of any ort which require 1 owor CVen the railway nglnealo In the uual way The beginning mean heavy masonry work solid foundations tun no shafts on the edge ot the cataract which Is thu Id Into turhlnc or atcr wheels which generate the electrlcltynnd there You have the whole procem In nil Its simplicity Surli works will bo costly It In I needless to nay It Is I the financial Aspect which Is I ulwn > the most difficult Given that all existing mn of getting get-ting power are hideously efmir ns they tire whether by fuel or native labor ran w < harnens the cataracts nt such Post As will render It commercially beneficial That Is I the lroMem 11 remains to be seen hlhr It Is I ea M of solution One of Prof Yorbes duties we belle was to discover the wants of the cultivator And Already he has tabulated eighteen distinct In I dutrle which would be largely and Immediately bencfltted by harnessing tile Nil i |