Show r of HOW li WM MODERN ENTERPRISE s IS OPENING G UP H I E I I fie c o o h s O OASES AND D THE DESERT B I 1 f pa of tf the it Modern niter t P r I III opening lIP f rn noi ly I pt with wll h i prospecting foi mr ma anal oil all II mill and milli andt I i 1 t in the anal in Th TIlt linn In Is I Ih Iso o h If between bel I l IrI M 1 n rI nf Ra lea i and aid the for Nil 11 H H II ny I 1 II I 11 I her hertI ti b n An All h tt I I i a m capital of or two Ison I and 1 n dolla 1 I la nicest to 10 toI tl I i rii 1 raG aims III Iv tits t ir 11 yan n 11 de dei des I i In 10 the string of oae nM il II l 1 J irh Ih q or nr no so r o weal t l of or theley the theli 11 li ley and y the I dam dami an 0 i rno acres acre puce hw boon been added to toi toti ti II i gnat emt at fer c rp put t In the th k u H as II Fay im All Ail of nr these the U I h called the th b of t tr r them hare bate 1 lu is tg n been bee n conder con dr r i is n It and a n ort ilex and anet about v r a q know i rini DB or of THE THI DL FRT i i in I the Ih pant two 10 or three th year a ar r terest tin hi the up a au ae to the Ids hi hl of or P pt Prospector have tar over r the Ill desert n above Cairo catro n i tills this and the U Red Bed Ne Nen t tl liT i 11 n H s It ore lire of ot s steen i i teen cn f furn n ed to prospect the thew var varis e eos H is The whole oo co oon corI i MI rI n hided among them And Andi r i tbt I government ha has Jion of mines mine to 0 control t This department to Is under th the rr r of nf the lh Interior and ami U It ha hall hai nIH so o 0 that It Iw its soldier can 11 tl tram from place to place and ami amidI idi dI Line LInel of 01 communication k i port ports on the Nile Nae to the thel l t I PI eu i arc u ic being uehl opened up IP In order 1 i able bl labor to be b more mMe 1 nt nl to the Ih manen and to gle Ie the i plea lo better bUr mean menns of nf transport Ort OrtI i i n t I material and oneS foodstuffs which t I At AI i present the th headquarters headquarter of the thet I t t department la ta I at be bet bl blI bet t I t and end Lutor luor l It ha has sup up upi I i nd led material stored there and It Ith ItI Itha ha h s I Iron en n n making akin experiments experiment of n eros crop ivin hur t 1 fo r fI lern desert dewen on motor cars car cari i i ito uto i yd to some of 0 the min minim im InS i nten Jut Just now the chief mines mine miness s R far fal it away from the NUe and U It I In In is ro n r p airy to lo have haie ha quick method of ot i c pohl hi them A number are right on the chows i bore of let the th Red I Sea and they thery ran rin up and down through th the whole of the tb extern deport decort In to the mountain oils Ia region r rt Inns bordering the tile coast t There are arc aI other mining companies operating ing In In the Ih Soudan oudan end and nd some Borne which om f U n on the die very er border of Ah lna I ANCIENT MINKS MINES OPERATED A n of these them mining companies nf RP i ui ur the Ih workings working of the lh an ani i leni The Ther Streeter conce conces KUin for fur Ins nice Ii I looking for emer mer emerald aid ald nt let I U ilia 1110 font ol of Jabel Nu ru near where In re gul gold I mines once ORt were It Its ter terIll Ill t lii Ih lude some ROme of the tb most moat im mi inn a co In Egypt pl with withIn peaks poHl In rang from a mile to a mile mils ua 1 i e h hlf If abo abate iL oe the th level leel of the Med Mcd MI It 11 IM tI I It lieu lie II within SO 50 mIl males of t r iI n and U Is I filled tilled with ancient mork h lop of f old cold IJ copper opper Iron and H nii Id Just Junt west e t of this thi conten conces I 1011 ie n the lh Egypt and Soudan mining r ate ha hwo tour four nur area rEU of nr if yearn juar mile each upon which I j um ii nt gold workings working are shown hewn and j of old mines mine have bave been J found in many of the other allotment It le l 1 well II known that the desert et Nat of f the Nile Nil supplied ae f gold Id Ii imps age AC ate 10 It wim w na for several centuries IA t the Ih California of or the U civilised world w r end enough ough to 10 make the Pbs Phu Phui i nha ol IR ri rh rih K h and ami an l In 10 n enable them to send nd in I h roe i r to the tho th kings of f we torn Asia Ala gnu nr of the Ih letters letter of Pharaoh whit h 1 hv ii ln Ie I n diss OM red i rums oine ne from hi hii his I i rot 11 l 1 i iii nl In Asia Alia and the then Ih they me n nil fill i 1 alth It h for tor gold which t c s c h b by Frank G Corf I Is III IlOk of n nil ne being bet a aa In lilt his a All as dust dual dustA t I A link lick later w pt had to In t ther her empire and hM had bean ban n overrun by byI b bI I I i t he h barbarian barbarians nt or the north the amount i nr r gold 1011 yield J by the tIM Mine Int of 01 th desert t crt wa was still Mill Rot griat Old i tl l ht e a oppressor of the Hew Hebrew sad lAd n i iI I Mg big hi Income trots flOn them and net under andr the I the th venue n r ven of th tIM tic country Ir Is I sold uld to hav been like tn fl per annum a largo large pert part of which I come m from tn m th mine on some of the th tombs tomb Lire I are II pictures picture show how howIn Ing Ina In how gold geld jewelry wi We made mad ore o n 10 years year aA ago irn rid and ne nl of ot the tb of flit that time that he h had hilI eon com commanded mended andl an e cs ort orl which brought K guM gold M Mfr fr from m the mines mine of nt Kench Ken and 1 1 to tills This tune e I is now bring being cx 1 by the Ian Mince J 1 K Kr l r and not nol fur far Ressler on lea a the tho RId Hed see I Is th the fir tm 1 flu Itu Mining en company Any which with n a t ta capital a of Of 1000 I Is II working soma imp ot of tho those old mines It 11 has haa ba erected n I H plant in w of an en ele til goner nr ting sting Un station t air nolI t for Ing Ina rock IOk drills drill rn n a rail n six lx Ix mil mit milling ling connecting the Ute mini min with H lt its t 1 r mill mils on the ih Ib Th ma me shaft la is now ever r WO too fp fr t I den deen 1 a i ithe the Ih output too h I or l tOnO onn I per nr r month In tit the report of if lat last Oi the Ih 1 t Ru tUII sin led that thai more ti U north irth rt of f gold had hoil lx hern mini min minand I Ian and an that wre w ri r undo un lo low win w which Ohl h would ln rp Ih TM ThI mine w II ni Ihk an Ut nn B I f P and an vast Rt tie II if f gold were weft tatter taken out of nt It wh hn i Ithe the th of et the wn ins n on tv tic throne thron At Al thi tl time It ft I Is III said ald 1181 1 that tic II l work Hi mill mi ics with slaves Ia They made thi Ih thin m laboi lahar Away dRy day and night The chit dren were wrE forced to Derry carry the ore err or an and I Ithe the Ih old Id people ground It to powder eXPLOITiNG TH OASES The Ih opening up of Qt the oases of wet West Western ern I Is an agriculture I tiun nit rather her than a miffing one on although exten lve der at of alum alm phosphates and mineral ore irr r aM said to It there t Gold fold which rune run a as high h aa as fl ts per ton ha hll has been found In th the lower lowr beds beda of the phosphate rocks rock but It li is I not nol known kno n whether It to is merely a local I freak mak ot of n atur tur or whether It may ex Ill expand Into riche gold IrOW bearing ore The oases 0 of Egypt He lie JOO miles mile or nr a st west Nt of the Nile In the heart of nf thi th Libyan desert There Then are four great center which have he been known foi tor and of which were we noted not for their fertility when the Hebrews Hebrew were till still at lit work under their Egyptian tian Uan tor These The Tb oases are an al l which lie II lies JIO miles directly lI wi WIt west Bt of n but which I is best bent reached ached from which I is III almost directly lt west of ann annmay an annmay may ma be reached by camels camel In the spate of eight l ht d day va which He II lies between be between h tween Kharca and and end ato aims the tile of or harta which la Ie about shout three tree Ian days Journey from on the te teNile Nile NileTh Th The The corporation corporal i n of western Egypt t proposes to tn build railroads railroad to tn the heat name and aa as a consideration It la is to recile ree e MO acres acre of land and I is to have baw the right for W It years year y to mine the olum lum t ochre s and phosphate phate with which the oases abound A part of It its scheme I to Irrigate the lands lande acquired ReqUired b by y tHe tI concession The Ih company estimates e that It will court cot them m per a rp to do this and that thAI the lands land will fl for 15 per er acre an as soon oun aa as the water can ran be put upon them Much at 01 n the Irrigation will 11 b done by bv art a wen wells II some of nt whim have ha been already sunk and are It pr pro pre flu lr stream The company I composed n mI oil of Englishmen E let 1 I en and J Ilan and anil It II ha iq n It capital r of It haN ha begun building it II Its nil rab wa way n and hi 1 the route from th tic Nile Nil to 10 Kharl with a telephone nent It Its and other roll I p ts t d New Gold Fields N Nr Nar r the Red Sea Ancient Mi Mines Mine Being sing Re R g I Trie Oa Oases M of Libya and How They Will Be e Developed Something About the Which WhicK is Now Reached 1 by Rail Ril I How Egypt Governs Govern til tits the Peninsula aula of Simi Sin Queer Methods Method of I Just J Justice and How The Thi Thieve l ass are Detected Detect Det td cd by Water Fire Pire t rt and Dream am amI I f Itt a Ita fIt f ti f 11 U i F 1 ht 1 1 d t tr trI J JI I X J 1 t I I j jI t I r M I ti J HH r t t 4 0 0 0 0 C q THE BARRAGE AT 1111 l Iid nil UK tI II Ml III Into Mn Jo ili anal anat f for u r the t FUJI HI in I f for ut UM the Nc Mn hi li II frank 1 u u rn u n n ln tock are In is THROUGH LIBYA BT BY RAIL When UI the railroads om RIf completed one will ril be able to go IIO through some me parts part ef of t the tho th Iban desert b train and It I la that n win winter winter in inter ter resorts similar liar to that at al Blikra In the Ih Bahara Kahan will spring up sop in theren th oases 0 I J flat aw saw w the Lib an desert In Tripoli It begins there ther and runs rune eastward to the Nile Nil valley valle Near ilar Egypt It I a monotonous stony to lable Isble from to 1000 foet above abow th the level leeI of the Ih Nile It to is absolute absolutely ly Iy barren and ami I is without doubt one on of nf the bleakest part parts of the th globe 10 a 11 one goes goe westward I ward and near the tho thoU U CH th Ih h land land drops drop The Phe he desert I le cut tut UI up by ravine and chits clIT The Tb oane aH are In a running for tor forral several ral hundred hund d mile mil Irregularly north and south Just Juat west of them the land la I but after about six lit da days camel Journey It ch change inge to toan toan toon an on ocean of ot sand and fl d which extends oh and 01 ob for fur hundred of ot mike ml The e ossa have w sow now over people They The are Mohammedan and Include both Arabs Arab sad and 4 Bodouin They live In village vIII of 01 mud brick hou each h oasis 08 having ha one or more mote moretown towns town In fn there Ih are r four vII lugee In bt I one said and In 14 U I is IA the mot most thickly pupa pup of all soli of 01 th the oases It h has heA oWl over 1 i people and aad It to ls watered by well many of ot which were re bored bred hr the Romans Roman ft All of the these vl hat ha h e m In Kh ama there then are I 4 f on IIO p PI people jile JIler In one and It to M the Ih mat caret of the Ute B vi K t i ihen I hep IB Ie I u I j i i r Hun I he hert ind ud rt III ale 11 n t offs tri i Minx or tin Tito hmo have h i o i I n nut UI Mr ld Id of the th o ones ea ell and an they thiv Ih arc IU said mid t 1 bi be b Inti resting to m n extreme They Th gro fruit and nd date dat tin the latter to Egypt Th The ni new c expects to o 0 ralie raise rice wh tt t n nl led bm Icy tej a as welt well a as cotton i lid n l 1 hemp It ha h already planted h m M date dat palms palm and nd large larR of oranges urn olive old and pi N nu hb TH TN PATCH U M UThe The Th hugest tad mo mot t fi fertile rill if of f all the rh Egyptian oj to is the It ItI Itis IH is I KO no big bl that It to b a irot ro inc Inco It contain contains bout about ir Sr r inure mime end and d ha has haa a i of M 37 It 11 lice Iles II about 70 mite miles II n of Cairo and anH nd th there re to is only a 1 short hot h 1 trip strip of deem between It and Ih tho h NIa M I val va valley ley 1 p It In is t an oval oa mcl l hv ho hoth bythe the th stony no Libyan hills hill told mid by a great 1 can aan which some mE sIy KI wi win I III fleet II built buill by b Joceph Joeph and ami nth othi TV n th that it It wn was a branch of the Nil Nile and ant i nerd pd ed Pd i nl to be widened and anal an The Tb ansi anal which bleh feed feeds It tow ton In l I call called called 11 ed the Bihr R hr which means incurs m n Jos Joseph J Jeph Joseph eph anH It begins A 1 mile mil or ao so north of stout as aa and nil Mows through up upper upper per r watering w the Nil 1111 valley until about hout II 70 mile males ml above er Cairo when It turn turne to the tle left and flows flow through a break In the hill hills Into the th lIm Th The canal la is ITU mile mil long I Ja have seen e n It U where U A t begins begin U A and i t look looks like Ilk Ilka a wide and d deep p river vcr In indent 1111 I times a R great lake fort forted fonn fed ed d a s part of the Pa um It wa sop w tU miles mile nil around amund and In wa was WI DO DOf f tart tt t deep It wo was UMI lie i n reservoir to n th flat IV ih It i v Ith lIh n w wd I J or r In Unit of or Inv Inn In Nil NIb II in I t a n sno 1 J It P II i P N Nt J t 1 lui T 11 1 I I M t I t tn i n n nI nod I il 1 Hi r I s ul I I bl rr n tin the tl BI I That lake li Ito t u now n almost und and lt II its rod N is I covered red M by h mm nt of the thi fa tat as In the Ih world The only putt purl of ofu it u which I remains remain L lq h aln Karun Karlin SR 35 3 mil long and six lx Ix miles tide II which ll It bap n it at t the th edge edg of rf th Ih the n lit the ford font if f tho ho Libyan A great part arl of f the thi l mil land about th tic like lake IM lit desert and lid its bunk bunks are arc entered coMred with reeds reed re and shrubs It Its water I is slightly Uli but bul the th people drink It It I eon con contain on tame tain fish and the ther right rl hl to 10 rth In lit It II let M let Itt out by bv the to i rim on man mall who n the Ih in 10 mn n I h I UK u on the hank banks to pl pi ply thi thIr ir Ired r md led In r return turn h th lb mh itch lh Some of the l heat pt fruits nl 1 mod moat mo beautiful Rower flowers of 1 Egypt t mo Ire fr from an antin tin the lIm A railroad h ht i hei been n built Into It IL which c r iMi th t the main C Ian system m ind 1111 HP lee ran cnn go K front frog tro Calm Cairn to Int UH Its It pital In ft r bars There Ther are ar arl four foul trains train each ay every eny er day da and there i win oon Ider travel from on one place pia o the theether th theother other ether At them are ar branch I railroad which hleb r Wh every put pros of the oMhA and there th I is III a t in f ft fw t w hlo includes Include u a numb r let if f villa 11 TUB THE LAB or Th The to I not often otten by b tourist although It contain 80 some om of the most oat wonderful ruin of ancient Egypt there Then In Is I a pyramid about five fivemile miles mile mil from Hi ill net In which a II mummy of or an si ancient kin king wa wu recently found and titers theft HIV arc a some ome m traces tra left Ifft of the tho labyrinth di dr s by b Hi mho and toil oth othi othe e i va ITS Ir 1 rr Tin TI lab t riot h I is said aid I 11 il hr i i i in a as i t 1 u Ina the thi IhlI j I II It 1 ae v is II tu l on th It hank i Mo f 11 Ii I u e is u i rn i i place pilai 10 IU h b h hll hod il 1000 rooms mom halt half of If which 1 n t hf t end and half hlf Mow below The Thi buildings composing tom lq the Ih o were r int 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