Show t GIVING NEW LIFE TO EGYPT nile danni have restored prosperity to once great country of the Phara ohe damming the nile Is a fulfilling rhe seeh dam recently opened has been built for the purpose of the flood water and providing perennial irrigation to a tract of land containing acres in which at u only one crop of cereals can be grown when irrigated the land will be capable of growing a second or summer and more crop ot sugar or cotton I 1 he mie is one ct the largest rivers in the world more than miles form mouth to source ow ing to the fact that it has no tribu tat les for the last 1500 miles of its course and he great amount of evaporation under the tropical heat of he sun it presents the peculiar that the quantity of water flowing i down the river decreases as the lower length of its course la reached in floods it carries in suspension soil derived principally from the vol canic plateau in abyssinia and the swamp regions of the white Is lie the quantity of material thus trans ported from the middle of africa and abyssinia has been estimated at 62 tons a year raising the level of the cultivated land in egypt at the rate of inches in a century and to a depth which in some places extends to 30 feet the nile being fed from lands hav ing wet and dry seasons tt has a regu lar rise and fall the water through egypt being at its lowest in june and reaching its maximum in october the reading of the at blodah id watched with the greatest interest as the prosperity of the country depends on the height of the flood water the discharge of the flood water Is greater than needed at high floods and deficient in low floods and in summer EO a system of dams at different parts of the river has been carried out tor stor lug and regulating the supply these dame are leading factors in the evolution of egypt since it has come under british control and on them the agriculture of egypt largely depends for its existence the principal crops grown along the nile are wheat sugar cotton rice maize and other smaller vegetation where the supply of water Is sufficient two crops of cotton can be obtained in one year the cultivation 0 cotton Is rapidly extending the value of this crop alone being nearly as great as the whole revenue ot the country bess than thirty years ago egypt was on the verge of financial ruin now the peasants are prosperous and contented the revenue shows a surplus and the yield of the crops has increased enormously |