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Show MINERAL TREASURES. -tSWBWMfar Wealth Rneenlly niHanna la - Anelent Palestine. Consular Agent llarrli at Elben-stock Elben-stock recently made a report to the stale department In regard to ths mineral treasures of Palestine, based on a communication from a German mining engineer In Palestine. "Valuable "Valu-able mineral treasures," says the report, re-port, "have recently been discovered In Palestine, so It la safe to say that Iho Industrial awakening of the Holy Ijnd Ii no longer a dream. It Is trui that the greater part of the once flour-tailing flour-tailing country la a barren deiert. Thi Unci of communication are miserable, miser-able, and trnfllo la unasfe. aslds from the ono railroad from Ynfa to Jerusalem. Jerusa-lem. Tho newly discovered mineral deposits He on both sides of ths Jordan Jor-dan and ths Dead Sea. The salt deposit! depos-it! of the Dead Boa could be doveloppd Into an Industry, Tbe wstera hold rlilnrniagnealum, brommagneslum and rallaalt. Aside from this there sre the bltumlnnu! chalk springs of Nebl Muia, wbleh contain from 10 to 0 per cent asphalt. Tbe moat Important ol ill tho depuelti Is phosphate. Ai II well known, natural calkphoiphate, phoaphorlte and eoprollte are nerea-sary nerea-sary for the production of luperphoi. prestos, Thli latter composition and sulphur form the moat Important In-greillonts In-greillonts In the preparation of artificial arti-ficial manure. At present the phosphate phos-phate mines of Florida almost supply the world'! demand. "Ths Immense flelda of phosphate to the east and west of tho Jordon need only bettor means of trnfnc and communication com-munication In order to Insure thell development. This, It would seem, 11 not far distant, aa the Turkish govern-ment govern-ment Is planning a continuation ol tho Vafa-Jeruaalem railroad, and steamboat! are already plying tai Dead Sea." |