THE NEW EARTH 



Christian era it was in practice in Egypt, 

 primitive, as in large measure it yet remains 

 there to this day, but yet of incalculable value 

 to the regions that border the Nile. Irrigators 

 in America, as a government report sets forth 

 after an exhaustive study of the subject in 

 Egypt, have little to learn from that country. 

 A country still using a crooked stick for a 

 plow will hardly serve as a model. The feasi- 

 bility of irrigation, its possibilities, its rapid 

 and permanent advancement of land values, its 

 influence in providing homes and sustenance 

 for steadily increasing populations, — all this 

 was long ago established on the banks of 

 Father Nile, while the great Assuan dam, far 

 up the Nile, constructed as the result of the 

 investigations of the technical commission 

 appointed in 1894, has shown conclusively the 

 importance of a far wider utilization of the 

 waters of this great African river. The initial 

 cost of this Egyptian dam was about the same 

 as will be the cost of the completed Truckee- 

 Carson unit, while the added increase in the 

 wealth of the people of Egypt will be at least 

 eleven millions of dollars each year. 



When all these dams and canals in all these 



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