Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-06
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OF praise too high. Their business was
NOT To set on foot new aud perfect
method OF canal irrigation, but TO do the
best theWCOnld In what Col. Scott Mon
Grief describes as ga country whose very
life depended on u fully developed but cX-
tremcly bad SYSTEM" They had 10 intro.
ducc reforms without for day stopping
the existing machinery. When canal
was closed they were compelled 20 have
another canal ready mt once to take It's
place; and in dong this they found them
selves pcrpctually confronted with vari-
Gus private Interests, TO which they
could scarcely help doing some harm.
Vested rights constantly stood In their
way. Accurate statistics did not exist
The system OF forced corvec lnbOr for
doing the necessary earthwork was nov
TO them, and from the beginning they
were only too conscious of its defects
lts Wasteinlness and the hardships which
1t brought In Its train ave have had
full evidence" they say, "thnt with II
milder rule In the land IL IL q system
doomed TO disappear" the only problem
being TO find some efficient substitute for
1t. Again, the STAFF of engineers on the
canals, although they had often cheer
fully and ably answered to the new calls
made upon them, were found TO be dc.
nclent In scientific knowledge and
too often deficient In energy aud, be-
Sides all these drawbacks, Col. scott
Moncried had to contend and the ulrst
kilograms show that he stlll has to con-
tend with that greatest of all difficulties
Ia an ardent rciOrmer, u want OF money.
Costly improvements were ont Of Tie
question, aud what he had to do wns.
with very scnnty means at his dlsuosnl.
70 Introduce ga better system OF water
regulation, sOas 10 increase aud render
secure the area OF irrigation, to improve
the condition OF great tracts of
land, soured and wutcrlOgged, und 10
keep the canals and Nile entertainments In
repair with the lca.t employment of
forced labor" on the other hand, the
fret year Of the new regime was very
favorable one Us regards the state af the
Nile; the river was higher than usunl al
the time Of "low Nlc,n aud lower than
usual during the tlmo OF "hlgh Nile. -
which latter condition, though bad for
the culllyator, was Just what the en-.
ginccr would desire.
The great practical question that had
to br mot was the condition Of the cole.
hrated Barrngc, or majestic weir across
Wv WV ~ WV NIhA vi Nuf DtlINt ABOUT
twelve miles 70 the north Of Caira. The
Barrage was planned by French engineers
under Mehemct All with the triple obioc,
OF making defense for Cairo, Of keeping
the water of the Nile at the Same level IN
oil seasons, and thus simplifying the In.
rigatlon OF The Delta aud OF making
navigation easier during the three months
when the lower Nile II too shallow for
| large vessels, Those who are familiar
with the last atty years OF Egyptian his.
tory viii remember that the construction
Of the Barragc met with great oppo ,ltlpn
from Lord Palmerston, who dlsapproyed
OF Il both In lis engineering aud It's mill.
tary aspects. Certainly up till now Ills
| forecasts have been TO a great extent
! justified, for the work has mpsed into 4
ruinous condition, Il has done very little ID
help irrigation, and II has rather hindcred
than aided the navigation OF the river
There was a serious accident In 1867. two
or three years after the completion of tho
| work, which destroyed all public conf
dencc In H. and az lately as April, lss8
an official report Of the public min
] istry pronounced the barragc yaluelcse