The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-01-12

ence would have been more than suf-
ffclent.
NO DANGER TO AMERICAN COTTON

NO DANGER TO AMERICAN COTTON.
Il take much interest in this cues.
tion," wrote Mr.. Cardwell in his re.
port. II desire to see the scholarly
efforts and the persistent researches
OF n OF my countrymen succeed; to
see American mind do good as a coun.
terbalance to harm done by European
armies.
But years have elapsed and the
swamps and sand strewn regions of
the delta remain as they were whom
the Texas man was consul general at
Cairo and Tor ], ZOO years before that,
although the SCORPION infested and
hyena haunted depths of the region
or GehenDa" have been trayersed.
measured and explored by ascore of
experts employed by the Egyptian
government, or representing scientific
societies Of Europe and the United
States.
while the successful carrying OF
the pref ct would obviously have a
wonderfully stimulating iffsct on
cotton growing In Egypt" said Mr..
Whitehouse In discussing this phase
OF the case, THE cotton growers OF
the south need not fear that q single
acre will be added to Egypt's cotton
area through my Efforts for at least
i've years. In 1891 and again In 1894,
1t seemed certain that the work would
oe undertaken at once. In 1893 a
contract was made for q reservoir dam
at the first cataract; and even so we'll
informed a representative Of the
United States as Hon. E O. PenReld,
appointed by President Cleveland,
ventured the prediction that l 600,
600 secs would be added before 1900
with an increase In the agricultural
output Of at least 20 per cent.
TIE DAM NOT A SUCCESS.
'BLtth 9 expectations have proven
TO be baSeleSS. The dam itself Is a
we'll q milo aud q quarter in length
Inc EnRliSh engineers who designed
IL as a private speculation for an E ,R.
llsh company declared that 1t would
offer no obstruction to the high Nile,
but that the flood would pass as freely
through the sluiceways az q river
through the piers Of a bridge. On
August 8, last, when the reservoir
should have been empty, the Nile had
headed up vel 30 feet and was tear.
Ing through l4O passages, about 10
to 90 feet In length, and Z t. 81 In
..idt1, at a rAte OF more than 90 miles
an hour. Deep ~crevices had developed
on the downstream side, and 1t was
necessary to construct buttreSses In
great haste. It will take at least two
years TO complete these and other re.
pairs.
The cotton crop has been increas-
ed by the transfer of sugar cane land
cotton cIltivation," continued Mr..
Whitehouse, but the official reports
that the cops before 1898, when
the contract for the dan was signed,
have actually exceeded those raised
since It's completion. There has bean
' i"uu ouo.AJ - os.. ,nHss; zet w,ei, he
whole scheme was a gigantic S%indle;
that a group OF English spectators,
OF whom Sir Earnest Cassel was the
principal, quietly acquired over | ,OOO,-
600 acres, at prices ranging from the
20 vernment registration fee of ID
cents per acre up to $40 and $40, and
then agreed to build the dam in order
to raise prices and enable them to un.
load the land on the French and &c 70.
lisn public during the four years the
construction work was In progress.
Even Lord Cromer appears to have
become alarmed at the impending
crash. The price Of the lands was
&c 'ced up to nearly $500 an acre, and
when the spectators nave unloaded
the ground could not be remunerative
to the cultiVator at any such prices.
WILL O EFFECT PRICE.
But TO return to the cotton ques-
tion," said Mr.. Whitehouse in conclu
sion, 1.-THE American growers have
nothing to fear. The Egyptian crop
OF this year Is estimated to be no larg.
or than that Of 1897 s or about /, 300.
600 bales"
"a resolution calling on the state de.
partment for all the papers relating
to Mr.. Whitehouse's operations in
Egypt has been introduced by Soma
tor Lodge and adopted, and the data
Is now IN COur9p M Orpparatiop ar tba