The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-12-31

HUNTS GREAT FLANTAIloNS
WHICH MAY MAKE Millions
OMDURMAN AND HOW THE
BRITISH ARE IMPROVING TT
A VISIT TO THE HOSPITALS
SOMETHING ABOUT SLAVERY -
THE SUDAN, AND WHAT A POOR
SWISS BOY DID 10 ABOLISH II
Copyright. 1907, By Frank q. Car
KHARTCM.
The British officials here tell me
that the day viii come when the An
gIo-Egvptian Sudan will be supplying
a good share Of the raw material
needed for the cotton mills Of ian
chester. If 50 il VIII be tar IN the
future. The total amount Of cotton
raised is but Z few million poahds'
and the exports Of last year We're ohly
four thousand bales. There Is no
doubt but that the sudan has vast
areas Of good cotton lands, but large
irrigation works Will have 10 be con
Structed before they can be DrOuBhl
into cultivation and Egypt is kicklnS
at every attempt To roD her Oh the wa
ters Of the Nile.
Native cotton Everywhere.
At present cotton is raised in a
small way in every one Of the thirteen
provinces of this country. IT IS grown
to a considerable extent along the
Nile between here and Egypt. In Ber-
Der and DonGoIa, two large provinces
of lower Nubia, the most Of the crop
is used by the local weaveFs, VINO
make it into a rough white cloth
known rs damar. which forms a large
part of the clothing Of the Sudan.
Some is grown along the borders OF
Abvssinia and there was formerly a
cotton factory in one OF the towns of
kasalla. Still further south, in the
Drovince If SEMINAR. there are branches
OF the BLU Nile whose valleys are
famous for cotton. The governor there
had a cotton show last year which at
trarted one hundred exhibitors, and
he has set IN a few small cotton gins
which are now being worked That
rayior has exnorted considerable cot
+a1 ~ Ah,eciria
IL the ped Sea provinces there are
several large plantations. and am
told that a good crop is expected at
rrnbar vrberr cotton growing is an es-
tabIishfd industry.
THO Governor of the White Nile
,rIrioc@6 Eas recently renortcd that he
T. sIcceadinq in raising Egvptjan cot
ron and 1hat TWO acres grown at Du-
on, lact vear TERMED ont from three to
four hale each. with only three artih-
,inl ,rotarinos III strIar tells me
49, .ha ,-aut ,la;, be+v-nan t1e White
end 4bn HIIe TiIe. known as the Gezi-
rat co,,II ba made to produce vast
a,anti+ioe Of cot+oD ANA II is believed
fbot it can he raised in the Bahr ell
CozeI away IN on the edge Of the Con-
~a 90 +are,ad IN +ho Rlue Nile pro
TT:rce tho rotton acreage planted this
vear j. tvice ~ LARGE as it was last,
and in NO white Nile province an
increase of about 1900 acres is re-
n4a1
49, Gotta, ~ Eb,~tup,
rora Al TEbar+I,, +l,ara boc beon :,
co1eido,oh Ia innr aasp in The amount
of rntta'- nla nted ana me Farmers tell
mo +ba+ tho croa raye well Angelo
Ga,tn orn Of +he rirIee+ of the kbar-
tnno m~erchonts WHO has 5000 acres
aTl +ba+ roiead 1oo onp
=, w. 3' ao+ton LIST vaar which he
lbinnad 70 Alevandria for sale IT was
srt there nn@innnd and II hronrht -
aonte . noTn3 ~ ono-baIf cont more
49, an tbo cotton Of the lower Nile val.
-" ~ 20 ata ~ tba+ - bonght
h;s ,anI coz &C. "a nar acre and t6a,
~ har To- 10 hoap afforad 800 -,
acre for 500 acres. but that he would
not take it. Said he:
~ can make s or 9 per cent net OH
Of my land by renting it at $40 pei
acre for a money rent, and if | plan.
it to cotton. several times as mucl
more. / am now using steam pump.
and am inportinr steam nlOws. anC
it may be that | shall some time have
a cotton factory and ginning estab-
lishment right here"
Leigh Hunts Great Plantation.
one of the most daring cotton plant
ing enternrisps TO he found in tn,
whole Nile valley has been started b,
an American. refer TO Mr.. Leigh
Hunt, who, in connection with Mr.
SIOat Fassett and others. made d hi!
fortune III gold mines in Korea. MI
Hunt has a concession of somethin,
like 10000 acres bordering the Nile
just opposite where the river Atbara
or Black Nile, flows into the main
stream. The Atbara brings down al
most all the mud which the Nil
spreads over Egypt, and these land
are so situated that they can be easil
irrigated.
Mr.. Hunt has imported a humble
OF steam pumps. and is gradually nut
ting water on to the land. He ha
built a house there which has eos
something like $4,000. and under
stand that he has spent something Xix
n million dollars i'm the deyplopmen
of his pr0perty
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bjr, +vo o-tIa+s for Ii. a 9I1I
a:+Lor $500 = - 81 -
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