Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-05
PALESTINE BEING SETTLED.

We learn from an article in Tho
Record of Christian at Work OF quite
an extensive activity in Palestine for
the redemption of that country. a
Cairo promoter is asking for oonces-
sion for a railway between Cairo and
Jerusalem. 1t will not be many years
before the night express will be pound
ing up through the land of the PhilIs-
tines and slowing down as 1t enters
the Jerusalem station. The ''Deutsche
Orient, Korrespondenz' reports plans
for bringing water into Jerusalem from
Ain Arrub, and the minister of public
works In Constantinople is at present
considering the offers of various con-
ceSSlonaires. Franchises for electric
street lines in Jerusalem and electric
lighting have also been applied for.
That the Jews are gathering to Pales-
tine Is evident from the fact that a
tract of land has just been purchased
in Jerusalem, for money appropriated
by the Jewish national fund, and shc
intention Is to erect 200 houses there
for jewish residents.
OF great Importance is the move
ment for the planting of trees. In
memory OF Theodore Herzl extensive
plantations of olive trees are being
made. This Herzlwald is ultimately to
consist of 100000 trees; 10000 Of them
have already been subscribed for. These
trees are being planted on the poorer
tracts of Palestinian soil 1t is expect
ed that ultimately the entire 100000 will
net an annual sum to Jewish COLOMBIA
tion of 100000 marks. and the profit Will
so on for generations.
Another movement is equally import
ant. 1t has for object the redemp-
ton of the low country from the raw
ages of the fever, and war upon plant
and animal diseases. In honor OF the
sixty-flfth anniversary of Nordaus
birthday. Micro Biological Institute
Is to be founded In Haifa- Subscrip-
tions to this end are being gathered
all over Europe. The purpose oG the
institution is to introduce into Pales-
tine European methods OF diagnosis
and cure of plant disease and cattle
plagues-such as the rlnderpest, which
has been such hindrance to Pnlestin-
ian agriculture-the fighting of ma
laria by modern methods in order to
make large tracts of land better habit
able, and the defense of the country
against the epidemic diseases which
periodically come into Palestine from
india and from Arabia In pilgrim
caravans.
Dr. Hausmann, member of the CEN
trail committe of the Galician Zionist
organizations Is In receipt of numerous
applications from young men desiring
to engage in agricultural work In Pal
estine. These will probably be sont out
before long. DR.. Hausmann asks that
Jewish landowners take such for somc
time upon their estates as volunteer
apprentice farm hands; this that their
aptitude for farm work be determined,
that they may receive practical in
struction for their future life in Palcs-
tine and the necessary hardening of
physique.
The Palestine Land Development
company has been organized for three
purposes the requirement and parcel
ing out of large tracts of Palestinlan
soil; the establishment OF agricultural
colonies: the agricultural education and
the gradual bringing to a state of in
dependent peasant proprietorshlp of
jewish laborers in Palestine. The
company has begun operations with a
tract of $500 dunam OF land at Kin
nereth. on the sea of Tlberias. and has
already acquired valuable experience
AS in the province OF East Prussia, so
here there will be In each group OF
farms a larger farm reserved, which
Will be continuously cultivated by the
company as q model farm for expert
mont and for the instruction of the
surrounding pea9antry.
Thus II will be seen that the move
ment toward Palestine is well directed.
There Is no fanaticism about It; nor
any haphazard leaps. It IS Demon
stration Of the truth of ancient pre-
dictions concerning the country and the
people, and OF the inspiration of the