Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-09-24

~ AGAIIG.--Conc with me this
bright Sunday morning for ,
look at the old land Of Goshen
where the lsiucttes settled whcr
they first came into Egypt ! am
writing this In tAo center Of II not far
from the road down which Joseph was
carried by the caravan OF lshmaelitss.
ar Bodouns, who had bought him Of
MS brothers aud were on their way
70 sell him 10 potphur II WAS over
mat same road that tho ~ sons of
Jacob, Benjamin having been loft at
s cam down here 10 get corn.
and II must have been about here that
they had their dealings with Joseph.
VINO was then the chief officer OF
Pharaoh aud the premier a. IL were.
81 his administration You AN know
ne came into Ecypt and grew 60 Dc the
greatest man of the country tie was
so influential that Dec was nblc 60 give
Goshen 10 jacob and ui- family. and
II was at his advice that thoy am nov
81 here ana settled That vas tho
beginning ~ the lsrFoiitcg in Egvpt.
and they remained here iu Goshen Tor
generations before they were finally
enslaved and forced 10 make bricks
by the Piaraohs.
THE LAND or GOSHEN.
The land of Goshen rs today ono ~
tho finest parts Of tCC NNc srNor /
came here from cairo and M. Whui.
way Was through rich crops of cotton.
sugar cane au1 clover. There was
green 70 be setn everywhere. and /
could ride from here 20 miles NOR, 10
the eastward before reaching tho
desert. The railroad from cairo tn tho
Suez canal goes directly through
fHU lr..a sail H
and thcn branc'es off north ana south,
running along the line OF the canal 10
Suez on the Rcd sea. and to Port said
on the Mediterranean. The nrst Soc
tlon Is over the road which led FROM
Arabia 20 Memphis and Heuopolis.
which citlos have since been replaced
by Cairo, the capital and metropolis
or Egypt. This town Of Hag12ig, where
am stopping. II ono nf the chief cities
In the delta. II is On the fresh water
canal and on big irrigation canal
which leads a. tho Nile. II is famous
as a cotton port ana today camels are
coming into the town with bales on
their backs. and long trainloads are
starting out for Alexandra and Port
Said from whence the cotton will be
shipped Of to Europe
This cotton Is feature ~ the land
scape which wd.s absent In the DAYS OF
the Pharaohs. when Joseph came down
into Egypt the only cloth that the
people had was made OF FAX and wool.
The cotton plant was not known TO ex-
list and II was as late as the middle
ages, when the people gave credit 10
q story that cotton Of India came from
a sheep which grew on the end OF
a bush. and which now and then bent
down To eat the grass witch grew all |
around That cotton plant was sup |
posed TO thrive in Hinduism. and IL I
not until centuries later that the |
real cotton seeds were planted In |
Egypt. Today Goshen rs covered with |
cotton There are many plantations |
near Zagazig. and I have seen thou |
sands Of acres Of this crop throughout I
different parts Of the Egyptian delta. |
II Is the chief money crop Of the coun- I
try. and 1t Will hrlng Ia upward of one !
hundred million dollars this year.
A GREAT STOCK COUNTRY.
This land of Goshen is fine stock |
country. Camels. huffaloes and dom
KEYS are staked out In the fields. and
hocks OF sheep and goats feed there.
watched by shepherds There are. |
lso droves of camels grazing or lying