Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-03

.,, nv the National Geographic So.
nPnm1 sIsty. Washington, ID. CO
n N suggestion, pleasing to the
-ms no doubt, that Great Brit
hmdOn the Sudan as she had
No claims to Egypt, has brought
he British statement that she
alchea mtInue to consider the Sudan
p Esol d her important African protec-
medi.lG
IN Sudan has for long time been
M upon by the outside world as
medl. nj Of appendage Of Egypt. Such
I, a.. ~ gtons have had to be somewhat
1Ded since the British apron
years. we're cut from the old land of
rit and hHOhS and the Sudan has stood
meu- 10 a greater extent on it's own
49,. visibility This in q thinly peO-
land Of amazing distances. You
st thiap south from the Egyptian from
to d.. dix hundred miles by rail before
ior ret to Khartum From there
s s you can go another thousand
sm a hatbottomed, paddle-wheel
steamer before you reach the
~. !. BEN boundary Of the Sudan,
eov Is almost on the edge Of the
I'M lakes and a third Of the way
tha Ne Cape Of Good Hope.
nshops tsS you refresh your memory by
,ted Il ai at map of Africa you are
govern to overlook the fact that the
agaIns AhaS seacoost South Of Egypt
1S across eastward TO the Red
he ses md extends along that body of
the s for some 400 miles. Britain is
lshabA D means dependent on Egypt to
owneaa door to this huge African
frounqa Two ports have been devel-
Ion the Red sea, Port Sudan and
1l and both are connected by
xon' t1 railway facilities with hun
Soaaof miles Of the rich Nile valley
hen a'ing Kharum.
cleH " White Nile splits the Sudan for
wniH 2WO miles from south to north
ragrs S&ylgable the year round above
i've tHmm.
sems9 ~ Blue Nile runs down from the
AaIan hills and joins the main
~ khartum forming an apex
NE Gezireh Or island" This
Dat Island Is Tie granary of the
~ IN the northern part of this
a that the new irrigation prof.
N being undertaken. Engineers
aug is the cheapest thing in the
-sc ~ Water is abundant, but labor
ll0 Supplies Egypt With Food.
%N depends mainly on the Sudan
AZ !, s1eat supply and thousands of
|feI Y " land have been Nput under
ElIe irrigation to provide d bod crops
IVY whose people, as one inves-
Slu' cannot subsist "a bank
sand cotton
fnEY n W. Vnce so common along tie
vs. u, \ 'Ue' has been largely pr6~ down,
NJ \, : y perhaps, In the remoter re-
sAs,n tAe country is almost treeleSs.
ass n ' y, north Of Khartum: the few
hrr \, %una are mostly snecies of
Irs 'avwn locally as the sanr.
wi VI hhartum, to abour 10 de-
sos.. '.n narrow belts of stunt trees
sy.,, 'V'S OF acacia) line the banks
sn', S This sunt-wood is priced
eh nyl,g for aiming purposes,
r.. uucn used Il fuel.
h. q south, Or the White Nile
Nsh, nv ~ Is n're rain, forest
mnr ,aCl ease Snt over in the Blue
d %ui the gial 6aobabs (Adan-
lsse.s,' ''a) and the Sudan ebony
!. va va melanoxylon) are found,
sls, , VI course, saves this re-
Ia H,. from becoming an empty
bis historic ~ and Important as this
ats5 " !. sources were for centuries
n s5ra ~ mystery, Early geogra-
~. r,'nced various odd theories
Nd \. .ne Nile and the Gauges
s,5 ~ IT. frozen mountains of north
n + go, other imaginative folk de,
lo5S' ''e rom the Mountains of
I ! ,o course through the Sudan the
Sbst !. oy The Bahr-el-Ghazal,
na p rae Blue Nile and the At
'AF'elGhazal flows out of