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Evening Star, Issue 12870, 20 July 1906, Page 2

What British rule has done for Egypt is thus testified to by one- of the U.S. Consuls in his report to the authorities at Washington- " Egypt is now in a state of extraordinary prosperity:. The. enormous appreciation in the value of urban and agricultural land, which has .in some cases more than doubled rents in the last three years, and has made It possible to sell areas in many parts of the Delta at the amazing price of 800dol per acre, has increased the cost of the necessaries of life throughout Egypt, and consequently of labor, even in the most unskilled trades, such as the workmen employed by the irrigation authorities for the construction of earthworks and the digging of canals. The retail price - of certain pnmm/vlitinc knim _:_i. doubled in the last five years. This is especially true of flour, beans, lentils, imHU>n» beef,, ponitrx. and cans.".