Egypt's Cotton Crop

Washington, Oct. 6.- Vioe Consul General Washington, writing to the department of state from Cairo on the prospects of the cotton erop of Egypt, says that the preseat season's erop promiêes to surpass all previous years in quantity. to statistics compiled by the flnance department there are under cultivation this year about 1,050.000 acres, as compared with a little under 1,000,000 acres last year. Last year's erop amounted to about 520,000,000 pounds, so that on the basis of área alone a erop of 550,000,000 pounds is probable this year. So far the weather has been favorable and the plants have borne an abundant erop. Tip to the present time there has been no appearance of the worm which caused such alarm last year. Some of the cotton has been picked and shipped to Alexandria, bilt buyers refused to pay the prices asked.