Anglo-Egyptian MANUFACTURES ; POWER ] 137 When some of the enormous potential energy con stantly running to waste over the cataracts and falls of the Nile andits tributaries is used for the production of electricpower , it isto be hoped that the manufacture of agricultural fertilizers will become an extensive industry in the Sudan . The matter is now under the consideration of both the Egyptian and the Sudan Governments .

It is probable that in the near future extensive com mercial activities may begin in the sudd region, when difficulties of transport have been overcome. The stems of the papyrus have been reported to be suitable for paper-making, and the peat-like sudd itself may also prove to be of considerable commercial value, probably chiefly as fuel . In April 1912 a concession for the exclusive manufacture of fuel (suddite) from sudd , within a specified area , was granted to a com pany, which built a factory on LakeNo, and imported machinery formakingbriquettes ofsudd and coal dust . The company, however, which included in its schemes the formation of a subsidiary company for the manu facture of paper or the export of pulp, was ultimately liquidated . The original experiments which led to the enterprise seem to have been made by two Germans.

(6) POWER With the exception of the townlighting ofKhartum , Omdurman , and Port Sudan, and the electric installa tions of the Railway and Steamers Department at Khartum North - all carried out under Government supervision — there are no electric industries or power works in the Sudan . Few other countries possess greater potential water-power resources, such as, for example , the five cataracts between Khartum and Halfa; the falls and rapids at many spots on the rivers flowing from the Abyssinian highlands; the falls and rapids at several places in Bahr el-Ghazal, notably on the Sueh and Wau rivers ; and the Fola and Bedden rapids of the Upper Nile between Nimule and Rejaf .