 This caused some interest by archeologists, who closed a deal with the Italian managers of the company that sold the compost, by which the team of the archeologists had to dig-out a sufficient amount of compost to keep the company and their rail vehicles busy, while they were searching for the papyri from 1928 to 1935.The majority of the shares in the Fayoum company (80%) was transferred in 1906 to the "Anglo-Belgian Company of Egypt", which had been organized in the same year in London for this purpose.It also owned some properties in the centre of Cairo, for instance the garden of the Ghezireh Palace Hotel and the ground of the French Institute.