EGYPTIAN IRRIGATION.
% "V ■; THE/ESNEH■ BARRAGE-;;;;,:/!:; " ; l ;- k; ' i&i S'-": ; ''/ : vH!/X!:^ ; Cairo',;' 1 February .9.; :■ -;■ The -Khedive; is : to open;'.the; Esneh'. barrage; 'the.-; building-of.;wbich'will save;the! province 1 from:; drought./;-:: :^<^.^.'->;;')Mv (Lord Cromer's .report-for 1905, issued in'l9o6,' stated' that the' province of Kftneh h!ad bene-, fitcd lessthan/the,:others by; irrigation, and: it, had ; been"' decided..to: erect'i a /barrage-■ at Esneh at'an estimated (cost d'f"&!000,000;'- Thecontact,;was letto Messrs;: Aird,;andwork.-.was commenced in December.,-',On jfarciv 21,, 1907, the-; Council/'of.!•. MinistersiVsaiiotidned'.'. another great "development—the-raising'of.th'o''height, of.'theUAssouan f -dam'so'', that'the-water': level; will'.be' 23fti-highpr.. -The' cost' was/estimated at,ja31,600,000, ; inoluding landcomperiiatioD.butwith/a .water.storage;2j:;tiuies greater, ..about 950,000ioros,will.;conierunder;cultiyation,;bring:' trig, about an: estiraated. increase in tho- co tton : crop ;;worthi^.QOO.OQO; to ■ annually. Steps, were to .be-taken!-.ty'.'-Btrengtlwn and pre-: serve,!.tke /Philao'.Tphiplo'. andJ-.otbV- IJubian -antiquities;. The/work: will' occupy .about, six years;!'The-scheme was" dealt, with"; at.-length. ,rh a/report from-.Ldrd'Crouier published;in .April/; li!his£rst report.as sne'eessor'to: Lord Crbmer-V as; British .representative' in,..Eeypt, issued; in :the_ spring of, 1908,/ Sir; BidonfiGorst referred to .the': approaching.completion of-the' EsiieK Barrage..',\Vi'iting.in.March;ho : said that 62 per cent..,of : . the work had been''done, .and: :that -, it was , expected ;• to'; bo. finished • within the:current;financiat'year. ;:'/.;,.';.;':.;■;:
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 429, 11 February 1909, Page 7
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176EGYPTIAN IRRIGATION. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 429, 11 February 1909, Page 7
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