MESOPOTAMIA.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 635, 12 October 1909, Page 5

MESOPOTAMIA.

-y<:: '■■.'-x: r "^~- -*7~ ~ .'■'. ■ ■■■'■; ■■', GREAT IRRIGATION UNDERTAKING. : . (By -Teiegraph-Prtas. 'Assoclatlon-Oopyright.) . ■-, : .-. j"> r (Reo,-Ootobeif\ri, 9.40 pm.) . '~ • ■■"■'■:;■■■■■■■ ■'''•Corisjatitlnpple, October 11. Sir Wm. Willcqcks.'the Indian and.Egyptbn irrigation, .export," and designer, of the Assuan dam", 'a at Constantinoplo submitting.ithe re. suits of his survey of-the proposed irrigation Works in:' Mesopotamia,' designed to re-create-this ancioat granary.'..' : ,•; ■ , The Yoiing: Turk officials realise the iniport-. ance of the sohemey and have resolved to fur-' ther it. 7 .;;,■- ;;v -?.•//;■' :;A , ■.:■ ■ v>' 'TO RE-CREATE CHALDEA. ;V ': It was ißtftted'-laat.ycaf that. Sir William Willcocks. had'be«h .cngagEfd by the Turkish Government.to v 'slirjefvisa the contemplated.irrigation and canalisation works in. Mesopotamia and olse'tfhero; '. : V:. y>:; .-.: Sir William, in -11105, surveyed the country, and il'pon, his return .'to Bombay'gave enthusi-. ftstlo of/this ancient granary. ■ His -new' appbintnicnt ■ will enable him' "to devotejhiMself to the attainment, of tile dream ; of ;his,life," says-tho ."Timee • ol India"—"tho., ,pt'.Xhal(lea."-.,..'.; f • ~ ;"Thn : mflgnitude,,6'f ;the /( f 6C,heme...;may;. be judged' from.the fact!: that .rrough-'eetimates placo thft! e,.^r4j, I ,ft^j6f«lyn,j3,ooo fIQO .acres, the ;espoiidi.ture •at~kC2liOl)o,oo().etcriing, arid the'.c'apital',value:of tho'land,, when irrl'gatod, at .£00,000,000. V ■ .■■>■.,; i,,r; :' x,; ,'. ; ..'"Nothing is heeded but money, brains, and 'labour .tp'.'makcij'tho rTfgrb-EupTirates .'valley , just i .ivayihg..'.wheatneld as tho,.Cherun' and , Theluin ■ Canaf i colonies'. ■ The desert will blossom like α-garden;'<'now:.cities, will.rise' on tho ruins,of the" mightjr memories of the,As'Syrian and Sas,sanian kings.- " '■'~;'' :,..! ! ."Basra will: bpcome. another, Hamburg ! or Antworp, 'aniljnilia will find .in 'the TigroEuphfate3 Valley ..a' : ,fielili for colonisation ;and itrado rich, beyond tho dreams'bt avarice." .'■