NEW NILE DAM
■^ TO IRRIGATE SOUDAN
COWDKAY'S SECUBE CONTRACT.
(DNITSD PBESB ASSOCIATION.—OOPTKIOHT.)
(AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
(Received 25th September, 9 a.m.)
LONDON, 23rd September. Lord Oowdray's firm has secured a contract from the Soudan Government to build a dam two miles across the Blue Nile and to construct sixty-five miles of canals, irrigating 4,000,000 acres. The price is £4,000,000. [The dam will accomplish a longstanding project to irrigate a large area of fertile land between the Blue Nile, the White Nile, and the Atbara in the region of Khartoum. The purpose will be cotton-growing on a vast scale.]
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 74, 25 September 1922, Page 6
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99NEW NILE DAM Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 74, 25 September 1922, Page 6
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