GREAT IRRIGATION SCHEME.
FOR EGYPT.
By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—'Copyright. LONDON, Dec. 1!). Sir W. Wilcocks, the eminent engineer, proposes, at a cost of 2.V millions', to raise the level of the Assouan dam,, and construct a reservoir at Rayan, to supply the remainder of Egypt's needs, adding sixty millions sterling to Egypt’s agricultural wealth by one-half the value of each acre, £3O. By allowing the head waters of the Nile to irrigate a million and a half acres of the Soudan, he estimated that tho cotton supply would be doubled.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1079, 22 December 1903, Page 3
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91GREAT IRRIGATION SCHEME. Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1079, 22 December 1903, Page 3
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