| Show iiHirMitio or mi rr I The most gigantic Irrigation enterprise enter-prise In the world Is t bout to be mi dirtaken In IgJUt The question U I to build I > two dams tor the purpose of storing up the water of the Nile for use during the dry season One will be at Asuouan constructed iipthe granite nefl of the cataracts nt that place > and will le I built entirely ot granite nshlar It will be pierced with openings open-ings sullicicrit to Permit > the gomill2ge ot flip Nile dung Us Hood stage find he sluice Salvo ohichn Ile closed I hn II to I desired to nil the reservoir Every year between April and August the ono tundlow anti there Is I not water enough to Irrigate the crops of sugar cotton nnd rice Hut by using Me umulnllona from the great reservoir Irilgallon and cultivation can go on the your round The dm will bo I 70 feet high GOOD feet long III nnil will store nearly 20Mu000009 cubic meters of water The Asslnt clam I will be a smaller structure Intended for r IsIng the river lpvel during the um MenThe merThe The supposition Is I that this work which Is I to min 14000000 will result In Ihe bringing under cultivation ten thbullln1 lure mile 01 land now valueless besides doubling the value of the land now Cultivated In the Nil valley Anciently Egypt hud flat reservoirs reser-voirs and canals for Irrigation purposes pur-poses and her wealth culture and power were to a large extent due to this fact as with the neglect of the laboriously constructed artificial lakes the country no longer aupjlled with water was speedily changed Into a desert Kgjpt again brought under the benign Influence ot the Nile Is I sure to hale a bright future such are the natural resources ot that wonderful country |
