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Show NILE ENGINEER TO BE PEER. Sir John Aird, Who Built Assouan Dam, Complimented by King. King Edward has publicly compll-iinented compll-iinented Sir John Aird, the head of the great engineering firm which has completed com-pleted the dam on the Nile at Assouan, and it is understood that he may be raised to the peerage in the next list ,'of birthday honors. It is regarded as largely due to Sir John's unflagging industry in-dustry that the immense works have .been completed. . It is estimated that the value of this improvement to Egypt in the way of increased area of cultivation, of checking check-ing of floods and of providing water in the event of a low Nile will be not .less than $5,000,000 a year. By ;means of this dam and the corresponding correspond-ing works at Assiout nearly all the land of Egypt which it Is possible to cultivate will be Irrigated, the belt of Irrigation only ending abruptly where the sand of the desert has not been iHlll'HIII Wl Will l III i h r jy..uwiMM i U f y v k11 ml I Si? JOHN AIRD, MP . - fertilized by the alluvial deposits of the great and most famous of saci'ent rivers. , - |