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Show Irrigation In Egypt. Cairo, llsypt Ihe council has adopted the prooHlon to Increase the height or the Assouan dam sum-dually sum-dually to ralso th water torcd In that reservoir by nferly twenty feot nlsiee the prwwttH nnxlmum It I calculated cal-culated that Ihl will give itifflrlent new water to Irrigate another million acres of northern Kgypt which It Is estimated would )leld an Increased cotton crop to the value of 1?,o00,UuO to 190,000.000 annually. It la stated that the work will take tlx year to complete and will cost 7 500.000 |