Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1911 — Kills Canal Project. [ARTICLE]

Kills Canal Project.

The ameer of Afghanistan has been forced, apparently, to give up an ambitious canal project which he had In uind for the irrigation of the Jelalabad district. It was to be made by local labor, says the Pioneer, and, as the Afghans are experts in earthwork, the project, it was thought, would be easily completed. Irrigation by underground channels la mostly In vogue in the plains of eastern Afghanistan, so that a surface canal would be somewhat of a novelty. The headworks were badly damaged some time ago by lieavy floods which came down the river, and the repairs seem to have been more than they could manage.