{"book":"adl0957","page":268,"text":"controlling the floods and utilising this surplus water, constructed\na massive dam at Kajaki, some fifty miles north of Grishk, on\nthe Helmund River. This new project will irrigate no less than\n3,000,000 acres of waste land and has a capacity of generating\n120,000 KW of electricity. A second Dam was constructed,\nsome 25 miles north of Kandahar, on the Arghandab River.\nBesides storing water for irrigation during summer months this\nDam has also a capacity of generating some 6,500 KW of\nelectricity. These two dams, with the Boghra Canal, which are\nnow nearly complete, will greatly enhance the material pros\nperity of the whole area. The work is carried on by a well\nknown American firm, Morrison-Knudsen by name.\n\nGrishk is now the capital of the new province in the south\nwest of Afghanistan, covering the new irrigation areas served by\nthis irrigation system.\n\n(2) Grishk to Farah (158 miles. Grishk to Dilaram 75 miles,\nDilaram to Farah 83 miles): The road is generally level, lack of\nwater is an unpleasant aspect of this route. En route lies the\nBukwa Plain—a level stretch without trees or growth of any kind\nto break the monotony of the journey. Dilaram (Peace of Mind)\nis a small halting place en route.\n\nFarah, the provincial capital, is 2,460 feet above sea-level,\nand lies 174 miles south of Herat. It is enclosed by a rampart,\ncrowned with towers, and surrounded by a wide, deep ditch.\nThough much in ruins, its strategical importance is in no way\ndiminished, as it commands the Kandahar—Herat route and\nthe northern entrance to Seistan.\n\nThe province of Farah occupies the south-westerly corner\nof Afghanistan, and includes, besides Farah proper, the district","chars":1676,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00268.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/268","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/268","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0957/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0957_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}