{"book":"adl0957","page":96,"text":"69\n\nnew oil factory will have a capacity of extracting and processing\n30 tons of raw oil and 24 tons of refined oil per day. It is\nestimated that 45,000 tons of raw cotton will yield 4,800 tons of\noil, of which about 3,600 tons will be for food oil. The new soap\nfactory will produce both yellow and fine toilet soap.\n\nCeramics Plant : A ceramic plant was started in 1940. It\nwas enlarged in 1944. It has now four kilns, pebble mills, crush-\ners, mixers, and potter-wheels. It produces, dishes, tiles (wall\nand floor) and plumbing equipment. At present the principal\nwork is in tile production. The quality of the tile is said to be\nthe best in Afghanistan.\n\nClay and talc required for ceramics are obtained from\nIshkamish, south-east of Faizabad, and from an area south of\nKunduz. The Cotton Company has contracted with Japanese\ntechnicians to assist in developing this industry.\n\nThe Textile Industry : The textile factories already in\noperation, and those in process of construction are as follow :\n\nJabolus-Seradj : The factory was constructed during the\nperiod 1934-1938, and contains 18,00 spindles, 80 handlooms\nand 56 power-looms. This plant uses 300,000 bales of cotton per\nyear and has a capacity of 1,000,000 metres from its power-\nlooms, and 350,000 metres of special weave textiles from its hand-\nlooms. All power-looms are used for production of plain white\nmilitary cloth. Power is obtained from the local hydro-electric\nplant, and also from a small diesel engine. There is a serious\nlack of power during the winter months. The plant operates six\ndays a week on two 10½ hour shifts each. It is planned that\nworkers for other textile factories will be trained here.\n\nPuli-Khumri Plant : This factory is 14 years old. It has\n15,000 old spindles, and 15,000 spindles which are four years old","chars":1803,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00096.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/96","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/96","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."}}