{"book":"adl0973","page":292,"text":"Tanning, was given the sum of twenty\nthousand Afghanis to start a tanning factory\nat Kabul. His Royal Highness Prince\nMohammad Zahir Khan, with a view to help\nand encourage the industry, became a partner\nby lending him another hundred thou-\nsand Afghanis. Spinning and weaving\nmills, paper and sugar factories will shortly\ncommence work in different parts of the\ncountry. About half a dozen water-dams\nare being constructed under the supervision\nof Italian and German Engineers, which, when\ncompleted, would irrigate 95,000 acres of land.\nThe first Afghan Bank, Shirkat-i-Ashami,\nhas been established and steps are being\ntaken for the establishment of an Imperial\nBank with branches in some of the\nimportant trade centres inside and outside\nAfghanistan. مع ملحقات ان\n\nThe Postal system with its adjuncts, the\nTelegraph and the Telephone, is well\norganized and efficiently conducted.\n\nTo facilitate trade, new roads are being\nconstructed and the old ones are thoroughly\nrepaired. In 1928 there were 1,100 miles of\nroad open to traffic, now there are 1,800 miles\n\n221","chars":1065,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00292.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/292","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/292","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0973/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0973_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."}}