{"book":"adl0981","page":65,"text":"Various buildings have also been erected at Mazar-i-Sharif and at Sari Pul for residences, headquarters, workshops, laboratories and garages for the rather long job of searching for, and probably discovering, oil in the north.\nCOAL PRODUCTION\nWork has continued on mechanisation as well as the study of the extent and quantity of coal at the Karkar and Ishpushta mines.\nThe following work has been accomplished at the Ishpushta mine:—\n(a) The charting of all underground works from the very beginning to the end of 1337 on the 1/2,000 and 1/1,000 scales.\n(b) The preparation of future excavation and development plans for coal-faces Nos. 1, 3, 4 and 5.\n(c) The completion of the tunnel to coal face No. 3 to a length of 250 metres and setting up a proper haulage way and electric fans in it.\n(d) The setting up of a haulage way and metal rails for the transport of coal from the coal face No. 4 halfway to coal face No. 5 to a length of 700 metres.\nKarkar Mine\n(a) Charting of the whole work from\nThe Kabul Lapidary and Joinery Co. does most of the decorative marble work, such as table tops\n\nthe beginning to the end of 1337 on a scale of 1/2,000.\n(b) The preparation of future excavation and development plans.\n(c) The setting up of metal columns in the transport tunnels and the expansion of the coal face to a length of 900 metres.\n(d) The construction of homes for 100 miners.\nOver and above the work carried out at the mines, at the headquarters of the Coal Union at Puli-Khumri a workshop has been set up; 17 buildings have been constructed for officials and 12 houses for the miners with families. Work has also been completed on an electric generator, using coal as fuel, with a capacity of 250 kW., and on several garages. A forestry programme, designed to produce the necessary timber for the mines, is going ahead as scheduled. 25 acres of land at the Union's estate have already been planted with new trees. A further 94 acres have been planted with trees in a proposed 250-acre plantation site at Eshkamesh.\nIn order to shorten the distance between the Soof valley mines and the places of consumption in Kabul and elsewhere, a new 112 km. long road has been built between these mines and Simingan.\nAt Herat's Karrukh mine production continued throughout the year for local consumption, which is rather limited.\nCoal production figures at Ishpushta for the years 1336 (1957-58) and 1337 (1958-59) were 8,950 and 12,350 tons respectively.\nThe figures for the same periods for Karkar were 10,699 and 21,396 tons respectively.\n62","chars":2539,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0981/00065.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":109,"title":"Afghan progress in the third year of the plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0981/65","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0981/canvas/65","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0981/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0981_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."}}