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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.
COAL PRODUCTION
Work has continued on mechanisation as well as the study of the extent and quantity of coal at the Karkar and Ishpushta mines.
The following work has been accomplished at the Ishpushta mine:—
(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.
(b) The preparation of future excavation and development plans for coal-faces Nos. 1, 3, 4 and 5.
(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.
(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.
Karkar Mine
(a) Charting of the whole work from
The Kabul Lapidary and Joinery Co. does most of the decorative marble work, such as table tops
the beginning to the end of 1337 on a scale of 1/2,000.
(b) The preparation of future excavation and development plans.
(c) The setting up of metal columns in the transport tunnels and the expansion of the coal face to a length of 900 metres.
(d) The construction of homes for 100 miners.
Over 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.
In 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.
At Herat's Karrukh mine production continued throughout the year for local consumption, which is rather limited.
Coal production figures at Ishpushta for the years 1336 (1957-58) and 1337 (1958-59) were 8,950 and 12,350 tons respectively.
The figures for the same periods for Karkar were 10,699 and 21,396 tons respectively.
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