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'Report on the preliminary survey of the route for the Central Persia Telegraph Line. By W King Wood, Assistant Superintendent, Indo-European Telegraph Department.' [12v] (29/300)
The record is made up of 1 volume (146 folios). It was created in 1899. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Habibabad—
25^ September 1898.
Supplies
Houses
Water
Transport
Labour
Climate
People
Remarks
Mutton, beef, fowls, eggs, fruit, rice, fuel, milk, and
practically anything in abundance. 15,000 sheep.
1,000 cows.
Mostly newly built of sun-dried bricks and all in good
repair. A few are kiln-burnt. Rough wooden doors
and windows, local make.
From a number of Kanats close to village; some sweet,
some brackish ; both kinds plentiful.
200 mules— krans 2 per diem; 300 donkeys—krs \\ per
diem.
500 workmen. Rate about 1} kran per diem.
Good ; resembling Ispahan ; slightly warmer.
Ordinary Persian peasants, mostly agriculturists and
labourers, with a few artisans and shopkeepers. Hospi
tal)! e.
Habibabad is a flourishing townlet, covering an approxi
mate area of 900 by 800 yards. The greater portion of
it seems to have recently been built. The place seems
to have grown up in the past ten years, as it does not
appear on any mao I have seen. It is also famous for
a dye which is sent to Ispahan.
25th September 1898. Koomishah. Height 5,291 feet.
Governor
Population
Crops
Supplies
Water
Houses
Transport
Labour
Climate
People
Remarks
... H. H. Zil-es-Sultan.
... 2 , 000 .
r Some melons, castor, cotton 200 shah mans annually, very
... 5 little wheat, 2,000 shah mans annually, and barley 50
( mans annually. Common provisions imported,
f Milk, eggs, fowls and bread procurable in limited quanti-
••• | ties. 300 sheep, 800 goats and some cows.
... Abundant supply from Kanat; slightly brackish.
( Made of sun-dried bricks. Domed roofs and in fair repair.
| Camping ground outside village very good.
( 40 mules, about 3 krans per diem; 100 donkeys, about
{ 1\ krans per diem.
... About 60 at \\ krans daily.
6 a.m., 57°; 6 p. m., 87°. Good ; similar to Ispahan.
^Ordinary Persian peasants. Very ignorant, very grasping
*•' t and greedy, and given to pilfering.
Koomishah is a small village about 200 by 170 yards.
The Katkhodah (headman) is Haji Ali Hossein.
2§th September 1898. Khasehtabash. Height 6,368 feet.
Governor
Population
Crops
Supplies
H. H. Zibes-Sultan.
8 people (2 families).
About 20 yards by 6 yards. Wheat or barley at option of
above 2 families.
Eggs and milk only, but supplies are procurable from
Bagherabad, 2 miles off.
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Publication statement: Karachi: Government of India Telegraph Department, 1899.
The report describes the 'Branch Section' (Ispahan to Ardistan), followed by the five 'Sections', and 'Unsuitable Routes', of the Central Persia Telegraph Line. For each section the report provides a description of the track, a gazetteer, details of sites selected for telegraph offices, and a general summary.
The Report includes the following appendices:
- (a) Table of distances.
- (b) Table of Freights from Coast to Interior.
- (c) Chemical Analyser's report on sample water.
- (d) Statement showing cost of journey.
- (e) Statement showing disposal of presents.
- (f) Glossary, Persian and Baloch words.
The report includes a map at folio 5, 'Skeleton of Curzon's map of PERSIA showing Routes Examined for the Central Persia Telegraph Line'; plus a 'Sectional Plan of the Route from Ardistan to Pahra, giving Altitude of Places', at folio 21.
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- 1 volume (146 folios)
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A contents page can be found at folio 4.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 148; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence (v, 274pp, including map and sectional plan).
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