'Seistan. Irrigation report of the Perso-Afghan Arbitration Commission, 1902-1905. Volume I. Report and appendices. Simla: Government of India Foreign Department, 1906' [85v] (175/500)
The record is made up of 1 volume (246 folios). It was created in 1906. 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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[Chap, XL
, . i • tn w hich the sun would shine, preferably through
copied and a room provided into whicn
alass so as to have a warm and cheerful room
£> ias ’ , • J ui cn strong and keen good doors and
In a country where the win o ar( f a ne cessity. The bank were
The need of good doors and windows. fortunate to have theirs made of teak by
^ or ThP final fitting of the parts of the doors together
Messrs. Cosser &Co. T wo0 d has had time to dry and shrink, as
should be done in Seistan should be thick to prevent
the air is drier than it is in ^ b t re ady*made teak doors and windows
warping. Doubtless ^f or most houses they are on the whole
can now be bought so cheap mat
the more economical. , . , . ,
. , , ; f l roofs are built, the extra cost of doors
If sundried brick houses w ^ windows should be recovered on the
Probable project cost of buildings. cheapness of the structure j so that
‘-p's P *s,f
do on canals in the *] • na ] s . eve n as the houses built on the older
able as the rest-houses now badt on cana^ev ^ is miti d by tk
ZtJTs therefore not so trying as that of |the Punjab ; moreover, there are no
rains, just one long spell of sunshine and wind.
There is no difficulty in bringing large quantities of material out along the
1 here is no urn y s route at a p se asons of the year;
Carriage of material. more especially now that the rail-head is
at Nushki; the rate from NuMi to ^ diffemncetS
from about ten
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
to four
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
a maund. A very great amerence mainly
dTto the fact that caravans have not now to travel over the difficult piece of
roatHrom Quetta to Nushki. If large works were started in Seistan, the more
direc routes from the Chaghai hills to Khwaja Al. and from K.rtaka to
Bandard-Kamal Khan should be rendered feasible by improving the water,
supply on them ; so that the cost of carriage might be still further reduced, both
by Shortening the distance, and by making the route more popular; if the camels
need not entfr Seistan at all, they would avoid the deadly camel sickness.
It must be recollected, if canal works are started in Seistan, many other
works will be started, and the demand for carriage will be enormous so
that every effort must be made to improve and popularise the route with the
carriers, so as to bring in competition to keep down the rates.
For carriage inside Seistan, there are a large number of donkeys and pack
bullocks. There are no carts in Seistan, but the Persian Telegraph Department
brought some wagons drawn by horses from Tehran to^ Nasratabad Ispi, whe
they erected the line from Kirman to Robat. The Russians also brought some
to Seistan with merchandise and got them across the Naizar on tutin, 1 P 61 ' 6761
Camel carts, such as are used along the Grand Trunk Road ne^r Delhi, cou
travel along the trade route to Seistan without difficulty. The roads
Nushki to Seistan is quite good for cart traffic. In Seistan the roads would
doubtless cut up and become very sandy under such traffic; but if watere
would remain hard.
Water* carriage could be developed, as the channels below the head-
works which would be somewhere between
* See also page 8 of Chapter I of this Report ™ ^ I Kamil Khan,
and chapter xl vin of the" Revenue Report and Chahar Burjak and Bandar-i-IXamu t
Notes.” are ver y suitable for the cargo boats used
on Indian rivers. The boatmen class would gladly go to Seistan, as there are
large numbers of them on all the Punjab rivers who are anxious for employmen ,
they are quite ready to follow anyone whom they know.
In all estimates for carriage it will be better to use the rate of 4 P ie s ^
_ . , , , maund a mile, because the demand 0
Estimated rate for carnage. ^ ^ carria g e when Se is,An is exploited Will «
very great, and unless the railway is built rates for carriage will be exceeding y
rllflnmit mntrnl
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The first volume of reports produced by the Irrigation Officer of the Perso-Afghan Boundary Commission, Seistan [Sīstān], and submitted to the Government of India, Foreign Department.
Contents:
- 'Chapter I. The catchment area of the Seistan Lake. The trough of the Helmand River below Kala-i-Bist.'
- 'Chapter II. The delta of the Helmand River.'
- 'Chapter III. The inundated area.'
- 'Chapter IV. Canals, ancient and modern.'
- 'Chapter V. Rainfall in the Helmand basin.'
- 'Chapter VI. Note on the evaporation from the surface of water in Seistan.'
- 'Chapter VII. Lines of levels, maps, surveys, etc.'
- 'Chapter VIII. Discharge observations.'
- 'Chapter IX. The silt carried in the water of the Helmand River.'
- 'Chapter X. The volume available for the irrigation of the delta: the duty: the culturable area that could be brought under command.'
- 'Chapter XI. Probable rates of work if canals are made.'
- 'Chapter XII. Irrigation works suitable to the circumstances of the people.'
- 'Chapter XIII. Works required to gain complete control of the river for the irrigation of the delta.'
- 'Chapter XIV. Probable cost of, and income, and percentage of profit from the irrigation works.'
- 'Chapter XV. Drainage scheme for the inundated area.'
- 'Chapter XVI. Schemes for utilising some large depressions either as escape, or impounding reservoirs.'
- 'Chapter XVII. Impounding reservoirs in the trough of the Helmand: control of the floods by works in the catchment area.'
Appendices:
- 'Appendix 1. The Hazarajat and the country drained by the Farah Rud and Harud Rud.'
- 'Appendix 2. The trough of the Helmand River below Kala-i-Bist.'
- 'Appendix 3. Detailed measurements of depths of water evaporated in Seistan.'
- 'Appendix 4. Extracts from "The Irrigation of Mesopotamia" by Sir William Willcocks, KCMG.'
- 'Appendix 5. Comparison of rates at Quetta with these on the Chenab and Jhelum Canals.'
- 'Appendix 6. Rates of cost and of income on the Punjab Perennial Canals.'
- 'Appendix 7. The manufacture of lime at the Consulate, Seistan.'
- 'Appendix 8. Details of the cost of the work on the buildings erected by the Imperial Bank.'
- 'Appendix 9. Note on lime, bricks and stone for large works in Seistan.'
- 'Appendix 10. Comparison of rates likely to obtain in Mesopotamia with those in Egypt by Sir William Willcocks, KCMG.'
- 'Appendix 11. Note by W A Johns, Esq., Railway Reconnaissance Officer, on the cost of excavating in the hard Seistan clay, and driving tunnels or kariz therein.'
- 'Appendix 12. On the cost of excavation in the culturable soil of the delta and in the hard tough alluvial of the high plateaux or dasht .'
- 'Appendix 13. The meaning of the words clay and silt .'
- 'Appendix 14. Dates on which the Sar-i-Shela flowed in 1903.'
- 'Appendix 15. Expenditure incurred on the Irrigation Party.'
- 'Appendix 16. List of maps and sections packed in a tin lined case and filed in the Foreign Office, Simla.'
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- 1 volume (246 folios)
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A synopsis of contents is found at folios 12-14.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 248; 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.
The volume contains a higher than usual number of blank pages, which may have been the result of a printing error.
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- 'Seistan. Irrigation report of the Perso-Afghan Arbitration Commission, 1902-1905. Volume I. Report and appendices. Simla: Government of India Foreign Department, 1906'
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