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‘Military report on Persia Volume I 1930’ [‎40r] (84/154)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (73 folios). It was created in 1920-1931. 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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G7
5. Fuel.
(a) Coal.
In September 1929 a coal mine was discovered at a
point some 12 miles S. W. of Meshed. It is now (1930)
being exploited and is the property of the Meshed shrine.
It is as yet impossible to estimate what its output will
be, but it is hoped by the mining engineer now r employed
on this mine that it will eventually be possible to supply
the whole of Meshed with fuel exclusively from this mine.
The coal is transported to Meshed by carts. Its average
price in Meshed is Krans 40 per Kharwar (approx. 500 lbs.).
There is another coal mine in the area of Persian Sarakhs
which also supplies Meshed with coal, the price of the
latter is Krans 70/80 per Kharwar in Meshed.
Coal appears to exist all over the hills forming the
western boundary of the Meshed Valley from Nishapur in
the south to Fariz in the north, seven miles W. of Jumab
village on the Meshed-Virani-Kufchan road, and 200 feet
above the valley; and from Zorabad in the east to Ak
Darband between Zorabad and Meshed. It is sometimes
for sale in the bazaars of Shahrud. As the Persians as yet
have merely removed coal where found close to the surface
it is possible that the mineral is much more widely diffused.
The coal is of good quality, especially that found at
Naoghandar, a village 6 miles north of Gulistan on the
Jagherq road, and 18 miles from Meshed, whence carts
can come to within a mile or so of Naoghandar.
Not more than 100 feet of tunnelling is here needed and
the seam is up to nine inches thick, and woith working
immediately.
This coal is of first class quality, free from shale sul
phides and inorganic mixture.
About a mile south of Naoghandar are several other
abandoned workings, comprising a fine seam of coal, banded
With mineral matter and carboniferous shale totalling b
feet thick.
Lignite exists at Farizi. Coal is diffused over the Arafi
region and at Zorabad and Ak Darband. Large quantities
ire reported in the Arab region, about 18 miles S. W. ol
Meshed.
It is also reported near Khan Rud and Buzwish.

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Military report on the Khurasan [Khurāsān] and Seistan [Sīstān] regions of Persia [Iran], with maps and illustrations. Produced by the General Staff, India, and published in Calcutta [Kolkata] by the Government of India Press, 1931. Marked for official use only.

The report includes chapters on:

  • a history of Khurasan and Seistan
  • the geography of Khurasan and Seistan (mountains, rivers, deserts, an alphabetical listing of towns) and climate (including assessments of the health risks associated with both regions)
  • population (religion, tribes)
  • resources (including crops, grazing, fuel, transport, and a note on horses and mules in Khurasan)
  • armed forces (including a description of the Eastern Division of the Persian military, an Order of Battle, organisation, armaments, equipment, clothing, rations, training)
  • aviation (detailing the organisation, personnel, equipment, aerodromes, etc., of the Persian Air Force)
  • administration (municipal, police, justice, department of public instruction, revenue, roads and communications, census, post and telegraphs, sanitation)
  • communications (railways, roads, types of motor transport in use, principal routes used by travellers from Meshed [Mashad] to Russian territory, telegraphs, telephones, wireless)

An appendix includes a veterinary note on conditions in Khurasan and Seistan. The volume also includes four colour plates illustrating different badges associated with Persian army and police officers, and a number of maps and diagrammatic maps.

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1 volume (73 folios)
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A contents page at the front of the volume (f 6) and index at the rear (ff 64-66) both reference the volume’s original printed pagination.

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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 75; 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.

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