File 4648/1912 'Railway projects in South Persia; surveys of Gulf ports' [‎76r] (156/258)

I^his Doc^eat is the jProperty of His Britannic Majesty’s Government]
PERSIA.
Confidential.
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[February 8.]
Section 2 .
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No. 1.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir P. Cox to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received February 8.)
(No. 2. Commercial. Confidential.) 10 imi
b- Bushire, January lU, iyio.
lr ’ IN continuation of my despatch No. 7, Commercial, dated the 18th August, I
have the honour to enclose a copy of a letter which I have addressed to the Govern
ment of India, on the subject of railway concessions and terminal facilities at ports on
the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
I have, &c.
P. Z. COX, Lieutenant-Colonel British Resident in
the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and TIis Majesty s Consul-
General for Ears, &c.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir P. Cox to Government of India.
198 ') Bushire, January 19. 1913.
ir ’ I HAVE the honour to address you in connection with the question of railway
terminal facilities at ports on the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , which, as I observe^ from recent corre-
spondence in print, has been engaging the attention of His Ma J® s ^ n S ;
F 2 In the penultimate paragraph of a report on railway possibilities m the sp
of this residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. mv commercial adviser, Mr! Chick, urged “ a careful investigation of/■
1 bit meansTf suitably improving Bushire harbour and the probable cost; and a^
shndar d’Etudes has. already begun to contemplate
the desirability of improvements in the ports included in ltS ® C *j‘yg affected would be
the Trans-Persian Railway, it being understood that the poits c y
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should know, in advance of all applications or oc ’' 1 t j’ e poss ibility and approxi-
Persian Railway or by the Persian Railways yn pi- d Bunder Abbas in
mate cost of improving the harbours or anchorages at Bushne and Buna
order to enable them to cope sufficiently with railway requirements.
3. As regards Bushire the position is this .
, . , r lUr cnrvpvpil in T 904. It was held that there
The harbour was elaborately and care u y J an q i nner anchorages to
was sufficient water in the channel connec mg Q u if ? t» u t that in view
accommodate the ships of 17 feet “^throuoh'’Bushire the ’deepening of the
of the existing state of prospects £ , w( | |ld be too oost ly an operation to
approaches to the inner anchorage (Kho ) dredo . in2 ,,f a cana l from the inner
undertake. It was considered, howevei, t o h t’n wns feasible, and should be
anchorage (Khor Deira) to the customs creek (Khor Sultam) was teas, 0 e,
our aim for the present. June l90 5 that there
The officer in charge of the marine survey refr ^^d ^ be advisable
would be little difficulty in dredging the propose ’ f l' lsce ni the exact nature of
to make borings before commencing opera ions in ^ ^ behaviour of the
the material to be dredged; he addet t a o ,, , dredged channel could be
harbour-floor in the past suggested the probability that a diedge
easily maintained. . . , . , 0 f Bushire would therefore appear
4. The preliminary action required , , ii framing of an estimate for
to be the carrying out of the necessary hoping, an borino- was done unobtrusively
Iredging of the canal. I am of opinion that il the bonng
the dredging
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