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'Report on the Preliminary Survey of the Route for the Central Persia Telegraph Line' [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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25/A September 1898. Habibabad — continued.
Supplies
Houses
Water
Transport
Labour
Climate
People
liemarks
f Mutton, beef, fowls, eggs, fruit, rice, fuel., milk, and
j 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. Hough 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. Bate about kran per diem.
Good; resembling Ispahan ; slightly warmer.
Ordinary Persian peasants, mostly agriculturists and
labourers, with a few artisans and shopkeepers. Hospi
table.
... 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.
2oth September 1898. Koomisiiah. Height 5,291 feet.
26M S
Water
Houses
Transport
Labour
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Remarks
27/A 5
Governor
Population
Governor
Population
Crops
Supplies
Water
Houses
Transport
Labour
Climate
People
Remarks
... H. H. Zil-eS'Sultan.
... 2,000.
f Some melons, castor, cotton 200 shah mans annually, very
... j 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
and greedy, and given to pilfering.
Koomishah is a small village about 200 by 170 yards.
The Katkhodah (headman) is Haji Ali Hossein.
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Crops
Supplies
Water
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Transport
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26/A September 1898. Khasehtabash. Height 6,368 feet.
Governor ... H. H. Zil-es-Sultan.
Population ... 8 people (2 families).
f About 20 yards by 6 yards. "Wheat or barley at option of
^ ro I )S *“ ( above 2 families.
(Eggs and milk only, but supplies are procurable from
Supplies ... | Bagherabad, 2 miles off.
b 7-3
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Report by William King Wood, Assistant Superintendent, Indo-European Telegraph Department. Printed at the Commissioner's Press, Karachi, 1899. The report is an investigation of proposed routes for the Central Persia Telegraph Line and is based on a journey undertaken by the author from Shiraz to Gwadur [Gwadar] between September 1898 and March 1899.
The report is divided into sections, as follows: Kashan to Yezd; Yezd to Kerman; Kerman to Bam; Bam to Regan; Regan to Pahra. Each section includes a description of the track followed, gazetteer, notes on sites for telegraphic offices, and a general summary. Additional descriptions are given for a number of alternative routes and routes investigated but considered unsuitable. At the rear of the volume are six appendices giving information on distances, costs, trade, water quality, and a glossary.
Folio 5 is a map of the route taken and the proposed telegraph line.
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- 1 volume (146 folios)
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At the front of the volume (folio 4) is a table of contents that refers to the original 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 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.
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