'Report on the Preliminary Survey of the Route for the Central Persia Telegraph Line' [‎13r] (30/300)

26M September 1898. Kha.sehtara.sh — continued.
Water
( Clear spring, sweet. Opens out into stream, flowing 2 feet
... } per second, 18 inches by 2 in section, and flows into a
( pond overgrown with reeds.
Houses
Transport
Labour
... Only two of sun-dried brick.
... Nil.
... Nil.
Climate
C 6 a. m., 56°; 6 p. m., 74°. Excelh nt in summer ; perhaps,
t cold in winter.
People
( Very obliging and hospitable. Petsian peasants engaged
( by owner to work in village
Remarks
... Refreshing little village. Grove of about 50 trees mixed
apricot, walnut, fig, mulberry and a vineyard about 50
by 40 feet, and a tank with reeds, about 12 feet square.
Village owned partly by Agha Mirza Ibrahim Arde-
stani and partly by Shahzada Mehti Gooly Mirza of
Ispahan,
Ylth September Bagham. Height 6,604 feet.
Governor ... H. H. Zil-es-Sultan.
Population
... 100.
Crops
fWheat, barley, melons. Local produce enough for its
inhabitants in ordinary years, but exceeds wants of
*'* j inhabitants when rainfall good. A few fruit trees,
L such as apricots, plums, etc.
\
Supplies
f Bread, eggs, milk and all ordinary supplies in fair quan-
... < titles. Supplies are also imported to village for sale, as
(. traffic is said to be large. Prices high.
Water
( Kanat water; good. Stream 5 feet by 6 inches, running
**' ( at rate of 40 feet in 15 seconds.
Houses
f Ordinary sun-dried bricks, with a good kiln-burnt Shah
( Abbas caravan-erai.
Transport
( A few donkeys at krans per diem, but no mules, camels,
( etc.
Labour
... Nil.
Climate
| 6 a. m., 43°; 6 p. m., 74°. Most excellent climate and very
( good water Admirable sanitarium.
People
( Uneducated and inquisitive. Most of them have served
( as soldiers for a short time.
Remarks
Camping ground outside limited. A large number of
apricot, walnut, plum and mulberry trees. A large
number of millstones are exported from a quarry close
by. Millstones, about 3 to 4 feet diameter and 6 inches
thick, are transported by rolling them on a wooden axle
and drawn by a donkey.
JSn route to Bagham, at 7 miles, there is a spring to left;
at 12’5S2, ruins of Hussainabad ; no water 3 miles to
right; a village of Chah Reeea, about 3 miles to the right.
Chah Reeca has a population of 30; water from Kanat
sweet ; supplies limited. At 15-84, Jomba, a village one
mile to the right. A spring of water, one mile to the
right, at 7 , 525 for about 20 cattle. All the booteh for the
bakers’ shops at Ispahan is gathered by Koomishah
people from the plain on this route.