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'Report on the Preliminary Survey of the Route for the Central Persia Telegraph Line' [48v] (101/300)
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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78
1898.
19/4 October
Gird Kuh.
Height 1,777 feet.
Gorernor
Population
Supplies
Water
Houses
Transport
Labour
Climate
People
Remarks
20/4 October 1898.
Governor
Population
Crops
Supplies
Water
Houses
Transport
Labour
Climate
People
Remarks
s
Height 1,826 feet.
Seyad Hossein Khan of Anar.
40 houses ; 200 people.
Wheat and barley 5,000; cotton 1,000; cabbages and beet
root in small quantities.
7 springs, all sweet; same as small Kanats; fair water.
Small mud huts; domed roofs.
12 camels, 20 donkeys at 1 Kran each per diem.
20 men at 1 Kran per diem.
| 5 a. m., 50; 2 p. m,, 84 ; 6 p. m., 73.
1 Excellent; hills on all sides ; winters cold.
( Labourers ; quiet, not intelligent.
( Maliat 60
Tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
to Kerman and 100
Tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
to Yozd.
Mazreh Ali Reza Khan, no one. The people from Gird
Kuh go there to cultivate. Good Kanat of sweet water.
Road branches off to Pa raj here.
Mehdiabad
(and its cluster of 6 villages).
Seyad Hossein Khan of Anar.
120 houses; COO people.
Wheat and barley 20,000; cotton 3,000; cabbages and
beetroot plentiful.
150 sheep and goats; bread, mutton, milk, eggs, etc., in
lair quantities.
7 kanats sweet "water—one for each village.
Small and huts ; sun-dried bricks ; domed roofs ; no "lass.
20 camels, 20 donkeys at 1 kran each per diem.
50 men at 1 kran each per diem.
( 5 a. m., 50 ; 12-30 p. m., 83 ; 6 p. m., 66. Good. Snow-
( fall slight.
( Labourers , quiet and stupid. Mehdiabad has sprung up
f within tue last 30 years, and has no Malivat.
Randeroon, 20 houses, is the oldest of the cluster, and
pays 100
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
Maliyat, The others pay nothing.
Kereemabad ... 3 houses, 1 kanat sweet... No supplies.
Hosseinabad ... 4 „ 1
Eaizabad ... 3 „ 1 slightly brackish ,,
Shamsabad ... 1 ,, 1
” » a
Aliabad ... 2 „ 1 sweet water... ,,
The above villages are all close together, forming a cluster
within a distance of 2 miles.
216-/ October 1898.
Governor
Population
Crops
Seems.
Seyad Hossein Khan of Anar.
12 .
Nil.
Height 4,851 feet,
Supplies
Water
Houses
Transport
Labour
Climate
People
Remarks
22nd October 189$
Governor
Population
Crops
Supplies
Water
Houses
Transport
Labour
Climate
People
Remarks
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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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