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'Report on the Preliminary Survey of the Route for the Central Persia Telegraph Line' [74r] (152/300)
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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129
Telegraph Offices.
The low altitude of Regan (2,290 feet), and its situation in the middle of a
jung e, makes it a very hot and unhealthy place, and by no means a desirable
spon tor the location of a Telegraph Office. We must, therefore, instead of
taking up the actual sequence of the forward journey hence to Khash, Ladis,
Malik Seah Kuh, and Siestan, which is reported on as “ unsuitable routes.”
presume that my recommendation, that the line should go from Re^an to
Rahra cid Bazman village, will be adopted, and consider it as the next forward
section.
Prom Bam to Regan is only 5311 miles and from Regan to Bazman
village 111 1G, making a total of 161 27 miles. The route in the first portion
runs through a favourite grazing ground for camels, and the line would
traverse a comparatively speaking thickly populated and well cultivated dis
trict. liie second section of 111^ miles, on the contrary, is only inhabited at
times by nomad Baloochies, and, for the greater part of the year, is practically
deserted, so that little or no damage would bs done to the line here.
Regan may in the future be an important centre, but its present status
docs not warrant the, institution of a Telegraph Office. I am therefore of
opinion that it would suffice if we had a line-guard’s hut here, and entertained,
say, three Jumbaz sowari or camelry, two for the Bazman and one for the
Bam side, to patrol the line systematically. We have therefore no Telegraph
Office to. build between Bam and Regan, and the situation of the next station
will fall in the V Section.
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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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- 'Report on the Preliminary Survey of the Route for the Central Persia Telegraph Line'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:147v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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