Reports and Correspondence Relating to Persia, Including Trade and Trade Routes in Persia [‎53v] (106/252)

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In consideration of the above payment the Bank transfers to the Transport
Company :—
1. 1 he concession for the construction and working of—
(а) the road from Tehran to Kum and Ispahan ;
(б) the road from Kum to Ahwaz via Sultanabad, Dizful and Shuster;
(c) extension of latter from Ahwaz to Mohammerah;
(c?) branch road from Burujird to Ispahan and for the establishment of
a transport service for the same.
2. The road itself with all property, rights, buildings, etc., acquired or held
by the Bank under the concession.
lurthcrmore the Bank agreed in a separate document bearing the same
date as the deed of transfer :
(1) to indemnify the Company from
(«) all claims in connection with the working of the concession up to
the date of transfer;
(b) all claims of the Amin es Sultan or any other parties (with the
exception of any claim of the representatives of the late Yahya
Khan under the agreement between him and the Bank, dated
January 6th, 1890) to any interest in the concession.
(2) to pay over to the Company any sum paid in to refund the loan of
£13,000 at 8 per cent, interest made by the Bank to the late concessionnaire.
To use its influence with the Persian Government to obtain from the
Company the right to levy tolls on any part of the road where the right does
not at present exist and generally support the Company in obtaining and main
taining the rights bestowed by the Concession.
ftrssiAN Boad Concessions.
Kazian-Resht-Tehran Road.—m$ Majesty’s Acting Consul at Resht
reported on November 3rd, 1904, that slow progress is being made with the
Resht-Kazian Road which was unlikely to be ready for traffic in the near future
although M. loltananoff, the Russian Director of the Road Companv, gave him
to understand, in August 1904, that the Kazian Section would shortly be opened
The Russian Company have not strictly followed the old road to Kazian which
■ was 24 miles in length, but have taken in private land wherever a deviation
was considered necessary. It is stated that the land so appropriated will be
paid for in due course.
The Russian Consul at Resht has informed Mr. Consul Churchill that the
iinzeli Harbour Works have been begun.
1 on, Th m, r0a o- Ee i' t , to Te,lran ha sbeen in fairly good state durin-
1904. The 1m Bazar-Kesht and the Resht-Sefid Ketele sections arc still
liable to be very bad after heavy rain or snow, but the sections from the bco-in-
nmg of the mountain road to Kazvin is in a satisfactory state. The walls’ at
various dangerous points have been repaired during the year.
Kazvin to Julfa via Tabriz.—m s Majesty’s Minister reported in his des-
patch J.o. 1<6 ot September 30th, 1901, that M. Bodiloviteh, the Manager of the
Russian Banque d’Escompte at Tabriz, informed him that when the railwav
from Envan to Julia was completed in June 1905, a service of motor cars
would be established on the Russian Road from Julfa to Tabriz. The distance
which is about 75 miles, will be covered in four hours. Sir A Hardin"o
gathered that the motor service would be continued from Tabriz to Tehran but
that work on that section of the road had been postponed owino* to the Russo-
Japanese war, and that for the present the eitorts of the Russian Finance
Ministry were being concentrated on the completion of communication between