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Reports and Correspondence Relating to Persia, Including Trade and Trade Routes in Persia [69r] (137/252)
The record is made up of 1 file (124 folios). It was created in 22 Nov 1900-20 Apr 1905. 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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(c) Kathag Pass, one party, one season.
(d) Nag Kalat alternative (?), one party, one season.
(e) Kathag: to Panjgur, two parties, one season, or one party for two
seasons.
The first fifty miles of the route from Pasni are well suited for laying a
temporary line. By following the caravan road, and avoiding works as far as
possible, railhead should reach the south approach of the Gok Parosh Kotal in a
year from the commencement of construction. The permanent works could
be rapidly and economically built with the assistance of the temporary line.
By the end of another year, or year and-a-half, railhead should be at the foot
of the Kathag tunnel, with diversions at bridges and at uncompleted cuttings.
Through communication would probably be complete in or G years from
the start, on the presumption, of course, that work was earned on from both
ends.
For convenience of reference the estimates for both routes have been
Estimates. kept together.
The system on which they have been compiled is as follows:—
The railway has been classified under six heads—
Its.
( 1 ) Surface line, @ ...
50,000 per mile.
(2) Easy line, @
90,000 „
( 3 ) Medium hilly line, @
1 , 25,000 „
( 4 ) Heavy ghat line, but without much
bridging
1 , 75,000 ,, e.g., Nushki ghat.
( 5 ) Heavy ghat line with considerable bridging
2 , 25,000 ,, e.y,, Kaisar gorge on
Nushki line.
3 , 00,000 „
(6) Very expensive gorge line
All important individual works, such as large bridges and long tunnels,
have been estimated for at a foot run rate, and added separately.
The foregoing classification has been arrived at by abstracting and
analysing the cost under each head of work of portions of lines with which I
am familiar, and for which detailed estimates are available. The alignment is
then examined in detail, and each length is entered in its appropriate class.
. The figures provide for a 621b rail, wooden sleepers, a small quantity of
rolling-stock, stations, &c., on a modest scale. All ghat sections of the line to
be up to 1st class standard.
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The file contains reports and correspondence relating to Persia [Iran], including reports on trade and trade routes in Persia.
It includes:
- A copy of the ‘Report Received from Mr H.W. Maclean, the Special Commissioner Appointed by the Commercial Intelligence Committee of the Board of Trade, on the Conditions and Prospects of British Trade in Persia.’
- A copy of a letter from Arthur Henry Hardinge, HM Minister at Tehran, to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Marquess of Lansdowne (Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice), enclosing an annual report prepared by Evelyn Grant Duff, Secretary of Legation, Tehran, on events in Persia during the year 1904
- Copies of the reports ‘Reconnaissance from Kondi on the Seistan Trade Route via Mashkhel-Hamun and Panjgur…’ and ‘Reconnaissance and Estimate for a Railway from Nushki to the Helmand and thence to the Persian frontier at Bund-i-Seistan’
- Copies of printed despatches from the Agent to the Governor-General in Baluchistan to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, forwarding copies of the weekly Diary of the Political Assistant, Chagai (for the weeks ending 16 February, 8 March, 24 March, 31 March, and 24 October 1901, and 31 March and 8 April 1902), and a copy of the report ‘Trade Returns of the Quetta-Seistan Trade Route, for the year 1900-1901.’ by Captain Frank Cooke Webb-Ware, Political Assistant, Chagai
- Printed copies of the Diary of Captain Robert Arthur Edward Benn, HM Vice-Consul for Seistan and Kain (for the period ending 31 March, 11 April, 30 April, 15 May, 17 June, and 15 September 1901).
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- 1 file (124 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in no apparent order within the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 126; 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.
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- Mss Eur F111/357
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- Reports and Correspondence Relating to Persia, Including Trade and Trade Routes in Persia
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- front, front-i, 2r:125v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence