'Lord Curzon's Notes on Persia: About 1889-1890' [‎646r] (1312/1486)

BU8HIEE.
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some good silver work is done by the Sabaean community, of
whom there are about 30 families in the district.
During the year the buildings commenced
Government at the junction of the Karun and Shat-el-Arab, now I Sv
called “ Bunder Saheb Kerani ”—viz., Government house, landing
place, and stores—previously were completed, and a telegraph-
office built; also a battery and an infantry barrack on the opposite
side of the Karun. The landing-stage is too far from low water
mark to be of much use. It can, however, be used by river
steamers, by anchoring a lighter between steamer and landing-
stage to form a bridge.
The telegraph line has been completed between Dizful, Telegraphic
Shushter, and Ahwaz, and is now working between Ahwaz and comm^inica-
Shushter, but communication is seldom perfect between Dizful
and Tehran. At Ahwaz the line will have to cross the river, and
will then be brought to Mohamerah.
The Nasery Company have imported a light steel tramway
from England, which is being laid at Ahwaz to convey cargo
across the rapids.
The custom-house has hardly as yet been reduced to a Genei
system, and is a drawback to the carrying trade of the river, as
far as goods owned by Persian subjects is concerned, they being
liable to dues at each place they pass through ; and consequently A
goods for places beyond Shushter are sent by caravan direct from K
Mohamerah, in spite of advantages of steam conveyance by ^
river. It is expected that these matters will be satisfactorily
settled after March next.