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'Lord Curzon's Notes on Persia' [568r] (1137/1386)
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No. 207.
PERSIA.
TEHRAN.
Report by Major-General T. E. Gordon on a Jozirney from Tehran
to Karun and Mohamrah, via Kum, Sultanabad, Burujird,
Kboremabad, Dizful, and Ahwaz.
I left Tehran on November 12, and, travelling by caravan
stages, reached Sultanabad on the 19th idem. The employes of the
Road Company Syndicate are now at work along the line, and
have already made some improvements and alterations to facilitate
wheel traffic. At Kum I was joined by. Mr. Macqueen, the
engineer of the syndicate, who accompanied me to Mohamrah.
At Sultanabad I visited the governor, Mustafa Kuli Khan.
I spoke to him in favour of English commercial interests, Sultanabad
which are increasing in the town and district, and he replied in a (about 171
promising manner. Messrs. Brown and Strauss, as agents of milrnom
Messrs. Hotz and Co. and Ziegler and Co. respectively, for
carpet manufactures, reside at Sultanabad. They both have
European assistants, and, in addition to carpet business, have
commenced to trade for export and import.
Mr. Strauss has tried the proposed new route to the sea via
the Karun, with a caravan of carpets, but the result has not been
such as to encourage its further use at present, or to make it as
yet preferable to the Kermanshah-Bagdad route. There were
questions about customs dues claimed by local tax farmers, who
knew nothing and heeded little of the 5 per cent, total claimable
on foreign owned goods to be levied at Shuster, and thus caused
delay and difficulty. And, again, the distance of 157 miles over
the very rough hill road in Luristan, between Khoremabad and
Dizful, being entirely without purchasable supplies for man or
beast, renders it necessary to entertain extra pack animals for the
carriage of these. The carriage hire demanded for this part of
the road is very high, being about three times the ordinary rates.
The reasons given are great risk of robbery by the Lurs en route,
and the consequent little traffic giving poor chance of return loads.
There exists a chronic state of fear of this road, and exaggerated
rumours prevail. Later on I will return to this subject.
(1144) A 2
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This file consists of letters, notes, and printed material on Persia compiled by George Curzon in the course of conducting research prior to the writing of his book: Persia and the Persian Question . The papers' contents and type vary considerably, but consists primarily of handwritten notes, some of which are organised roughly for individual chapters of the book. The rest of the file includes newspaper clippings, official reports, printed maps, and other published material on the history and geography of Persia. The official government reports are primarily government of India balance of trade reports, while published material consisted mainly of academic and non-academic papers on Persian archaeology by members of the Scottish Geographical Magazine and the history of the telegraph published by the Indo-European Telegraph Department.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 692; 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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