مجموعة ٢٨/ ٥٦ "بلاد فارس. شؤون الحدود الفارسية-التركية والفارسية-الروسية. طريق رواندز التجاري." [و‎‎٢‎٣] (١٥٤/٤٥)

cotton and cereals would naturally come through Ururaiah in any
case and for o artain commodities from these districts and from
the Urumlah district itself the Urumiah^Golmanhhaneh road and
steamer to Haid&rahad might he a good route in the present poor
state of the Urumia-Haidarabad roado
X cannot, however, at present see any advantage in this
route for Tabriz and beyond* It entails the use of the railway
Tabriz-Sharafkhaneh, and the at present slow and round-about
steamer services to Haidarabad.
The combination of lorry to havalu and steamer from there
would therefore seem preferable under present conditions*
14* It is 8 however, clear to me that there are two camps
The Urumiah one which desires to utilise the railway and
the steamer service at all costs; and the Road department one,
which desires to improve the main roads and dispense with uhe
transshipments called for if the aid of the steamer and railway
services is to be invoked* X confess that 1 feel the latter
to be the right idea; as one would not be tied down to a weekly
service, and such things as A*P*0«C. or Mosul Kerosene and Benain
could be put on a lorry and run without transshipment straight
to their Persian destinations - as the Russians now do with
their oils from tlulfa*
X foresee also a market in Iraq for fresh fruit such as
grapes and apricots from Urumiah and Maragha; and a mere weekly
service with the further rough handling caused by extra trans
shipments would probably prevent the success of any such trade*
15* The JETTIES at the lake ports are rather ramshackle
wooden affairs ranging in length from 220 yards at Haidarabad and
220 yards at Golmankhaneh to over 600 yards at Sharafkhaneh* I
have not seen that at Danalu*
These