'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [‎78r] (160/610)

■■the possibility of developioent of trade to the south vid Tehran
to find an outlet for Mazandaran produce, and the crying need
of the province is for a road via Firuzkuh. From Barfarush
do Amol is good going in dry weather and in wet weather
does not become impassable like the awful Barfarush-Sari
route. The track to Amol crosses the Babul by the Pul-i-
Muhammad Hasan Khan, a brick bridge of 8 arches, but a
piece of it has recently fallen and unless repaired the budge
will soon become impassable. The Babul is slow flowing and
deep at this point.
Water. Water for drinking is drawn from wells, as the
level of the Babul is too low to admit of bringing its water by
canals to the town.
Camping Ground.-The best camping groundhi the vicinit
is at Ahmad Kulah, 4 miles North near the Meshed-i-Sar road
a level meadow of turf, about a square mile m extent.
Administration. —Barfarush, unless the Governor of Mazan
daran happens to have made it his capital is under a Deputy
Governor. ^ The Russians formerly had a Consular agent and
there is a Karguzar, Foreign Office Representative, who use
to deal with cases in which Russians were concerned, but no -
days his post has become a sinecure. There are 4 school, for
boys and 1 for girls.
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5. Meshed-i-Sar.
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plain of Mazandaran at the month of the nry BaW^abont 9
miles North of ^sf B taScS “Snd a
the Mazandaran coast. It has a larg f + 0 steamers,
concrete wharf for river boats, which go Chapter VII
which anchor out at sea. For trade Statistics see Chapter Vll,
para (6), pages 2 64-5. merchants trading with
Inhabitants. Mazanaaranis. x fishery station
Russia lived in Barfarush ; Lionosoff had a large ^Ty
but it is now (1920) closed down. (See Chapter VII, para. (<J)
applies .—Local supplies are scanty but can be fetched from
Barfarush. mu les used to bring down
rmnsport-Many pomes with imports, but
goods for export from Bariarusn n i r Q amnll number
this carrying trade has almost ceased Only a small num ^
of local village ponies are now available. 1 on
parzavar about 6 miles distant on the left bank of the Babul.