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'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [155v] (315/610)
The record is made up of 1 volume (301 folios). It was created in 1922. 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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276
The iron ore is smelted for local needs in little charcoal
furnaces about 3 feet in diameter and 5 feet in height.
In the Hazar Jarib district, i.e., upper Tejen valley, south
of Sari, coal, iron, and petroleum are found. Mr. *Khustaria
holds concessions for the discovery and exploitation of minerals
and petroleum deposits and an agent of his was prospecting
in this district in the spring of 1920.
Petroleum deposits are also said to exist on the Sipah Salar’s
estates in Tunakabun and in other parts of the Caspian pro
vinces. Some tentative borings were started in Tunakabun
by a Russian company but were abandoned.
Gildn. Mdsulek iron. Alidbad Copper .—Iron is found
near Masuleh and the ore is smelted as in Nur. There is an old
copper working near the village of Aliabad in the mountains on
the left bank of the Kizil Uzun above Manjll bridge and about 6
miles North West of Manjil village. The working had been
abandoned and only very slight traces of copper are visible.
Copper is also said to exist in the Kizil Uzun valley
above Manjil in Tarum.
Elburz Coal Deposits. Localities.—Seams, of coal crop up in
the vicinity of latitude 36° from near Damavand, North East
of Tehran, to the vicinity of Kazvin, a line exceeding 100 miles
in length.
The three principal centres whence coal is taken to supply
Tehran are :■—
Ldr. —North East of Tehran. The annual output in 1890
was estimated at about 4,000 tons.
Darbandisar. —Near the sources of the Jajarud, chiefly
from the village of Shamshak.
ArdahaJc, Fashand, and Abiyak, midway between Tehran
and Kazvin situated from 1J to 4 miles North of
the road.
The annual output in 1890 was estimated at about 11,000
tons.
Structure and Quality of Coal. —These seams of coal have
been forced up to the surface and exposed by the upheaval
which formed the Elburz mountains which are fractures of the
earth’s surface along a line of weakness and were piled up by the
activity of intense subterranean forces. The strata forced
upwards by this convulsion have been rent, contorted, and tilted
at steep angles to the horizon, and the coal seams, being softer
than the other strata, have been most crushed and broken.
See para, (e) above, p. 275.
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Military report compiled by Captain LS Fortescue of the General Staff of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force and printed in Calcutta at the Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1922.
The volume begins with a statement defining the geographical area covered by the report. The report is divided into ten chapters, plus appendices, each concerning a different subject, as follows:
- Chapter 1: History
- Chapter 2: Geography
- Chapter 3: Climate, Water, Medical and Aviation
- Chapter 4: Ethnography
- Chapter 5: Administration (including a table of provinces with administrative details (folios 123-30)
- Chapter 6: Armed Forces of the Persian Government
- Chapter 7: Economic Resources
- Chapter 8: Tribes
- Chapter 9: Personalities
- Chapter 10: Communications
- Appendices: Glossary of terms; Weights, measures and coinage; Bibliography; Historical sketch (Chapter 1) continued from June 1920 to the end of 1921
At the back of the volume (folio 302) is a map to illustrate the report.
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- 1 volume (301 folios)
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There is a contents page (folio 5) and list of illustrations (folio 6) at the front of the volume and an index at the back (folios 270-300). All refer to the volume's original pagination. The index also includes map references of all places marked on the map.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 303; 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.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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