ملف رقم ١٤٢١ لسنة ١٩٠٨، جزء ٣، "بلاد فارس: النفط؛ مفاوضات بين شيخ المحمرة وشركة النفط الأنجلو-فارسية" [و‎‎٣‎٦‎٢] (٣٣٨/٢٨٩)

I strongly advise you to secure site A-B (and failino- it «itp r u- n •
situated, as you will see from the rhart V which is
could be easily led to it it is rie-ht on th^ ’ \ 8t ^°\ e ^hallab Point. Your pipe-line
far as I can see from ’ ehartc, ^ about 20 miles ^side the bar. As
where vessels could load. Only Smiles fromFao T } Persian coast outside the bar
through Turkish territory FaoTs in Ysktic S ^ C t 10n t 0 M^ a F1V . ate t^paphhne
dispatched from there weekly C Turkey ' MalIs arnve and can be
be so^fitablffrr^hi 3 ^ rre “ desert ’ that i* not cultivated, although it might
date ukntatinn; Z tW '* T yf ? rt ' le - 1 have carefull y aTO ided Ullages and
chaL P el k deen^t H ^ ' S n 0 -n ,ng m the ^ U 80 ha PP e n s tha t where the
annel is deepest there are no villages or cultivation. From all accounts the date
m ustry is increasing, and more area comes under cultivation each year The fact must
Natura,llv 0S tl ^ ° f ’ theref ° re ’ that the knd * lected mi g b t b e tK up a fny “me
w wl ksle tW 8 are / r0Wn f near the . river as P° ssib ' e - If y- consult the chart
nAk ioT tht ’ as ,' ar as 'jeep water is concerned, the sites selected are the only
really good ones on the island. Both are on the Shat-el-Arab River, which is the
sidtTof thT island S< th (1 °- ^ draUght ) U P t0 B “ h ' Tb " ^V on the other
It if the island the Bamisher, is too narrow and shallow for navigation or volume of
vuvter. I have therefore disregarded it. There is a flooding in spring time which, the
natives say covers the sites with about 6 inches of water. I do not think that serious,
ku the water can easily be bunded out, and all foundations must be raised above
nghest water-level. I have asked Mr. Mackie to visit the sites when this flooding next
occurs, and to report it there is more than a foot or two of water there
n i S 1 l mmer . conditions—May-October, when the temperature is seldom
below 100 Fahrenheit night or day, and sometimes as high as 110 ° Fahrenheit in the
daytime—the working of a refinery should, I think, be satisfactory. There is apparently
great variation in the temperature—depending on the prevailing wind—south hot,
north cool. On the morning of the 20 th it was 38° Fahrenheit at 6 a.m., and at the
same time to-day it was 54° Fahrenheit.
Building materials are not plentiful, but there is lots of clay on the site for brick
making, and if arranged for well ahead, would be ready for building operations. I doubt
if we could ever make bricks ourselves as cheaply as natives. Some of the bricks here
aie faiily good, and work out a little cheaper than Bangoon bricks. They would suit
us quite well.
Yours sincerely,
ANDREW CAMPBELL.