COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY.
X-A. X XsaA iwiiwAM. wiloock's •. ~_r'r/_/; :^^^EPORX_' ■?!"'■: :"-X-, —v. ."-..!'-. -."y r.^ -^y^*L^mJim %. i i?^u^A^s6t^iipn.— GOBtaitarr. ■%XA^X"£ iyXi-,'^l^^V"ii^^v-yy. w^-'^ifiiahti.Wiilbocks'i. report .em ■_ 6hsaisfe-i the dpfnibri Ot. "Mesopotanrian M^&^s;'^wJ.£(in)tnlinicatoh:: between 1 B_i^*a^=ihßi'<_tfflf.'is"biot what' the .;-:"lwta!rrequires. -;. The principal market is ■i" inKthe " "^^ Eastern' •'.; / Meittterfaneaii y anc, Europe.. X "Xy. yiyxy ' .-".-. -* v - r Sft. ? WilJUaml'.WSllepck-i V recommends *"■'. ai»'^Bo6" inilej; railway from Baghdad >to '.' -Damascus, -raffbrding . cheap ' transit; • beL. ", ;._ei.de_>i:a. profitable-, traffic . ;in 'Persian .: Inqdi w^twardp' jand 1 alsio the convey ''ttfifie' V'Ofr '\ Ce'ittral ' Afe'ian pilgrims, . rende___ng : H-h'erH^ja-rra_-lway temunera--yiiye.. ,;.r_toefr.<>pe__3ngi'of Arabia Would .'iata&act'- .thousands, oj Eurbptjaaj -iand 'American tourists^'. ■ ' -He est&nates the cost' of the railway at £2^00,000, 'and .the. pro6t £110,000., Thus before the proposed great iitriga,; , tion : works are begun it would yield — al rasult-e^ual .'.to- the total cost of'the \).orks lat' fe Euphrates and the Tigris. . whicK-?.are";- estimated at upwards of yil^OpO reach.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 9 November 1909, Page 3
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142COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 9 November 1909, Page 3
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