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first, built by the Russians from Georgia and Armenia, crossed the boundary at Julia, near the north west corner of Persia and reached Tabriz. This road is only S5 miels long. Fourteen hundred miles to the southeast is the second railway to cross into Persia. It is the British built road from India through Bal uchistan. It crosses the border at Mlrjaaw and runs on Persian terri tory for approximately 100 miles to Duzdap. near the point where Per sia, Afghanistan and Baluchistan meet
 Transpersian Railway Plan Recent
 Less than five years ago the present ambitious plan for trans persian railway was born. The road was mapped to extend from a port to be built at the southeastern cor ner of the Caspian Sea, short dis tance along the lowlands that skirt the southern shores of that sea. and through the Elburz mountains 10 the plateau, It was then to con- tinue to Teheran, across the pla- teau to the Zagros mountains. through that range, and to the Per sian Gulf near it's northwest corner a total distance of between 1900 and 1,400 miles. Contracts were let to a German syndicate for work at the Caspian end; and 10 an American French British syndicate for construction in the south.
 Surveys disclosed excellent port possibilities on the khor Musa, an inlet of the Persian Gulf about 40 miles east Of the mouth of the Ti- gris- Euphrates. No port had ever existed on this deep water inlet, but there Persia hopes to build her fin est southern harbro. The port, Ban Gar Shapur. has begun; the Ameri can syndicate constructed a dock there in 1928 from timber shipped from America, and there all materi- al for the southern construction has been unloaded directly from ocean vessels. From the dock at Bandar Shapur the railway has been built north for 155 miles to Dzful. and
 is in operation. In this stretch it has been necessary to erect many bridges including one a mile long at AhWaz. across the karun river, Persia's only navigable stream. Just beyond Dizful. the railhead of the southern railway, rise the Iagros mountains. Extending the railway through this lofty range will require great engineering skill, laborious construction work, and millions of dollars. II is possible that a high way will be built from the railhe2d through the mountains to serve in conjunction with the existing rail- way until it can be extended to the plateau.
 Rails Reach Mountains in North
 Tn the north the situation closely parallels that in the south, The German company erected pier at Bandir-i-Gaz on Asterhead bay, on the Caspian. and laid rails through the lowlands for 70 miles to Sari. Twenty miles farther are the Elburz lllOtilldiIIo VI It4l l''elh9 ''v'' 'N 900 feet and passes over 1000 feet high. There the northern work has stopped.
 Americans can get better idea of Persian geography by imagining the country loosened from its posi- tion on the map and slid half way around the world in the same lati- tude band. If it's southeastern cor ner were brought to rest at the southeastern corner of Texas much of the western part of the trans planted Persia would fall in a re- zion with terrain and climate not unlike it's own. The new Persian Gulf port. Bandar Shapur. would fall approximately at Nogales, Ari- zona. The Persian Casian coast would lie southeastward from Great Salt Lake. Utah.
 The great size of Persia is ap- parent when it's mop is thus super imposed on that Of the United States. It would cover more than half of Texas. all of New Mexico, most of Arizona, and large parts of Oklahoma. Kansas. Colorado. Utah, Nevada, and northern MeXico.'