 ... buildings are large stone houses of two and three stories, with European shop-fronts. The out-turn of the naphtha springs, upon which VOL. II. P Baku entirely depends, was about a million puds last year, say 160,000 tons, and is increasing yearly....  Six Months in Persia - Page 210by Edward Stack - 1882Full view - About this book
 | Edward Stack - Iran - 1882 - 344 pages
...its people have an immense belief in its future prosperity. They boast a local paper, the Bakinskia Izvestia, whence I gathered some news. The municipal...railway is to be opened in 1882. Part of the line was already open while I was in Baku, but work had been temporarily stopped by a quarrel between the Sunni... | |
 | Charles Marvin - Baku (Azerbaijan) - 1884 - 540 pages
..."was about 160,000 tons last year, and is increasing yearly. Difficulties of transport hinder this trade to a certain extent, but these will be largely surmounted if the American plan be adopted. ... At present the naphtha is transported chiefly by water. A hundred and fifty vessels lie in the... | |
 | Benjamin Johnson Crew, Charles Albert Ashburner - Natural gas - 1887 - 532 pages
...Baku was about 160,000 tons last year, and is increasing yearly. Difficulties of transport hinder this trade to a certain extent, but these will be largely surmounted if the American plan be adopted. At present the naphtha is transported chiefly by water. A hundred and fifty vessels lie in the harbor,... | |
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