Show I nEOUncE PEUSU y 01 CPIE AxD 1E AWAXTXJia EPIS Ct 17TALISTS yet bright I dt happy hlttory may yet be in store for 1enIa Hecent sdrveja have shown that tie supply of coal In UIIIIpy tO thutttatels practically un limited and that at the pits mouth ffo It rants produced and sold for 5 or 0 shillinuB R ton At present coal Is only wotked at llir fort or fifty miles from Teheran where the output out-put eacli year Is 15000 tons Iron believed to b found In close con junction with these Persian coal fieldsbutatpresent only one mine mDe near Teheran nroducin exielUnt ore and 70 per cent of the metal It likely to seriously worke The Elbuiz range i also rich in this mineral the ere producing from t5 i t CO per cent of metal Copper ia fond throughout the country and was one tf the chief exports from Goiubrooru 170 years g There Is also abundance of lead In thu UlKirn mountains and as there li a great demand for this metal In ltus > 1 i is expected thai a profitable trade In I can Lecarriid on access the Caspian Ex |