Her railway enterprises, more ambitious than those of any other foreign Power, have brought valuable concessions in their trainharbour works at Haidar Pasha and Alexandretta, irrigation works in the Konia oasis and the Adana plain, and the prospect, when the Bagdad Railway reaches the Tigris, of tapping the naphtha deposits of Kerkuk.

They have secured also the Haidar Pasha Harbour concession, thereby controlling and handling all merchandise arriving at railhead from the interior of Asia Minor.

The profit on the Haidar-Pasha-Angora Line has risen from 42,566 francs per kilometre to 45,552.

The Haidar Pasha Harbour Company has paid 8 per cent.]

There are the irrigation works at Adana, there is the beet-sugar industry at Konia, the irrigation works in the Makischelin Valley, the mineral concessions of the Bagdad Railway, the Haidar Pasha Harbour concessions, the afforestation scheme near Constantinople, the cotton industry in Anatoliathere is no end to them.

The name means "the city of Haidar."