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TRADE OF THE CONSULAR DISTRICT OF BUSHIRE
for the Persian Fiscal Year 22nd March 1909 to 21st March
1910.

Grr'ral Re narks—At tho closo of the fiscal year proposes to take and whether it Is j-afe to entrust to
l?"S-09 the position of trudo whs (reported as; his care letters ’.nd parcels of a -.y value, the situa­
highly nna^und : at the end of tho period umbr rc- tion b. comes almcet cjn'cal Many of these tribes­
v ef the situation remains unchanged, every one of men bn-c sunk their all in the p ir h;u-e of n g<%od
t’.e factors hitherto responsible for commercial rifle and have no Mhcr rncara bat highway robbery
d<'fre;sion in Bashire and district being as active of supporting ifvem-elv.-a and their f .milieu. In
as«-Tvr: alts ough an abnndant rainfall has led to « ons«*qa« nee, for fo re months, »*., nntil tho enl of
buc.per harvests this summer which should react li‘0n, trtfllc wa« almost entirely susp-ndod, nn I for
healthily in various vraj3 ou mercantile conditions the reminder <*f the period ruvehantd and muleteers
derrg 1910-11. relied on the -.rua-anlec of a jow-rful Ka-hgai chief-
C.-oh-Tbc r-.vl question hi. again beca vo,y wbo did .-r . ..f. n*. I (« ntte
*•«.. A ir.ar'ced fvatnre has been that iii.be enurs. I tbrco «.fe ,on<l, N..? i-a. a,| j.rreh)
of-.as 12 mo tin no cwcrt-.n five iirM «,-,(« «hf>8'.» P •« ”>»■* coal • «» coMow te long
fo meivhac-Hzvgoing np from Bub* ire to Shiraz have i »;'V'®“,P-"1>*'7 > »<1«- By t. e summ :.-oU913 .1,.
toon in use, namely, If) vU Kaz-rnn. (if) rid Kirn- ! ? "cf "I™™ ba'! moved t . Ira an,oner qaaror^
utal, («.V> rid Jirreh .Halt Mulla-Mvan -Uvnzil- Jc Pf ,r -'noa to 'U o:,ga rni rout. *-’. ng
i
Jim-h), (,r) rid Jirteh (Bor zjnn Yang-f-Ram. * >fl<S»ph bra- (st,!l K-fesr 3,0 a.jerpt pure., of
Jirrrh). (r) vid Jirrvh (IJnrazjuD-Daliki-Sar-Mashad- I ™luc), an I m-rcr.:.n.l,ze wa-c mag <! <*» by rant.
Ji.T,b). It being a well tro-rn foot that a roa I ! -N°* ?* Tfhp“ • <1'0 gro^ng
c ,.s,i,o,cs a *ure soan-c cf revrnae to the chieftain,, s™c,t^ of, t-aa-po.t co-cfcabl, enbanred the
ta-r and ,-anall, Ibn.nnh nhoso territory it pasaa, c“rron‘ 2*° ”'cl1' “ ,hc fo'Io-.ng tabla -wdl
fperalaiioQ in ,oads became at one time a Arioua !h°w* Tbo E£jre* P,Tr" . n'Pref nt Kl».ns,P"
h pn-.znit for this gentry, every Khan beta ten <38 lbs- /'«“ Bnsbm, to Sh.,a. and a.e equivalent
ter? and bl.iraz within a radions of 70 miles dream- 10 a r,“ from £l a ,on 10 Io 2“':irt16
ingof the happy day ^hen by a regularly paid Kran*.
dou'cor or the c-xpenditare ofonelumpsnmjndi- 190V-5 avenge 80-M
tiocily f laced he might e-isarc a steady stream* of
na’eiters sttting throagh his country and peipo- 1906-07 „ 150-220-210-150
tccAly replenishing h e empty coffeis. Iutrigncs 1V07-O8 „ 1*;0-120-11’-90-HO
ibnnmcrAble took place f«>r the a*tainment of this ID'S-09 „ J 10-100-170-220
object »nd competition ran so high that if caravans 1909-10 „ 200-S50-300-310-210-2- O
■wen: induced for a time to follow a new line of
nrvrvh, the roa- gourdc of the disappointed chieftain, Matter were made still worse by a corresponding
*b»e livelihood was affected by the change, not want of security oa the . hiraz-I.-pahan s ctiou or tfier
i:Jrvqucntly crossed over to the rival track with the road. Ptcce-goocs and other raer handize for the
fielib-rt.te intention of rendering it so thoroughly l..at named town had s -mftimes been compelled to
unsafe for all and sundry that traffic would speedily take to the Aloiammerah-Ahwaz route and, when
he diverted again to its former channel, Thi6 is in the winter the latter tecame blocked, the advis­
in»en?-ting enough as a study of the manners and ability of forwarding by the ci culfous route of
customs cf the inhabitants of a lawless hill-country, B israh, Baghdad aud Kerrum-hah was even
but app.lline from the point of view of the merchant Fcriously considered and actually resorted to in a
at tome patiently striving to maintain important slight measnre. Mr«t merchants in Uie town prefer
commercial relations with this oonutry. And when the Bashire-Shiraz-l8p)ahan route if only for t»iO'
it U found necessary before using the post to enquire obvions rc-ai-on that they are able to serve mow than”4
of the official iu charge which route the courier one town at a time, ta( their Agents in Shiraz, in
nos r. a