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TFW.-Tho best kind of Persia? wool (selected capable of being worked by donkey*) and should
Arab!) fetched G</. a lb. at homo and prc.-poets for Imj separable into component }>nrts of about a
(bo present season aro also good. Persia a fleeces, hundredweight and a half, if intended for t-ana-
however, always need ro-jorting and cleaning in jiort np-country. There arc at present in Bushiro
Kuropo; if tho Persian dialers would carry on these K Hi If some ten Hour mills, wheat cleaners and wool
operations moro thoroughly on this side no donbt tho pressed of that description. There might possibly
wool would rcalizo far Svltor prices. The native bo an opening in Bushiro for a small flour-mill
women, however, assort tho different colour?*, with a worked by machinery.
cc.rlain amount of caro, into whito, black and brown There would also appear to be some opening ^for
of both Arabi aud Turki varieties- Tlic difTercncc an export business in dried fruits, such as Shira*
in prico between these two kinds ii seine 8 or 10 per quinces, sultanas and other raisins, of which some
cent- only, but at h<*mo tbc Arafci (a softer, finer fifteen different kinds exist in Persia.
6ort) is worth 25 per cent, noro than tho other.
Local prices were SO to 00 Krr-.ri3 per Unshorn British merchants, it is satisfactory to note, are
man, or nbont 3J. per lb., which leaves a fair margin using incdcrn methods when attempting to start
of profit. fresh business in this part of Persia, distributing
price-lists and samples printed in Persian and send­
The following figures represent the export for the ing travellers to support them. (Samples and c.i.f.
past four years:—
quotations are of coarse alwayB necessary.)
JC _ It has been noticed, however, that the main idea in
1906- 07 •* 8,109 the minds of commercial travellers who visit Bushiro
1907- 03 . 3,732 scem3 to bo to got away again as soon as possible,
1903-09 , 10.S75 business fiuishod or not. Also raoro harm than
1909-10 5 993 good may bo done (for example) by placarding the
town with posters in execrable Persian done by
the export to the United Kingdom in 1909-10 being 60me illiterate Indian scribe—India is not precisely
halved. Natural reaction after the exceptional Ibo pare Persian spring for the Persian tongue—and
export of 190S-09 and the usual fluctuations of trade advertising wares at a price just one-fourth oF that
would sufficiently account dor.this. demanded by tho salesman—owing to tho Indian
Conclusion.—Enquiriesare sometimes received for scribe unfortunately not being suro of the coinage
opeuings for machinery, motors and the like. No system in Persia.
power machinery has at present any demand in Nevertheless these are hopeful symptoms, and if
Southern Persia* the only machinery likely to be safe and cheap road3 could be provided for caravans,
appreciated generally must be hand-driven (or British commerce might still prosper.

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