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This pun conies more especially from 3 sources: the output is exported vul north and Russia, but in
locally fr°,n Hills, from Bchbchan, and 1910 owing to the state of the route to Shiraz a larger
iK,st quality from Shiraz. In the last two years percentage went that way.
\has much* ad vanned in price in Bushire, starting
«3 Krans (per man of 7J lbs) about March 1910 it The current year’s prices in Ispahan arc for sweet
{llto 31-32 Kr ins, rose by October 1910 to 11 Kr.;n3, kernels 'JO Krans, bitter kernels, Hi Krans, ptr Shah
(ioro averaging 39-42 Kraus. Shiraz guiu is perhaps i man of 13 09 lbs., and for utishcllcd almonds, sweet
o Krans dearer, with the expense of transport added. j 4*35, bitter 3*35 Krnn9.
The export of tragacanth to tlu* United Kingdom, i The 1911 crop of Shiraz almonds, which arc con-
Germany and the United States showed an advance | 6idercd inferior to those of Ispahan, was average, but
tfvond that of 1909-10. Ispahan reports in the J owing to the extremely disturbed state of the country
cciri-nt year give prices ruling at 23 to 30 Krans per ; around Shiraz very few are being brought in. Prices
j-ja of 13*09 lbs. for unassorted gum. j in Shiraz for kernels have been Krans 14 to 15 per
Shiraz man of 7*3G lbs. Prices are rising.
Almonds.
The almond crop of 1910 was a bumper one csti- IL G. CHICK,
D3ted at over 200,000 Shah mans, or 1,170 tons ; the
cicp of 1911 is estimated at about 93,000 Shah mans, I Commercial Adviser to the
ct 572 tons. In ordinary years about GO per cent of Political Resident & Consul-General.

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