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y .pmr* - | The crop of in]2 was again weil favoured*
Kran*. ibaliit. botli in Fare and Ispahan, and even more exten­
(ill) Ulr® of wpirating roachina @ sive business is anticipated before the end of
10 Iran* par .00 bag* on 1912-13.
300 bag* wheat, not on
barlo/ .... 23 00 Prices of opium in Bushire for purchase in
(ip) Rudu'ta and *ioTO* i 00 Shiraz ruled high. 400 Krans (.£7-5) per Shiraz
(t>) Labourer* for cleaning (a) 15 , man of 1\ lb?, were being paid in December 1911.
kraut |'*»r 100 wheat bag* 30 CO 500 Krans (£9-2) in January and 600 Krans
(v0 Labourer* for rnhifting dirt and {.CIO-.'') in February 1012. Prices per chest of
grain ejected by reparation . 1 00 ] 60 calces ranged in the same period from 7,200
(r»Y) Oil for machine 3 00 Kr.ins (£131) to Kraus 8,500 (£151).
(riii) Blacksmith for luljnsting
machine . . 4 00 Another year of heavy
(it) Weighing fee* . . 8 03 1 Gum Insoluble and export of these two impor­
: Tragaci-nih.
(x) Twino for sewing bag* 5 10 i tant items of Persian trade
(xt) Prico of bags : 299 @ 125 Kran* ! is to be recorde<l, 1,367 tons of the former, and
per ICO bag* 373 15 787 lens of the latter being shipped via Bush ire.
Gum Tragacanth is not obtained locally, but
(xii) Miking bags and rowing . 7 05 i it is forwarded from Shiraz, where several firms
(xiiYj Porterage of filled bag* to wharf ! are active in buying and sorting it iuto it6
239 ts 20 Krans per 103 G9 00 various classes. It would appear that the London
■xi e) Lighterage to ft earner @ 33 market cannot take at present more than 25,0'jU
Krans per 100 bag* 90 03 packages, or 1,500 tons annually, of the Persian
(xpi Cui'oms Export @ l Kran per product. In addition, 4-00-300 tons (both Tragi-
120 lbs. on -l3J} Ilasbcm car.th and insoluble) is shipped via Basra, and
mans .... 115 00 some 400-500 tons of the two kinds via Moham-
; rne-rah : the export via Shiraz is more extensive
than either of these. The quantity of Gum In-
Total Kran* . 1,103 13
ioluL’e exported is, however, chiefly produced in
the m contains in th-» immediate neighbourhood of
£
Price of 333 ewis. (112 lbs.) Wheat and Bush:re, and the market for this article is as
M9c«ts., (112 ibs.! Barley, at 53 much in Busliire as at Shiraz.
Kr^ts = JJl, totalled 122
The chief centres drawn upon for this supply
Experts on fame (without freight) 21 (from Last to North of Bushire) are said to put
ou the rn irket:—
143 Tea:?.
Maiaiind . , . . ICO
The opium crop of 1911 in Fars was very good, Flrazibad .... , 150
and as that of the Ispahan
Opium. Bvr.ujun . . Ill)
province had suffered from Shiraz (from vario .s parts of Far*) . 3.0
t--' cold of the winter season 1910-11 and the • K ire rum ....
x- rition of Turkish opium was not very strong, . 225
a s*en demand was rapidly created, and prices ia Kamarij • . , , 45
>:.iraz and Busliire reached figures hitherto nn- Kblsht......................................... 75
L ard of. In addition, the gradual closing of the Binder Rig ... . 130
r. .rket in Hongkong and China to the free sale i EeM>ehan .... . 350
of Persian opium has enormously enhanced the 5 a :jtar, Ram Ilona ix . , . 175
vi2ue of the drug in Persia. However bad the j
insecurity in the environs of Fars, once the crude
exudations of the poppy have been gathered, they Totaz . 1,6-JO
ar» certain to reach their market. In the
axtamn of 1911, £300 and £-100 were being paid
It owners of opium in the villages to armed Prices in Bushire during the latter part of
e—orts, composed of Arab tribesmen, to take 1911-12 kept steady at 57-60 Krans (-20*. $d.t
fdatively small quantities into Shiraz. •21*. 10'/.) for the most part, bat fell at the end
! of the year to 55 and 48 Krnns (£1 to 17*. 5&.)
The total quantity exported in 1911-12 from per llashem man of 1?.4> lbs.
E-shire was 100ton6, valued at £24-6,036, as l
<*• npared with 37 tons and £53,732 in 1910-11. f Export trade of Southern Persia has hitherto
Of the increased export, 45 tone valued at been \ery poorly developed by Persian traders
-119,060 went to China, and 58 tons valued at <>b«T Export*. fro.ra iSnoranc« of the re-
£319,133 to London. Now that merchants are ; * quirements of quality and
boring much difficulty with the import into Hong- standard on the London market, and from mabil-
b ’Qg, various ports of consignment in the Far itv to recognize the field that exists for produce,
E-cst are being utilized, e.g.t Singapore and and wild seeds and berries ; and by European
b hing (in Formosa). Ralc6 of freight via agencies, because they either have not the time
where the weight of the chests according to give to such work, or cl5e lack the inclination
the Bombay opium laws had to be exactly to get into touch with outlying provincial centres,
lbs. were raised at the end of the yew, and Persian traders there. European represen-
V"J drove shippers into finding round-about routes tativ -s in Persia are u-ually kept far too much to
Port Said in liners sailing direct from their offices in the towns, and so get little idea of
l -ir-hire to Europe direct. what the country is able to produce.