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./f'collcn Carp fin. — Tin' export of 1912-13 reach­ A fair year’s production in flic Ispahan and Far*
ed a high level, being valued above £5:0,000. provinces is estimated io aggregate 1,M>0 tons of
Figures of recent years have been :— sweet almonds.
Ten*. Prospects for business in 1013-14 are extremely
lr-o-'-o? . 40.004 good. From Isfahan a record yield is reported
Hl'7-08 . •-V..777 103 (all localitirs show ge-d returns ami no weather
ivn«.oo . S9.O70 118 or Might damage! amounting to 50t',*.)00 Shall
Hf-10 .. f 0.018 103
101' 11 . 9 l.v8 maus of 10'U9 lbs. or over 2,9U0 tons.
11*11-12 . ' 3.033 3' >2 Owing to similarly good yield in the northern
1H2-13 . . SO.814 308 provinces the demand from Russia in the Isfahan
A grtat fillip has been given to this trade rid province is anticipated to he less than usual:
llushiie, which represents the output of Fars transport animals are working more regularly and
ehiillv, by tlie advent of several Kuroj-can earjet in greater uunil.ers than hitherto, and downward
liunsVith European agents at Shiraz, who have rates of tran>] urt hire are low. In addition to
bought very heavily. The carjets of bars are these favourable circumstances for export, prices
couhned to the Kashgai, Arab and >ttieoty|id in London have rit-cn to 1*20 and 130 shillings per
jatlerns, and the line weaving, colouring, and, owt., oO or 40 shillings higher than in recent
above all, design of former days is booming, as years, and owing to poor crops reported to have
far as Vars is couetrned, a lost art. lEc Euro­ resulted in Italy and the near Hast there is a
pean Grins purchasing from Smyrna or America, good deuuiud for Persian kernels, Holders of
Loudon, or the Continent, buy and ship these the new er-..p in Isfahan are however reported to
carets for treatment of the colours by chemical he demanding larger prices than is warranted, and
and electrical processes, whieh tone down the this may delay export.
i ruder colourings. The introduction of aniline
and synthetic dyes has done great harm to the The 1913 crop in Fars is not reported good.
reputation of the Persian carpet, and the Customs Owing to lack of rains, blight and other reasons,
prohibition has altegclhor failed to prevent smugg­ the yield is far below* the average COO tons.
ling of these articles. The Administration ther-.- Gum ImoiuUc and Gun Tragacanth.—Corn-
fure decided to penalise the exj.rt of carpets dy<d pa inti vc figures of the export of these two im­
with aniline, and in October 19i2 a p rovisional portant items of Bushirc and Shiraz export trade
export duty of 3 per cent, ad r^/0r(tn was intro- during present years is instructive.
ducid ‘r. order to enable ir.cn.har.ts to cl- ar stocks.
This held good till March 1913, when the duty j G-3, Insoluble. Gr.tn, Tragr^riath.
was raised toG per cent, ad valorem for another 9
months ; subsopunt to September 1913 further
arrangements will be announced. C Tons. C Ton*.
For the Iasi 5 months cf the period under re­ 1907-08 "•.115 419 7'*.577 736
H7.8G1 I
fV'-.l
view* tin’ number of c-arj ets so dyed with aniline, 19.S-U9 H.-'Sl 715 65.892 I 021
929
5S9
1909- 10
exported no Pjshire, was 3,270, without aniline 1910- 11 21.104 1.338 72.3SG 6C3
9,i97. Owing to the tribal migration of the 1911- 12 2**.737 1.9.7 S6,579 ' 7S9
Kashgais in the autumn of 1912 and spring of 1913-13 2-*..; 59 1.410 79,312 099
1013 keeping aloof from Shiraz, carpvts were
scarcer than usual, hut export has been bri.-k Tlic export of both articles seems to have reach­
throughout the period. ed a limit : while the output of Gum Insoluble
Ainords.—This article of export should be far lias increased considerably in the past G years, as
more important than it is, and is capable of conri- the mountain tree from which it is obtained grows
derable devdojment; hut of recent years average prolilieally all over the mountainous region which
crops only in the Isfahan province, a heavy connects the littoral with Shiraz and northern
demand from Russia, low prices in London, high Fars, and is able to resist the rough usage to
prices asked for by cultivators, and, above all, which it is put by trilespeoph? collecting the gum,
the absence of sulficient transport animals and the output of Gum Tragacanth, owing to the des­
higher price of transport hire between Lfaban and tructive methods us-d to obtain tbe exudations
Busbire have combined to militate against export from the bush, is more likely to shrink than grow.
rid tbe South to the United Kiugdom. In India The chief market for the Insoluble variety is in
there is generally a good market, and better prices India, Soudan Gum having displaced all but the
than in Europe. Thus ibeoxportof the past few finest kinds of tbe Persian variety from the Londcn
years has never exceeded £53,01*0, or some 050 market, while London is the principal market for
tons: in 1912-1-3 it was 53S tons valued et £-!5,PG7. Gam Tragacanth. In July 1912 there were about
Prices in Shiraz for Almond kernels ranged 11,000 packages of Persian and Mesopotamian
from Krans 15 to Krans 17$ (5*. Tad. to G*. 4d.) per Gum in stock in London.
Shiraz man of 7$ lbs. Almonds in shells
Krans 3 20 to 3*50 (13Jr/, to 1 bd.) pr-r 74 lbs. For the past year or two the London Gum
Almonds are exported from Bushire both in market has been congested with consignments
shells, and as kernels and the 533 tous was distri­ from Persia, and many still lie unsold. The ex-
buted as follows :— l»ort from Bushire, Mohammerah and Busrah
Almond kertel* to India . 2.087 Ba?*. combined is as much as can lie dealt with. In
1,306 Doable bag*. sympathy with London and Bombay, Bushiru
To London . 1,146 Bag*. pricesof Gum Iusolul le kept very low during 1012-
To Gulf I’orU . 69 Bag*. 13, starling at 48 Krans (17*. 5d.) ]*r llashcin
4,509 man in March, they rose to 54? Krans (19*. !nL) in
July, and then fell to 48 Krans and continued at
Air..on-in in *hc!b to In-iia . 410
_37 Double bog*. 42 (15*. lid.) from CXlober to the end of the p-oriod.
477 Shiraz prices were 2$ to 2$ Krans (9J<f. to 11<L)
per man of 7$ lb6.