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Tlr* most important of the small p?rts arc The value? of the imports of the mine clas^cn
«y.\vn below together with the quantities of (he of cottons were:—
j<rim'ip‘l articles transhipped to them from
Ruthin*___
I .Mnncla#*ter
I w Cr;iUI K«> Sj>l-e<. Yam* Total. Export.
CTS»r. M*»r. Kr.«.
.
To •. Tun* Ton*. Ton*. Ton*. To= Ton*. £ £
190S-CG 305,952 293,«»i
% . VO Z2H 1M 17 *
I
V,Um . • 131 nvj 1>« 113k 57| HI 1909-10 230,739 151.553
j!»-hur . CI71 uoj U 10 >1
T-afit i:i* :<oi 195 178 : j 13 1910-11 . 279,797 220,931
f n4ijiB . 1» 33 I 231 II 1
1911-12 423,972 331,£53
l»»»t . . ill 101] l) t| ?1
li'.iri . . 217 2-’» 111 It 1*1 1912-13 431,£.:3
H'lll . 221 29 <»! i IS 525.SC6
;
101 « 7 32 10
i 1913-11 337,270 23 2,£10
The figure? given for Muhummcruh probably
represent re-shipments to that port of gr<. !s Jos­
tled for Isfahan at times when transport w.js
.-carve on the Busbirc ami plentiful on the Ahwnz The fall in the value of these four classes > a*
r-ute, and are of no interest from the point of compared with the previous year, was thus
view of the coasting trade proper. .CH*>,o-jG or 3S percent, and the whole of this loss
Bandar Dilam, 'with 4,0-'0 inhabitants, is fell on Manchester. Tie Indian export remained
the forwarding port for Ilchbehan (10,000 inha­ i stationary. There is no doubt that this remart-
j able decrease is due almost entirely to the con-
bitants; the ?eat of a Bakhti.ui governor, and the
. j tiuuod import in recent years of quantities far
•Hsfiibu'ing centre for the Kuhgilu tribes, r _ j in excess of the real demand ; up-country markets
h also the port of the fertile grain producing
district of Lirawi. have been much ovez-stocked for some time,
and prices have been low. The tendency was
The other small port cf importance near thus for imports to find their normal leveL
Bushire is Bandar Rig, a rapidly growing little
township with a bazaar of its own. It feeds no The small wheat export in 1912 and the poor
luge-town, but serves itself as a distributing prospects for the harvest of 1913 (indeed, it
centre for the tribes of the coastal plain. proved a total failure), together with the possi­
Colton Piece-goods.—The following table bility of the recurrence of plagne, nny have
fhows the aggregate imports of the piece-goods destroyed confidence in the market and influenced
chsscd by customs as tissues of cotton, cotton merchants to diminish orders. It may be remarked
tulles, other tissues of cotton (plushes, etc.) aod that the large import of 1912-13 followed
t«sues of cotton and wool mixed : — the bumper harvest of 1911.
From United' From Indi*. From all
Kingdom. coantrict. In addition there were times when transport
was scarce on the Bushirc-Shiraz road, and
plentiful and cheap on the Ahwaz-Isfaban route.
Too*. Too*. Too*. A certain quantity of piece-goods destined for
^'<8-09 . I. 734 493 Isfahan was reshipped or diverted to Moham-
*'■"*•10 . J, 020 831 merah at such times.
1910- H . 1,369 407
1911- 12 . 1.S74 612
1912- 13 . 2.170 531 The increasing Russian competition in the
1*13-14 . 14164 579 Central Persian markets doubtless played its
part.