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Reports and Correspondence Relating to Persia, Including Trade and Trade Routes in Persia [12r] (23/252)
The record is made up of 1 file (124 folios). It was created in 22 Nov 1900-20 Apr 1905. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Number in
Table of
Statistics.
PRINCIPAL ARTICLES OF COMMERCE. 19
18
Drugs.
Import. —Supplies are imported in small consignments direct
from Europe by doctors, chemists, and druggists. There is one
chemist in Teheran reported to do a large business with the
retail traders in town and country.
53
Dyes.
Aniline Dyes,
The import is prohibited in Persia, but the employment of
them continues. Certain Alizarine dyes, recognised as superior
and faster colours in comparison with the vegetable dyes in these
tints, are now admitted into the country.
Hernia.
Export* —Produced in the Yezd-Kerman region, and exported
vid Resht and Tabriz to Russia and Turkey. Price, Bushire,
krs. 2J per man.
Indigo.
Import* —From India. Has been a steady trade of some
40,000/. value per annum till 1900, but the last two years show
a decided decrease. Largely used for dyeing native and imported
cotton textiles; also in the carpet industry. The bulk of the
trade is in the inferior qualities. The trade is likely to suffer
from the decay of the native printing and dyeing industries in
Persia. Synthetic indigo is now employed to some extent.
44
Madder.
Grown in Ispahan, Yezd, Shuster, and Kurdistan districts.
Exported in small quantites from the Karun. There is also a
small trade from Tabriz to Russia in madder and yellow berry.
Fish.
The valuable fisheries of the Caspian seaboard have been
leased to the Russian firm of Lianozoff since 1888. This lease has
been renewed from time to time, and is now terminable about
1925. The rental is at present some 18,000/. per annum,
increasing in the latter years of the lease to 20,000/. per annum.
This industry has not been safeguarded in the Russo-Persian
Customs tariff against increase of duty in Russia. It is stated,
however, that the Russian Government has decided to admit the
products of these fisheries (caviare, sturgeon, salmon, &c.), into
Russia at rates equivalent to the former 5 per cent, ad ’valorem
duties, and it is presumed this privilege will hold good up. to the
termination of the existing contract between the Persian Govern
ment and Lianozoff. There are important fishing interests on the
Russian seaboard of the Caspian which would have profited from
an increase of duty on Lianozoff’s Persian products.
The more important fishing grounds are worked by the lessee.
He sublets some of the smaller stations.
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The file contains reports and correspondence relating to Persia [Iran], including reports on trade and trade routes in Persia.
It includes:
- A copy of the ‘Report Received from Mr H.W. Maclean, the Special Commissioner Appointed by the Commercial Intelligence Committee of the Board of Trade, on the Conditions and Prospects of British Trade in Persia.’
- A copy of a letter from Arthur Henry Hardinge, HM Minister at Tehran, to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Marquess of Lansdowne (Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice), enclosing an annual report prepared by Evelyn Grant Duff, Secretary of Legation, Tehran, on events in Persia during the year 1904
- Copies of the reports ‘Reconnaissance from Kondi on the Seistan Trade Route via Mashkhel-Hamun and Panjgur…’ and ‘Reconnaissance and Estimate for a Railway from Nushki to the Helmand and thence to the Persian frontier at Bund-i-Seistan’
- Copies of printed despatches from the Agent to the Governor-General in Baluchistan to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, forwarding copies of the weekly Diary of the Political Assistant, Chagai (for the weeks ending 16 February, 8 March, 24 March, 31 March, and 24 October 1901, and 31 March and 8 April 1902), and a copy of the report ‘Trade Returns of the Quetta-Seistan Trade Route, for the year 1900-1901.’ by Captain Frank Cooke Webb-Ware, Political Assistant, Chagai
- Printed copies of the Diary of Captain Robert Arthur Edward Benn, HM Vice-Consul for Seistan and Kain (for the period ending 31 March, 11 April, 30 April, 15 May, 17 June, and 15 September 1901).
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- 1 file (124 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in no apparent order within the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 126; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Mss Eur F111/357
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- Reports and Correspondence Relating to Persia, Including Trade and Trade Routes in Persia
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- front, front-i, 2r:125v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence