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Madder. —30,000 maunda produced. Half exported, mostly to Russia,
half used locally. Price 9 tumdns 'per kharwdr (100 maunds).
Pistachios. —50,000 maunds produced. All exported to Bandar Abbas.
Price 4 to 4| krdns per maund.
Amends.—The merchants handle some 105,000 maunds per annum
for export. Price 2 krdns per maund.
Leather. —There is a certain amount of inferior leather made locally.
All sheepskins are retained mostly for turning into pushfins,
etc. Goat-skins to the number of between 5,000 to 6,000 are
sent down to Bandar Abbas, whence they find their way to the
Arab coast.
Imports. The chief imports of Rafsinjan are
Cotton fabrics and prints. —The imports of grey goods and shirtings—•
average, as far as could be ascertained, 20,000 pieces.
Tea. —Almost entirely Lamsars. 15,000 to 20,000 lbs. annually.
Sugar. —Loaf, some 50,000 J batmans yearly, at 4£ to 5J krdns per
batman. Crystal, about 40,000 batmans yearly, at 3| to 4 krdns
per batman.
Kerosine oil .—500 to 600 cases, at 35 krdns per case.
Candles. —About the same amount, at 35 krdns per box of 30 lb.
Silks (Persian), glassware (Austrian), china (Persian and English),
enamelled ware (Russian), spices (Indian), iron, copper and tin
sheets (English), cutlery (English and Belgian), umbrellas
(Indian), and cheap, flash ornaments (mostly Austrian and
German) are imported also in quantity to fill the stalls of a
fairly large bazar.
Some 15 miles north of Bahramabad there is an opening into an under
ground river, the Chah-i-Daiia, the waters of which, if tapped, would be
available to largely increase the area under cultivation.
A customs house has been established for the prevention of ‘ gun-
running. ”
The district is not without interest from an antiquarian point of view,
as iron spear-heads, a foot long with a broad point, are often picked up.
Twenty-eight degrees (Fahr.) of frost were registered about Christmas
1905. —( Stack—Preece , 1892—Sykes, 1903—Newcomen, 1905.)
RAHAlMANlYEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A tract of land in Southern ’Arabistan on the river Karun between the
villages of Sab’eh and Mansieh.— (Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
RAHDAR— Lat. 29° 20' N. Long. 51° 17' E. Elev.
A village in the Dashtistan district of Pars, 5 miles north-north-west of
Borazjun, on the east side of the road from that town to Dalaki. It con
tains 20 houses inhabited by Borazjunis, Lurs, Khishtis and Kazarunis.
The villagers cultivate wheat and barley, and own 50 donkeys and some
mules, but they are mostly robbers. Pelly says a road here branches off
towards Kanzak and leads up to the Gisehkan: and also that there is a path
from here by Bagh-i-Dard to the Gisehkan pass over the mountain of the
same name. These two may be identical, but they both lack recent corro-
boration.-"—(jPe%— Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
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