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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎431r] (866/982)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (487 folios). It was created in 1910. 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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SHI—SHI
851
the ydlldq or warm country, where they spend the winter, to the sardslr
or upland region, and the clip is collected either by nomad chiefs or by
traders, and sent down to Bushire. All export business is done from the
ports. The wool produced in the interior is all used for carpets and blan
kets. There is a large export trade in carpets with Egypt, Jiddah and
Baghdad. The value of this trade in 1904 is stated to have been
tumdns 500,000' (£83,330). Kirman carpets are sold in grades at a certain
price per carpet zar\ Qashqal and Arab carpets produced in Ears are,
however, sold by the piece and not by measure. Woollen goods are imported
in limited quantity by the European firms here, from whom the few shop
keepers, who handle this class of merchandise in the bazars, are replen
ished. The retail dealers are known as Simsdzes or Simsdrs.
Cotton.—The trade in raw cotton is now almost entirely with Russia. It
has been seriously checked by the Russo-Japanese war, but, even so, Persian
growers and dealers find the Russian market offers them better prices than
does Bombay. Some cotton is still, however, sent to Bombay, where it is
used for mixing with better qualities. The cotton passes in purchase
from producers to middlemen and thence to shippers. Some 4,000 bales of
cotton are used locally in the manufacture of a coarse cloth of narrow width,
resembling the Indian garrah and known as karbds. The prices in 1904 of
the raw cotton ranged from3f krdns to 6J krdns per Tabrizi man of 6| lbs.
Cotton fabrics. —Till very Acently the British manufactures and shippers
had the market entirely in their own hands, and Russian stuff was rarely
seen on the market. Now, however, Russia has begun sending her fabrics,
and especially her prints, down south, and the bazars are full of Russian pro
duce. The rush is an artificial one entirely, and every sale entails heavy loss
to the Russian manufacturer and Government. The average loss by the
varying exchange is great, and to this must be added drawbacks and other
accommodations and assisted freights. The Russian prints are copies of
English designs, lacking somewhat in finish, but the cloth, though narrow
of width, is universally described as good, though more coarse than English,
unloaded and dyed in fast colours. Since Russia began to work in Shiraz
it is said British imports have fallen off by about 4,000 bales per annum.
Madder. —No madder is produced in the vicinity of Shiraz, but about 1,000
cwts. of root are handled on the Shiraz market. Shiraz imports this from
Isfahan, Yazd and Abrquh. About 300 cwts. are exported again, going
mostly to Bombay. The rest is used in Ears. Price per (650 lbs.)
tumdns 8| to 9|.
O'pium. —Three thousand chests (of 27 tumdn Tabrizi) are exported to
Hong-Kong and to England, and 500 chests used locally. The heavy ex*
port duty placed on opium, lately increased from 5 to 14 per cent, ad valorem,
and the fact that it used to be very largely adulterated with gum ganjideh
(CrF) hit the export opium trade very hard. There are many grades of opium.
Prices range at present according to quality from 20 tumdns to 34 tumdns
per Shiraz man of 7'25 lbs.
Gum, tragacanth. —Shiraz is the great collecting, sorting and distributing
centre for the gum, some of the stuff, about 30,000 mans Tabrizi, coming from
as far away as Rafsinjan and Hamadan. Some of the best and purest gum,
though this is not equal to the best that finds the sea at AhwSz, is produced
6 P 2

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The item is Volume III of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).

The volume comprises that portion of south-western Persia, which is bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north and east by a line drawn through the towns of Khaniqin [Khanikin], Isfahan, Yazd, Kirman, and Bandar Abbas; and on the south by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .

The gazetteer includes entries on villages, towns, administrative divisions, districts, provinces, tribes, halting-places, religious sects, mountains, hills, streams, rivers, springs, wells, dams, passes, islands and bays. The entries provide details of latitude, longitude, and elevation for some places, and information on history, communications, agriculture, produce, population, health, water supply, topography, climate, military intelligence, coastal features, ethnography, trade, economy, administration and political matters.

Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.

The volume contains an index map, dated July 1909, on folio 488.

The volume also contains a glossary (folios 481-486).

Compiled in the Division of the Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India.

Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.

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1 volume (487 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 489; 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. Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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