‘Diplomatic and Consular Reports. Persia. Report for the Year 1908-09 on the Trade of the Provinces of Seistan and Kain.’ [12r] (23/50)
The record is made up of 1 file (25 folios). It was created in Jan 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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gEISTAN AND KAIN.
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coloured opaque tears, with a peculiar odour and a bitterish taste.
Elsewhere called Ushdk. Used as a material in colouring wood; a paste
is made of the gum and smeared on to the wood and the colouring
matter or gold leaf is then applied. The drug is exported to Europe,
where it is administered as an expectorant and employed as an ingre
dient in plasters.
Boding or Bunas'—X) sual price 4 krans per man. The dried root of
madder (Bubia so). A dyeing material.
Katira. —Gum tragacanth. Usual price 4 krans per man. A gum
of an Astragalus. The gum of the Kainat is said to be somewhat red
in colour.
Saffron. —288 krans per man. Stigmas of the Crocus Sativus.
The following note on the cultivation of saffron is by Mr. W. R.
Howson (Indian Telegraph Department) :— :
IP The saffron grown in the Kainat is noted as being of the very
highest quality. Almost all of it is produced in the northern district
of Kain.
“ The yearly production is estimated at from 250,000 to 500,000
miskals, equivalent to from 2,500 to 5,000 lbs.
“ The average price in the Birjand bazar is 80 krans per 100 miskals ;
the value of the annual crops thus working out to from 4,000L to
8,000L (11. = 50 krans).
“ About one-thirtieth of the whole quantity produced is consumed
in the Kainat, the remainder being all exported. The following figures
taken from the trade statistics for the year 1907-08 form a good guide
as to the average quantities exported annually to various countries
and places
Lbs.
“ Khorassan and Russia ... ... ... 700
Bandar Abbas ... .... ... ... ... 500
Ispahan ... .... ... ... ... ... 500
Tehran ... ... 450
Kerman ... ... ... ... ... ... 250
Yezd ... ... ... ... ... ... 250
India (vi& Seistan-Nushki trade route) ... 250
Afghanistan ... ... ... ... ... ~ 200
“ A portion of the saffron exported to Bandar Abbas, Ispahan, Ker
man and Yezd no doubt finds its way to India.
“Most of the exported saffron is sent through the Persian post.
m The saffron is a bulbous plant of the genus crocus. It bears a
purple flower containing six stigmas. Three of the stigmas are red and
are the saffron proper, whereas the other three are yellow and possess
none of the properties of saffron and are consequently discarded.
“ 1 man (3 lbs. 10 ozs.) of flowers yields 5 miskals (2 tolas) of
saffron.
y The best time for planting the bulbs is from July tq September;
after the soil has been prepared and well manured, the bulbs are put
down in rows, a distance of from 6 to 9 inches separating the bulbs and a
similar distance the rows. The plant flowers for about 10 days only,
about the middle of November. The flowers are collected before sun
rise and the saffron stigmas removed and tied in small bundles ready
for the market. Every year, after the flowering ceases, the ground is
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The file consists of a printed report on the trade of the provinces of Seistan and Kain [Sīstān and Qā’en] in Persia [Iran] for the Year 1908-1909, by Major Roger Lloyd Kennion, HM Consul for Seistan and Kain. It is Number 4396 of the Annual Series of Diplomatic and Consular Reports. The report was edited at the Foreign Office and the Board of Trade, and presented to both Houses of Parliament of the United Kingdom in January 1910.
The report includes a table of contents, which lists sections including: tabular statements showing currency, weights and measures, and population and products; the movement of trade in articles in which British and Indian industries are principally interested; openings for British trade; the comparative progress of foreign competition; difficulties which the law and practice of the country place in the way of trade; trade routes; concessions to traders; local products; livestock; mines; factories; current prices; the cost of living; population and health; and statistics of imports and exports.
The report includes a map showing trade routes in Seistan and Kain and the surrounding area (folio 3).
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