‘Persia – especially Seistan’ [‎421v] (841/949)

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have been, or that will he, spent on his entertainment as a good investment on
our behalf.
Paragraph 19. — S} nthetic Indigo. On further enquiry I find that, for
some extraordinary reason or other, Synthetic Indigo is not excluded in the
prohibition applied to aneline dyes, which strikes me as looking somewhat like
a job worked by our German friends, and I think it would be well worth while
for the Indigo Planters* Association, or the Chamber of Commerce, taking the
matter up with the Legation at Tehran, confidentially, and have the dye
brought under the prohibition.
Dated Camp Saiidabad, the 2nd December 1904.
From— Lieutenant-Colonel A. Gleadowe Newcomen, President, of the Commercial
Mission, Persia,
*To—A. Shakespear, Esq., Secretary to the Upper India Chamber of Commerce
Cawnpore.
In continuation of my letter of the 29th, I have the honour to inform
you that, owing to stormy weather, w r e have been detained here three days
longer than we intended. We hope, though the weather looks threatening still
to move to-morrow morning on the road to Pariz, which we reach the day after *
I have been employing our time in interviewing the merchants, showing
them samples, and generally trying to get them interested on the subject of
trade with India. I have also secured specimens of the goods mostly in demand
here, and am sending them to you duly marked with the cost prices at
Saiidabad. I have also included specimens of almonds, pistachios, o- um
tragacanth, as it is possible that some of the Indian merchants in Cawnpore
may see a field for the opening up of a trade in these articles.
The prospects of trade in Saiidabad would doubtless improve if Govern
ment could be persuaded to place a Consular Agent here—a move which, I hear
is contemplated. *
The principal merchant here, Mir Rais-ul-Tajar, Aga Gulam Abbas, send
ing a small trial order to the Muir and Woollen Mills, Cawnpore, and*! trust
this may be the prelude to a considerable trade in the future.
Before entering into details of trade, there are a few hints I would o-i V e to
those firms who intend to try and push trade in Persia, and a few remarks T
would make on some special points.
A telegraph code.—It would be well if firms trading with Persia were to
create a telegraphic code word, with its English translation, and then the
sentence which this code word is intended to represent in Persian and English
Ihe adoption of such a code would enable merchants to use either the Persian*
or the English (Indo-Persian) Telegraph system, as the case might be and
would, I am sure, facilitate business considerably. ’
The telegraph systems .— A considerable drawback to tradino- facilities in
this country is the dual system of telegraphs. There is the Persfan system on
winch messages are transmitted in the vernacular, and it is rare, indeed, to meet
laSe 61 “ teleSraph9 Wh0 understaDds anything but his own
Goods and samples.— ■ 'Eivios trading with Persia ought to take care to have
all samples marked clearly with the price in Persian, and their distinctive
maTbelhtn in'rupee 8 ! nS ’ &C " alS ° 0leal ' ly “ that laD ^age. Prices
, , It "° u J d be advisable to have all goods marked, or labelled with the Shah’s
andthe'rising s^ 6 ^ e f 0 T “ " with the Dati - al emblem^theton
sun “hind hfm Thi s i now be^ d^ne • rega ‘' dant ’ the
by the Bomhav Parsec, T w! i by t 16 ™ 311 and Russian firms, and
y y 1 hope to send you a specimen label or two, later.
the cltmTdutJes aTeTfonor the rU ' eS a ? d Rations as to
mentioned specifically in the tariff and re ^ a !^ m ? c ^ iar ges on items not