تقارير ومراسلات تتعلق ببلاد فارس، بما يشمل التجارة ومساراتها في بلاد فارس [ظ‎‎١‎٩] (٢٥٢/٣٨)

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Number in
Table of
Statistics.
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REPORT ON TRADE OF PERSIA.
Tabriz the high cost of wages and wool making them nearly as
expensive as the fine qualities. As regards price, so much
b»&. St» && b “b;
13 , .S, tat the carpets made »itb them are lor the ntost part
disposed of in the eastern markets, Russia and Egypt.
Textiles Cotton, Raw.
According to Bushire Consular Reports the average export at
the Port of Bushire and Bunder Abbas for seven years ending
iqoi was 11,000 cwts., and for the two years ending. 1902, 7,400
cwts. In 1900, however, the export was exceptionally large.
The exports to Russia for the year 1889 canno we a
exceeded 5 120,000 cwts., for 1898 they are given in the Russian
Statistics as 261,000 cwts., and for the year ending March .902,
according to Persian statistics, they amounted to 267,000 cwts.
Persian cotton appears not to be good enough in quah y
suit the Indian or home markets, and in the southern provinces 1
can hardly be grown at remunerative prices for export.
Russia imposes a tax of Rbls. 4-15 per poud on cotton im
ported over European and Black Sea frontiers, and of copecks 40'
per poud on Persian cotton, a difference of Rbls. 3 75 per poud,
or over 2M per lb. This is about equal to the cost of transport
to Moscow from Kerman, perhaps the most distant Pf° v ‘"^ e fr °£
which cotton is exported to Russia. Russia can hardly be depend-
ent for raw cotton on Persia, from which she draws only about 8
percent, of her total imports of that staple. However, 2 6 7 .oo 0
cwts or 827.000 pouds at Rbls. 3-75 amounts to over Rbls.
, ,00 000. This difference in duty is sufficient to account for the
prosperous, if somewhat dependent, condition of cotton growing
in Persia, and for the complete absorption of the surplus crop by
11 SS 13 . • * *
Khorassan is the most important cotton growing province in'
Persia In Meshed, the chief market (August I 9 ° 3 )» the . rul ^g
price was krs. 550 per Meshed kharwar (3*90^. per lb.); in the
previous year it was krs. 850 (5l». per lb.).
F In Nishapur, a market for some 7,000 kharwars, the prices
follow the Meshed market; charges to Ashkabad are about krs. 25,
Per hjh^Sabzwar, with an export of 5,000 kharwars, cotton is sold by
the load of two bales, and the ruling price in August 1903 was-
krs. 175 per load of 30 Tabriz mans (3-90^. per lb.). From
Shahrud some 2,000 to 3,000 bales are exported.
Central Persia, Ispahan, Yezd, Kashan, all now_grow large
quantities of cotton for the Russian market. Ispahan is reported
to export annually some 25,000 bales of six pouds each. .
In Azerbaijan some cotton is grown in the regions bordering the
Urmiah lake ; the annual export may be 5,000 to 7,000 cwts.
Price (July 1903), krs. 10 to krs. 11 per man of 1,000 miskals (4a.
to 4f^. per lb.). . . ,
Lar^e quantities of cotton must be consumed in the country
in the manufacture of carpets and numerous native textiles, but it
is impossible to arrive at an estimate of the total crop or the
acreage devoted to the culture of this staple.
o —
' • IoT ,.u an about krs. To per poud, and charges to Enzeli about krs. 2 - 8 o per
* The average value in sp , . ^ f rom Koom, and 10,000 from the Zirand district find their
poud. Some lO.oOo b . aes f t 01 ? J^e^ An 0 average value in Kazvin is about krs. S 00 per kharwar (650