Coll 28/111 ‘Persia. Kermanshah – Political diaries.’ [‎194r] (390/751)

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£&• Th« local , rmc # nuarkct i*«iactod violently to the
prospect of n partial crop failure. Che *>ric» of wheat
rose In a few days from 125 toman 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. e a kharfar to !&) toman 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. a
a iharvrar and Haa now become stationary a^ain at t-ie high
level of 1<55 toraana. •iret 1 bread in the tom^ la correa-
pondiTt^ly
month*® price
scarce anti c^sta C rial a a Kilo iaeteua of last
of 4 rial a* with the reoult that about two
thl*fti #f .the town la now gating ths 1 aouIterated breaa of
^aoverruwsnt once more. X emus a of ouveruiijont flour to
iakera, after dropping to a no^llglble figure last month f
have had to be mad* at a; average rate of 15-17 tons a day
since May Ctfc raid in the last day a of tht tenth rooe to
tons* Thu people duu^liKe the part-barley oread, whilst
neither the bo .era nur the nillera have taken vary kindly
to the ncceaeity of doling iiiost of their bueinaaa for the
CoverameBt, Just v hen dealings with ths frea Market had
come to &£&& sv/ much more profit for them, ana both have
been making difficulties for the C.n.O. to solve. The
bakcrc say the millers are auultorating the flour aad have
threatened to air ike, their real ob^eot pinibably b«i»g to
force the Ooverfiis&at to isra^ to them wheat unu barley
flour separately, not air* aup mixed, so that try can sell
the wheat flour in the free market at a handsome prolit.
The millers Complain that the water mappiy for their waier-
ndlla la inaue^uatc, aiiU moreover that the Gcvermuerit
milling rates ars too low| they would rather work, ox
courae, for private customsro, at a iee related to tht free
not tht official price of grata, twice or thine times what
tht Ucveramcnt can pay* Both millers and bakers would like
to uue the de&mees of grain in the tree market to hold the
town to riaioom but arc e^rcifully prevented from doi/ig so
by tht amp ig stores
25. Ixi the swtcuui month of the .«r4sisjn ye*r (Ordibehesht )
and the first week of the third (xhordad) another thousand
oda tons of fc.rnin s«ere collected from tht last harvest,
srd on the 8th Fhcrdnd (Mey 29th; total collections stood
lttj iheat 22,524 tons
Burley 11,841 tons
Totals 54,480 tons.
It is unlikely that much more grain will bo collected.
Stocks In hand on the same date wares
Kermanahah
iirfeuichea
2,80S tons wheat
664 tans wheat
1,256 tons barley
b**4 tone barley.
24. from th ei.e fctacvu the 0.6.6. expects to be able to
send a further 790 tens oi wheat ana BGu tana of barley