'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [‎146r] (296/610)

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CHAPTER VH.
Economic Resources.
(а) Trade Generally.
(б) Imports and exports. Statistics.
(c) British and Foreign Interests.
(d) Products under separate sub-heads— i.e. Minera's^
Forests, Agriculture, Industries.
(e) Supplies and Transport at various centres.
Trade generally 256, local trade within the area 263—Imports
and exports with statistics 263—British and Foreign interests :
British interests 269—Imperial Bank of Persia 269—Persian
Transport Company 270, Mesopotamia Persia Trading
Corporation Ltd. 271, Messrs. Ziegler 271, Russian interests,
Russian Bank 271, Road Company 271, Enzali Port Trust 272,
Caspian Fisheries 272, Tumaniantz 274, Khustaria concerns
275, Forests 275—Products 275, minerals 275, forests 278,
Agriculture, general 280, wheat and barley 282, productive
districts, mode of cultivation and yield 282, quality 284,
division of harvest between landlord and peasant 285,
lucerne, rice 285, millet 288, vegetables 288, fruit, 289,
olives 289, cotton 291, tobacco 292, tea 292, sugar 293,
honey 293—Industries 293, Caspian Fisheries 293, silk 296,—
Tables of supplies and transport 302, supplies 302, prices
of 306, labour 307, transport 308.
A.—Trade Generally.
The geographical position of this area, which contains some Facilites for
of the principal markets of Persia, is so convenient to the Caspian ^ North-Wes^r
and so distant from any other sea board, that at all times the Persia,
whole of it must be peculiarly dependent on the markets of
Russia, while the provinces of Gilan and Mazandaran, open to
the Caspian and isolated behind the barrier of the Elburz moun
tains from the plateau of Persia, have no other natural outlet
for their products.
Moreover, the principal raw products of Northern Persia,
i.e., rice, cotton, fruits, pelts, skins, fish, timber etc., are all
required by Russia, and on the other hand Russian products,
especially sugar and textiles, are well adapted to Persian
markets.