'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [‎151v] (307/610)

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Ricf.
Carpets.
Raisins and
dried fruits.
Pistachios.
Walnuts.
Lamb Skins.
Pelta.
Silk.
Fish and
Caviane.
in Mazandaran, where the cost of production and of export is
very low.
Rice from Gilan and a small quantity from Mazandaran.
The Mazandaran rice was mostly consumed locally or
exported to the Elburz villages and Tehran.
The total export increased from a yearly average of
26,000,000 krans for the period 1906 to 1910 to an average of
44,000,000 for the period 1911 to 1915.
This area contains no important carpet producing district
and the carpets exported from Enzali were forwarded through
Kazvin from other parts of Persia, e.g., Hamadan.
Raisins and Dried Fruits were exported from Kazvin and
Khamseh.
From Kazvin the annual export amounted to 300,000
1 poudsiof green, and 100,000 pouds of purple raisins. The total
export of raisins and dried fruits varied little from year to year.
Some 1,500 sacks per annum were sent from the Damghan
region and a similar quantity from Kazvin.
Some 500 kharvars were exported annually from the Dama
vand district.
Some 6,000 to 8,000 bales annually used to go to Russia
chiefly from Fars, and also a few from Baghdad.
Some 100,000 foxes and 10,000 sables were forwarded
through Kazvin from Central Persia. Sable, pig, and other
skins were also exported from Mazandaran.
Silk was exported from Gilan and Mazandaran, most of it
to Italy and a little to Marseilles.
Owing to the causes described in paragraph (d) p. 296, the
amount has decreased greatly of recent years.
The total export of fish and caviare through the Customs of
Astara, Enzali, Meshed-i-Sar, and Bandar-i-Gaz, i.e., from
the South Caspian Fisheries, from March 1913-14 amounted to
17,363,281 lbs. valued at 5,190,186 krans.
The total export of fish from Persia has decreased from
50,122,319 lbs. valued at 21,529,165 krans in 1908-9 to>
20,655,622 lbs. valued at 7,886,199 krans in 1913-14.
No separate Customs Statistics for these Southern Caspian
ports were published before 1912-13 so the figures for 1913-14
cannot be compared with previous years, but as in 1913-14 the
1 1 poud ««= 36