'General information on Persia for any future edition, 1895' [‎27v] (52/211)

io OUR TRADE WITH THE PERSIAN GULF The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
during the year, was most seriously affected by the drought
and the rebellion of the Baharloo Arabs previously referred to.
The total of the imports into Bunder Abbas during the preceding
year was nearly double that noted above, that of cotton goods
alone being ^222,304. The imports into Bunder Abbas
show—Great Britain ^9,375 ; India and Colonies ^259,060 ; and
the rest of the world .£5,224. The proportions between British
trade here and that of other countries show a similarity to those
at Bushire, and not at Linggah. Of shipping, there entered
sailing 180 vessels of 6,410and steam 81 of 72,862 tons,
4,000 tons of the former and 70,362 tons of the latter being
British ; while there cleared 185 sailing vessels (native craft) of
6,900 tons, and 79 steamers of 70,862 tons.
From SHIRAZ, of a total export trade of £461,911, opium
represented £285,000 ; raw cotton £64,220 ; tobacco £63,750 ;
raw wool £17,812 ; and fruits £11,062. Out of a total import
trade of £872,160, Shiraz shows £575,187 of cotton goods ; loaf
sugar £^89,250; soft sugar £54000; metals £65,012; indigo
£23,375 ; and woollen goods £19.375. There are no entries
distinguishing British from foreign trade, though the large figures
for opium and piece-goods denote China and England respective
ly. The sugar imports received an abnormal stimulus owing to
the cholera cordon established during the year in the northern
provinces of Persia.
In the port of MoHOMMERAH, communicating with the
Karun River, the total exports stand at £67,538, there being
no one item of over £10,000; and the total imports at
£132,223, the only items above £10,000 being piece-goods
£89,200, and coffee £13,920. Of the exports, Great Britain
figures for £2,091, and India and British Colonies for about
£54,000 ; and of the imports, Great Britain for £350, and
India for £128,000. Evidently the piece-goods here allAvent
from India. The largest exports are wool and opium. Of
sea-going vessels, as distinct from the Karun River steamers,
plying up and down, there entered 11 sailing vessels of 1,018
tons, and 72 steamers of 66,841 tons, all British; and there
cleared sailing vessels of the same number and tonnage, all
British, and 61 steamers of 55,184 /<?«*, also all British. The
Karun River trade was represented by 22 British steamers
carrying 832^ tons, and 14 Persian steamers carrying $$otons,
entries, and 21 British, with 819 tons, and 14 Persian steamers
with 590 tons clearances. The total value of the import trade,
is put down as £5,371-14^., with specie £1,637- ioj-., to that
by the Persian steamers of which no returns were obtained;
and that of the export trade (/.<?., up the river), as £8,514.
This Karun River trade was a pet project of Mr. Curzon’s ;