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Of other trees, willows, poplars and sanjid (Eloeagnus angustifolia)
Trfceg exist in all gardens ; planes are rare ; a few
pines at Qadamgah.
In the mountains near Bar are old copper and lead mines ; near Abidin
Mineralg and Karakuchi salt quarries; near Ma’dan are
the celebrated turquoise mines; and in the
Batau mountains an old, long since neglected, lead mine.
„ . ,. The district has about 50,000* inhabitants,
Population. i • n t> •
^ chiefly Persians.
A few nomads come every summer to Nishapur ; these are Baluchis
and Timuris. The former settle down in the western, the latter in the
eastern, part of the district. There are about 3,000 Baluchi families in
Khorasan ; they were removed from Baluchistan in 1835. In the Darb-i-
kazi sub-district, near the village Jilu, and in the Takan Kuh district near
SluLab, have been living, since about 1839, some Afghan families.
Government.
Khorasan.f
The district is governed by a governor
(Hakim) subordinate to the Governor-General of
It furnished 250 savdrs and 100 foot soldiers.
The district is divided into fourteen sub-districts, called Buluks; (1)
Sub-divisions Bar ’ Bar ' i * Ma,dan » (3) ’Arbakai, (4) Takan
Kuh or Taghan Kuh, (5) Taht-i-Julgeh, (6) Madul
or Mazul, (7) Rivand, (8) Darb-i-Kazi, (9) Ardeh Ghich, (10) Zabar Khan,
(11) ’Ishqabad, (12) ’Is-haqabad, (13) Marush or Marushk, (14) Nishapur.
(1) Bar. —This sub-district is the northernmost of the Nishapur district.
It has 15 Q any eh (villages) and several Mazra’eh (smaller villages, hamlets).
The real village, Qariyeh, (Arabic for the Persian deh), has a kadkhudd
(a kind of mayor) who is responsible for the mdlidt (revenues of the State).
The Mazra’eh (literally a field under cultivation) belongs to the village, and
its name is generally not inscribed in the registers of government, as it has
* The revenue of the Nishapur district is said to be 60,000 tumans per annum, and
Kevenue the population of the whole district.is estimated at the
same number, comprised in about 300 villages —
(C. E. Yate.)
f Note. —^The Governor of the district is the Naiy r-ud-Dauleh, a Kajar Prince
whose father held the Government before him, and in whose family the Government
has been for the last forty years. He owns large property in the district and has done
a good deal to improve the town of Nishapur. The Naiyir-ud-Dauleh a year ago
went to Tehran, and there obtained the appointment of Governor of the City and Chief
of the Police of Tehran. Hitherto he had to account for the revenues of Nisha
pur to the Governor-General of Khorasan, but on obtaining his Tehran appointment
he also got the revenue of Nishapur allotted to himself for the payment of the Tehran
Police, and by this means has secured entire independence of the Khorasan Govern
ment. On the departure of the Naiyir-ud-Dauleh, his son, the Fath-us-Saltaneh, was
appointed to succeed him, but the people complained against him and his father
recalled him two months ago and sent the Baian-us-Saltaneh in his place— {C. E.
Yate, December 1897.)
The Naiyir-ud-Dauleh has since been dismissed from the Governorship of Tehran
as well as that of Nishapur, and another Governor has been appointed and placed
under the Governor-General of Khorasan.