1840.] Silk Trade between Shikarpoi^e and Khorassan, 845 



List of prepared thread from the raw " Toonee^\ 



1. Pistakee, 1 Same dyes 



2. Chumunee, i used as the 



3. Subz, [> above, price 



4. Ashmanee (light blue Indigo) 24 Rs. per 



5. Achoo, J assar. 



6. Three shades of cochineal, Rs. 26-12 per seer. 



The raw silks " Gheilanee' and " Kuloochur^^ are not in any general 

 use, " Kokanee'^ and " Toonee^' being the principal importations, and 

 the most in use. 



The expense of transmitting goods from Shikarpore to the sea, 

 by water carriage, may be easily ascertained, as certain rates have 

 been established by the British Government ^or freight by packet 

 boats ; thus, from Sukkur to Kurrachee Buncher, one Company's rupee 

 per maund dead weight, or one rupee per cubic foot for light goods. 

 The expense of transport from Shikarpore to Sukkur by the Scindh 

 Canal, is \ rupee per maund, or 2 Rs. per camel, carrying 5 maunds ; 

 the export town duties to be paid at Shikarpore. Export duties again 



at Kurrachee on raw silk would be thus 



1st. Duties on purchasing in the bazar, and clearing the town 

 of Shikarpore, as far as the Scindh Canal — Shikarpore ru- 

 pees 16: 4: per maund. 

 2nd. Export duty at Kurrachee about 5 Rs. per cent. 

 A calculation from the above may be pretty accurately formed of 

 the price at which the article would come into the Bombay market ; 

 and as it will hereafter be to the interests of the native govern- 

 ments to modify many of the imports which may at present be consi- 

 dered vexatious and offensive upon trade, silk and other commodities 

 from the north-west may, with the advantage of water carriage from 

 Shikarpore to the presidency, enter considerably into the market of 

 Bombay by the route of the Indus. 



