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There are no taxes. The person engaged in the industry or trade 
must take out a certificate of the Guild, the cost of which is the same as 
that for any other corresponding industry or trade in the Russian 
Empire, 
Extract from a REPonT by Major-General T. E. Gordon on a journey 
from Tehran to Karun and Mohamrah. 
[F. O. Misc. Ser., 207, July, 1891, p. 15.] 
I observed the Liquorice plant flourishing in great luxuriance and 
abundance on the Burujird and Khoremabad plains and in the interven- 
ing valleys, and I heard of the plains at Kermanshah being similarly 
covered with it. I saw it again at Shuster, but not in plenty, and I was 
told there was not much of it lower down in the Karun valley. But 
supply in Asia Minor available yet near railways and steamers is ex- 
kill all chance of E at present prices. The plant is found in some 
abundarce near Korna, at the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris, and 
a French firm collects TM root there, sending it by water to Busrah, to 
be baled i in Messrs. Gray Pauls’ presses for export E TUM The 
short distance from Korna to the port of sea shipment, 40 miles, just 
makes the business pay, but citópereibvéy little is a in it as yet. 
Extract from Report of Statistician of United States Department of 
Agriculture, June 1893. 
“ The Sh ersientct d Elizabethpol and mns in the Caucasus, derive 
considerable benefit from Liquorice, which grows wild, needs no cultiva- 
tion, and multiplies spottknos usly. In 1878 iuo Greeks tur their 
attention to the large quantities of Liquorice in Caucasia; in 1886 they 
erected a large factory for drying and preserving the liquorice, — 
they annually export to America. The remunerative tra 
attraeted others, and to-day there exist four prominent codmuereial 
houses which carry on a wholesale trade in Liquorice, and two of which 
have erected extract factories in this country. Annually there are pro- 
duced about 108,339,000 pounds of raw Liquorice, which, after drying, 
yield 36,113, 000 pounds of marketable merchandise. For raw Liquo- 
rice the factories pay on the average fivepence halfpenny per 1 
pourds.’ 
Extract from Reronr on the Trade of Aleppo. 
[F. O. 1893. Annual. No. 1,200. ] 
Liquorice root has largely developed, and merits special attention. 
Collection is now made on a large scale throughout the province, thus 
compensating in some désiie the peasantry for the losses caused by bad 
harvests. 6,145 tons, valued at 43,2317, were exported to the United 
States, as compared with 4,295 tons, valued at 28 ,0771., in 1891. 
