Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Sept.,  1880. 
Per  nan  Opium. 
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In  the  trade  report  of  this  Residency  for  the  year  1874-75,  the 
fluctuations  of  the  annual  estimated  produce  of  opium  in  Persia  from 
the  year  1868-69  to  1874-75  were  shown  in  a  tabular  statement 
attached  to  a  special  report  on  the  subject.  The  largest  produce  for 
any  one  year  did  not  exceed  2,600  cases  (a  quantity  inappreciably  small 
in  regard  to  the  demands  in  China),  and  in  1874-75  it  had  fallen  to 
some  2,000  cases.  In  the  following  year  there  was  a  further  decline, 
the  exports  amounting  to  about  1,890  cases.  Since  1876-77,  how- 
ever, a  reaction  appears  to  have  taken  place,  as  in  that  year  2,570  cases 
were  exported  from  Busbire  and  Bunder  Abbass  alone. 
In  the  early  part  of  1877-78  the  probable  yield  of  the  crops  was 
estimated  at  3,500,  but  the  actual  number  exported  from  Bushire  and 
Bunder  Abbass  amounted  to  4,730  cases. 
Last  year  (1878-79)  the  out-turn  was  stated  to  have  been  6,700 
cases,  while  5,900  were  exported  from  these  ports. 
The  probable  yield  of  the  crops  of  the  current  year,  1879-80,  is  at 
present  estimated  to  be  as  follows: 
Shah  Mans.  Cases. 
In  Khonsar,  about  .  .  .    14,000  950 
Kerman,  .  .  .  4)50o  300 
Yezd,  ....    15,000  1,000 
Ispahan,  .  .  .         37,000  2,400 
Nereez,  .  .  .  .      6,000  400 
Shiraz,  .  .  .  20,000  1,300 
Kazran,  ....      1,500  100 
Shuster,  .  .  .  1,500  100 
Total,  99,500  6,550 
In  addition  to  the  above  6,550  cases  of  opium,  about  3,000  "shah 
mans,"  or  say  550  cases,  are  expected  to  come  to  Yezd  from  Herat, 
making  the  whole  stock  about  7,100  cases.  The  Shuster  opium  is 
sent  through  Mohammerah  direct,  and  sometimes  via  Bushire  to  Mus- 
sat,  for  transmission  to  Zanzibar;  but  a  part  of  it  is  supposed  to  be 
smuggled  into  the  Indian  frontier  provinces  via  Mekran  and  Beloochi- 
stan.  Thus,  7,000  cases  are  expected  to  be  available  during  the  cur- 
rent year  for  export  through  Bushire  and  Bunder  Abbass  to  China  and 
England. 
Small  quantities  of  opium  are  said  to  be  grown  in  Tehran,  Tabreez 
and  Kermanshah,  but.  these  mostly  find  their  way  to  Europe  via  Tur- 
key, Smyrna  being,  it  is^alleged,  the  port  where  it  is  mainly  taken  to 
