. The Persian problem; an examination of the rival positions of Russia and Great Britain in Persia, with some account of the Persian gulf and the Bagdad railway . between 3 and 4 roubles per pood. Inother words, the average freight paid on Russiangoods coming into Tabriz amounts to about ^12 ton against ^21 a ton paid on merchandise fromFrance, Great Britain, or Germany coming by wiiy ofTrebizond. The advantage in favour of Russia will be furtherincreased when the railway is pushed on to Julfa,and still more so when it reaches Tabriz. Very littlecan be done to assist our merchants in thi
. The Persian problem; an examination of the rival positions of Russia and Great Britain in Persia, with some account of the Persian gulf and the Bagdad railway . between 3 and 4 roubles per pood. Inother words, the average freight paid on Russiangoods coming into Tabriz amounts to about ^12 ton against ^21 a ton paid on merchandise fromFrance, Great Britain, or Germany coming by wiiy ofTrebizond. The advantage in favour of Russia will be furtherincreased when the railway is pushed on to Julfa,and still more so when it reaches Tabriz. Very littlecan be done to assist our merchants in this field sincethe improving of the Trebizond route would not affectthe price of transport. Already wheeled vehiclescan be taken as far as Bayazid, on the Turkishfrontier, yet the caravan rates are not cheaper, butrather more expensive than they are on routes inPersia, where wheels are not used at all. The sameremark applies to the Erivan-Tabriz route, thegreater part of which consists of a made road, practi-cable for waggons. Since, therefore, transport byway of Trebizond can be made cheaper only by build-ing a railway through Turkish Armenia, and since no. RUSSIAN ADVANCE ON PERSIA 413 one now living is at all likely to witness such a linebuilt, we must be prepared to see the Tabriz marketdelivered gradually over to Russia unless railways arebuilt through Persia from the south. The astonish-ing thing is that Manchester goods still hold theirown in Tabriz. In spite of their advantage in thematter of freight and the much greater assistance ofthe large export premium paid on Russian prints andsheetings, Moscow manufactures are sold in theTabriz market only to a very limited extent. Thiscan be explained only by the fact, pointed out to meby a rich Armenian merchant, that a very cheapselection of goods is sent to Tabriz from WesternEurope in order to compete with the growing Russiantrade. Hence it is that Russian cottons are often ofmuch higher quality than Manchester goods, as they
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