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Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873 : vol.1 |
Appendix III.
DISTRICT MARKETS, 20TH JANUARY 1874.
TARA SING'S REPORT.
I started on the 1st January to visit the bazaars in the Kashghar circuit.
I halted, on the night of the 1st, at the village of Yandûma about 10 miles distant from
Yangi-Shahr; this is a village of some 60 houses; as far as this point I had travelled on the Aksu road.
2nd January. I reached " Shumba Bazar" about 20 miles from Yandûma ; the name of the village where this bazaar is held is Jewatchi ; there are about 80 houses in this village, which is in the district of Kizzil-ûi ; there are two serais here for travellers.
In the Kizzil-ûi district there are altogether about 790 houses.
3rd January. There was a bazaar held at Jewatchi : stalls were temporarily occupied
as follows :-
30 Bakers. 6 Carpenters.
4 Iron-smiths. 30 Cutlery, &c., spices.
30 Agents for buying cotton. 20 Sellers of fruit, &c.
15 Sheep butchers. 10 Purchasers of country cloth.
2 Beef ditto. 5 Basket sellers.
10 Sellers of hats. 6 Tinkers.
10 Ditto of boots.
In addition many hawkers of silk, cotton, thread, &c.
There are only ten permanent shops in this place, and on the evening of the bazaar-day the whole of the stalls are vacated.
About 6,000 men assembled on bazaar-day.
Men collect from Kashghar, Faizabad, Artush, Yangi Hissar, and a few men from Yarkand.
SALE DURING ONE BAZAAR-DAY.
lhngas.
* Cotton cloth, of local manufacture, 40,000 thans, average price 2 tungas 80,000
* Cotton, 50 maunds, at 8 arenas per charak 2,000
Miscellaneous goods, silk, tea, &c. 1,200
Numd'âhs 225
t Grain 3,000
Sheep (100 sheep) 1,400
Oxen (6) 300
Fruit . 400
Small articles, not included 240
Rupees 17,745 = 88,725
' The above represents an average day's business on bazaar days at Shumba Bazaar.
The revenue of the Kizzil-ûi district is as follows :—One-tenth of the produce of grain of all kinds = 38,000 charaks. With every 30 charaks of grain the Hakim will claim one donkey load of straw, or an equivalent amounting to 1 tanga 36 puls ; this represents 12,664 loads, or 21,785 tangas 26 puls.
* Purchased for conveyance to Kashghar and Yarkand.
1 Of the grain sold the rice had come from Aksu and Yarkand districts ; it was selling at 3 tangas a charak. Mukki from, Yarkand district, 1 tanga 10 puls per charak. Wheat from Yarkand district, 1 tanga 30 puls per charak.
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