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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...will be glad of this opportunity for direct shipments to Dutch Indian ports. Should this line be opened, San Francisco will be the American port of call, touching, probably, at the Hawaiian Islands on the outward and return passages. Trade Opportunities in the Persian Gulf.--Consul Schumann, of Mainz, June 27, 1901, says that according to a German trade journal the following articles find a ready sale in the ports of the Persian Gulf: Accordions, needles, photograph albums, matches, gold-plated steel jewelry, tobacco and cigarette cases, music boxes, wax candles, buttons, brushes, table cutlery, calico, canes, whips, shawls and kerchiefs, cement, canned goods, cottons, woolen and cotton blankets, glassware, leather, copper, cloth, blue and red ink, sponges, towels, tin, fans, crockery, artificial flowers, silks, gold lace, gloves, gauze, olive oil, lamps and lanterns, iron bedsteads, eyeglasses, sewing machines, furniture, looking-glasses, watches and alarm clocks, handkerchiefs, coffee grinders, writing materials, umbrellas, perfumery, wax pearls, decorated porcelain, pharmaceutic preparations, ribbons, salt fish, sardines, butter, soap, sugar, linen, velvet and velveteen, and wines. Oil of Roses in Bulgaria.--Consul-General Hughes sends the following from Coburg, June 26, 1901: According to German reports, last year1s product of oil of roses in Bulgaria amounted to over 140,000 ounces. Rose leaves cost from 10 to 15 pfennigs (2.38 to 3.57 cents) per kilogram (2.2046 pounds), and the oil of roses sold for the abnormally cheap price of 460 marks ($109.48) per kilogram. In 1896, with an equally good crop, the price was 800 marks ($190.40) per kilogram. The pure Bulgarian oil of roses is perfectly transparent and of a light yellow color, with the perfect odor...
