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 140 THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — INDIA AND DEPENDENCIES

The following table deals with irrigation :—

Years ended

31 March

Major

works

Minor works

Total

Area irrigated

Acres 15,162,440 14,096,554 14,874,029 14.564,231 14,241,354

Gross revenue realised

. Gross

Area revenue

irrigated realised

Area irrigated

Acres 22,998,435 22,231,453 21,948,071 22,349.459 22,068,357

Gross revenue realised

1906 1907 1908 1909 1910

Rs.

4.93,21,328 5,74,40,396 5,64,24,840 5,75,21,647 5,86,52,966

Acres '( Rs. 7,835,995 2,12,38,789 8,134,899 2,29,41,874 7,074,042 1,99,17,595 7,785,228 2,08,40,951 i 7,827,003 2,13,51,083

Rs.

7,05,60,117 8,03,82,270 7,63,42,435 7,83,62,598 8,00,04,049

Irrigation works, for which capital accounts are kept, paid 7 '79 per cent, in 1908-09 on their capital outlay. The estimated value of the crops irrigated by such works in 1908-09 was 61^ crores of rupees.

The following table shows the extent of reserved forests in 1910-11 :—

Sq. miles

Central Provinces

including Berar

. 21,384

Bombay

. 14.006

Burma

. 26,077

Bengal

. 4,254

Madras

. 20,080

United Provinces of Agra and Oudli

Eastern Bengal and Assam

Panjab

Coorg.

Sq. miles

3,958

6,491

1,952

520

Sq. miles Ajmer. . . 142 Baluchistan,. 289

Andamans. . 156 North West Frontier

Province. . 250

In 1910-11, there were in British India, 226 cotton mills, containing 78,984 looms and 5,961,950 spindles, employing a daily average number of '214,149 persons. Fifty-eight jute mills, employing 216,390 persons, with 33,169 looms and 682,527 spindles ; four woollen mills at work, employing 3,216 persons ; eight paper mills, employing 4,604 persons ; paper made in 1910, 59 million^lbs. ; twenty-four breweries, the quantity of beer brewed during 1910 being 4,191,000 gallons.

In 1910-11 there were 2,251 joint stock companies registered under the Indian Companies Act and in operation with paid-up capital of 42.488,119Z.

' The following table refers to the principal classes of joint stock companies

in 1910-11 :—

Companies working

Banking and Insurance

Railways and Tramways

Trading.

Tea planting

Coal mining

Cotton mills

Jute mills

Mills for wool,

Sugar

.silk, lieuip, <fen.

Paid up capital

£

5.418,439 2,479,380 5,815,907 2,355,123 3,892,517 9,973,472 4,447,658 578,584 540,635

Mineral Production.— The values of the chief minerals produced 1910 and 1911 are given as follows : —