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 142 THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — INDIA AND DEPENDENCIES

The following table shows the principal classes of these companies : —

Companies working

Banking and Insurance

Railways and Tramways

Other Trading ....

Tea planting

Goal mining

Cotton mills

Jute mills

Mills for wool, silk, hemp, &c. Cotton and Jute screws and presses

Sugar

Land and Building

Paid-up capital

£ 0,011,000 8,979,000

14,170,000 4,175,000 4,778,000

12,005,000 7,018,000 1,584,000 1,790,000 587,000 2,368,000

These figures exclude companies not incorporated in India, although carrying on business there. At the end of March, 1919, the number of such companies working in India was, so far as known, 597, with a paid-up capital of nearly 477,108,000Z., besides over 141,346,000/. debentures. Rail- way companies accounted for about one-seventh of the paid-up capital and about half of the debentures, and other important companies were navigation companies (paid-up capital 22,365, 0001), jute mills (1,994,000Z. ), rice mills (24,000Z.), tea planting companies (18,126,000Z.), gold mining companies (2,106,0002.), and other mining companies (5,205, O00Z.)

Mineral Production. — Statement showing the values of the minerals produced in British India and Indian States during 1917 and 1918.

Mineral

Coal

Gold.

Petroleum.

Manganese-ore 1.

Salt

Saltpetre

Lead and lead-ore.

Tungsten-ore

Building materials

and road metal. Micai. Tin-ore and tin Jadestone '. Ruby, sapphire &

spinel Monazite Iron-ore Silver. Copper-ore. Alum. Barytcs. Potash.

1917

£

4,511,645

2,22i,S89

1,092,985

1,501,080

983,157

527,669

397,478

623,074

£

6,017,089

2,060,152

1,131,904

1,481,735

1,644,211

589,190

450,477

726,321

240,776

238,355

508,173

625,741

94,495

134,635

07,502

124,113

51,831

40,310

56,489

58,819

39,977

47,298

23 7, 2 Hi

296.0W

30,162

4,053

3,707

900

—

2,948 46

Mineral

Magnesite

Clay

Chromite

Steatite

Agate.

Gypsum

Diamond

Ochre.

Corundum

Antimony

Amber.

Graphite

Platinum

Bauxite.

Moljbdenite

Asbestos

Bismuth

Aquamarine

SniiKirskite

Apatite.

Total value

1917

"~ £

14,559

9,020

26,215

6,470

255

1,034

1,826

1,629

3,875

139

684

547

19

620

626

308

163

297

13,206,566 15,771,085

1918

£

4,641 13,623 52,068 10,921

1,139 2,625 1,959 4,100

87

361

2

894

lie

180

4 3,400

1 Export values.

The quantity of coal produced in India (including Indian States) was 20,722,493 tons in 1918; of manganese-ore, 517,963 tons ; wolfram, 4,431