LOCAL TRANSACTION 



COAL 



Trade 



_'."> ; i io.i. L' 1 .L'L'S tons. i-t . It is by seizing this intorprovincial trade 

 li- Bengal mines have so effectually curtailed the foreign imports. 

 Rail- borne Traffic. But it must not be forgotten that the figures 

 .|int--il an- neither the total exports from the Bengal mines nor the total 

 !>ts of the towns in question. Large quantities are carried by rail 

 and of course from all the other mines besides those of Bengal, 

 tigures reviewed are alone those of the traffic by sea. The total 

 t ions by rail in 1906-7 came to 7,648,688 tons. The corre- 

 ling returns for 1899-1900 were 3,921,623 tons. Calcutta drained 

 I '.MM; 7. 5,353,013 tons, all but 1,868 tons being from the Bengal 

 The United Provinces of Agra and Oudh in the same year 

 I'd 688,507 tons, chiefly from Bengal. This represents the 

 Manufacturing enterprise of Cawnpore mainly. Bombay Presidency 

 Ittained Bengal or foreign coal from Bombay town, but over and above 

 ilily large quantities from the Nizam's Dominions, the Central Provinces, 

 il and Rajputana. Madras Presidency procured its coal from the 

 sixain's Dominions and the Madras ports (and therefore very largely 

 ?ngal coal). Lastly Mysore State drew on the Madras ports, and 

 jnsequently consumed Bengal coal chiefly. The bulk of these rail-borne 

 msactions, it may be presumed, are concerned with the internal in- 

 lu-iries, since the railways derive their supplies direct from the mines, 

 rhich are often owned and worked by the railway companies. 



OUTPUT OF THE INDIAN MINES. It may suffice the purposes of 

 lis abstract of information regarding the location, extent and pros- 

 Tit v of the Indian mines to furnish a collective statement of the production 

 >r all India : 



Internal 



Trade. 



Bengal 

 applying. 



Indian 

 Produc- 

 tion. 



With a view to supply the names of the chief mines, to exhibit their 

 .ssification both geologically and geographically and to demonstrate 

 leir output, the following further statement may be given : 



Output of the Qondwana Coalfields for the Years 1901-6. 



Classifica- 

 tion of 

 Mines. 



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