COTTON IN THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY. [1850. 



CHAP, unfit for spinning. With the Tinnevelly the gin entirely 

 failed to separate the staple from the seed ; and such por- 

 tions as came through were utterly useless for spinning 

 purposes. 



248 Expense of the Cottage saw gin an insuperable bar 

 to its employment in India. But even apart from these 

 defects in the working of the Cottage saw gin, the Chamber 

 was of opinion that its cost would prove an insuperable bar 

 to its general use in the Cotton districts ; and it was doubted 

 whether a Native would voluntarily work a machine of such 

 a description, even if its successful operation was rendered 

 much more evident. The Chairman's report concluded with 

 the significant notification that no member of the Chamber 

 had expressed a wish to purchase any of the gins. 



249 Dr. Wight reports favorably of the Cottage saw 

 Dr. wight's gin. Four months after the foregoing trial, Dr. "Wight sent 

 Marciiisso. to the Madras Government a highly favorable report of the 



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tur 3 n 84 ( 1857 ) working of the same gins. He requested that the whole of 

 the Cottage saw gins then in Madras might be forwarded to 

 his establishment at Coimbatore, with a view to their being 

 cleaned and fitted for work. He said that those already 

 received had been found to do their work exceedingly well ; 

 all except the bands, which were unequal to the strain they 

 had to endure during the course of two or three days steady 

 working. He therefore felt surprised at the very unfavorable 

 report of the Madras Chamber. 



250 Prices of the Cottage saw-gin to Natives and Euro- 



Dr wi-ht's peans. A few days afterwards, Dr. Wight reported that he 

 MaSifsso! had received three applications for the purchase of Cottage saw 

 ment order gins, and requested to be inf ormed at what prices he might sup- 

 1 8?o. Par!, ply them. The cost price in England was 3 each, and this was 

 ass?) p. of course exclusive of freight and charges. The Madras Go- 



385. 



vernment however informed Dr. Wight, that he might dis- 



