528 



The Mines of Khetree in Rajpoota 



Total of costs, 

 Leaving profit, 



Total returns, 



[No. 5, 



The expenses were. 



Five maunds wood (at 16 maunds per rupee) and 

 oplah (cow-dung cakes) per diem, say Rs. 8-5-4 per 

 mensem or for 8 months, ... ... . . , Rs. 



Gurrahs 1 Re. per mensem for 12 months, ... 



Baskets, oil, &c, at 8 annas per ditto, 



Wages to laborers 2 at 4 Rs. and 4 at 2 Rs. per 

 mensem ; total per annum, 



66 10 



12 



6 



192 



276 10 8 

 183 12 



460 6 8 



The above shows a profit of 183 rupees a year or 15 rupees a month, 

 but if we allow for festivals, &c, the profit may be stated at 12 rupees 

 a month, and the poor condition of the Bunyas who conduct the works 

 would not induce one to place it at a higher sum. 



During the rains, the boiling of course ceases, as the sulphates will 

 not crystallize. At that time the water draining from the lower terraces 

 is poured again and again on the upper ones, to bring to the surface as 

 much as possible of the undissolved sulphates in the heap. On fine 

 days the labourers are employed in storing wood, or in visiting the 

 mines to lay in a stock of shale for operations during the more 

 favourable season. 



List of Plates. 



I. — Town of Khetree with hill fort. 

 II. — Pounders of copper ore with ' ghuns. 5 

 III. — Koomhar making a smelting furnace for copper ore. 

 IV. — Copper smelting furnace in work. 

 V. — Copper refining furnace with troughs for metal. 

 VI. — Alum and sulphate of copper works, showing refuse heaps, 

 VII. — The same, (another view.) 

 VIII. — Interior of boiling house for alum and sulphate of copper. 



