458 Copper Mines of Pokree, fyc. [No. 138. 



consideration of the Right Honourable the Governor General, it was 

 resolved, that a further sum of 1,000 rupees should be advanced for 

 the prosecution of the experiment in the Chowmuttee mine alone. 

 Mr. Wilkin's personal salary of Rupees 150, was also sanctioned for 

 nine months further, commencing with October 1840, and ending with 

 June 1841. 



I annex a Table of progress and expenditure for the above period, 

 i. e. from December 1840 till the end of June 1841, when operations 

 finally ceased. 



Progress.; 



Fam 



Ft. In. 



Rs. As. Ps. 



December, 1840, 7 



1 



74 9 



January, 1841,.. 8 







87 14 



February, . . . . 14 







86 4 6 



March, .. .. 11 







120 4 



April, .. .. 5 



3 



105 6 



May, 12 



2 



125 6 3 



June, . . . 8 



5 5 



164 4 1 



Total, . . 65 



11 5 



763 15 10 



Add former workings, . . 190 



4 6 



2,600 5 4 



Grand Total, . . 257 



3 11 



3,364 5 2 



The workings above specified were carried on in three different 

 mines, two of which had been worked in the time of the Hindoo 

 Rajas, and one was entirely new. The names of the two old mines re- 

 opened, and worked by Mr. Wilkin were : 1st, the Chowmuttee ; 2nd, 

 the Raja's mine ; and the following account of the mines and operations 

 carried on in them is contained in a report from Mr. Wilkin, dated 

 July 1841, and which as it also conveys interesting information con- 

 cerning other Ghurwal mines, I may be excused for quoting almost 

 entire. 



" The Chowmuttee mine at Pokree, is situated in talc which rests 

 Chowmuttee Mines, on dolomitic limestone. It was adopted for the 

 Government experiment, as the one in which ores were most likely to 

 be found near the surface, where the experiment would be least 

 likely to interfere with the revenue, and where the inhabitants were 

 most favourable to the introduction of a new system. The experiment 

 was commenced at the end of 1838, and has been continued to the 



