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allowed to escape. The gurrah is then broken and the alum, moulded 



to its form, is ready for sale and exportation. 



The following is an estimate of the expence at Kalibagh per diem 



of keeping one kurrah or evaporating pan, &c. at work. Payments 



are made in a 13 anna Eupee for the Company's maund. 



40 maunds of shale, Us. 3 



Wood to burn this and evaporate the alum liquor, 4 8 



5 maunds of Jumsan, 3 



7 Coolies, 1 4 



Sundries, 8 



Water-fee paid to Mulik Ulla Tar Khan, 1 6 



Fee to Mulik of Kalibagh, '. 4 



12 9 6 

 Difference between 13 anna Rupee and Co.'s 



Es. inEs. 12-9 2 5 



Total Expence, Co.'s Es. 10 4 6 



The above expenditure yields a return of three maunds and ten 

 seers of alum, the value of which at Es. 3-4 per maund is Co.'s Es. 

 10-9. Assuming the above to be correct (and we give it exactly 

 as stated to us) the owner of each kurrah will only have a clear 

 gain of As. 0-4-6 per diem. At Kalibagh however as the Mulik of 

 the place Ulla Yar Khan is sole proprietor of five out of the twelve 

 kurrahs at work, and as he generally pays his workmen and miners 

 in flour, clothes, &c. instead of in cash, his profits are doubtless 

 considerable. He moreover levies a tax of Es. 2 on every camel 

 load of alum removed from Kalibagh. 



Alum is manufactured at Kalibagh for ten months in the year 

 and about 12000 maunds (8571 cents) is annually prepared, which at 

 Co.'s Es. 3-4 per maund will yield a return on the spot of Es. 39,000. 



At the Kathee alum works in the Chichalee pass, the expenses 

 are considerably less, and the alum prepared, though of equally good 

 quality, is sold at the rate of Es. 2-8 per maund. 



They are owned by a Joint Stock Company of eight members who 

 are chiefly residents of Esakhail on the Indus, annexed is the ex- 

 penditure for one kurrah per diem, of which there are eight. 



