484 Memorandum on the Iron Mines of Baneegunge. [No. 5. 



Rise and Fall of the Irrawaddy at Brome between the 8th and 24*th 



of April, 1853. 



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Remarks. 



No. 964. 

 Memorandum on the prospect of remuneration in working the Iron 

 Mines of the Baneegunge district. JBy Major W. E. Bakeb, 

 Consulting Engineer to the Govt, of India, with a Report on the 

 same subject by Professor Oldham, Geol. Surveyor. — Communicated 

 by the Govt, of Bengal. 



The prospect of profit in working these mines, has been fully 

 and ably discussed by Professor Oldham in his report, dated 18th 

 May, 1852, pp. 9 to 20, and though I cannot say that his arguments 

 have on all points commanded my conviction, I believe that on 

 the whole they are sound ; at all events I have not the familiar 

 knowledge of details, which would enable me to combat them, or 

 would justify my dissent from his general conclusion, p. 18. 



" That under existing conditions the manufacture of Iron, on any 

 efficient scale, and on the European system, cannot be undertaken 

 in this district with a certain prospect of such a return, as would 

 justify the great outlay required." 



But Mr. Oldham remarks in the paragraph succeeding that which 

 I have quoted, that the then " existing conditions" may alter, and, 

 in fact, they have ^already altered to such an extent, as materially 

 to affect the argument. 



