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COTTOy-WOOL. 



Letter from cciit. of Seed, whilst the siiio-le-handled churka 



Kesident at 



Etawah^to leaves only 6 If, and the double-handled 61 J per 



of Trade, Cent. 



3rd. Those who work at either kind of churka 

 are paid tucka at the rate of one Bombay rupee 

 for every thirty seers of clean cotton. The classes 

 employed at the saw- gin were paid by daily hire, 

 at the rate of six pice balashoy each man. From 

 the above data I have prepared Statement No. 3, 

 whence it appears that the cotton obtained from 

 the saw-gin cost Bombay rupees 1 10 Ih per 

 maund more than that of the single-handled, and 

 Bombay rupees 1 11 4f more than that of the 

 double-handled churka. Unless, therefore, the 

 superior cleanness of the saw-gin cotton will obtain 

 for it a greater price in the London and China 

 markets, it must, in a mercantile point of view, 

 be deemed for the present a decided failure. 



4th. On the latter point I must confess, however 

 reluctantly, that I have doubts. Notwithstanding 

 it is so much cleaner, the merchants of this town do 

 not think the saw-gin cotton w ould fetch a higher 

 price in the Mirzapore market than that separated 

 from the seed by the Hindoostanee churka. A 

 native whom I have employed to spin a small 

 quantity of both kinds, spun a much finer thread 

 from the latter, and informed me that spinning 

 the former was much more laborious, in conse- 

 quence of the frequent separation of the yarn 

 during the process of spinning. This last-men- 

 tioned 



