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Commissioner was also informed that they could procure from a 
mine near Jugadree at four rupees a pucha maund, landed at Ju- 
lundhur, an Antimony of somewhat inferior quality to that dis- 
covered on the Shigree Mountain, and also showed him a specimen 
procured from Reeanee near Jummoo, for which they paid as high 
as nineteen rupees a pucka maund. "With this Antimony, it is 
said, Major Hay's specimens cannot be compared in quality, and 
if the relative distance of the two places be considered, the ac- 
cessibility of Reeanee and the isolated position of the Shigree 
Mountain, the Antimony brought down from the latter place will 
not be able to compete with the Jummoo product in the distant 
markets of the Punjab. The Officiating Commissioner however, 
thinks it important to ascertain whether the Mines of Reeanee are 
sufficient for the wants of the Punjab, and if so, how it is that the 
Antimony of Europe and Candahar finds a sale. He states that 
he has been credibly informed that Antimony is now in less de- 
mand than it was in Europe, where it was formerly employed in 
all printing types, but by a recent invention leaden types capped 
with steel are used instead. He does not therefore anticipate any 
great commercial benefit from Major Hay's discovery, but con- 
siders that the latter is entitled to credit for prosecuting his re- 
searches with so much enterprise, and recommends that he be 
reimbursed all expenses to which he has been put in this attempt 
to develop the resources of the KooUoo Province. 
Major Hay in a letter addressed to the Deputy Commissioner of 
Kangra, mentions that, towards the beginning of the last war it 
was stated. Antimony had been manufactured into cannon-balls, 
and had been found to answer better than any other metal ; and 
that as the different scientific journals published the result, he ap- 
prehends " it was not a mere pufi" of the holders of Antimony to 
sell the metal and suggests that there is nothing to prevent the 
mine being worked on so extensive a scale as to furnish all maga- 
zines in Upper India with shot made from Antimony. 
A refusal of the sanction of His Lordship in Council however 
has recently been conveyed to the Chief Commissioner of the Pun- 
jaub to the working of the Antimony mines discovered by Major 
