1836.] 



in the Vaddavaur District. 



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economy. This latter cannot better be displayed, than by reducing the 

 matter to the test of calculation, which will at first be shewn so far as 

 regards the extent of railroad actually laid down, and then so far as 

 carries with it the supposition that rails had been employed through- 

 out the whole extent of operations. 



1st. — The whole extent of railway laid down was, as has been before 

 mentioned, 420 yards, the cost of which, together with the expense of 

 carriage for 3 months, is as follows : 



R. A. P. 



7 Tons, 2212 lbs. of iron at 100 rupees per ton. , 798 12 0 



Carriage for ditto 16 14 0 



426 yards of wooden supports 25 1 0 



5 Rail carriages, at 63 rupees 5 annas per carriage 316 9 0 



900 Coolies, at 2 annas per day, at the rate of 2 coolies to 

 each carriage 112 8 0 



Total Rupees.. 1,289 12 0 



Expense, produced by carriage of the same extent of material, by 

 animal labour.— R. a. p. 



9,000 Bullocks at 2 annas per bullock 1 ,125 0 0 



2d. — Probable expense produced, supposing that a railway had been 

 used throughout the whole extent of operations. — r. a. p. 



23 Tons, 21,561 lbs. of iron at 100 rupees per ton 2,396 4 0 



Carriage for do. being at the rate of 15 annas per 1000 lbs. 50 2 0 



1,278 yards of wooden supports 75 3 0 



16 Rail carriages at the rate of 63 rupees and 5 annas per 



carriage 1,013 0 0 



2,880 Coolies at the rate of 2 annas per cooly 360 0 0 



Total Rupees.. 3,894 9 0 



Expense produced by the same carriage of material by animal labour, 

 29,992^ bullocks at the rate of 2 annas per bullock rupees 3,749—1—0. 



By a cursory glance at these cases it may appear that the transport 

 by rails, has entailed a greater expenditure than would have arisen, had 

 animal labour been employed ; but, in such a view of the matter, the 

 actual cost of iron, which, by making use of the former method remains 

 in hand after the work has been completed, is not taken into considera- 

 tion. This material alone, as old iron, maybe sold to those who originally 

 furnished it, at the rate of 40 rupees per ton, thus reducing the actual 

 expense considerably lower than the amount disbursed on animal la- 

 bour. Moreover it stands undoubted, that every additional day, which 



