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Commissioner was also informed that they could procure from a 

 mine near Jugadree at four rupees a pucka 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 he 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 J ummoo 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 Koolloo 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 puff 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 



