Chap. XL. ] 
VIZAGAPATAM DISTRICT. 
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During 1905 and 1906 the Madras Manganese Company — since con- 
verted into the Bobbili Mining Co., Ld.— started work on several small 
deposits situated within reach of Chipurupalli and Garividi stations. 
The importance of the industry that has developed to work the 
Vizagapatam deposits can be seen from the 
following table giving figures of both output 
and average daily number of workers : — 
Output and labour. 
Year. 
Output in 
long tons. 
Average daily 
number of 
workers. 
1892 . 
674 
(a) 
1803 . 
3,130 
(a) 
1894 . 
11,410 
(a) 
1895 . 
15,810 
600 to 1,100 
1896 . 
56,869 
1,200 
1897 . 
74,467 
2,750 
1898 . 
62,980 
3,530 
1899 . 
84,652 
4,780 
] 900 . 
92,008 
4,242 
1901 . 
76,473 
2,770 
1902 . 
68,171 
3,966 
1903 . 
63,074 
2,939 
1994 . 
53,602 
1,980 
1905 . 
63,789 
2,508 
1906 . 
111,501 
5,848 
1907 . 
159,219 
8,417 
(a) Figures uot available. 
Topographically the Vizagapatam district is composed of two belts. 
One consists of low-lying plains adjoining the 
Physical characters of gea-coast and stretching mwards to distances of 
the district. , •, , , 
30 to 50 miles irom the coast ; whilst the other, 
lying to the north-west of the coastal belt, is composed of the wild 
hills known as the Eastern Ghats, which rise to elevations of 3,000 and 
4,000 feet. These plains and the eastern portions of the ghats are 
drained by a number of comparatively short rivers and streams flowing 
on the average in a south-easterly direction to the sea. The largest of 
these, for which no name is given on the map (Atlas Sheet 108), flows 
by Palkonda aud Chicacole The monganese-ore deposits of this district 
