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history: central provinces. 
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opened up in 1903 l, but no ore was despatched up till 1906, on account 
of the low prices previously obtaining. In this year the output from 
these two deposits was 4,721 tons ^, whilst 1,300 tons were obtained 
from the Pachara deposit during 1905 and 1906. 
In 1903, Mr. Cooverjee Bhoja of Calcutta secured prospecting 
r, • -D, • J ^, licenses 3 over the Mandvi Bir, Junawani, 
Cooverjee Bhoja and the , . . . , 
Madhu Laii Doogar Mining Junapani, and Borda, deposits in the Nagpur 
Syndicate (Nagpur). district, and opened them up a little, with- 
out despatching any ore. As the result of various reports on 
these and other properties held by Cooverjee Bhoj , it seems 
to have been decided that they could not be worked under 
the economic conditions prevailing up to 1905. In 1906, however, a 
syndicate known as the Madhu liall Doogar Mining Syndicate was 
formed to work the various deposits held by Cooverjee Bhoja. And 
imder the influence of the enhanced prices of this year a beginning in the 
export of ore was made in March 1906, 
Sj^dLfeTNagpS. quantity despatched up to the end of the 
year being 4,258 tons. Another syndicate 
holding deposits in the Nagpur district is the Bansi Lall Mining Syndi- 
cate, concerning which, however, I have no details. 
During 1904, Mr. P. C. Dutt * of Jabalpur acquired rights over 
„ ^ _ the Samnapur-Ukua-Gudma ore-band 5 in 
Messrs. P. C. Dutt and , w t • , x , i ■ • i i 
Biu-n &Co., the Carnegie the Balaghat district. Later ne was ]oinea by 
SoS <^Co ^S-Mt^''*''' ^ Calcutta in his mining 
enterprises, and together they secured several 
other deposits in the same district dm'ing 1905 and 1906. During 1907 
Messrs. Dutt and Burn & Co. have disposed of most of their manganese 
properties. The Samnapur-Ukua-Gudma band has been sold to the 
Carnegie Steel Company of Pittsburg, United States of America, repre- 
sented in India by Mr. J. Kellerschon of Nagpur, the purchase price 
being, I beheve, £12,000. Of the remainder of their deposits Shodan 
Hurkd (Katangjheri I), Katangjheri II, Bhui Hurki (one of the deposits 
of this name), Kochawahi, Botajheri, and part of Ramrama, have been 
acquired by Messrs. Tata, Sons & Co. of Bombay, and are being opened up 
1 Date of first application for a prospecting license — 6th August, 1902. 
2 This includes the ore extracted in 1903. 
3 Date of first application for a prospecting license — 12th January, 1903. 
4 Date of first application for a prospecting license for manganese-ore — 24 th 
December, 1903, in the Jabalpur district. 
5 Originally discovered by ^Ir. P. N. Bose in 1888-89, 
in B 
