170 MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA : ECONOMICS. [PaBT III : 
The followiRg table l shows the average daily number of workers — 
Average daily number' of 131611, women, and children — employed in the 
workers. manganese mines fro'n 1895 to 1907 : — 
Table 45. 
Daily number of workers employed on the manganese-quarries from 
1895 to 1907. 
Year ending 
Bombay. 
Central 
Provinces. 
Madras. 
( Vizaga- 
patam). 
Central 
India. 
iMysore. 
Total. 
30th June 1895 
fiOOto 1,100 
600 to 1,100 
30th June 1896 
1,200 
1,200 
31st December 1897 
2,750 
2,750 
31st December 1898 
3,530 
3,530 
31st December 1899 
4,780 
4,780 
31st December 1900 
4,242 
4,242 
31st December 1901 
1,460 
2,770 
4,230 
31st December 1902 
2,081 
3,966 
6,047 
31st December 1903 
4,003 
2,939 
(«) 
6,942(6) 
31 St December 1904 
125 
2,010 
1,980 
(a) 
4,115(6) 
31st December 1905 
48 
2,5G6 
2,508 
876 
(0) 
5, 998(c) 
31st December 190C 
271 
5,154 
5,848 
1,334 
(«) 
I2,607(d) 
31st December 1907 
1.099 
9,23 
8,419 
(") 
(") 
18.751(e) 
(a) — Figures not available. 
{h) — Exclusive of Central India ; the figures for 1903 and 1904 may be estimated at 
about 230 and 390, respectively, at 30 tons per person per year. 
(c) — Exclusive of Sandur and Mysore ; probably only a small number. 
{d) — Exclusive of Singhbhum (Bengal), Sandur (Madras) and Mysore, probably about 
1,500 more persons. 
(e) — Exclusive of Singhbhum, Belgaum, Central India, Sandur, and Mysore. 
' Compiled chiefly from the Annual Reporti of the Chief Inspector of Mines in 
India. 
