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MA^-GANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA: ECONOMICS. [PaHT III : 
ably in different parts of India, and, moreover, is even in one district 
subject to considerable fluctuations, according to the season, the price 
rising whenever there is an increased demand for carts for agricultural 
purposes, such as for carrying country produce, e.g. cotton or grain. 
In addition to this there is a general tendency to an elevation of rates when- 
ever there are several companies operating in the same area, and a con- 
sequent competition to secure the means of transport. The following 
table gives a few rates obtaining between different mines and the rail- 
wav. It must be remembered, however, that they only express general 
average values and that at certain times they may be somewhat wide 
of the true values : — 
Table 47. 
Rates per ton for carting manganese-ore. 
Area. j 
Deposit from 
wliich carted. 
Railway sta- 
tion to which 
Rates for whole dis- 
tance. 
Average 
rates for 
whole dis- 
Distance 
in miles. 
Annas per 
mile of 
Ufa LauuCa 
Bengali 
Giti'pi 
Ohakardhar- 
pur. 
Rs. 3-12 
Rs. 3-12 
17 
3-53 
Tutugutu . 
Do. 
Rs. 6-4 
Rs. 6-4 
20 
5-00 
Central Pro- 
vinces. 
Beldongri . 
Salwa 
12 annas 
12 annas 
7 
1-71 
Mansar 
K&inthi 
Rs. 2 to 2-8 
Rs 2-8 
15 
2-67 
KSndri 
Do. 
Rs. 2-8 to 4 
Rs. 3 
17 
2-82 
Kodeg4on 
N4gpur 
Rs. 3-4 to 3-14 
Rs. 3-8 
22 
-•,54 
Junaw^ni . 
Do. 
Rs. 3-8 to 5 
Rs. 4 
23 
2-78 
Kaehi Dh4na 
ChhindwSra 
Rs. 9 
Rs. 9 
30 
4 'SO 
Sandur 
Kannevihalli 
Tornagallii 
Rs. 3-8 
Bs. 3-8 
17 
3-29 
Vizag ipatam. 
Garbh4m . 
1 
Garivjdi . 
Rs. 1-4 to 2 
Rs. 1-10 
10 
2-60= 
1 
klysorc 
Kum5! 
-liimoga . 
Rs. 6 
Rs. 6 
20 
4-80 
Klr-kur.hi 
BSnasnndra 
Rs 1-C, 
Rs. 1-a 
9.V 
2- J2 
1 Thc.«e ratc-t seem abnorma'ly high ; the cost of carting iron-ore from Tur£mdih 
(4 1 miles) and H^ikigora (9 miles) to . Kalimati station in quite another i)art of the 
Singhbhum district works out, however, at 4 '5 annas per ton-mile. 
2 Mr. Crawshaw t^U.s me that the rates j)aid for carting work out at about 3 
aanas a ton'mile on Local Fund roads, and 2J annas on cross country tracks. 
