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MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA: ECONOMICS. [PaET III : 
The Southern Mahratta Railway has not accepted the minimum 
late of i th pie per maund per mile, and fixes the rates for each station 
separately. The rates quoted by this company consist of two portions, 
freight charges, and wharf dues at Mormugao, to which port all the ore 
carried by this railway is taken. The freight rates from the various 
exporting stations to the port of Mormugao are as follows : — 
Table 49. 
Rates for the carriage of manganese-ore to Mormugao by the Southern 
Mahratta Raihvay. 
^lailway Station. 
Area tapped. 
Province. 
Mileage 
from 
railway 
station 
to Mor- 
mugao. 
Freight 
per ton. 
253 
fi a. p. 
5 12 3 
251 
5 7 9 
223 
5 1 0 
260 
5 5 6 
266 
5 7 9 
317 
5 10 0 
330 
5 12 3 
340 
5 12 3 
359 
6 3 0 
Ramanamalai (Ramandrug) 
Tornagallu 
Harihar 
Chik Jajur 
Holalkere . 
Tarikere 
Benkipura 
Shimoga . 
Banasandra 
I Sandur Hills 
I 
^ Chitaklrug 
I district. 
J- Sliimoga dis 
I trict. 
Tumkur dis 
trict. 
r 
Madras . 
)■ Mysore. . -{ 
At the rate of ^'^th pie per maund per mile the freights from 
Ramandrug and Shimoga to Mormugao would be Rs. 3-9-5 and 
Rs. 4-13-1 respectively. 
On the Bengal-Nagpur Railway steel trucks are used for the car- 
riage of manganese-ore ; they hold from 14 to 16 tons of ore each. It used 
to be the custom to run each truck on to a weigh-bridge to ascertain 
the exact amount of ore loaded into it. But the traffic has now grown 
to such an extent that it is a matter of considerable inconvenience to do 
this for every truck. Consequen' y it has been decided to load by 
measurement. Experiments have been made in which a large number 
of wagons loaded up to a certain mark,, so that the volume of loose ore 
